We run a 40+ person data-intensive research institute on a single server. Best decisions I ever made. Resist the merchants of complexity.

The main instrument at Obs Strasbourg. Their data archive is not too shabby either. A great few days here working on bringing Rubin Observatory-scale data analytics to the (astronomical) masses. HATS off to CDSportal, ❤️LINCC-FW. 😉

Grateful to see our recent work covered by SPACE.com ! The article is wonderfully done Monisha Ravisetti ! It captures everything so well while being an interesting and easy read! :) space.com/bigger-galaxie…

If you are applying for a 51 Peg b postdoc fellowship this round and you love exoplanets and astrobiology, I’d strongly encourage you to apply with UW as a host institution. Feel free to contact me about joining our world-class astrobiology community!

Job alert: 51 Peg b fellowships also support research of (dwarf) planets and small bodies in our own solar system. If study these topics, with Rubin Observatory around the corner it may be especially timely to apply. We'd love to host you at The DiRAC Institute and UW Astrobiology!

Wrapping up the lectures at MW ESA Gaia Doctoral Network summer school in Coimbra, Portugal. Fantastic time teaching statistics & the LINCC-FW tools we (The DiRAC Institute CMU Physics LSST-DA) build to enable large scale analysis of Rubin Observatory data. Thank you Coimbra!

With transient detection & alerting brought to you by the awesome Eric Bellm's Alerts Pipelines at The DiRAC Institute! Very close to first photons... Go Rubin Observatory!

Watching 20+ years of work (quite literally) come together. This machine will map the universe like nothing before it. Rubin Observatory

🚨 Reminder that 51 Peg b Fellowships also encompass solar system work (including small bodies -- asteroids, comets, etc). Apply to join us at UW to work on such problems with the first Rubin Observatory data, we'd love to host you! Please r/t and tell your students/friends/etc.

A great conversation with Charles Simonyi by Alan Boyle 👽 about Rubin Observatory and how this ambitious project came to be. A big idea, visionary seed investment, lots of hard work, community recognition, and a paradigm-changing machine in the end (🤞).

Last Thursday, the Rubin Observatory captured its first images of the sky using the test camera. A huge leap forward towards the most comprehensive sky survey in human history. (we can't show you the on-sky images yet, ergo the one below. But they're spectacular!).

12 days into commissioning Rubin Observatory looks pretty good. Images immediately super-close to focus. Quality already at FWHM<1.5". Data processing stack successfully processed the images. The team's working on first coadds & diffims. Really excited about this little machine.

. Rubin Observatory commissioning update #2: Major achievement unlocked – first sub-1" resolution images acquired 🎉. 1" (one "arcsecond") is the size of a quarter as seen from 3 miles away (for our 🇪🇺 friends: a 2€ coin at 5km). While imaging at <1" resolution is not unusual for

Hey that's Max & Colin (Active Asteroids) from The DiRAC Institute 🎉!

Hey all -- want to spend an evening with your friendly neighborhood astronomers? I'll be giving a planetarium talk at uwastronomy on December 4th, about how we'll use Rubin Observatory and AI to map and understand the visible Universe. Come & tell your friends! (link in thread)

Live in Seattle, hang out with sci & tech people, drink coffee, science the crap out of early Rubin Observatory data, become famous. Three years of funding to do something big. Designed for the ambitious. Retweet & tell your friends (or students/postdocs). Application link in reply.

A good article on whether there's a 9th planet in the Solar System and if Rubin Observatory could soon find it. Checks in with all the main characters including Mike Brown does not X Konstantin Batygin Chad Trujillo Meg Schwamb Dr. Pedro Bernardinelli, etc. Well researched & written (Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋☄️ FTW).