AAS 245 is nearly here! The AAS Publishing team looks forward to connecting with meeting attendees at the upcoming winter AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD, and we’re excited to share a preview of upcoming publishing-related events. Attending the meeting will be Kerry Kroffe (AAS Director of Scholarly Publishing), Ethan Vishniac (AAS Journals Editor in Chief), Gus Muench (AAS Journals Data Editor), and Greg Schwarz (AAS Journals Data Editor). Several of the scientific editors of the AAS journals, including Frank Timmes (Associate Editor in Chief and Lead Editor of the High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics research corridor) and Mubdi Rahman (Scientific Editor for the Laboratory Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Software, and Data research corridor), will be in attendance as well. Be sure to stop by the AAS booth in the Exhibit Hall to say hello, chat about the journals, have your data questions answered, and pick up some swag!
AAS Nova Editors Kerry Hensley and Susanna Kohler, AAS Media Fellow Lexi Gault, Astrobites Media Intern Lindsey Gordon, and the rest of the Astrobites team will also be available periodically at the Astrobites booth in the Exhibit Hall. We look forward to seeing you there!
Data Editors Help Desk
AAS Journals Data Editors Gus Muench and Greg Schwarz will be staffing a data help desk during AAS 245. Please drop by the AAS Publications stand in the main AAS booth to hear more about upcoming changes to AASTeX (v7!), or to discuss best practices for data and software publication in the AAS journals. Gus and Greg are looking forward to your tough data questions!
Open Science at AAS 245
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On Monday, there is an exciting splinter session from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm titled “ExoCore: An Open Science Curriculum for Enhanced Reproducibility and Equity in Exoplanet Research.” The intended audience ranges from students and postdocs working on exoplanet research to those interested in the ethos and methods of open science in general. The session will include presentations, a guided discussion, and a hands-on tutorial. This session takes place in National Harbor 8.
On Wednesday from 2:00 to 3:30 pm, NASA is hosting a special session (#347) on “Open Science: NASA Astrophysics in the Roman Era.” This session focuses on new initiatives to facilitate the sharing of data and computational resources across NASA as new missions like Roman move data storage and analysis on to cloud-based science platforms. This session will be held in Chesapeake 4-5.
We also want to draw your attention to a special session (#425) on Thursday morning from 10:00 to 11:30 am. “The Power of Collaborative Networks in the Era of Big Data” will use presentations and a moderated discussion to explore the importance of collaborative networks to doing science in the current era of big data. Collaborative networks, which can be anything from citizen science teams to international science communities, will be critical to making best use of incoming massive datasets, such as the one that will be generated by the Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time. This session will be held in Chesapeake 4-5.