Great talk at #iauga2024 by #dotastro alum Kartheik Iyer (Columbia) on the J-HIVE project. It brings together ~1 million galaxies from public #JWST data with a uniform reduction and provides a web-based visualization tool. Amazing. j-hive.org 🔭
Interested in learning how to use our Jdaviz tools for #JWST interactive analysis? Sign up for our Jwebbinar on May 22nd! 🧪🔭 #dotastro
One thing to come out of #dotastro last week was this bot that posts a galaxy every hour.
Even then, it will take 171 *years* to post all 1.5 million galaxies labelled in the Galaxy Zoo project.
And that's assuming they don't do even more before then... 🔭🧪
In the meantime, @emily.space was awesome at helping us set this up and encouraging us to go for it, and @davidoryan.bsky.social did the actual work of creating the bot and making it work! ❤️ this was such a fun way to spend a #dotastro hack day. 🔭🧪
A street in Madrid. It has that cosy, fun, warm European city vibe.
A satellite tracking/communications dish at the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Madrid, where the conference was held. Sometimes, we saw them move!
Bye, Madrid! I had a great time at #dotastro this week chatting with lots of very cool people about lots of very cool astro things
Did you know there's a Hackathon Planning Kit? Thanks to our invited speaker Alexander Nolte for sharing and for co-creating this amazing resource hackathon-planning-kit.org #dotastro 🔭🧪
A picture of Alexander's title slide: "You hacked and now what? Fostering the impact of hsckathons"
Yesterday's hack day at #dotastro was so busy! (And so fun)
Now today we're hearing about how to foster the impact of hsckathons from Alexander Nolte:
Title slide on a screen showing a happy crowd of people waving flags. The title is “you hacked and now what? Fostering the impact of hackathons”. The speaker is Alexander Nolte.
Excited for our last #dotastro invited speaker who will talk about fostering the impact of hackathons 🔭🧪
#dotastro musical hack to Queen, Sting, the Beatles and Radiohead - that's a whole new level 🤯🔭
Awesome - @ivastar.bsky.social, @sarahkendrew.bsky.social and others have updated the Astronomy Software Use Survey and it’s ready for a decadal update! Astronomers, BOLO in your inbox for this 2-minute survey. There were >1000 responses last time; it’s really important! #dotastro 🔭
We (mostly @davidoryan.bsky.social + @emily.space ) made a Bluesky bot that shares a galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo archive! Currently planning to share a few a day, working on the scheduling but everything else is done. #dotastro 🔭🧪
Working on a Bluesky #dotastro hack and confronting (a) my bad habit of lurking here rather than posting, and (b) the fact I have never actually joined @emily.space ‘s Astronomy feed!
Number of papers published by @ojastro.bsky.social is increasing right now - up from ~10/yr to 50 last year, projected to ~100 in 2024. Approx 55% acceptance rate. #dotastro
The Open Journal of Astrophysics is on bluesky - follow at @ojastro.bsky.social #dotastro
Big shoutout from Peter Coles to the library staff at Maynooth Uni who provided a lot of support to the Open Journal of Astrophysics. #dotastro #librariansftw
The annual running cost of the @ojastro.bsky.social is less than the cost of publishing ONE paper in MNRAS. 🔭 #dotastro
Invited #dotastro talk from Peter Coles on open access publishing - 5 mins in and we’ve already covered Marx and Taylor Swift 👏🙌
The title slide of Peter's talk: Open Access Publishing in Astrophysics
A slide with some horrible stats about major publishers and how much they fleece science, like how big ones like Elsevier have 45% profit margins.
Next keynote at #dotastro: we're hearing about the Open Journal of Astrophysics from @telescoper.bsky.social!
Iva's software development slide from her talk. There's a pie chart referencing a question from Momcheva & Tollerud 2015. 100% of people answered 'yes' to using software in their research
Even back in 2015, 100% of astronomers were using software in their research #dotastro 🔭
Iva's title slide - "What is astronomical data science anyways?"
Next up at #dotastro - hearing about data science in astronomy from Iva Momcheva!
eodashboard.org: communicating EO science via interactive web-based storytelling based on EO mission data from ESA, NASA & JAXA - looks really nice #dotastro
Great talk from Anca Anghelea from
ESA Earth Observation on great EO #openscience work to make EO more easily accessible & shareable. Check out e.g. the opensciencedata.esa.int #dotastro
Back at #dotastro today! Starting off hearing about ESA's earth observation programs
As if today wasn't already exciting enough, I'm now on the fast train from Barcelona to Madrid and thence to #dotastro tomorrow.
A picture of a slide explaining the motivation behind ESA Datalabs
Final tutorial of #dotAstro: hearing about ESA Datalabs, a cloud computing tool for doing science with ESA data!
New experimental feature of ESA Sky is a Virtual Assistant: you can ask questions, e.g. "what is a spiral galaxy?" or say "show me a spiral galaxy" and it will display it in ESA Sky. Neat! #dotastro
The ESASky astroquery module was apparently started as a #dotastro hack! Now fully implemented & available to the community astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/es...
This afternoon we'll get a demo & tutorial for 2 awesome
ESA science
projects at #dotastro: ESASky (sky.esa.int) and Datalabs (datalabs.esa.int), a science platform that allows scientists to work closer to the data.
You can try ESASky yourself to look at data - there's also an explorer mode with a dice button that takes you to a random object every time! #dotastro 🔭
sky.esa.int
