Our Institute’s panel was selected for SXSW Interactive 2026 schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116... If you will be at #SXSW, please attend for an “out of the world” talk. #astronomy #AI #BigData

Howdy from Austin

Blurred Lines

Virginia is for lovers

The CosmicAI team at #SAIL2025

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

Talked about @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social’s first year at the Managing Director’s SIG panel.

Jane Bernhard, @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social’s Comms Director presented on the Institute’s communications strategy and content at #SAIL2025

Sunning his rump

Red tripod

If you have thoughts or ideas or even a concern that we should be regulating AI, the government (Office of Science and Technology Policy ) is now asking for your input www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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

@scalzi.com Are there plans to create a boxed set for the Old Man’s Series? I look on Bookshop.org and found one sans Shattering Peace but it’s the ebook format. Wanted to get one for my teenager.

Corner

CapCity Marching Band Festival

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. Accepted as part of the NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track 2025 🔭 🤖 www.cosmicai.org/news/introdu...

This good boi is going to his forever home tomorrow. It’s been fun fostering him for the last seven months 🥲

#LFC YNWA

Leaving on a jet plane

Chill

This “good boi” nearly killed an opossum today 😐

No, we didn’t run into this fella in the wilderness. This is from a sanctuary refuge for abandoned wildlife.

The Aialik Glacier looms beyond an impossibly green island.

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

Pandora-esque

Why are we stopping?

It was blue hour all day here

I don’t think this could’ve sunk the Titanic

Alone on a glacier

And off we goooooooooo!

Being lonely and on the edge on purpose.

Meander

Mood

The Denali

View from the bus. Denali Ntl Park 🏞️

Denali National Park on Summer Solstice 2025

Till death do us apart

A few old photos from the Scottish Highlands. Who can see the Andromeda galaxy in the last pic? 1. A selfie showing my best side 2. The Milky Way over Spey dam loch 3. Loch Morlich at ‘blue hour’ 4. The Milky Way over a frozen loch in Laggan. #bluesky #photography #travel #Scotland #nightsky

Notre Dame LEGO (built by my son)

Congrats to Sebastian et al. This is our first fully within-CosmicAI research project, setting the foundation for our future work.

If you have strong opinions about AI in research, our postdoc would love to have you participate in their study

Too bad I could never use such a cool image in any of my presentations

🚀 CosmicAI is in our first #40forForty campaign! We’re raising funds to support paid summer research internships for undergrads exploring #AI + #astronomy. Every dollar goes to students! Campaign ends May 8 at 10PM CT. Donate here: give.utexas.edu/schools/Univ...

Today is the second day of our Astro-AI Boot Camp - an intensive week of AI training and hands-on AI-astronomy activities @taccutexas.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social

PhD student Ritwik Vashistha from our Explainable Universe group at CosmicAI will be presenting I-trustworthy Models. Trustworthiness evaluation of classifiers on May 4th at the AISTATS 2025 Conference in Phuket. Learn more! virtual.aistats.org @utaustin.bsky.social @utexasresearch.bsky.social

#LFC are Premier League Champions again! Woo hoo!

Director Offner presents an update on CosmicAI’s six-month anniversary www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDGt...

Now at the…

Stella Offner, PI and Director of CosmicAI, and Nina De La Torre, UT CSEM Grad Student, representing CosmicAI at the Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Open House at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences! @utaustin.bsky.social #UTresearch

I fretted that enough people weren't applying to our seed funding RFP. The faculty I work with reassured me that this was normal in astronomy and shared this graph. I guess astronomers are also procrastinators 😐