Scientific software developer, lead developer of Glue, Astropy developer, open development advocate. BlueSky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/WLlBasXR8Q
United Kingdom
Joined April 2009
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Thomas Robitaille 🇪🇺 retweeted
Come work with me! @WWTelescope and @glueviz are searching for a research software engineer eager to join a multidisciplinary team that's advancing the frontiers of scientific data visualization. Details? Details: 🧵
bit.ly/rse2021
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When a new hire dev asks how do you deploy to prod and you show it: – at Redmond, WA
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Finally some good news, scientists discovered a treatment that can reduce COVID19 transmission by 70%, and its just a piece a cloth you wear in front of your dumb fucking face
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Exciting news: SunPy 2.0 is released! Check out the blog post for more information on what's new: disq.us/t/3pkxczn 🌞
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The AAS Journals support "interactive figures", which are HTML based graphics, in published articles.
Please check out Data Editor Greg Schwarz's #AAS236 iPoster, "Making Informative Interactive Figures for time series data sets"
aas236-aas.ipostersessions.c…
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UK abolished slavery in 1833 by agreeing to pay slave owners for "loss of property" a sum of £20m (£300bn today), a transferral of wealth from taxpayers to slave owners so huge the debts incurred were only paid off in 2015. Almost all UK taxpayers have contributed to this bill.
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Fuck space-Z and Elon Mush.
I want to teach and do physics in a world where *anyone* can choose to learn and do physics.
I’d rather do less physics for more people than do the best possible physics for a few tech-bro overlords. Don’t @ me, motherfuckers.
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Less snarky: I had been planning on working this afternoon to implement a new feature I am excited about. Then a data science influencer tweeted about how seaborn sucks, so instead I felt bad for a while and then made some bread.
This is how your free software gets made, people.
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Hey twitter, long time no tweet. Check out our recent letter showing new high-resolution #ALMA data of spiral arms in the disk around a forming massive star! doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/20…
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Thanks to #StormCiara, Ireland’s getting a nice shoulder massage from a big rabbit.
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We are honoured to have been awarded the 2020 Group Achievement Award by the @RoyalAstroSoc - thank you to everyone who has contributed to making @astropy a success!
Congratulations to the Astropy Project Team @astropy who have been awarded the @RoyalAstroSoc Group Achievement Award for Astronomy for producing the exceedingly valuable research toolkit Astropy and fostering professional software development skills in the community. #rasawards
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Astropy v4.0 has been released! See the announcement at astropy.org/announcements/re… to find out more about what's new, and how to update or install with pip and conda. 4.0 is an LTS release, which means it will be supported for the next 2 years! #python #science #astronomy
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The AAS Journals funded the creation of @astropy timeseries infrastructure and a visualization toolkit for creating interactive light curves to publish on your websites or in AAS Journal articles: aas-timeseries.readthedocs.i… #AAS235
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Introducing the Radcliffe Wave -- a gigantic wave-shaped star-forming filament which redefines the structure of our Galactic neighborhood in the Milky Way! Read about it NOW in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41586-0… and visit our website for more info! tinyurl.com/RadWave
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The first national US observatory to be named after a woman! @LSST is now the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Rubin Observatory or VRO for short).
lsst.org/news/vro-press-rele…
Here's a nice promo video: youtube.com/watch?v=m9UzJ29b…
ALT Still shot from the Rubin Observatory promotional video
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Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere.
We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop.
But why?
So we can—talk.
Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:
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Absolutely beautiful video created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it's edge-on rings. Credit NASA/JPL/Kevin M.Gill
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What a pun heavy week it was. Most importantly, full of extremely useful discussions about governance, infrastructure, and coordination between packages. Many long standing questions got resolved thanks to physically being in the same room. Releases are on their way for @astropy
At the close of the @astropy 2019 coordination meeting: @astronomatty and I were neck and neck on the pun meter! But the real success? All the other names on the list!
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At the @astropy coordination meeting, @astrofrog shows the time series of Astropy contributions. Proves that astro and astro-aligned devs live by deadlines! #astropymtg2019
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#COMMUNITREE project partners have produced this draft standard for individual tree data collection in time for #NationalTreeWeek. We'd love your feedback. View/ respond here: www3.open.ac.uk/forms/indivi…
@KieronDoickFR @TheICF @TheTreeCouncil @TreeworkUK @RussellHorsey @Om_Phil
