Some of my favourite people were in town last week 🤩

The Scientific-Python Development Guide has been updated with SPDX licenses (PEP 639) and dependency-groups (PEP 735)! There's more uv, too; the cookiecutter/copier template now sets up uv everywhere for ultra fast CI. New repo-review checks, too. learn.scientific-python.org/development/...

🚨 Only 7 days left to submit to #SciPy2025! 🔥 Don't miss this chance to share your work with the scientific Python community! Submit your talk now: https://buff.ly/3W5Lsl9 👀 Not submitting? Sign up as a reviewer and help curate an amazing program: https://buff.ly/3QyjR9n

🍿A Rocket Launch Double Feature!🍿 This is an exciting week for IPAC: @lunartrailblazer.bsky.social & SPHEREx are NASA missions scheduled for launch! Here’s where you can watch the action and excitement leading up to liftoff—and beyond! 🚀🚀 www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/a-rocket-launch-double-feature

This is a good starter pack with all the fellow Software Sustainability Institute Fellows. Good to see you all again!

📣 Do you need help writing a successful proposal for #SciPy2025? We will be hosting multiple SciPy 2025 Proposal Writing Office Hours 📝 - Friday, Feb 14, 2:30-3:30pm ET - Tuesday, Feb 18, 1-2pm ET - Thursday, Feb 20, 8-9pm ET - Monday, Feb 24, 5-6pm ET 💁‍♀️ Sign up here: https://buff.ly/42RwRhy

2i2c has officially become part of the mybinder.org federation, introducing a new, cost-effective, and faster approach. We hope to make it easier for more people to join the federation by contributing a single-node BinderHub at 2i2c.mybinder.org. More in our blog: https://2i2c.org/blog/2025/binde…

This press release: www.nasa.gov/universe/new... is about the Open Universe simulation dataset we at IRSA are helping to release and make available via the cloud. Here is a Python Notebook exploring this data set: caltech-ipac.github.io/irsa-tutoria...

In addition to the astrostatistics scholarship, the general International Scholarships are now advertised at @Macquarie_Uni - come work with us on exoplanets & stars; astronomical instrumentation; and stats in physics and astronomy! Applications close 2 March.

New year starts with a new release. astroquery v0.4.8 is out, with lots of fixes and enhancements. And big thanks to all who contributed code in the past year. Get yours with `pip install -U astroquery` or from the conda-forge channel. #astronomydata #astroquery #ivoa

📣 The #SciPy2025 Call For Proposals is OPEN! ✨ 👉 Submit your talk, poster or tutorial in our website: https://buff.ly/3W5Lsl9 👀 Deadline for submission: February 26, 2025!

Congrats to the 2025 BSSw Fellowship Class! Making #scientificsoftware & #developerproductivity better! bssw.io/blog_posts/i... #somycodewillseethefuture

👋 Hello, is there anybody in here? I suppose it's about time to try new things 😆