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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 8d

Viviana Acquaviva (Professor of physics at the City University of New York) delivering a Special Hybrid CosmicAI Seminar on Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools

@simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social @cuny.edu

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 9d

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 1, 11AM CT!

Machine Learning for Reviewer-Proposal Matching in ALMA Distributed Peer Review (John Carpenter - ALMA) & Compound AI Systems: How Publisher AI Helps Researchers (Dustin Smith - hum.works)

cosmicai.org/events

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 13d

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 13d

Learn more
Website astrovisbench.github.io
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.20538

@utaustin.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org @uvapress.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @taccutexas.bsky.social @noirlabastro.bsky.social

AstroVisbench · AstroVisBench

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 13d

-are adequate at long-tail knowledge, focusing especially on the usage of domain-specific APIs and visualization generation
-interact with a variety of data formats to create diverse visualizations that comply with expert standards

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 13d

AstroVisBench is the first scientific coding benchmark that evaluates whether models:
-aid scientists amidst their own workflows when they do not know step-by-step workflows and may not know, in advance, the kinds of scientific utility a visualization would bring.

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 13d

AstroVisBench was created by Sebastian Joseph, Syed Murtaza Husain, Stella Offner, @stephajuneau.bsky.social, Paul Torrey, Adam Bolton, Juan P. Farias, @niall2.bsky.social, @gregdnlp.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 13d

✅ Accepted as part of the NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track 2025!
🔎 Findings: Even the best LLMs struggle to execute scientific workflows.

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy!

A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 14d

We’re hiring a CosmicAI Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin! CosmicAI seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research modeling the astrochemistry of astrophysical systems.
Duration: 2 Years (possible renewal for 3rd)
Apply Sept 23-Nov 17 2025
www.cosmicai.org/jobs @utaustin.bsky.social

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 16d

Special Hybrid CosmicAI Seminar Sept 24th 12-1pm CT!
Title: Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools
Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva (associate professor of physics at the City University of New York)
Venue: Zoom & in person at UT, PMA 15.216B
www.cosmicai.org/events

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 23d

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Sept 17 @ 11AM CT! Accelerating (Astro)chemical discovery with machine learned atomistic models and Computer Vision for Scientific Discovery (Kelvin Lee, NVIDIA) & Computer Vision for Scientific Discovery (Zezhou Cheng, UVA) www.cosmicai.org/events @thenrao.bsky.social

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 29

New research from CosmicAI led by UT Austin Researchers Keith Poletti, Stella Offner, and Rachel Ward tested whether a new type of neural networks can predict future states from simulated telescope images. Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.23662 @utaustin.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 27

Save the date! Our fall hybrid seminar series “The Observable Universe” begins Sept 3rd!
Bi-weekly on Wed. 11AM CT/12PM ET
Seminar #1 | Sept 3rd
“Imaging in Radio Interferometry - What do we measure, model and make decisions about?” w/ Urvashi Rau @thenrao.bsky.social Info ➡️ www.cosmicai.org/events

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Research Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · Aug 22

RCSA has made awards to 10 #CottrellScholars to advance high-impact research activities through its 2025 Cottrell SEED Awards.

2025 Cottrell SEED Awards

Research Corporation for Science Advancement has made awards to ten Cottrell Scholars to advance high-impact research activities through its Cottrell SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery)...

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚀Calling all astronomy educators! 🚀 CosmicAI is working with NSF NOIRLab to bring AI-powered tools to astronomy research, including an Astronomy Copilot, a digital assistant trained on real astronomy data. Take our short survey to share how you’re using AI in your classroom forms.gle/hvjfcyjcK75g...

CosmicAI Educator Survey

Thank you for your participation in this survey. In the Fall of 2024 the NSF-led National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program funded the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI). CosmicAI works to make astronomy data and knowledge more accessible to researchers, students, and the public by advancing powerful, trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) tools. NSF NOIRLab is leading K-12 Outreach for CosmicAI to bring a public version of the AstroCopilot into classrooms. Responses to this survey will be used to design an education program, materials, and resources that meet the needs of teachers and students in using astronomy-related Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom.

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 20

News from @ai2.bsky.social sky.social, one of CosmicAI’s industry partners. They’re collaborating with the NSF and NVIDIA to develop fully open AI models "to develop fully open AI models to fuel U.S. scientific innovation" www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-nvi...

NSF and NVIDIA partnership enables Ai2 to develop fully open AI models to fuel U.S. scientific innovation

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop a set of artificial intelligence models that will transform the ability of America's scientists to leverage AI...

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 19

Five days left to vote! Help bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW — one of the world’s leading festivals for tech, film, music, and innovation. Register for an account & vote by clicking the ❤️ - open til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 12

Astro-AI Boot Camp Instructor Highlight! Juliana Duncan is a Research Associate and Manager at @taccutexas.bsky.social with a PhD in Computational Chemistry. At the Astro AI bootcamp she is covering a survey of supervised machine and deep learning techniques and their applications to astronomy data.

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 6

Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24!
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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dr. Stella Offner (CosmicAI) spoke on AI’s role in astronomy at the AI+Science Expo panel hosted by SCSP. Moderated by Erion Plaku (NSF), with panelists Zhao Huimin (Molecule Maker Lab) and Mike Williams (IAIFI), representing NSF AI research across domains.

Reposted by NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI)

Matt Lease @mattlease.bsky.social · Jul 30

Are you a researcher using (or curious about using) AI tools like ChatGPT, Elicit, or Semantic Scholar in your scientific work?
Your insights will help design better tools for researchers like you and guide the future of AI for science. Interested?
sign-up here: utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Jul 30

Cosmic Horizons Speaker Highlight! As a theoretical astroparticle physicist, Lina Necib uses cosmological simulations, stellar catalogs, machine learning techniques, and a background of particle physics to build the first map of Dark Matter in the Milky Way. @simonsfoundation.org

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Jul 25

Speaker Highlight! Eric Murphy is a Tenured, Full-Astronomer at @thenrao.bsky.social & holds a Visiting Faculty appointment at University of Virginia. At NRAO, he serves as the next-generation Very Large Array Project Scientist. He is a co-PI of CosmicAI & the Observable Universe Astronomy lead.

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · Jul 24

CosmicAI PI and Director Dr. Stella Offner represented CosmicAI on a panel at #ScienceSummit hosted by @scsp.bsky.social

She spoke alongside Dr. Mike Williams, Dr. Zhao Huimin, and Erion Plaku about Powering Innovation at the Intersection of AI & Science.