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 😐

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The schedule for our 2025 Cosmic Horizons Annual Conference is now out. Plenty of exciting talks and posters sites.utexas.edu/cosmic-horiz... #astronomy #AI #research Registration is, unfortunately, a wait list only now. If you are at UT Austin, feel free to drop by Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302)

Are you an astronomer interested in applying AI to your research? Get acquainted with basic AI skills and learn how to apply them in your astro research in our boot camp. This camp is geared toward astronomy graduate students and postdocs - www.cosmicai.org/events-2-1/e...

Almost a prerequisite for engineering, Texas surprisingly seems to do exceedingly well in Physics enrollment.

Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

A tad Louise-Penny-heavy, but she got me through some stressful times this year.

How I spend my vacations.

Blue skies on Bluesky