Michael Zingale
@michaelzingale.bsky.social
computational astrophysicist
open source tool developer
professor
blower upper of stars
can recite π to 2 decimal places from memory
star wars fan
coffee aficionado
https://zingale.github.io
open source tool developer
professor
blower upper of stars
can recite π to 2 decimal places from memory
star wars fan
coffee aficionado
https://zingale.github.io
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just reviewed a 1-page course syllabus that spent more text describing the instructor's accomplishments than the course itself... never saw that before.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
just reviewed a 1-page course syllabus that spent more text describing the instructor's accomplishments than the course itself... never saw that before.
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Good news: "We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience ..."
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/a...
#arXiv
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/a...
#arXiv
arXiv receives $7 million in gifts and grants from Schmidt Sciences and NASA – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Good news: "We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience ..."
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/a...
#arXiv
blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/a...
#arXiv
nsf submitted!
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
nsf submitted!
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This is a disaster. www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/19/n...
New World Order Coming with New DOE Supercomputers - HPCwire
There’s a changing of the guard coming with the new leadership-class supercomputers that the Department of Energy is building at Argonne and Oak Ridge national laboratories. According to Jack Dongerra...
www.hpcwire.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is a disaster. www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/19/n...
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I LOVE that this year so many of you are applying EARLY. Every single year people wait til the night before to try to get it in and start emailing us for extensions (that we are NOT going to honor ever. You have til 2/27/2026 to have ALL materials in).
We’re already reading & learning about yall!
We’re already reading & learning about yall!
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I LOVE that this year so many of you are applying EARLY. Every single year people wait til the night before to try to get it in and start emailing us for extensions (that we are NOT going to honor ever. You have til 2/27/2026 to have ALL materials in).
We’re already reading & learning about yall!
We’re already reading & learning about yall!
5 stages of proposal writing:
denial: I can't believe this is due so soon!
anger: seriously! 12 point font! no URLs allowed??
bargaining: come-on LaTeX, you know that figure can go there
depression: there's no way they'll fund me :(
acceptance: I've done all I can, it's in the panel's hands now
denial: I can't believe this is due so soon!
anger: seriously! 12 point font! no URLs allowed??
bargaining: come-on LaTeX, you know that figure can go there
depression: there's no way they'll fund me :(
acceptance: I've done all I can, it's in the panel's hands now
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
5 stages of proposal writing:
denial: I can't believe this is due so soon!
anger: seriously! 12 point font! no URLs allowed??
bargaining: come-on LaTeX, you know that figure can go there
depression: there's no way they'll fund me :(
acceptance: I've done all I can, it's in the panel's hands now
denial: I can't believe this is due so soon!
anger: seriously! 12 point font! no URLs allowed??
bargaining: come-on LaTeX, you know that figure can go there
depression: there's no way they'll fund me :(
acceptance: I've done all I can, it's in the panel's hands now
don't make me create a password just to submit a recommendation letter!!!!!
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
don't make me create a password just to submit a recommendation letter!!!!!
Reposted by Michael Zingale
Do you enjoy the Astronomy feeds? Help us to build them! 🔭
We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer, but we're looking for a range of skills:
We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer, but we're looking for a range of skills:
We're looking for new developers! - Blog - The Astrosky Ecosystem
We'd like to expand our team to include new devs. We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer.
astrosky.eco
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Do you enjoy the Astronomy feeds? Help us to build them! 🔭
We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer, but we're looking for a range of skills:
We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer, but we're looking for a range of skills:
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
Reposted by Michael Zingale
Assessing the quality of a random number generator is luckily quite simple. Every time it gives you a value, ask yourself: did I expect this to happen?
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Assessing the quality of a random number generator is luckily quite simple. Every time it gives you a value, ask yourself: did I expect this to happen?
collaborative proposal writing tip:
start the narrative out with one font size larger than the minimum allowed. Then in the final days when everyone is squeezed for space, drop down to the proper font size. This forces everyone to write more concisely from the start.
start the narrative out with one font size larger than the minimum allowed. Then in the final days when everyone is squeezed for space, drop down to the proper font size. This forces everyone to write more concisely from the start.
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
collaborative proposal writing tip:
start the narrative out with one font size larger than the minimum allowed. Then in the final days when everyone is squeezed for space, drop down to the proper font size. This forces everyone to write more concisely from the start.
start the narrative out with one font size larger than the minimum allowed. Then in the final days when everyone is squeezed for space, drop down to the proper font size. This forces everyone to write more concisely from the start.
generative AI disclosure:
this proposal used ChatGPT to figure out how to have LaTeX output a separate PDF for the narrative and references from a single .tex source.
this proposal used ChatGPT to figure out how to have LaTeX output a separate PDF for the narrative and references from a single .tex source.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
generative AI disclosure:
this proposal used ChatGPT to figure out how to have LaTeX output a separate PDF for the narrative and references from a single .tex source.
this proposal used ChatGPT to figure out how to have LaTeX output a separate PDF for the narrative and references from a single .tex source.
Reposted by Michael Zingale
Have you ever wanted @astropy.org tutorials on:
– spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image,
– computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements,
– cross-matching astronomical catalogs?
Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode
– spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image,
– computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements,
– cross-matching astronomical catalogs?
Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode
Explore the Redesigned Learn.Astropy.org
A New Way to Learn Astronomy with Python
numfocus.medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Have you ever wanted @astropy.org tutorials on:
– spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image,
– computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements,
– cross-matching astronomical catalogs?
Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode
– spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image,
– computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements,
– cross-matching astronomical catalogs?
Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode
Reposted by Michael Zingale
We're blown away- the PSF received an anonymous $100k donation 🤯🥰 Thank you, anon, for your investment in #Python, its community, and the PSF. We are deeply grateful and committed to using every dollar to make a difference.
Want to join in? Donate today: donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
Want to join in? Donate today: donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We're blown away- the PSF received an anonymous $100k donation 🤯🥰 Thank you, anon, for your investment in #Python, its community, and the PSF. We are deeply grateful and committed to using every dollar to make a difference.
Want to join in? Donate today: donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
Want to join in? Donate today: donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
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Congrats to @berkeleylab.lbl.gov 's John Shalf! He’s been awarded IEEE's 2025 Seymour Cray Award for pioneering work in energy-efficient computing & hardware-software co-design bit.ly/JS_CrayAward
Heading to @Supercomputing ( #SC25 ) next week? Connect with our experts: bit.ly/LBL_SC25
#HPC
Heading to @Supercomputing ( #SC25 ) next week? Connect with our experts: bit.ly/LBL_SC25
#HPC
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Congrats to @berkeleylab.lbl.gov 's John Shalf! He’s been awarded IEEE's 2025 Seymour Cray Award for pioneering work in energy-efficient computing & hardware-software co-design bit.ly/JS_CrayAward
Heading to @Supercomputing ( #SC25 ) next week? Connect with our experts: bit.ly/LBL_SC25
#HPC
Heading to @Supercomputing ( #SC25 ) next week? Connect with our experts: bit.ly/LBL_SC25
#HPC
Reposted by Michael Zingale
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Apparently the search filters in Amazon when looking at TVs really let you zero in on the voltage you want ;)
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Apparently the search filters in Amazon when looking at TVs really let you zero in on the voltage you want ;)
Too cloudy to see the Aurora Borealis. Even if it were localized entirely within my kitchen.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Too cloudy to see the Aurora Borealis. Even if it were localized entirely within my kitchen.
Some days I wake up and look at my email and imagine my inbox to be a video game, where the objective is to clear as many rows as possible. But I've come to realize that it really is just tetris, but designed to always give you the worst shape possible, and never the vertical 4-box one. Game over.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Some days I wake up and look at my email and imagine my inbox to be a video game, where the objective is to clear as many rows as possible. But I've come to realize that it really is just tetris, but designed to always give you the worst shape possible, and never the vertical 4-box one. Game over.
great day to open the office window -- final got the office temp below 74 F!
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
great day to open the office window -- final got the office temp below 74 F!
surprised no tech company has pitched replacing air traffic controllers with AI yet...
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
surprised no tech company has pitched replacing air traffic controllers with AI yet...
seems AcademicJobsOnline still lets you submit a letter if you enter the wrong password (because you forgot your password).
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
seems AcademicJobsOnline still lets you submit a letter if you enter the wrong password (because you forgot your password).
if we all agree to turn our clocks back another hour this week, who's going to stop us?
Every weekend = bonus hour!
Every weekend = bonus hour!
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
if we all agree to turn our clocks back another hour this week, who's going to stop us?
Every weekend = bonus hour!
Every weekend = bonus hour!
