📣 Last but not least 🥁🥁 🚀Meet our third keynote: Dr. Joseph H. Kennedy, Staff Scientist at the Alaska Satellite Facility & Geophysical Institute, UAF. He specializes in bridging the gap between scientists and software engineers, building ground-up Cloud and HPC data processing/analysis platforms 🙌

📣 And our second keynote speaker is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 🚀 Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute & Research Director at the Metagovernance Project. MIT & Harvard fellow dedicated to making technology work for humans, not the other way around! Catch her talk at #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

📣 Meet our first keynote 🥁🥁 🚀 Thomas Caswell: Project Lead for Matplotlib & staff scientist at Brookhaven National Lab. 15+ years of scientific Python: from a 1-character patch to leading one of its most-used libraries 📊 Don't miss him at #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🎯 Tutorial Spotlight: Think everything is a for-loop? Think again. Jim Pivarski & Iason Krommydas show you how array-oriented thinking unlocks Python performance you didn't know was possible. Time to rethink the basics 🧠 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🍺 Talk Spotlight: Paul is bringing the legendry with "Pun Intended Consequences", a hilarious romp through SciPy history, lightning talks, and the absurd wisdom that shaped our community 😄 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🛠️ Talk Spotlight: Why does scipy use pixi.toml? Ruben explains how Pixi solves scientific Python's toughest dependency challenges; C++, Rust, CUDA, Fortran, all in one tool 🚀 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

Stop scrolling to the reference list. Stop squinting at figures. Curvenote Reader puts citations in context as you read. Figures zoom independently. References live where you need them. The research doesn't change. The experience does. Tell us what you think 👉 reader.openrxivlabs.org

🌲 Talk Spotlight: Jim shows how LiDAR + lightweight ML catches hidden gullies to prevent erosion and forest fires. See Numba tackle massive datasets with unconventional kernels. Real data, real impact. 🛰️ #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

Thanks to Trump's tax cuts, 88 corporations — including Coinbase, CVS, and Disney — paid ZERO federal income tax last year. They also spent $852M on political donations and lobbying. Their combined tax savings: over $26 BILLION (a 3,000% ROI!) We must break this corrupt cycle.

⚛️ Talk Spotlight: Iason takes us inside CERN's petabyte data challenges. How is Python revolutionizing particle physics? 🐍 Discover the Scikit, HEP tools reshaping high, energy physics analysis. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

@zoekeating.com Thank you very much for releasing the "The Edge of All We Know" soundtrack! :D

Cowan @kylecranmer.bsky.social Gross Vitells 2013 Eur.Phys.J.C article "Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics" inspirehep.net/literature/8... reaches 6,000 citations.

LEP impact study (1982). Fermilab is somewhere in North Manitoba.

I don't enter into these kinds of debates either. Nothing in my scientific training equips me to argue with a conspiracy theory.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/

Anyone in the #coffee world have suggestions for cafes in Seoul, Korea?

State Rep. @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social wins the Democratic primary in the vacant #GA13, @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social projects. Clark is now poised to become the first Black woman PhD scientist to serve in Congress. My interview with her here: 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor...

You know your PhD students are ready to graduate when they start organizing their own workshops - here is our own Malin Horstmann kicking off the SBI in @atlasexperiment.bsky.social workshop!

Sometimes I get all tied up in knots about whether to release my film scores. The music is made in service to a film so the choices I make are different and I might play other instruments. I still don’t know if it’s wise but in a spontaneous moment I released “The Edge of All We Know”

Just published in JOSS: 'GaPFlow: Gap-averaged flow simulations with Gaussian process regression' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09645

I'm very excited about this new paper, which kicks of our LEGO ERC project we started earlier this year towards general-purpose AI surrogates for simulating radiation-matter interaction. Instead of training AI surrogates for specific detectors or material distribution ...

Higher education has more public trust than any branch of the federal government. More than newspapers and TV news. More than banks or tech companies. We should remember this, and understand the motives of those who would like to pretend otherwise.

Pizza night, EDM show, followed the next day by homemade breakfast sandwiches and excellent coffee is a great start to the weekend after a long week.

Time to tap the sign that you can't have long lived PyPI tokens get stolen and have your project be a supply chain attack if you don't have any. Everyone please just use Trusted Publishers. docs.pypi.org/trusted-publ... lightning.ai/blog/pytorch...

wait what

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

The move follows an administration push for cuts to the NSF and raises concerns in the scientific community that it could jeopardize a tradition of independent decisions about federal science grants. n.pr/4t2YxJI

Many American Catholics must have read a different version of the Gospel than the one I read growing up Catholic in Italy. Italian versions must have been woke

While I'm not physically at the DSI today for my friend @tylerjamesburch.com's visit and talks, it makes me happy to see that he got to meet my colleagues and know that I was welcoming him remotely. :)

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Growing up in Illinois in the '90s during the Chicago Bulls dynasty means that this song acst as a signal for "lock in" mode for my brain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkC_...

Pete Hegseth needs to go, NOW.   Since the start of Trump's war in Iran, Hegseth has — without justification — continued firing some of our top military leaders.    Our service members deserve better than a power-tripping warmonger who thinks war is a big video game.  www.axios.com/2026/04/03/h...

In the context of the FY27 PBR it helps to go back to Robert Wilson’s famous testimony to Congress about funding for the NAL(Fermilab) in FY1970 and ask the natural question, why are there some people so hell-bent on tearing down so much of what makes this country worth defending?⚛️🧪

When it has been a long week reviewing some truly excellent proposals for @scipyconf.bsky.social is a great way to lift the academic spirit and make me excited for July 2026. :)

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics. The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge. The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it. US science is being killed

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

No more duplicate dependencies in pyproject.toml! Pixi Python packages can now set `ignore-pypi-mapping = false` to automatically convert `pyproject.toml` dependencies into conda package requirements. The goal is no configuration, this is a step in that direction!

Trump's newly announced council of scientific advisors is a startling departure from precious PCASTs: Instead of academic researchers or industry scientists, nine out of 13 members are billionaires, who have a combined wealth of over $900 billion. My reporting:

1/fb in 14h!

By chance I met Matthew Becker, of the conda-forge/core team, at the 2026 APS Global Summit as we both gave talks this morning. Always fun when physics and software make the world feel much smaller. :)

"Cementing a machine-learning ecosystem: scikit-learn and beyond": on Friday March 20, we at @ucbids.bsky.social and the Berkeley Statistics department are delighted to host @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social for a seminar. Join us in person or online! events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/3...

📣 Want to help shape #SciPy2026? 🙋‍♀️ Join our Program Review Committee and help review talk, poster, or tutorial proposals! 🌟 This is a great way to support SciPy and get involved in the scientific Python community! 👉️ Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 Great news! The #SciPy2026 CFP deadline has been extended. 🗓️ New CFP Deadline: March 4th, 2026. 🚀You have 1 more week to submit your proposal. 🙋‍♀️Don’t miss this chance to present a tutorial, talk or poster at your favorite scientific Python conference! 👉️ Submit here: pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp

⏰ The deadline to submit to #SciPy2026 is approaching! Don’t miss your chance to speak at this incredible conference and share your work with the scientific Python community 💙 Submit your proposal here 👉 pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp

🌟 Our #SciPy2026 organizing team just had the kickoff meeting! 🚀 We’re super excited to start building an incredible conference for the scientific Python community! Hope to see you there! 🙌 👉️ Grab your ticket now and join us in Minneapolis: ti.to/scipy/scipy2...