Innovation Scientist of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and the American Astronomical Society. Mastodon test: @pkgw@mastodon.world. He/him.
Cambridge, MA
Joined November 2009
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sure would be a shame if everyone who knew how to change the security certificate that expires in SIX WEEKS left
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I attended a housing workshop at the National @leagueofcities today and spoke about the Affordable Housing Overlay. After I made my comment, I received over 20 business cards from councilors from around the country who want more info. Nice. @ABetterCambMA @CDDat344
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Join us Nov. 17th at 7pm ET for virtual observing with the @HarvardClayTel! 🔭 We'll zoom thru the solar system with a few stops at the bright planets -- Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn -- and then we'll view a star cluster before exiting the Milky Way.
--> cfa.harvard.edu/events/publi…
ALT Flyer with a photo of the planet Jupiter. The flyer reads, "Observatory Night: A Tour of the Night Sky with the Harvard Clay Telescope. 7 p.m. ET Thursday, Nov. 17. This event will be live streamed to the CfA's Facebook and YouTube Channels."
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BREAKING: 48K University of Calfornia TAs, postdocs & other student workers just walked off the job.
It's the largest strike in the US since 2019.
Many UC workers earn < $24k/yr. A PhD student I spoke to said they donate blood plasma to make ends meet.
washingtonpost.com/business/…
Peter Williams (hibernating) retweeted
Update on JWST Name
The AAS Board of Trustees shares a brief update about the response of NASA to the JWST name and process. AAS Style Guide specifies that the acronym JWST need not be spelled out upon first use.
aas.org/posts/news/2022/11/u…
Peter Williams (hibernating) retweeted
Hey folks, just a heads up that we will publish Python 3.10.7, 3.9.14 and 3.8.14 in a few days. These releases mitigate CVE-2020-10735 but might cause issues with some libraries. More information: conda-forge.org/docs/user/an…
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Presentation of the capabilities of #AladinLite v3 by Matthieu Baumann during #ADASS2022
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I'm honored and excited to be giving the #Adass2022 Software Prize talk in ~45 min on behalf of The @astropy Project! If you're (virtually) attending ADASS, come check it out!
Peter Williams (hibernating) retweeted
Paper day! Last paper from my time @NUCIERA -- in it, we build the duration-luminosity phase space of 0.3-10 keV X-ray transients and variables in the and out to z = 1.
With co-authors (on Twitter): @ka_am_au, @GeorgiosVasilo7, @pkgw, and @edobergerhvd.
arxiv.org/abs/2211.01232
ALT The phase space of all transient X-ray phenomena in the 0.3-10 keV band,
ALT The phase space of extragalactic X-ray transients in the 0.3-10 keV band.
ALT The phase space of galactic transients in the 0.3-10 keV band.
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Have you seen and, better yet, explored the #JWST Pillars of Creation in exhilarating detail?
web.wwtassets.org/specials/2…
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A step forward in using older papers.
Figure and Figure Caption Extraction for Mixed Raster and Vector PDFs: Digitization of Astronomical Literature with OCR Features
J.P. Naiman, Peter K. G. Williams, Alyssa Goodman
arxiv.org/abs/2209.04460
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Want to know more about the business side of Defector? It's all here in this year's annual report: defector.com/defector-annual…
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But have you explored it at full resolution and in context of the sky?? web.wwtassets.org/specials/2…
Peter Williams (hibernating) retweeted
Responses by Tim de Zeeuw like: "it has never been my intention (...)" & "I'm sorry they feel this way (..)" are huge🚩🚩🚩🚩and here are some of my fav resources explaining why:
thebias.com/2017/09/26/how-g…
therealmainstream.com/defens…
Tim de Zeeuw—a former head of the European Southern Observatory—abused power, intimidated and vilified women, according to Leiden University in the Netherlands. scim.ag/jR
Peter Williams (hibernating) retweeted
Today Cambridge has become the first city in Massachusetts to remove parking minimums for all use cases, everywhere - almost unanimously to boot too!
This is a huge victory for housing affordability in our city! 🧵
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Academics complaining that departmental service obligations interfere with their research and teaching. Assyria, mid 7th century BC:
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I'm delighted to release the first version of "XeTeX: A Pseudoprogram", a digital book explaining the gory details of how the Unicode-enabled XeTeX typesetting program works!
stacks.fullyjustified.net/xa…
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We are hiring a new postdoc in astrophysical transients! Particularly, to investigate the question of "Nature vs. Nurture" for a some new/peculiar types. It is a 4 year position joint between UofT and HUJI. Reach out if you have any questions: dunlap.utoronto.ca/postdocto…
Peter Williams (hibernating) retweeted
✨Lamat 2023 applications are OPEN✨
Lamat is an 8-week REU for STEM students (comm. college + 4-year) interested in computational astrophysics and astronomical data research. The program will be in person at @ucsc
☄️To apply and for more info, visit lamat.science.ucsc.edu/stude…☄️
ALT Graphic with the text "Summer 2023 applications open. 💥Deadline to apply: Nov 19th💥" At the top are the Lamat and UC Santa Cruz logos. The background is a simulation of a stellar core collapse.