🔭 ~1,400 people globally have contributed to the construction of Rubin, including 500 construction staff, 500 contractors, 100 staff on operations (so far), and 300 in-kind contributors, from software and hardware contributions to follow-up observing time on other telescopes

Rubin First Look is FIVE days away! The best part of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory? The community we've grown along the way 💫 Rubin is only able to #CaptureTheCosmos because of its global collaboration. ✨ 🌎 Over the past couple of decades, over 4,000 people made Rubin a reality!

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...

On Tuesday at the WeTeach_CS Summit, Dr. Stella Offner will share with CS educators how CS and AI can lead to new science. Below are animations from the STARFORGE showing a simulation of star formation (Guszejnov et al. 2021, Grudic et al. 2021).

Another one, again a bit on the nose, on the definition of #MachineLearning, #ArtificialIntelligence and variants of the above.

An object called 2017 OF201 is shaking up our ideas about the outer zone of our solar system. It follows an extreme, 25,000-year orbit. It may be 1 of 100s of such bodies filling a seemingly vacant region. And its existence casts doubt on searches for Planet 9. 🧪🔭 www.ias.edu/news/extreme...

Nicely done video applying foundational educational and cognitive psychology ideas to the case of GenAI. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky youtu.be/0xS68sl2D70?...

A recent paper led by collaboration members Yoonsoo Kim and Elias Most (both at Caltech) is in @aasnova.org today! This work explores the formation of strongly magnetized "monster" shocks and a transient "black hole pulsar" state from mergers of a magnetized neutron star and a black hole. ⚛️🧪🔭

🚨 First annual LA Area PICUP Workshop 🚨 THIS SATURDAY!!! 📍 Riverside City College 📅 Saturday, May 17 ⏰ 8:30am to 4:00pm. Workshop details and registration information can be found here: www.compadre.org/PICUP/events... Registration is open! #iteachphysics #physicssky #astrosky #physics

jimmynewland.com/astronomy/ip... Trying to create a pipeline to categorize young stellar objects through SED analysis. Not there yet, but the SED look pretty!

I think we downplay the role of social media algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns in drawing voters to Trump and away from Democrats at our own risk — it’s frankly a refusal to reckon with reality. Social media has created a matrix-like info control environment.

Elevation scan source: observablehq.com/@neocartocnr...

Boycotting on Feb 28th? Make sure your impact goes on the record! Click to add your name! bit.ly/boycottcentral #BuildTheResistance

Knowledge is power. Each day during this Black History Month—a month the government doesn’t want us celebrating—I will be sharing amazing books by Black authors. Book 1: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. A title written decades ago, but begins on February 1, 2025. #Edusky #Books #Booksky

The Astropy Project is made by our community, for our community. But who are we, exactly? We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey: forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV... Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭

Computer Science Teacher: CSTA Ends Free Membership blog.acthompson.net/2025/02/csta... #CSed #CSTA

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

I’m about to hit the road for the first ever Data Science Education K-12 conference which is happening in San Antonio. I’m presenting my recent work bringing data science pedagogy to high school science. #dsek12 #dataIsHuman www.jimmynewland.com/wp/research/...

Once more, I start my spell with the traditional initial incantation, reverently typed by hand: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 🧪🔭

Professional societies stand together in defense of science & scientists. “science has led to humanity’s greatest advances, improving people’s lives & the health of our planet … (we’re) committed to supporting, elevating, & fighting for science & those who further it.“ www.unitedsciencealliance.org

A tiny two part story about resisting fascism. #google #googlemaps #gulfofamerica #gulfofmexico #deletegooglemaps

happy “the iss is as big as a football field” day!!!

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

Here's one for my intro #astrophysics course - Gauss's Law for #gravity and the gravitational field inside the Earth. Oh, you KNOW there's #python too. I verify using random numbers. It's fun #physics youtu.be/dAFc78eXkd0

My first official tour of the TACC supercomputers from the wonderful Geoffrey Reid

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

It’s only been two weeks and two days since Elon Musk did a Hitler salute on Inauguration Day

No criminal or civil law or constitutional right means anything at all if nobody is prepared to enforce it.

Nonbinary people won’t stop existing. Making us feel invisible isn’t a viable way to move forward. Especially when it communities like our workplaces or schools and such.

Nonbinary people will not be erased! Everything has its consequences folks... everything.

Surprise, suprise! www.thejournal.ie/school-phone...

WeTeach_CS is accepting applications for Launch K5, our 3-day program that equips K-5 educators with the tools and training to seamlessly integrate the Technology Applications TEKS into their teaching practices, preparing students for success in the digital age. Learn more: buff.ly/4jCBiCJ

Laws like the 1994 Driver’s Privacy Protection Act “weren’t enacted with modern-day tech in mind,” rife with exceptions that could be read broadly to let companies or the government violate people’s privacy, EFF’s Lee Tien told @slate.bsky.social.

Hey folks! Will be talking about the wonderful, wacky world of floating point Sunday afternoon in the HPC, Big data, & Data science dev room at 15:30! #fosdem

The Riverwalk in San Antonio Texas has this cool spot where you can see wavefronts propagating

Frozen Houston work from home vibes

JWST's insane resolution demonstrated. The ability to see each star clearly from such distance, is clearly the future. arxiv.org/html/2501.10... 🔭 🧪

Never look a gift dinosaur in the mouth

Applying data science to courses can make learning more robust and statistical thinking can be applied in other contexts. Students learn concepts & skills together. Example: learn how the HR diagram uses data to describe stellar populations by actually using data. arxiv.org/abs/2501.04856

Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033

Skew-T Log-P xkcd.com/3032

SPACE FACTS: DAY 244/365🛰️🧪🔭 Things in the solar system smack into one another a lot, leaving behind impact craters. The largest impact crater known in the solar system is on Mars, a crater called Utopia that is 2100 miles across! It was probably formed billions of years ago.

Modeling a figure skater as a solid disk with 'very light' arms and 'very massive' hands in @desmos.com www.desmos.com/calculator/w... #iTeachPhysics

A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.

New comic: aurora part 1. Based on a comment by @nepeteaa.bsky.social a couple months back.

Periodic editor's reminder to use "TK" for your placeholder copy, because it's easier to catch at a glance than whatever your gentile social media producer might use instead

My curtain has a hole that makes an adequate pinhole camera. Here are some just-out-of-focus images of a clouded over sun