.Astronomy 12
New York, NY, USA
.Astronomy 12 was held at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute in New York. The first .Astronomy since Toronto in 2019. Plenary talks were live-broadcast and recorded. Attendance was capped at 80 participants.
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Organisers
- Kelle Cruz (CUNY Hunter College and Flatiron Institute)
- Sarah Kendrew (ESA, STScI)
- Robert Simpson
- Natalie Gosnell
- Emily Hunt (Heidelberg)
- Manodeep Sinha (Swinburne)
- Becky Smethurst (Oxford)
- Ana Foj (CCA, local support)
- Fatima Abdurrahman (CCA, local support)
// talks and sessions
Talks
Day 0 – Monday 2 October (MfA, 17th floor)
- Lia Corrales: Version control with Git and GitHub
- Andy Tzanidakis: Intro to Astronomy Outreach
- Dan Foreman-Mackey: How to Release Your Code
- Brett Morris: Interactive Data Visualisation and Analysis with Jdaviz
- Emily Hunt: Everything about Bluesky
- How to Unconference (facilitated session)
Day 1 – Tuesday 3 October (IDA)
- Steven Crawford (NASA): NASA Open Science (45m)
- Natalie Gosnell: Art and Science: Choices (45m)
- Caprice Phillips: Black in Astro (45m)
- How to Unconference (fast format)
Unconference sessions:
- Snakemake Pipelines and ShowYourWork (Ned and Mark)
- Astro-animation Workshop (Robin and Laurence)
- Creative Science Curriculum (Natalie)
- Data sharing for small collaborations (Kelle)
- Web tools for making data accessible (Luciano)
- GenAI for Research and Teaching (Ashley)
- Funding, algorithms, telescopes: ethical practices (Charlotte)
Day 3 – Thursday 5 October (IDA)
- Jackie Faherty: Open Space (45m)
- Brett: Contributing to Astropy
- Lia: How to stay informed on latest code, tools and trends
- Benjamin: Spectroscopy software ecosystem
- More Open Space + Glue + WWT (Micah, Jackie, Alyssa, Theo, Emily)
- How to Make a Free Personal Website via GitHub (Lindsay G)
- 3D/VR/AR Resources for Art and Education (Stephanie and Ashley)
Unconference sessions: Three parallel sessions (A, B, C)
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Hacks
Contributing to Astropy
Elliott Molter
A session on how to contribute to the Astropy project.
Snakemake and Show Your Work
Sam Vaughan
A tutorial session on reproducible workflows using Snakemake and the showyourwork framework.
Multi-Order Coverage (MOC) Hack
David Rodriguez
Working with Multi-Order Coverage maps for astronomical footprints in MAST.
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Links
// participants
Participants
Known attendees at .Astronomy 12 in New York, 2023.
- Alyssa
- Ana Foj (CCA)
- Andy Tzanidakis
- Ashley
- Benjamin
- Becky Smethurst (Oxford)
- Brett Morris
- Caprice Phillips
- Charlotte
- Dan Foreman-Mackey
- David Rodriguez
- Elliott Molter
- Emily Hunt (Heidelberg)
- Fatima Abdurrahman (CCA)
- Jackie Faherty
- Kelle Cruz (CUNY Hunter College and Flatiron Institute)
- Laurence
- Lia Corrales
- Lindsay G
- Luciano
- Manodeep Sinha (Swinburne)
- Mark
- Micah
- Natalie Gosnell
- Ned Molter
- Robert Simpson
- Robin
- Sam Vaughan
- Sarah Kendrew (ESA, STScI)
- Stephanie
- Steven Crawford (NASA)
- Theo
// from the community
From the community
On my way to dotAstro in NY this week - see you there?
I'm very sad to be missing dotastro / dotastronomy12 this week because of other travel, so I did my hack project a few days early! Here is jupyterlab_gist_it, a Jupyterlab extension for easily creating @github.com Gist's from a notebook, to share!
github.com/adrn/jupyter...
Having a blast in NYC this week at dotAstro!
Advantages of BSky for being a new "town square of science" (according to @emily.space at dotastro):
- platform is open source
- separate components that anyone can/will host
- will eventually be federated
- posts are called "skeets" this is non-negotiable
🧪🔭
Great to have @brettmor.bsky.social give us a demo of the JDaviz software toolbox for interactive visualization & data analysis, especially useful for JWST data, at dotastro
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