Luca Di Mascolo 🟥

March from the Zernike campus to Groningen city center, part of the university strike against the proposed budget cuts to higher education. The photo depicts the front line of the march, with people holding a red banner saying “Kabinet sloopt hoger onderwijs”, that means “Cabinet demolishes higher education”

Groningen, yesterday.
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A green dot (Mars) surrounded by a white ring on a purple background. A faint white x pattern is visible

One of the mirrors being lowered by crane inside the white box that constitutes the LAT housing. Behind it is the barren landscape of the Atacama desert

We have first light on our Large Aperture Telescope! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/17/s...
After installing our mirrors over the last few weeks, we have started looking at the sky. We are still tuning the telescope, but we can already make maps of objects in the sky, like Mars. ☄️🔭🧪

🧪 Zernike program

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10:00-11:00
Coffee and banner making in front of Foodcourt

11:00-12:30
March towards the city center

12:30-16:00
Lunch, speeches, and a strike fair at Grote Markt

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Spread the word and bring your colleagues!

🟥 #OrganizeTheRUG

Join us tomorrow, March 18th, for the strike of @unigroningen.bsky.social and Hanze University of Applied Sciences against the annually increasing budget cuts on higher education!

Check the full program here: organizetherug.wordpress.com/strikes/

🟥 #OrganizeTheRUG

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Strikes! / Stakingen! We gaan staken! / We’re going on strike! (ENG version below) Om ons te verzetten tegen de voorgenomen bezuinigingen op de universiteiten hebben vakbonden AOb en FNV officieel een stakingstraject go…

If you are in Groningen, the protest action will take place next Tuesday March 18th.
More info here: organizetherug.wordpress.com/strikes/
🟥 #OrganizeTheRUG
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flyer saying: Stop the cuts in higher education. Join the Strike! Leiden March 10th 2025 Utrecht March 11th 2025 Nijmegen March 13th 2025 Amsterdam March 17th 2025 Groningen March 18th 2025 More cities will follow

Budget cuts are not "just" a US issue.
The Dutch government has planned budget cuts for over half a billion euros from higher education. This will lead to a disastrous deterioration of the quality of education and research.

And that's why we are striking! 🟥

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A small experiment for making #herakoi more accessible.

And now you can take your blip-blop sonification machine everywhere!

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Another round of AtLAST Forum is happening today @ 14UTC.
If you don't know what to do during your lunch break and are curious about last month's Forum, go check the Forum playlist on the @atlastdesign.bsky.social YouTube channel: tinyurl.com/atlast-forum

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Kudos to Gabriella Di Gennaro for this.
Finding radio haloes in distant galaxy clusters is a tricky, but not impossible business. And indeed, these are galaxy clusters observed when the Universe was only around half of its age!

#extragalactic
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@bot.astronomy.blue signup

World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.

The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject. 

This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek

Happening now!
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blue (da ba dee da ba di)

Maybe it's just time to start rethinking the way we publish papers?
Journals like @ojastro.bsky.social and Open Research Europe are free and open access – and the latter uses an open (imo, very interesting) approach to peer review.

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GitHub - Joshiwavm/jackknify: A tool to jack knife ALMA observations A tool to jack knife ALMA observations. Contribute to Joshiwavm/jackknify development by creating an account on GitHub.

And we built a public tool for allowing anyone to run statistical tests on their own ALMA measurement sets:

github.com/Joshiwavm/ja...

Four panel image showing, from the top left and in clockwise order: a postage stamp of noisy image-space data (looking like red-blue pattern, denoting respectively positive and negative noise fluctuations), and three noise-only realizations. The noise-only image on the top right shows a peak that would appear more significant than any features in the real data case, which would potentially lead to a false detection.

One day late, but yet another work by Joshiwa van Marrewijk 🚀

Characterizing the statistical properties of noise in interferometric images is a tricky game. And, indeed, many past high-z lines might actually be just false detections of spurious noise features

arxiv.org/abs/2501.03150

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In case you would like to give it a try (or listen to the accurately selected soundtrack):
thomaswmorris.com/maria/

An amazing piece of work led by (my brother in science) Joshiwa van Marrewijk and Thomas Morris.

Are you building a single-dish telescope (not not talking about you, @atlastdesign.bsky.social) and want to test for mapping and filtering strategies, atmospheric mitigation, etc?

Just ask maria.

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La risposta è fare un bonifico a Open Arms.

If only there was anyone interested in astro applications of LLMs. If only...
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And if you understand italian and want to learn about more about this project, you can check the VITEII talk recording here: doi.org/10.36116/vid...

See and hear #herakoi in action (JWST alert!)

GitHub - herakoi/herakoi: A sonification experiment A sonification experiment. Contribute to herakoi/herakoi development by creating an account on GitHub.

#herakoi is a sonification tool uses machine learning to track the allow for a real-time exploration of images using sound. Want to give it a try? Just 'pip install herakoi', pick your favorite astro-image and turn your speakers on:

github.com/herakoi/hera...

Logo of the herakoi project. An illustration depicting a hand and a piano-like interface emitting colorful beams of light set against a starry, cosmic background. The image is aimed at evoking the motion-sensing capabilities of herakoi in the context of image sonification

Tiny, but significant milestone for #herakoi!

Earlier this year, the SAIt invited me and @micginolfi.bsky.social to present our "motion-sensing sonification experiment" at the VITEII workshop.

And today, we got a short proceeding out on #arxiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.09152

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Hi, @atlastdesign.bsky.social!
How blue is the sky in the submm?

yeah, it's just make it "differently awful"

When I use the Writefull for Overleaf integration, does Writefull use my project to train its Al? No, Writefull doesn'tstore or use any of your texts or how you interact with (accept / reject) the language suggestions. Writefull trains their models on Open Access research texts, and their team's linguists regularly analyze the models' outputs on test documents, marking incorrect cases to identify points to improve.

from the Overleaf website:

not in love with overleaf, especially after the way they changed the project sharing policies

isn't Writefull an extra plug-in to overleaf that could just be turned off, though?

PhD Success in the AtLAST Team: Celebrating Four New Achievements - AtLAST Congratulations to four key contributors to the AtLAST project for successfully defending their PhDs in 2024! Their valuable inputs to the Science and Energy Work Packages demonstrate their dedication...

Four key #AtLAST 🔭 🧪 contributors got their PhDs in 2024. Congratulations to Isabel Montoya Arroyave, Isabelle Viole, Alice Schimek, and Joshiwa van Marrewijk for their achievements! www.atlast.uio.no/news-and-eve...

Join us today at the EAS2024 SS27 “Towards mapping the submillimeter universe with AtLAST”: exciting talks about submm observations of the MilkyWay, our Sun, interstellar magnetic fields, the Magellanic Clouds, the CGM, the SZ effect and distant galaxies! #EAS2024Padova 🧪 🔭