That's a wrap for the conference agenda for #SciPy2021, so a huge THANK YOU to all the SciPyConf organizers who made it happen this year! scipy2021.scipy.org/organizers They did an amazing job. Hope to see lots of people at the sprints starting tomorrow! :)

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Seeing all the great climate discussions last night gave us hope! Here's a piece from Jimmy Kimmel Live with Prof. Katharine Hayhoe. Amazing! *chef's kiss* 🤌👏

A thread about a simple tool that has been transformative for my teams data science work: I provide engineering and infra support for a small data science team who work in Python.

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20y ago today, as a failing physics grad student I posted IPython Developers 0.2.0. This opened the door to an incredible community: Brian Granger, Min RK, M ​Bussonnier – Bye Twit.ter, the late John Hunter... who made Project Jupyter & scientific python possible. Too many to name.. mail.python.org/pipermail/pyth…

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Submit an abstract to SciPy!!

Mini rant: Every time an organisation says it's going to hire more diverse staff, someone replies "but surely you should hire the best candidates regardless of background!" And every time, what they think is a counterpoint is actually an argument *for* a diverse hiring policy.

Instead of hoping the power grid holds up, let’s fix the grid so we know it'll hold up.

Are there videos from scipy this year? I haven’t seen anything come out! Julie Hollek | 한여울 @ #SciPy2024

Akilah Hughes I say it all the time… More people make more money & pay less taxes in CA than in TX

Here's a visualization tool I've been working on to explore the global swath coverage of 1+ million declassified spy satellite images. keyhole.engelsjk.com 🧵

The MAGA right talks about Black Lives Matter as if it’s some sort of equivalency for 1/6. These talking points have a way of spreading. Let’s correct them every single time. 📚Researchers at Harvard gathered statistics from 7,305 BLM events. Here’s what they found:

All this Christian theocracy, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-LGBTQ sentiment has me thinking about this rant today.

TIL that Cholesky was a military officer who died on the battlefield in WW1 and his famous matrix decomposition was discovered posthumously, from a journal?!

New paper in Springer Nature Scientific Data presenting the IPCC #AR6 Atlas repository, a resource implementing the #FAIRprinciples of #Data management and stewardship in the #InteractiveAtlas IFCA

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