Jorge Salazar

TACCSTER 2025 Brings Texas Researchers Together to Advance Science with Supercomputing Oct. 8, 2025 — Scientists escaped the early Fall Texas heat at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, which hosted the TACC Symposium for Texas Researchers (TACCSTER) September 23-24, 2025. More […]

TACCSTER 2025 Brings Texas Researchers Together to Advance Science with Supercomputing
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TACC: Supercomputer Simulations Revise Ice Loss Estimates for Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Simulations show Saturn’s moon Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates Oct. 1, 2025 — In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telesc...

TACC: Supercomputer Simulations Revise Ice Loss Estimates for Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
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"ChatGPT Plus had a fondness for using the word 'groundbreaking'.” 😂

Space clouds @drshepherd2013.bsky.social

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research.

Basic research -"Our modern economy—w/ giants like Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet—would be unimaginable w/o the humble transistor and the passion for knowledge fueling the relentless curiosity of scientists like those who made it possible." www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1...

Congratulations to Dr. Claire Parkinson, recognized for her remote sensing work including on the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites.

Good news society can use from the natural hazards data community!

Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.

It's hard to quit smoking, in more ways than one. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @natclimate.nature.com

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"Each US taxpayer spends about $4 per year to cover the Weather Service budget."

Was a pleasure to speak with one of the scientists who wrote a good chunk of the code that brought the world the first black hole image, now using TACC systems to simulate the black hole environment of M87*.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Rip Currents And A Lasting Cultural Legacy The tragedy of a rip current and a cultural icon. Perspectives on the legacy of Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

'This is where I'm coming from' makes this story about by @drshepherd2013.bsky.social on Malcom-Jamal Warner even more poignant www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... @jayrosen.bsky.social

Tropical Storm Andrea forms in the remote central Atlantic » Yale Climate Connections The Atlantic’s first named storm of 2025 formed farther to the northeast than any June named storm on record, and is not a threat to any land areas.

The only thing unusual about the Atlantic's first named storm of 2025: it formed farther to the northeast than any other June storm on record. My post on the latest "shorty" (short-lived storm less than 2 days in duration) to grace the Atlantic:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/06/trop...

Also note that the color of your swimsuit matters for visibility in emergencies www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/h...

Seemingly obscure research often leads to important results, in unpredictable ways. For instance, research on Gila monster venom led to the development of GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and obesity.

I was honored to edit this new essay by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social.

Out of ignorance or malice, many people ridicule the funding of basic research. David Shiffman discusses how to explain its value--and why the looming cuts will be so devastating. 🧪

www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

A changes B is the element of narrative, nested to form a new way to model memory.

Congrats to @taccutexas.bsky.social at @utaustin.bsky.social on June 2025 Top500 list of fastest supercomputers, based on LINPACK benchmarks in solving linear algebra eq.
* #1 US Academic supercomputer with #NSFfunded Frontera
* Stampede2 ranked #7 US academic although supeseded by S3
www.top500.org

Til Abt 'inorganic arsenic' www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

A custom illustration for NASA's Curious Universe podcast featuring a farmer standing in a field holding a tablet. In front of him is a field, and in the distance, an ocean. A Landsat satellite flies over the field, scanning the ground, while NASA's PACE mission flies over the ocean, measuring phytoplankton there.

We take it for granted, but those mapping apps on our phones? NASA (government-funded) research made them possible. Today on NASA's flagship Curious Universe podcast, a celebration of Landsat, a 50+ year program to map the Earth's surface from space.

spike protein domains and mutations in VOCs

Fiona's tang fish named Dorry matches the spike colors

A behemoth effort from @fionachembot.bsky.social in which she does amazing science (showing how VOCs reshape allosteric pathways) while also making the SARS2 spike color palette match her fish Dorry 😍🫠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

Dream job

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

AI Is Coming Up With Brand New Molecules, Fueling Drug Discovery AI models are able to design molecules that don’t even exist in nature. Some have proven effective as snake antivenom.

On @scifri.bsky.social , a call for better biochemical datasets - the fuel for AI drug discovery, by @delafuentelab.bsky.social and David Baker of @uwproteindesign.bsky.social www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ai-...

YouTube video by Jordan Outside South Point Cliff Dive on the Big Island of Hawaii (The Southernmost Point of the United States)

Hi, that video is not available. This was a good one though youtu.be/kJmg47nUp1w?...

Martin Karplus, Chemist Who Made Early Computers a Tool, Dies at 94 (Gift Article) Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and biological processes.

NYT obit for computational chemist Martin Karplus, who was awarded Lonestar2 allocations at TACC through NSF XSEDE for molecular motor research back in 2007 prior to his 2013 Nobel Prize (also credited with creation of the CHARMM fields used in NAMD). www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/s... (edited)

Also, congratulations on the National Medal of Science today! new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-con...

One of the early big science orgs checking out this platform @nationalacademies.org

science first