Question scoped to software in physics: Do you currently use PPC64LE architecture hardware for anything in your scientific workflow and is it important to you to have binary builds of software for that machine? Are there high impact examples that you can think of? Or is everything x64 or aarch64?

We've shipped a major update to the JOSS submission scope requirements, affecting what is eligible for submission and what information we require from authors. You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience

Pour one out for Himal chuli, the legendary Nepalese restaurant in Madison, WI that had become a favorite on my visits to my academic home over the last 3 years. www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/...

It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state

French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.

It really is that bad. Grant funded science, supposedly a key piece of American exceptionalism, was already a huge headache. Now it’s looking nearly impossible.

Sinatra has gone woke

📣 Call for Proposals is OPEN for #SciPy2026! Have a talk, tutorial, or poster idea you’re excited to share with the scientific Python community? Now’s the time! 🚀 🗓 Submit by: February 25, 2026 🔗 Submit here: pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp

The Call for Proposals for #SciPy2026 is now live! pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp If you have questions about @scipyconf.bsky.social just ask and be on the lookout for proposal writing office hours!

The LHC community has had more than an exabyte of data and simulation globally distributed, but now @cern.bsky.social has hit an exabyte of experimental observations at its data centers. At these scales, analysis of data from the HL-LHC upgrade will require new approaches. home.cern/news/news/co...

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

I feel very silly that it has taken me about a decade to realize this, but turning OFF fractional scaling in #Ubuntu and just reducing the resolution of my laptop's high DPI built-in display is improving the performance everywhere! askubuntu.com/a/1257985/78...

AGU petition to save NCAR. Please share widely! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Last work flight of the year! Spending time with amazing colleagues at UW-Madison is always excellent and invigorating. Still excited to be heading towards home for a final time (…before it comes time to head back to the Midwest to see family for the holidays).

I need help! 🟢 One reviewer report for this JOSS article is complete. 🟠 Since we haven't got a response from the second reviewer, we need to assign a new one. 🔵 Any volunteers to review the manuscript? 🟣 Regression estimators and R. Thank you in advance! github.com/openjournals...

Thanks to the whole LHC crew!

Big thanks to Lauren for guiding me through finding my first mechanical keyboard after my keyboard of 15+ years started to give up the ghost. So far this Keychron Q6 Max with Gateron Jupiter Brown switches is super nice! So far so good with Linux integration as well, so here’s hoping that holds.

Wishing everyone at #NeurIPS2025 a wonderful conference! Go check out the amazing work of my colleagues and friends at the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop. ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2025/

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Advent calendar time with Onyx again! Starting off strong with a tasty red honey processed Colombian for day 1. ☕️

There's a nasty #OpenSource #SupplyChain worm going around named Shai-Hulud. It's also capable of exposing some projects' long-lived PyPI API Tokens. Read more on what's happening, and what you can do to protect your projects. TL,DR: Adopt Trusted Publishing 🔐🚀📦 blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Make sure you catch my latest for @wired.com -- with comment from @defcon.bsky.social and @blackhatevents.bsky.social founder Jeff Moss, and @adafruit.com founder + engineer Limor Fried: www.wired.com/story/this-h...

Beam Dump xkcd.com/3168/

Students, apply for a CERN summer studentship. Greatest experience ever! Deadline 26 January 2026. careers.cern/programmes/s... (It's not just for physicists. Check it out.)

Northern lights in interior Alaska.

DSI Director and @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Professor @kylecranmer.bsky.social has been honored with the inaugural Pritzker Prize in AI for Science for his role in establishing a powerful new approach to data analysis that leverages advances in machine learning and AI. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/11/10/d...

Here we are again: stunned & full of hope, because of you–each of you wonderful humans in the #Python community. Since we shared the news about our withdrawal from the NSF grant opportunity two weeks ago, we've received >$160,000 in donations across 1,937 donors, which includes 313 new Members–WOW!

I am incredibly honored to have received the inaugural AI in Science Research Excellence Prize from the Margot and Tom Pritzker Foundation dsi.wisc.edu/2025/11/10/d...

Fifty years ago today

I am very excited about my "Deeper Talk" seminar hosted by the Institute for Underground Science at #SURF. If you would be interested in learning more about the @snolabscience.bsky.social science program and the recently developed 15-year vision for […] [Original post on mastodon.cooleysekula.net]

In honor of my recent academic promotion, I got to choose a book for our library to buy and put a bookplate in, so I chose this book by Greg Wilson. Tonight was the ceremony for me and the other 145 people promoted this year, where I got to see it in person.

Apply for the next #URSSI winter school on research software engineering, 15-17 Dec in Portland, OR: urssi.us/blog/2025/11... For: grad students, postdocs, & other early career researchers (or beyond!) looking to increase your software dev. skills. Applications close 21 Nov, so apply soon!

🚨 Job Alert We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics. Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word! Deadline: Nov 30th inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

CepC proposal will not be included in China’s next 5-year plan cerncourier.com/cepc-matures...

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

Marching

In our little deep dive series we're now exploring how cross-compilation in the Conda ecosystem works: prefix.dev/blog/cross-c.... Back in the days, @conda-forge.org rolled this out widely to support osx-arm64 early on, and now for linux-aarch64/ppc64le.

It is the year 2025 and some companies still have "show up to a physical store" as the only, apparently working, way to verify your identity to make a purchase. :/

A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better: gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...

Python 3.14 has been released two days ago. At the same time, we also uploaded a build of it to @conda-forge.org and about 40% of Python version dependent (mostly those with compiled code) were immediately available. See conda-forge.org/blog/2025/10...

Seems that #pyhf has finally creeped over the 200 citations on INSPIRE recently. :) 🎉 inspirehep.net/literature?q... inspirehep.net/literature/1... Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!

A new CPython release also means a new rundown of what's new from @henryiii.bsky.social! iscinumpy.gitlab.io/post/python-... Happy Python π release day everyone!

Python 3.14 is out! Prepare your CIs!