Researcher for LINCC Frameworks. Developing scalable astronomy software - https://xitter.cf/t.co/ND6bWaI3Lh. Small number of tweets about astronomy and data analysis.
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Joined November 2011
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This night 102 years ago, Hubble discovered that there're stars outside our galaxy by observing a Cepheid variable star 1 million light years away
Until barely a century ago, no human ever knew whether there was more than one galaxy in the Universe. Think about that!
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🇧🇷Contribuição brasileira no software LSDB!
O trabalho de Luigi Silva, iniciado no Hackathon do LINCC Frameworks, durante o Rubin Community Workshop, já foi incorporado ao código oficial, reforçando o papel do Brasil no futuro do LSST!
Leia: linea.org.br/noticia/parceri…
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So long and thanks for all the fish! I just observed my last star this morning... #GaiaDPAC and @esa Gaia teams will do their best to make some great data releases from all the data I gathered! #GaiaDR4 in 2026, #GaiaDR5 around the end of the decade. Keep posted for our news items today at 10:00 CET.
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We shall measure stellar brightness logarithmically, and it will be called the "magnitude."
- Sir, will that logarithm be base 10, or based on Napier's constant?
Neither. It shall be of the base of the fifth root of one hundred.
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Excited to have been part of this episode and talk about the most distant galaxies in the early Universe – at Cambridge, England
If you missed last night's special episode on the first two years of science with the James Webb Space Telescope, you can catch up now on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002100…
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I had a great time developing this with @FloorAstro, we're really hoping it can be useful for the community! Very fun seeing what a random conversation at @FlatironCCA can turn into 😁
Software is increasingly important for research, but is often not cited. This is why @tomjwagg & I introduce the Software Citation Station 😎👩💻🚉 arxiv.org/abs/2406.04405:
a public website and tool to quickly find or add software citations! Try it here: tomwagg.com/software-citatio…
Neven Caplar (nevencaplar.bsky.social) retweeted
IPAC has three vacancies within the @NExScI_IPAC Science Affairs team. NExScI at IPAC provides community support, science operations, analysis tools, & archive services that support the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. ipac.caltech.edu/page/opport…
ALT This image shows a portion of the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics on the Caltech campus against a blue sky with palm trees in the background. A text box says "We're Hiring" and lists the open positions: Staff Scientist, Scientific Outreach Coordinator, and Administrative Coordinator. Under the open positions the text says "Work on NASA astrophysics missions at Caltech/IPAC in sunny Pasadena, California. The bottom of the image contains logos for IPAC, Caltech, and NExScI.
So happy to present, with @Andy_Tzanidakis, demo of our LSDB and TAPE software at Rare Gems in Big Data conference. Even if you are not attending, have a look how to crossmatch and do analytics on large amount of astronomy data: github.com/lincc-frameworks/… #raregems2024
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LSST Discovery Alliance is hiring a Director of Finance and Administration. Come work with me! lsst-inc.prismhr-hire.com/jo…
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We are thrilled to announce the AstroAI Workshop, an event to learn about the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Astrophysics.
Join us: astroai.cfa.harvard.edu/work…
Most up-to-date operations timeline for @VRubinObs, coming soon near you! #AAs243 – at New Orleans, LA
Neven Caplar (nevencaplar.bsky.social) retweeted
jax.jit will soon be able to tell you why a function is recompiling/retracing 🎉
This is a nice quality-of-life update when debugging JAX programs. Props to @SingularMattrix and @yashk2810 for the awesome log messages.
Finally started adding some tooling along these lines: github.com/google/jax/pull/1…
Andrew Connolly describing what we are doing as part of LINCC-Frameworks to enable early science of @VRubinObs, with my personal favorites being TAPE and LSDB, enabling large-scale cross-matching and time analysis. Happy to work with anyone except University of Michigan. #AAS243
Excited to hear a plenary talk from my colleague from my undergrad days, Ana Bonaca from Carnegie Observatories, talking about Milky Way streams and its implications on cosmology! #AAS243
Neven Caplar (nevencaplar.bsky.social) retweeted
Three days w. the LINCC data analytics team (only a subset of us in the pic).
You'll love what's cooking... Appetizers to be broadly served this spring.
Tomorrow, Dec 7, LINCC tech talk at 10h PT=13h ET=15 CST=19h CET on Zoom (ls.st/lincc-talks). We will hear from @megschwamb and Kaylee de Soto, about Sorcha (github.com/dirac-institute/s…) and Superphot+ (github.com/VTDA-Group/superp…); first beneficiaries of LINCC incubator program!
I worked for Prime Focus Spectrograph project for five years, 2017-2022. From the clean room at @LAM_Marseille couple of years ago -> to now; all four spectral modules in place at @SubaruTel_Eng! Cant wait for the data to start flowing!
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I'm super proud to reveal something we've been working on for a long time: Our AI Risk Management System!
Following developing industry standards for AI risk management, it allows you to identify, mitigate and report on the risks posed by AI systems.
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