A nice display at the Pratt Library today in honor of Jane Goodall #Pratt #Baltimore

For National Black Dog Day, Tycho did his best alligator impression.

Is this color good for the harbor? I’m not sure I’ve seen it so clear or this green. #Baltimore #water #turtle

The Maryland Transit Authority is recognizing Rosa Parks birthday today and not collecting tickets! #Baltimore #Maryland

This press release: www.nasa.gov/universe/new... is about the Open Universe simulation dataset we at IRSA are helping to release and make available via the cloud. Here is a Python Notebook exploring this data set: caltech-ipac.github.io/irsa-tutoria...

📢 I'm teaching a Geographic Software Design course this semester at the University of Tennessee! 🎉 All course materials will be freely available online, with new video lectures dropping three times a week.

It is 21 F and I just saw two people biking down Boston St in Baltimore! My bigger concern wasn’t the weather (as people bike in all weather), it was that it is dark out and Boston St is a very busy street (they both had lights). #Baltimore

Here’s a handsome dog enjoying the snow for your timeline.

Just an owl hanging out in Baltimore on a Saturday night #Baltimore #Owl

My Division is hiring! Do you have an astronomy backround and want to help lead the team designing and building cloud-based research platforms to support NASA missions? Applications are due Feb. 24th! You can also buy back time for personal research! 🔭 recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Last session of #AAS245, the Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy Lecture, which will be given by....

Enjoyed Katie Kaleida’s poster on JWST data management system: JWST has produced over 400 TB of data since launch and use over 100 computing nodes to process the data. #aas245 #JWST

Congratulations to ESA and the Gaia team members! The survey is a great example of what can be done with open data with so much amazing science and so much still to be done!

For undergraduates or graduate students at #aas245, NASA summer internships are open! There is a wide range of internships available including those doing research in different field or working in policy, communications, engineering, and more! www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

On the train to DC to the American Astronomical Society meeting #aas245 I’ll be at the NASA hyperwall today at 9:45 am talking about all the Office of the Chief Science Officer and at the AI town hall tomorrow. Interested in NASA AI, software, data, open science? Let’s connect!

Summer internship opportunities at NASA are open! If you are interested in working with the Science Mission Directorate's Chief Science Data Officer on evaluating open science, check out this opportunity: stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-off...

And another! Senior Scientific Software Engineer position at @spacetelescope.bsky.social. Due Feb 15. 🧪🔭 recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

Check out this article by my wonderful NASA-JPL advisor, Dr. Katie Stack Morgan (Mars 2020 [Perseverance rover] Deputy Project Scientist). Thanks for sharing @pomarede.bsky.social. 🧪🪨 #PlanetaryScience

If you ever get down on yourself when you see a well-published paper using an idea you thought of but didn't pursue, remember that your well-published papers might be using ideas that others thought of but didn't pursue. #FullCircle

Pandemonium in Patterson Park this evening but it was easy to wander off to find the quiet areas to listen to the falling snow. #Baltimore

Astounding that astronomer and activist Frank Kameny went from organizing the first White House pickets for gay rights in 1965 to the first official White House meeting between gay rights advocates and West Wing staffers in the Carter administration just a dozen years later.

A touch of shameless self-promotion here 😊. This interview on NPR’s Life Examined aired today, and I’d love for you to listen and share! ✨ #astronomers #cosmology #cosmos #astronomy

Aspiration on the chalk board of the local elementary school: “Someday I will teach the world kindness.” I think that’s a beautiful goal for the future! Also good luck to the kid that wants to train dogs! #Baltimore

Congrats to astronomers Wendy Freedman and Keivan Stassun for being awarded a National Medal of Science! 🔭

Incredible site. If you want to see the length of these trackways, and a little walk through of some of the Sauropod tracks, I've uploaded a 4k60p video to YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyH...

Hey bluesky! Do you want to develop your own open-source software in Python? Apply to attend Code/Astro! Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/ Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)

Also a routine colonoscopy isn’t that bad! Yes, it was a day of staying near a bathroom but for me, the worst part was not eating the day before.

1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce". Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

Exoplaneteers! The leads of the @spacetelescope.bsky.social Rocky Worlds program with Hubble and JWST will be providing an update for the community on Jan 21st at 11 am Eastern Time. You're encouraged to submit your questions ahead of the event. More info here > www.stsci.edu/contents/new... 🔭

Part 2 is about when Philadelphians might’ve started saying [wʊɾə˞] jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

From President Carter’s message on the Voyager Golden Record. From @ridingrobots.bsky.social but I added the alt text

See you Sunday, January 12 at #AAS245! 🔭

At long last, my first paper (ever, first-author, and with @davetoews.bsky.social) is out in @plosone.org 🐦🎶 We quantified and compared song divergence within and between 8 pairs of common North American songbirds—please check it out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I'd like to encourage folks to publish their code. Not only does it make studies more transparent and reproducible, but it also increases citation rates! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Happening right now (11:53 GMT)! The #Parker solar probe has just passed within 3.8 million miles of the surface of our Sun 🥵 We'll need to wait until Friday before we know if it withstood the heat! 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/mission/park...

I know people have been saying that libraries are great places to check out ebooks for a long time. Having just checked out my first ebook, I didn’t realize how incredible easy it was. Just a click on my libraries site, and it showed up on my Kindle.

There is plenty to debate about galaxy evolution, but I really appreciate the accessibility of @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social posts.

2024 has been a busy year for the NASA SMD's Office of the Chief Science Data Officer community! This includes release of AI foundation models, awarding $17M for open source software, and training over 2000 people in open science. Thanks to all for leading the way! #OpenScience #NASA

Now hiring at @spacetelescope.bsky.social: Senior Cloud Software Developer. Help build infrastructure to put astronomers in the clouds – the kind that don't ruin observations. Apps due Jan 17! 🧪🔭 recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...

A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.

Making NASA data more accessible through sound! Great article on the sonification of data from Chandra X-Ray observatory and other space telescopes. The examples are amazing - Some of these images were really turned into symphonies! #NASA #OpenScience 🔭🧪 science.nasa.gov/open-science...

18. Preprints help to accelerate research dissemination Even at the height of the COVID19 pandemic, preprints were (mostly) public within 48 hours. In 2 public health emergencies, preprints accounted for 40% of the early evidence. https://buff.ly/49h1xdi & https://buff.ly/41vXGYb #PreprintAdvent

The LADUMA team has put out a new paper on the neutral hydrogen mass function in the local Universe (HIMF)! Neutral Hydrogen (HI) is the mid step in the evolution of hydrogen in galaxies. 1/3 🔭 #extragalactic arxiv.org/pdf/2412.11426

Last week, several teammates and I presented an e-poster at the #AGU24 conference highlighting a few of the science capabilities of future Mars helicopters. 📜: agu24.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx... 🧵👇

At #AGU24 last week, I gave a talk titled "Seamless Arrays: A Full Stack, Cloud-Native Architecture for Fast, Scalable Data Access". Slides and some summary below 👇 doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

I had an idea once to arrange a poster only conference - no talks. Everyone would get a poster and paper copies would be available. The first day would just be people reading - no talks or even standing by your poster.

Back from a trip and battling the jet lag so I’m doing a bit of cooking while catching up on the last few episodes of bake off. Anyone got any questions for a planetary astronomer? :telescope: #askanastronomer

NASA: Best of 2024 video. Worth a watch to see so many great things accomplished this year by people working at and with NASA. #NASA m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjz...

Roman as a hive of activity today.

Throughout my career I’ve collected a nice set of Strong Opinions about relatively unimportant things. Here’s one: Don’t end your talk with a slide that just says “Thanks!” or “Questions?” The slide that remains up during audience questions should be a summary of your main points