Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Astronomer | blue plaques Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was widely considered the most eminent woman astronomer of the mid-20th century. She is recognised by a plaque at the home where she grew up, 70 Lansdowne Road.

Hooray for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who now has her own blue plaque in London. 🔭 www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p... (Thanks to @helenarney.bsky.social for reminding me)

@dbouquin.bsky.social Yo, what's your current email? I've got a paper draft for you ...

Reminder: we are hiring a Research Software Engineer @flatironinstitute.org !

Thanks! DM me your email, or equivalent? At least, I didn't find your address after some basic searching

@lu.is Hey Luis, I've written a draft scholarly article about AI and science that ends up mostly being a primer on the commons. Would you be interested in giving it a read and letting me know how on- or off-base my discussion is?

Newest release of #Jupiter aurora from program 17408. Observation date 2025-10-17, but released a few days ago.
www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop...
Credit: Planetary Light Show

Do it do it

(Submit, not talk yourself out of it ...)

Come to @api.uva.nl this Friday to find out how Video Killed the Radio Star!

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Folks, I'm starting to think that despite what he tells himself, Dr. Robbie's refusal to confront his personal issues might be affecting his performance at work.

I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.

Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse.

It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."

Melvin Kranzberg - Wikipedia

Re: good/bad, historians of technology have had the right attitude for decades: "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_...)

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

Please spread the word! In addition to becoming an important part of the MESA project, the person in this role would have opportunities to collaborate on scientific software across CCA, which has a vibrant, interactive community of scientists and code developers.

Tired of April Fools submissions?

I also minted the DOI for the official "version 1.0" of the website. The "concept" DOI that always takes you to the latest released version (up to 1.0.1 already) is: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

2026-03-18 webinar: One Good Tutorial: “Minimum Viable Documentation” for Scientific Software YouTube video by IDEAS Productivity

A few weeks ago I presented my documentation project One Good Tutorial at the IDEAS HPC Best Practices webinar. I was very happy with how it went! Here's the video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnIG...

NEW: Trump appointed 12 Big Tech executives including Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

This board is usually made up of top scientists and doctors.

In the Trump Administration only money gets a seat at the table.

Win-64 Support by pattersonjack · Pull Request #84 · conda-forge/healpy-feedstock Checklist Used a personal fork of the feedstock to propose changes Bumped the build number (if the version is unchanged) Reset the build number to 0 (if the version changed) Re-rendered with t...

Thanks to work by Jack Patterson, conda-forge now has a build of healpy for Windows! 👀 Hopefully coming upstream as well.

github.com/conda-forge/...

Hadn't thought about this but this is an absolutely terrifying dynamic! It'll also apply in medicine, except worse since the quacks there are organized

Like, in a reasonable world (I know ...), universities would be crawling all over each other for the prestige of operating ArXiv.

Big reason given for the spinoff is basically that universities are ill-configured to host large research infrastructure projects. This is (1) very true in my experience and (2) completely maddening. This is exactly what universities should be doing!

ArXiv, the pioneering preprint server, declares independence from Cornell As an independent nonprofit, it hopes to raise funds to cope with exploding submissions and “AI slop”

#arXiv, the granddaddy of #preprints servers, has announced it’s splitting from Cornell U., its long-time host institution. Leaders there explain why. #OpenAccess #ScholComm @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Rubin Observatory Detects Record-Breaking Asteroids The Rubin Observatory has detected thousands of new asteroids, including several that spin a lot faster than expected for typical rubble piles.

I wrote a thing! Rubin and LSST are not only going to find a kajillion asteroids, they'll get lightcurves and colors at the same time, and the science is going to be phenomenal

skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Executive Director (NExScI) | Careers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Apply for Executive Director (NExScI) job with JPL in Pasadena, California, United States of America. Research at JPL . Let's Dare Mighty Things together.

Hey! Come work with me at NExScI!!! #jobs #exoplanets

JPL is hiring a new NExScI Executive Director to replace Chas, who will work with the Deputy Director (David Ciardi) and Chief Scientist (that's me!) in leading NExScI and our suite of impactful exoplanet programs.

www.jpl.jobs/job/R5526/Ex...

AAS Editor in Chief Search

Following the announcement of Ethan Vishniac's upcoming retirement, the AAS is conducting an open search for a new AAS Editor in Chief responsible for ensuring the continued excellence of the AAS journals portfolio. aas.org/posts/opport... 🔭

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678 arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

arXiv is being spun out from Cornell University and is looking for an inaugural CEO. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

The @aas.org is conducting a search for the AAS Editor in Chief, who is responsible for developing and implementing a long-term editorial strategy for the Society’s journals portfolio. See this link for more details of this full-time position and the application process.

journals.aas.org/eicsearch

My wife bought this one without even knowing that I had a connection!