Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - this Wed Nov 12th at 11 AM CT / 12PM ET! Disentangling Cosmology from Observational Artifacts with Kyle Dawson and Tyler Hagen (University of Utah) Zoom & in person University of Utah (WEB 3780 - Evans Conference room in SCI) cosmicai.org/events @simonsfoundation.org

We’re hiring! CosmicAI seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to help initiate a new comprehensive research program to foster foundational advancements in AI through the analysis and processing of astronomical data at @thenrao.bsky.social Location: UVA App deadline: Dec 19 cosmicai.org/jobs/cosmica...

It’s official, our panel "Revolutionizing Astronomy with Next Generation Big Data" has been accepted to @sxsw.com 2026! Thank you to everyone who supported our work! Panelists: Stella Offner, Paul Torrey, @stephajuneau.bsky.social, & @niall2.bsky.social Learn more schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 29 at 11 AM CT/12PM ET! Finding Exotic Transients in the Era of Big Data (Sebastian Gomez-UT Austin) & Time-Series Modeling of High-Resolution Radio Spectra (Josh Taylor-Oden Institute) Zoom & in person @utaustin.bsky.social Breakfast tacos served!🌮 cosmicai.org/events

CosmicAI PhD Students Alex Garcia (University of Virginia) and @sebajoe.bsky.social (UT Austin) representing us at SAIL! @simonsfoundation.org @uvapress.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social

CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner presenting during day 3 of the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2025 with NSF AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO)! Stella spoke about leveraging AI Institute collaboration for advocacy. @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social

CosmicAI Ph.D Student Sebastian Joseph is representing us at SAIL! He discusses his research on benchmarking large language models for astro-specific computing and visualization tasks. @sebajoe.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social

The CosmicAI team at #SAIL2025

CosmicAI PhD Student Alex Garcia from the University of Virginia is representing us at SAIL! He discusses his research on understanding galaxy formation and evolution using numerical simulations. @simonsfoundation.org @uvapress.bsky.social #astronomy #AI4science

CosmicAI Co-Director @mattlease.bsky.social speaking on a panel at SAIL 2025 on effective university-industry partnerships in advancing AI research and innovation. @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social

CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner speaking on day 2 of the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2025 - discussing all things collaboration, and welcoming GSRs and PostDocs! @simonsfoundation.org

CosmicAI's Managing Director @pcmhatre.bsky.social discussed his work during year one of CosmicAI at the Managing Director’s SIG panel!

CosmicAI is at the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2025! SAIL fosters significant interactions, discussions, and connections among the AI Institutes’ researchers and staff. Comms Director Jane Bernhard presented on the institute's comms strategy & brand advice @simonsfoundation.org

We’re hiring! CosmicAI invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellow positions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery. Position 1 – Theoretical and Methodological Advances Position 2 – Model Development and Data Analysis Learn more cosmicai.org/jobs/cosmica...

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 15th, 11AM CT! Encoding of Spectra and Time Series (Peter Melchior - Princeton University) & Strategies for variance reduction in spectral unmixing (Jordan Bryan, UVA) Zoom & in person at UVA's Astronomy Building cosmicai.org/events @simonsfoundation.org

Viviana Acquaviva (Professor of physics at the City University of New York) delivering a Special Hybrid CosmicAI Seminar on Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social @cuny.edu

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 1, 11AM CT! Machine Learning for Reviewer-Proposal Matching in ALMA Distributed Peer Review (John Carpenter - ALMA) & Compound AI Systems: How Publisher AI Helps Researchers (Dustin Smith - hum.works) cosmicai.org/events @thenrao.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org

Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy! A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.

We’re hiring a CosmicAI Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin! CosmicAI seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research modeling the astrochemistry of astrophysical systems. Duration: 2 Years (possible renewal for 3rd) Apply Sept 23-Nov 17 2025 www.cosmicai.org/jobs @utaustin.bsky.social

Special Hybrid CosmicAI Seminar Sept 24th 12-1pm CT! Title: Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva (associate professor of physics at the City University of New York) Venue: Zoom & in person at UT, PMA 15.216B www.cosmicai.org/events

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Sept 17 @ 11AM CT! Accelerating (Astro)chemical discovery with machine learned atomistic models and Computer Vision for Scientific Discovery (Kelvin Lee, NVIDIA) & Computer Vision for Scientific Discovery (Zezhou Cheng, UVA) www.cosmicai.org/events @thenrao.bsky.social

New research from CosmicAI led by UT Austin Researchers Keith Poletti, Stella Offner, and Rachel Ward tested whether a new type of neural networks can predict future states from simulated telescope images. Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.23662 @utaustin.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org

Save the date! Our fall hybrid seminar series “The Observable Universe” begins Sept 3rd! Bi-weekly on Wed. 11AM CT/12PM ET Seminar #1 | Sept 3rd “Imaging in Radio Interferometry - What do we measure, model and make decisions about?” w/ Urvashi Rau @thenrao.bsky.social Info ➡️ www.cosmicai.org/events

RCSA has made awards to 10 #CottrellScholars to advance high-impact research activities through its 2025 Cottrell SEED Awards.

🚀Calling all astronomy educators! 🚀 CosmicAI is working with NSF NOIRLab to bring AI-powered tools to astronomy research, including an Astronomy Copilot, a digital assistant trained on real astronomy data. Take our short survey to share how you’re using AI in your classroom forms.gle/hvjfcyjcK75g...

News from @ai2.bsky.social sky.social, one of CosmicAI’s industry partners. They’re collaborating with the NSF and NVIDIA to develop fully open AI models "to develop fully open AI models to fuel U.S. scientific innovation" www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-nvi...

Five days left to vote! Help bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW — one of the world’s leading festivals for tech, film, music, and innovation. Register for an account & vote by clicking the ❤️ - open til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

Astro-AI Boot Camp Instructor Highlight! Juliana Duncan is a Research Associate and Manager at @taccutexas.bsky.social with a PhD in Computational Chemistry. At the Astro AI bootcamp she is covering a survey of supervised machine and deep learning techniques and their applications to astronomy data.

Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx... @stephajuneau.bsky.social @niall2.bsky.social

Dr. Stella Offner (CosmicAI) spoke on AI’s role in astronomy at the AI+Science Expo panel hosted by SCSP. Moderated by Erion Plaku (NSF), with panelists Zhao Huimin (Molecule Maker Lab) and Mike Williams (IAIFI), representing NSF AI research across domains.

Are you a researcher using (or curious about using) AI tools like ChatGPT, Elicit, or Semantic Scholar in your scientific work? Your insights will help design better tools for researchers like you and guide the future of AI for science. Interested? sign-up here: utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! As a theoretical astroparticle physicist, Lina Necib uses cosmological simulations, stellar catalogs, machine learning techniques, and a background of particle physics to build the first map of Dark Matter in the Milky Way. @simonsfoundation.org

Speaker Highlight! Eric Murphy is a Tenured, Full-Astronomer at @thenrao.bsky.social & holds a Visiting Faculty appointment at University of Virginia. At NRAO, he serves as the next-generation Very Large Array Project Scientist. He is a co-PI of CosmicAI & the Observable Universe Astronomy lead.

CosmicAI PI and Director Dr. Stella Offner represented CosmicAI on a panel at #ScienceSummit hosted by @scsp.bsky.social She spoke alongside Dr. Mike Williams, Dr. Zhao Huimin, and Erion Plaku about Powering Innovation at the Intersection of AI & Science.

Next week, CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner will speak at the #ScienceSummit, hosted by Special Competitive Studies Project on Powering Innovation at the Intersection of AI & Science Learn more web.cvent.com/event/370695...

Team Member Highlight! Paul Torrey is a Professor of Astronomy at UVA focused on understanding the physics that drives galaxy formation. His research group builds models of the Universe that let us question what we think we know about Dark Matter, and how it impacts what we see in the night sky.

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! Qingyun Wang is a UIUC PhD and incoming William & Mary assistant professor. He is among the first researchers to develop a virtual scientific research assistant for literature-based discovery. @utaustin.bsky.social

CosmicAI Student Highlight! Nina De La Torre shares her research on reduced vs. full Chemical Networks @utexasresearch.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social

Learn about our AI Graduate Certificate Program! In partnership with the UT Austin Computer and Data Science Online program, we’re offering accessible AI/ML training for the Astronomy community. Applications are now open! cosmicai.org/graduatecert...

Astro-AI Boot Camp Instructor Highlight! Dr. Gabriel Jaffe is a computational scientist and experimental physicist. His current research is focused on the problem-solving capabilities of agentic AI frameworks and his past worked delved into the dynamics of atomic-scale heat flow.

CosmicAI Opportunity at NRAO! Instructor and TAs Needed for the CosmicAI Virtual Winter School! Learn more superknova.org/student-oppo... @thenrao.bsky.social

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! Prof. Peter Melchior (Princeton University) seeks to find new data-driven insights from large astronomical surveys programs by creating novel methods for data analysis and the design of observations.

We're hiring! CosmicAI is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate at NSF NOIRLab to advance AI + astronomy research. Apply by July 15: www.cosmicai.org/jobs/postdoc... @noirlabastro.bsky.social

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! Marc Huertas-Company is a staff scientist at the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands, in Spain, and one of the pioneers in the use of artificial intelligence in astronomy. @utaustin.bsky.social

Our AI Graduate Certificate Program has launched! In partnership with the UT Austin Computer and Data Science Online program, we’re offering accessible AI/ML training for the Astronomy community. Applications are now open! www.cosmicai.org/graduatecert... Please share with your network!

Team member highlight! Arya Farahi, an assistant professor of statistics and data sciences at @utaustin.bsky.social, is the director of the D3 Research Lab and the AI lead of the Explainable Universe team. His research focuses on developing AI methodologies to accelerate scientific discovery.

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! Dr. Lindsay House created the NASA Zooniverse CitSci Project, Dark Energy Explorers. Her talk combined citizen science with machine learning to improve a major Dark Energy Experiment! Join zooniverse.org/projects (search Dark Energy Explorers)!

Story news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/to-... Finding Pareto trade-offs in fair & accurate detection of toxic speech: publicera.kb.se/ir/article/v... @utaustin.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social @engagingnews.bsky.social @utischool.bsky.social @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social‬ #TexasAI #YearofAI

As part of the Simons Foundation’s Open Interval award, @susanscafati.bsky.social describes her collaboration with Stella Offner & Bobby Garza of @longcenter.bsky.social as “mining light, matter, and meaning.” This collaboration is supported by the Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org

CosmicAI Director Stella Offner, artist @susanscafati.bsky.social, & Bobby Garza of the @longcenter.bsky.social, are recipients of the Simons Foundation’s Open Interval award, supporting interdisciplinary exploration across art and science! This collaboration is supported by @simonsfoundation.org