ADS has given astronomy THE BEST literature tools available anywhere. I almost never have to use the garbage that other academics have to suffer through (GoogleScholar, JSTOR, LexisNexis, WoS, PubMed...) Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep

getting better at software development is miserable business because you want to rewrite everything you’ve ever written

few know this but python4 already exists. it’s called julia

A novel algorithm for GPU-accelerated particle-mesh interactions implemented in the QUOKKA code. Chong-Chong He (ANU) et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18261

today the new season of the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks kicks off: vast-seminars.github.io Some of the organizers will talk about their own projects this time. Join us at 11am (NY time). #astro #astrocode

god i hate having to use overleaf, why on gods earth do i need an internet connection to write text in text editor

Kilonovae and Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts. Marko Ristić et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03003

v v excited about this work feat. @astrobarker.bsky.social 👀 one conclusion: GRBs 211211A + 230307A fit a collapsar-kilonova model better than a compact-binary-kilonova model 👀 🧪🔭☄️

The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Theoretical Astrophysics has its postdoctoral position posted! LANL and the CTA has extensive experience in theory, simulation, modeling, and ML/AI applications. Northern New Mexico is also beautiful and full of good food! lanl.jobs/search/jobde...

NASA centers and national labs can host Hubble/Einstein/Sagan Fellows now!! 🔭

my aesthetic is Dover math and physics textbook art

the semester is starting! here are some of my teaching resources online: intro astronomy animations: zingale.github.io/astro_animat... my computational astrophysics class: zingale.github.io/computationa... my computational hydro text: open-astrophysics-bookshelf.github.io/numerical_ex... #astro

Feeling like Alan Grant more each day

3 hours of chat gpeetee can save you thirty minutes of just reading the literature

Did you know the high desert looks like this

Excited to announce the 'Rutgers Summer Transient Soiree' this July 16-18! To offset the uncertain funding landscape, we are offering a hybrid option + requiring NO registration fee. Non-faculty are especially encouraged to apply! Please apply by May 31! More in the replies! 🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro

new in pynucastro: we can now export to NetworkX and use their functions analyze a reaction network. Here's an example of finding cycles -- NetworkX finds the CNO and hot-CNO cycles in a network: pynucastro.github.io/pynucastro/n... #astro #astrocode

the python ecosystem slowly becoming usable

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

In honor of Caroline Herschel, remembering one of my favorite poems: Planetarium, by Adrienne Rich (www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46568/...)

Astronomer Caroline Herschel was born #OTD in 1750. She discovered and catalogued a wealth of comets, stars, and nebulae. Along with Mary Somerville, she was the first woman elected to the Royal Astronomical Society. 🧪🔭👩‍🔬 Image: Artist's impression of a young Caroline Herschel. Lisa Rosowsky / CfA

Dallas Fort Worth is not under gods protection. The devil is always at work here

If this looks old it's because it's been up there a while.

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

Applications open for the 2025 Argonne training program for extreme scale computing (ATPESC) - a really great intensive summer school for HPC extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov

Paper day!! 🧵

Paper day! This is a fun one if you like low level #hpc #programming hacks. 🧪🔭 In computational physics ⚛️, we often interpolate tabulated data that spans many orders of magnitude. A common way to do this is to tabulate in log space. But logs are slow... Or are they? 🧵👇 arxiv.org/abs/2501.05410

It's not every day that you get to touch programming and video game lore in a science project. But today was such a day. Thanks to my colleagues Jacob Fields, Peter Hammond, and @astrobarker.bsky.social for helping make this happen. End 🧵

2024 was a wild one. lots of travel, applied to postdocs, finished my PhD, backpacked Isle Royale, started my fellowship at LANL, but saved the best for last: got engaged to the love of my life

The Christmas Day agenda: watch all of Lord of the Rings and have seven hobbit meals from the LOTR cookbook

Tell him he’s handsome

They were fucking amazing

They’re having a good one too (right side bed is new)

Christmas (eve) tamales with chicken and hatch green chile tomatillo salsa

Christmas snacks

behold

Hard at work

Jam advent calendar (only a few days late to start)

Your quarterly reminder that while overleaf may falter, vim will not

Hello new followers! I'm Kaila and I use population synthesis (simulating populations of 100s to 100s of 1000s of objects) to figure out why stars and black holes are misbehaving and what it means! I do a lot of coding, coffee drinking, and love to travel. Welcome!

Looking at you, python

I will never stop being weirded out that compilers can be implemented in the language that they compile

call me anakin skywalker

feels good to be around southern accents again 🤠

finding out in 2019 that LIGO was using teamspeak as their official telecon platform

thanking god for every day i can avoid opening m*cr*s*ft t**ms

Drake: Just one, please Hot dog cart guy: Mustard on the meat? Drake: *bursts into tears*

‼️ New #jwst image alert ‼️ This gorgeous new view of the Sombrero galaxy shows that unlike in the visible-light images, the brightly glowing core of the galaxy doesn't shine, but we see instead a smooth inner disk, & we can see new details of the outer ring. More: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...