Jimmy Newland

a graph depecting annual passenger traffic at an airport between the year AD 900 and 3000, with one data point.

hashtag data science

Fast metal factories at z ~ 5, lessons from ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang.

From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/11/10/f...

colabnotebooks/Color_Magnitude_Diagram_using_Gaia_and_IRSA.ipynb at main · jimmynewland/colabnotebooks Google Colab Notebooks Labs. Contribute to jimmynewland/colabnotebooks development by creating an account on GitHub.

Next week, I am presenting with a teacher friend at the Texas science education conference about how to bring data science into a high school astronomy class. The activity is using a few different data moves. Here is the coding version. github.com/jimmynewland... #datascience #astronomy #csed

Making Data Moves: The Prep Work Behind Every Good Analysis Tim Erickson, Epistemological Engineering

Ever handed your students a “ready-to-paint” dataset?

In our latest Learning Progressions Blog post, Tim Erickson shows why students should help prepare the data—filtering, grouping, and summarizing—before diving in.
Read → ds4e.substack.com/p/making-dat...

#LearningProgressions

I’m a big fan of Desmos. Yesterday I taught BigO notation to teachers practicing for the CS Praxis certification exam. www.desmos.com/calculator/h... #csed

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do K–12 computer science education policies boost CS majors in college?

Using 20+ years of data, Paul Bruno & colleagues show these policies are often too light-touch to matter, reflecting, not driving, rising CS interest.

📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301

CHOOSE STATISTICAL TEST in 4 QUESTIONS (NO MATH! 🤯) Stop struggling with T-Tests, ANOVAs & Chi-Square. Use this simple flowchart guide to pick the right test every time👇

Watch the full beginner's guide now: youtu.be/EeASQZvGRcg

#Statistics #DataScience #DataAnalysis #stats

"Pairing computer science with culturally responsive education shows results" great to get details of this study via Ed Finkel in K12 Ed Dive whose bluesky handle i can't find anywhere. #cseducation #k12 #research
www.k12dive.com/news/compute...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

🔭 ~1,400 people globally have contributed to the construction of Rubin, including

500 construction staff,
500 contractors,
100 staff on operations (so far), and
300 in-kind contributors, from software and hardware contributions to follow-up observing time on other telescopes

Rubin First Look is FIVE days away! The best part of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory? The community we've grown along the way 💫

Rubin is only able to #CaptureTheCosmos because of its global collaboration. ✨ 🌎 Over the past couple of decades, over 4,000 people made Rubin a reality!

Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College!

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...

Star formation animation

Star formation animation

On Tuesday at the WeTeach_CS Summit, Dr. Stella Offner will share with CS educators how CS and AI can lead to new science. Below are animations from the STARFORGE showing a simulation of star formation (Guszejnov et al. 2021, Grudic et al. 2021).

Plan view of the orbits of TNOs (trans-Neptune objects) with extremely wide orbits, including our newly discovered 2017 OF201, which has a distinct orbit is an outlier to the apsidal clustering of the others. For reference, the most probable orbit of Planet X from Siraj et al. (2025) is shown in white.

An object called 2017 OF201 is shaking up our ideas about the outer zone of our solar system.
It follows an extreme, 25,000-year orbit.
It may be 1 of 100s of such bodies filling a seemingly vacant region.
And its existence casts doubt on searches for Planet 9. 🧪🔭

www.ias.edu/news/extreme...

AI is advancing faster than anyone predicted—and it’s already reshaping industries around the world. But what does that mean for education?In this livestream... Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains

Nicely done video applying foundational educational and cognitive psychology ideas to the case of GenAI. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky youtu.be/0xS68sl2D70?...

A recent paper led by collaboration members Yoonsoo Kim and Elias Most (both at Caltech) is in @aasnova.org today! This work explores the formation of strongly magnetized "monster" shocks and a transient "black hole pulsar" state from mergers of a magnetized neutron star and a black hole.

⚛️🧪🔭

LA Area PICUP Workshop 2025

🚨 First annual LA Area PICUP Workshop 🚨

THIS SATURDAY!!!

📍 Riverside City College
📅 Saturday, May 17
⏰ 8:30am to 4:00pm.

Workshop details and registration information can be found here: www.compadre.org/PICUP/events...

Registration is open!
#iteachphysics #physicssky #astrosky #physics

jimmynewland.com/astronomy/ip... Trying to create a pipeline to categorize young stellar objects through SED analysis. Not there yet, but the SED look pretty!

I think we downplay the role of social media algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns in drawing voters to Trump and away from Democrats at our own risk — it’s frankly a refusal to reckon with reality. Social media has created a matrix-like info control environment.

Elevation scan
source: observablehq.com/@neocartocnr...

Two people holding signs. One says "Build the Resistance". The other says "Resist, Resist, Resist, Resist, Resist, Resist". The text with the image says "Boycotting on Feb 28th? Make sure your impact goes on the record! Check in at bit.ly/boycottcentral "

Boycotting on Feb 28th? Make sure your impact goes on the record! Click to add your name!
bit.ly/boycottcentral
#BuildTheResistance

Knowledge is power. Each day during this Black History Month—a month the government doesn’t want us celebrating—I will be sharing amazing books by Black authors.

Book 1: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. A title written decades ago, but begins on February 1, 2025.
#Edusky
#Books
#Booksky

2025 Astropy Community Survey This survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Your responses are voluntary and will remain anonymous and confidential. The aggregated, anonymized data will be used to determine developmen...

The Astropy Project is made by our community, for our community. But who are we, exactly?

We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey:

forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV...

Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭

Computer Science Teacher: CSTA Ends Free Membership blog.acthompson.net/2025/02/csta... #CSed #CSTA

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

I’m about to hit the road for the first ever Data Science Education K-12 conference which is happening in San Antonio. I’m presenting my recent work bringing data science pedagogy to high school science. #dsek12 #dataIsHuman www.jimmynewland.com/wp/research/...

Leaf with water droplets and my reflection

Once more, I start my spell with the traditional initial incantation, reverently typed by hand:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

🧪🔭