Andrea Zonca

New preprint 🔭 “Hunting B‑modes from anisotropic cosmic birefringence”. We measure the amplitude parameter as 0.42 × 10⁻⁴ (1 σ) and set a 95 % CL upper limit of 1 × 10⁻⁴. Dive in 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2504.13154 #CMB #cosmology ​​

New paper on Arxiv with the Panexperiment Galactic Science group about models of Galactic emission in the microwaves for Cosmic Microwave Background experiments:

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The models are available publicly through the PySM3 (Python Sky Model) software package:

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OpenInfra Days North America 2024 at Indiana University: The development and deployment of a pers... View more about this event at OpenInfra Days North America 2024 at Indiana University

OpenInfra NAm begins tomorrow! I'm excited to show how
@projectpythia.bsky.social serves reproducible Jupyter notebooks on NSF/Indiana University's Jetstream2, thanks to the pioneering work of @zonca.bsky.social of UCSD-SDSC! @axis-of-meh.wtf oidiu2024.sched.com/event/e41851...

publish_plot_cl.sh GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Simple bash script that uses the @github.com-cli to post Notebooks as Gists, then appends #nbviewer links to a Markdown file:

gist.github.com/zonca/f0515d...

Supping with Science and Science Fiction – Sat 1PM Insights into the kinds of table talk shared between scientist and author spouses (with my beloved Greg van Eekhout!) Discovering Ourselves: Two Years of Exploring the Universe with JWST – Sat 2PM A tour of what astronomers have learned so far from JWST and what these discoveries tell us about our place in the universe Nerd Nite Presents: Finding The Science in Our Sci-Fi – Sat 7PM A great showcase of local San Diego scientists who love geeky content and thinking about how it overlaps with their fields of study What’s With All These #@%! Planets, Anyway? – Sun 2PM Discuss some of the wildest planets in the known universe, as well as the science of some favorite fictional worlds

San Diego Comic Fest (www.sdcomicfest.org) is this weekend, and I'm one of the Science Guests. Here is where to find me. Hope to see you there!

@property def includes_smoothing(self): Copilot suggests: return self.pre_applied_beam is not None

I'm always quite impressed by Github Copilot...

the completion of this is exactly what I was thinking and it is not that straightforward, you need to understand the relationship between a beam and smoothing

San Diego's Books Unbanned protects the freedom to read Library Foundation SD and library launch Books Unbanned in San Diego to resist book bans, promote intellectual freedom among young readers, and cement libraries as a place where everyone belongs.

Anyone ages 12 – 26 living in the United States can get a San Diego Public Library Books Unbanned card. With the card, the library’s online collection of banned or restricted eBooks and eAudiobooks are available for FREE, no matter where you live in the U.S. libraryfoundationsd.org/news/stories...

Space Typography xkcd.com/2863

The cover of System Collapse, art by Jaime Jones.

System Collapse, the next Murderbot book, comes out tomorrow November 14 and my book tour information is here: marthawells.dreamwidth.org/637680.html

Redshift xkcd.com/2853

Sign up for the “Python and Astropy for Astronomical Data Analysis” Workshop at AAS243 on Sun, Jan 7 from 9am-5 pm! 🔭🧪

Covers Python tools for astronomical data analysis and visualization. Familiarity with Python and numpy helpful but not required.

Register at: aas.org/meetings/aas...

Call for editors | Journal of Open Source Software Blog Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>

Over at JOSS (joss.theoj.org) we're looking to recruit more editors in all areas! Check out the blog post for more info, and I'd be very happy to chat: blog.joss.theoj.org/2023/10/call...

seminario?

Interview on @npr.org by @jorgitomoreno.bsky.social about early galaxies detected by JWST. 🔭

NPR interview! www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1...

IPywidgets is the go-to library for building interactive interfaces in the Jupyter notebook. What may start as an experiment with a few sliders and buttons, ... Maarten Breddels IPywidgets: From an experiment in the Notebook to Production ready data app

Interesting talk about turning IPywidgets based notebooks in production web apps using Solara:

youtu.be/VfPZv5qH9FE?...

JupyterCon Python

After a few months of debugging, this summer I completed the new version of the tutorial on Kubernetes deployment on Jetstream 2 via Kubespray:

docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/k8sk...

The main improvement is the Terraform recipe not creating network resources but relying on existing.

Diataxis framework schema showing the 4 different types of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation

Interesting talk by Allan Wasega on improving the Documentation of JupyterHub using the Diataxis framework at JupyterCon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETnb...

diataxis.fr
@projectjupyter.bsky.social

A screenshot of the start of the blog post.

New to Bluesky? I just made a blog post with tips and information to help you get started on the platform, including tips on how to find people here and information about feeds.

Check it out! 🔭

emilydoesastro.com/posts/230824...