Elektrine lite

← Feed

Warrick Ball

warrickball@mas.to

<p>asteroseismologist turned research software engineer</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@joss" class="u-url mention">@<span>joss</span></a></span> associate EiC (astronomy, astrophysics &amp; space science)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries" class="u-url mention">@<span>thecarpentries</span></a></span> instructor</p><p>boosts &amp; toots about <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Academia</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Astrophysics</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenSource</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenScience" cl

Posts

  • View post

    @JessTheUnstill Related, I&amp;#39;ve long wondered why I don&amp;#39;t see more #Python projects with .py domains, from the TLD for Paraguy. Perhaps there are restrictions that prevent it, or it&amp;#39;s just not as cool as Anguilla?

  • View post

    @gvwilson&amp;#39;s blog led me to his material for a workshop called &amp;quot;Managing Research Software Projects&amp;quot;. I&amp;#39;m halfway through and between my experience as a researcher, #opensource contributor, #RSE, and manager, an awful lot is resonating. There are lessons I already plan to try in several parts of my own roles. https://gvwilson.github.io/mrsp/

  • View post

    I&#39;m currently stumped trying to find reviewers for a submission to the Journal of Open Source Software @joss@mas.to called RAIMAD, a 2D CAD program for &quot;collaborative development of on-chip astronomical instruments&quot;: https://github.com/tifuun/raimad I&#39;ve been searching for over four months now, so if you can suggest anyone (by reply or private mention, and including yourself), I&#39;d be very grateful! Our reviews are based on checklists that reflect our review criteria: htt...

  • View post

    Genuinely looking forward to this star-studded World War II drama about... a (truly critical) weather forecast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQwG9Xi13g

  • View post

    @gvwilson&amp;#39;s blog is absolutely on fire lately 🔥. My favourite so far is &amp;quot;Big Tech is Like the Beauty Industry&amp;quot;, which draws parallels to criticize both. https://third-bit.com/2026/04/25/big-tech-as-beauty/

  • View post

    Hiranya Peiris&amp;#39; comment in Nature #Astronomy is worth a read. Titled &amp;quot;Large language models are not the problem&amp;quot;, the argument is broadly that LLMs are only accelerating trends that astronomers had already established well before LLMs. I certainly don&amp;#39;t agree with everything but I do agree with a lot of the section &amp;quot;What the anxiety reveals&amp;quot;. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22071

  • View post

    @gvwilson&amp;#39;s blog, The Third Bit, is continuing the &amp;quot;Sex &amp;amp; Drugs &amp;amp; Guns &amp;amp; Code&amp;quot; series and still 100% on fire. A recent favourite is &amp;quot;Taming Tobacco&amp;quot;: https://third-bit.com/2026/05/08/taming-tobacco/ I didn&amp;#39;t realise that the tobacco industry has also so broadly attempted to undermine evidence of the harms of smoking. In fact, until now I thought the harms were only scientifically established much later (&amp;gt;1970s)!

  • View post

    You may have forgotten about #TESStuesday! But rest assured... so did I actually. Anyway, Panetier et al. yesterday presented power spectra of some very bright (G&amp;lt;6ish) stars which are solar-like oscillators, from TESS data: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14713 Though I&amp;#39;d question the significance of some detections, there are plenty of great detections in Appendix B. Here&amp;#39;s υ Cep, which is known to be a binary star. I&amp;#39;m not sure if all these oscillations are certain...