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Mario Juric

2 months

. @VRubinObs 's 8.4m mirror moves into the Observatory. After 9 years of construction, we're about 4 months away from first images.

Rubin Observatory

@VRubinObs

2 months

It's not every day we get to throw a welcome home party 🎉 Last week marked a big construction achievement with the move of our 8.4-meter primary/tertiary mirror into the main building! It'll now go through prep to get its shiny silver coating ✨

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

3 months

I'm done with @Google . I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why: I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only

Google Public Policy

@googlepubpolicy

3 months

Our AI image generation feature got it wrong. Here's more on what happened and how we're working to fix it.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

Meet the fastest large telescope in the world, the 8.4m Simonyi Survey Telescope at the heart of @VRubinObs . 200+ tons of glass and steel, able to make a 180° turn in less than 20 seconds.

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@mjuric

6 years

That feeling when the project you've worked on for the better part of the past decade starts looking like the rendering... T-2 years to @LSST first light! 👉 for more photos (h/t @astropixie !).

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@mjuric

3 months

@Google I see many questions about how to export one's information out of @Google -- the Takeout product: is useful (even if not exactly a drag-and-drop migration solution).

Annie| tdbktd 💥🍰

@TheBoudicca

3 months

@mjuric @Google How DO we take our personal info out if the system?

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

6 months

Number of asteroids discovered per year (a beautiful plot by @VRubinObs 's Lynne Jones). The explosion of digital cameras and sky surveys led to a peak of ~70k discoveries in 2005; rates have been declining since (excepting NEOs). Rubin's first year will yield 1 to 2M.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

3 months

My personal priority list: a) drop tools whose unbiased functioning is difficult for me to verify (clearly Gemini, but also Search, Assistant, News, etc...) b) drop products where adversarial action could lock me out of other accounts (the clearest example is "Sign in with

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@mjuric

3 months

It's not an all-or-nothing choice (which sounds hopeless). It's about becoming more discerning about product-level risk/benefit analyses given the loss of trust. In my case: directions from Maps? OK. Anything allowing for "editorial control"? Nope.

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@mjuric

10 months

We found our first potentially hazardous asteroid, 2022 SF289, using the HelioLinC3D code that will power @VRubinObs 's LSST survey!! Written by @uwdirac 's Ari Heinze, the new code can identify asteroids with half the observations as needed before. . 🧵 👇

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

It's official: we've adopted @ProjectJupyter as the primary remote analysis interface for @LSST 's 7500 DAC users.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

Seriously @Google ? This is the message you took away from the Gemini fiasco? IF YOU WANT TO EXIST A DECADE FROM NOW, STOP MORALIZING AND GET BACK TO ORGANIZING THE WORLD'S INFORMATION. Also, happy St. Patrick's Day... For fscks sake... Dumb and dumbererer.

Mario Juric

@mjuric

3 months

I'm done with @Google . I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why: I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only

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@mjuric

2 months

Goooooood mooorning @VRubinObs ! T-4 months to first commissioning light.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 months

The always impressive @VRubinObs . The Observatory, the telescope, and the commissioning camera (ComCam). ComCam -- comprising of 9 CCDe -- will be the first camera to see the sky, sometime in July 2024. It will be followed by the main camera (LSSTCam; with 189 science CCDs),

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

`uv` is every bit as amazing as claimed. Shivers-down-my-spine level of great. Hats off to @charliermarsh and the @astral_sh folks; brilliant piece of engineering.

Charlie Marsh

@charliermarsh

3 months

Announcing uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. uv is designed as a drop-in alternative to pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv. With a warm cache, uv installs are near-instant. Here, it's > 75x faster than pip and pip-tools.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

10 months

#Rubin2023 news: Attached is an up-to-date integrated schedule for when @VRubinObs LSST will begin, plus a timeline for the early science plans. See 🧵 for explanations and when the data should become available. (r/t & share on).

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

Another piece of the @VRubinObs complete. We'll have it in Chile in a ~month, and then on the sky in January. Expect first public images in Feb/March. The start of the largest optical survey of the sky in human history is just a year away.

SLAC

@SLAClab

2 months

💫 The world's largest digital camera for astronomy is complete. Once in place atop a telescope in Chile, the #LSST Camera will gather an unprecedented amount of data about our universe, yielding new insight into everything from asteroids to dark energy:

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

6 years

If you're one of those people who find inventing algorithms, developing techniques, writing software and contributing to the community as exciting as using it, these Fellowships are for you👇. Help us spread the word. @jakevdp @astropy @eteq @astrofrog @profjsb @davidwhogg

The DiRAC Institute

@uwdirac

6 years

Join us working on data intensive problems in astrophysics at @uwastronomy 's DIRAC Institute -- apply for the DIRAC Postdoctoral Fellowships!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

Yes, those are suction cups. Lifting a one-of-a-kind, 20-ton, multi-M$, mirror that took over 5 years to make. Physics is beautiful.

Rubin Observatory

@VRubinObs

2 months

1...2...3...LIFT! The 62-ton piece of glass that will soon become Rubin Observatory's combined primary/tertiary mirror was unboxed at the summit this week and lifted onto its steel support cell! 🧵

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 months

Taking off for Chile to visit this beauty... Expect photos/videos here on Monday! @VRubinObs

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

If proven, this is Evil with a capital E. I always assumed @Meta was morally flexible, but even then I'm surprised by the degree. Hope there's an enterprising lawyer out there looking for plaintiffs...

HaxRob

@haxrob

2 months

If you needed yet another reason not to trust VPN providers or proxy services... Here Facebook partnered with a bunch of companies to have root certificates installed on people's phones so they could intercept other app's traffic.

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@mjuric

6 months

@KarinaVoggel I don't think there's nothing wrong with the original posters arguments. Extending them to academic careers (specifically, astronomy) the opportunity cost is huge. My back-of-the-envelope estimate: Astronomy PhD (in the U.S.) takes 5-6 years, with stipends topping out at

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

5 months

The 2023 @uwdirac Report is out. A sample of accomplishments from the best team I've had the privilege to work with! To our partners and supporters: thank you for believing in us and making this work possible. These results are yours as much as ours!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

3 months

Just read an article that reminded me just how awesome JWST (the James Webb Space Telescope) is. The Webb really rocks... Go Webb!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

3 months

This 👇. Correlates with my experience on every single big/collaborative project I ever worked on. Strong vision and a competent empowered leader don't guarantee success. But their lack guarantees failure. Or worse... protracted, dull, soul-crushing, indefinite, mediocrity.

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@nearcyan

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great quote from karpathy most great organizations require leader(s) with a disproportionate amount of power when this is absent you end up with countless hierarchies of ineffective committees, e.g. many google products lack a Directly Responsible Individual with actual power

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

6 years

@UW CRITICAL: Do not let this dissuade you from pursuing your dreams. If you were thinking of applying for grad school, please do so! Together, we'll find a way to make it possible. Everyone I know at @uwastronomy is /deeply/ committed to our students. @dalcantonJD @emsque @niais 4/6

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

My #LSSTCDSFP lectures on Frequentism and Bayesianism: . Based on @jakevdp 's superb series.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

9 months

Photos like these reminded me of Chile's consistent support and contributions to astronomy over the past 50+ years. #ELT , @giantmagellan , @VRubinObs , @SimonsObs , you name it... the future of ground-based astronomy is literally being built there. People of 🇨🇱, THANK YOU!!

ESO

@ESO

9 months

This is how the opening frame of #TheLionKing 🦁 may have looked like, had the story been set close to the #ELT construction site in the Chilean Atacama Desert, rather than the African savannas! 😁 1/ Read more: 📷 E. Garcés/ESO. Ack.: N. Dubost

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

Staring in late 2025, it will be used to take images for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST; ).

Rubin Observatory

Opening a digital window for discovery of the dynamic universe.

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@mjuric

8 months

A tip: if you're applying for a data science adjacent internship (say, at @uwdirac ), it's not a good look if your github shows zero code or recent activity. Have examples of your code publicly available. It speaks louder than anything you can put on your CV.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 years

A beautifully written article by @kchangnyt about a novel asteroid-search algorithm by @moeyensj (my PhD student here at @uwdirac ) and the @b612foundation 's awesome #ADAM team. The next big post- @VRubinObs leap in astro will come from clever software.

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Researchers, trying to find asteroids that might one day imperil Earth, built an algorithm to sift through 68 billion dots of cosmic light to spot space rocks hiding in years-old images.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

9 months

Here's my presentation at #Rubin2023 about this dataset; make sure to look at slide #10 for important details and caveats. Let us know how we can make it better for when the real data arrive.

Rubin Observatory

@VRubinObs

9 months

One step closer to science-ready😎 Simulated Solar System objects are now part of Rubin's Data Preview 0 ☄️ That's great news for Solar System scientists preparing to use #LSST —they can now test their analysis tools using the Rubin Science Platform ()!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

10 months

Returning from #Rubin2023 & thinking how much I love working with smart people who take ownership, work hard, and just get stuff done (™️). @phbernardinelli , Ari, @megschwamb , Jake, Sam, @moeyensj , etc.; y'all know who you are... That's how one delivers. Soooo much fun. Respect.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

Tip for the postdocs: having an up-to-date web page and an easy-to-find e-mail addr. makes it _much_ easier to invite you for a colloquium.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

10 months

Would a 3-month, funded, engagement with a knowledgeable engineering team advance your #LSST -related science or software project? Apply for LINCC Incubators! See the photo for deadlines. Plz. r/t & share with friends. #Rubin2023 #LINCC

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

3 months

"We'll be driving a clear set of actions, including structural changes, updated product guidelines, ..., ..., and technical recommendations." No amount of process can save you if your employes' vision is fundamentally at odds w. the company's. Naive, or disingenuous.

Pirate Wires

@PirateWires

3 months

The first internal comms on Gemini from Sundar From: Sundar Pichai To: Google "Hi everyone I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

The best part of this prize is a chance to meet Rusty. A participant in the legendary era of exploration, and an all-around great human being. A better photo of Rusty😀:

Asteroid Institute, a program of B612

@b612foundation

8 months

Today Co-Founder Apollo 9 #astronaut , Rusty Schweickart presented at the @ASE_Astronauts Conference on the Schweickart Prize. With an award of $10k the prize will recognize a student for their innovative ideas & emerging leadership in planetary defense.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 months

More interesting than the date are those thrice-flown, charred, side-boosters. @SpaceX doesn't clean or repaint them; if it doesn't affect the mission, why waste the time/money? Love the attitude. Good luck, #MissionToPsyche !

NASA JPL

@NASAJPL

7 months

Update: Due to unfavorable weather conditions, #MissionToPsyche is now targeting a Friday, Oct. 13, launch. (Yes… Friday the 13th. How metal is that?? 🤘)

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@mjuric

10 months

This is a /phenomenally/ useful tool. We found precovery observations of 2022 SF289 in about ~5 minutes. Try it!

Asteroid Institute, a program of B612

@b612foundation

10 months

#AsteroidInstitute launches #PrecoveryonADAM online to refine #asteroid orbits. Precovery recently aided in discovering unattributed images of PHA 2022 SF289. @ivezic of @VRubinObs calls it "Googling the imaged sky" due to ease & speed.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

6 months

The most impressive piece of sleuthing I've seen in awhile: James Robinson (of @PhysAstroEd ) figuring out how we screwed up the footprint on Rubin solar system sims, w/o seeing the code. Answer: we applied it twice, with opposing sense of rotation. Wow.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

Two things: a) this observatory is just beautiful, and b) night-time photography with Pixel 7 Pro is crazy good!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

If tuition was taxed when I was entering grad school, I would've gone to Europe instead. A baffling move for the U.S. & excellent news for the rest of the world (and E.U. and China specifically).

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

This effectively ends Python 2.7 for the science community; we welcome our Py3 overlords :).

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@mjuric

8 months

Višnjan Observatory (Tičan station, L01).

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@mjuric

7 years

Our paper on 1I/'Oumuamua is on arXiv! Congratulations @bryce_bolin & co. Twitter abstract: red, spins with an ~8hr period, and very elongated (between ~4:1 & ~7:1 axis ratios). Could be it was nearly torn apart in the process of ejection from its parent planetary system.

Bryce Bolin (@brycebolin.bsky.social)

@bryce_bolin

7 years

APO Time Resolved Color Photometry of Highly-Elongated Interstellar Object 1I/'Oumuamua:

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

10 months

At the @VRubinObs #Rubin2023 team meeting this week. Listening to all the progress, challenges, and plans by a dev team centering collaboration, equity, inclusivity, and kindness. It reminds me of Twitter before the change of management.

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@mjuric

7 months

A nice writeup in Astronomy Mag about what @VRubinObs will do for Solar System exploration, featuring Ari Heinze, @megschwamb & y.t.

Astronomy Magazine

@AstronomyMag

7 months

The observatory is set to come online in 2025 but its algorithm already shows promise.

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@mjuric

2 months

God created Python packaging to train the faithful.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

10 months

PSA: Did you know that a regularly updated @VRubinObs construction schedule can be found at ? The current "not earlier than" date is Feb 17th 2025, with the LSST survey projected to start sometime in mid-2025.

Monthly Updates

Construction Project Status(updated May 1, 2024)The Project schedule remains unchanged. Activities and progress have gone according to plan. Addressing technical issues that have developed with the...

www.lsst.org

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 months

I want to give a huge shoutout to Maria, a @LATAMAirlines ground employee at La Florida airport in @LaSerena_Chile (details to be DM-ed do the airline; she deserves a bonus!). Maria's out-of-the-box thinking saved @jradavenport and my bacon when our connecting flight was 4hrs

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

A powerful and emotional LSST @Europe5 DEI session. Bringing on the change through second order (revolutionary) thinking. Advice not to rely as much on quantitative data, center using stories instead. Recognizing our privilege. Examples of bad laws (UK) and policies (IAU).

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@mjuric

8 months

An epic thread by @megschwamb about how a LINCC -FW Incubator made a critical piece of @VRubinObs ☄️science code ~200x faster. LINCC-FW is @SchmidtFutures supported project at @uwdirac , @Physics_CMU , and the LSST Discovery Alliance (CC: @BethWillman ) Join an incubator? See 🧵.

Meg Schwamb

@megschwamb

8 months

Story time: Today's the last day of my LINCC (LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration & Computing) Frameworks Incubator. I had 3 months of software engineer time actively working on coding and 1 month ahead of time evaluating the code and coming up with a workplan

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@mjuric

8 months

The start of LSST @Europe5 conference, enabling and assisting European participation in @VRubinObs .

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@mjuric

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Just saw this AWESOME video from @MrBeast and @MarkRober . The horrors these men survive to bring the world to us. Respect. A tip for next time: the helicopter's cool (I do it all the time in Dubrovnik), but it may be faster to take the 16A bus towards Srebreno (€1.99 one way,

MrBeast

@MrBeast

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I attempted to survive 7 days in an abandoned city... can't believe places like this exist

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@mjuric

3 months

Prospective @uwastronomy graduate students: welcome to Seattle, the best place on Earth to do astronomy!

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@mjuric

3 months

Impressive update from Klarna: their AI bot is /better/ at helping than human CSRs. Now think of the educational equivalent: a personal tutor for every class, every student. 1:1 tutoring is the only ed. technique that consistently improves outcomes; AI will be a game changer.

Sebastian Siemiatkowski

@klarnaseb

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This is a breakthrough in practical application of AI! Klarnas AI assistant, powered by @OpenAI , has in its first 4 weeks handled 2.3 m customer service chats and the data and insights are staggering: - Handles 2/3 rd of our customer service enquires - On par with humans on

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@mjuric

9 years

It's hard to believe, but in four years the #LSST telescope will be standing here. #CerroPachon #Chile http://t.co/V29ifHOSGT

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@mjuric

7 years

Nice usability work by @parejkoj on friendly display of @LSST 's afw tables by leveraging @astropy table printers:

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

9 months

. @b612foundation 's ADAM precovery image finder service is super fun. Here's my fuzzball from many years ago...

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@mjuric

2 months

Fantastic work everyone, congratulations! Happy that @uwdirac can support this type of science!

The DiRAC Institute

@uwdirac

2 months

The citizen scientists at @ActiveAsteroids announced the discoveries of 15 rare active asteroids! Congratulations to Colin Chandler & the team!

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@mjuric

7 months

Asked by a few colleagues about how large research groups should react to controversies of the day, I pointed them to the Kalven report. Its principles helped me keep my organizations stress-free, inclusive, and welcoming. A highly recommended read.

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@mjuric

8 months

. @UW is an eligible host institution for two prominent astronomy postdoctoral fellowship programs. Please find the attached brochures for each and please help spread the word! 51 Pegasi b Fellowship The Fellowship provides postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct

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@mjuric

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@csa_asc

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@mjuric

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Project idea: for every newly discovered PHA, compute when it would've been discovered if Rubin was online. Bonus: Include NEO SM. Reply/DM if you're interested. Inspired by 2023 NT1 (found 2 days after close approach). Tough object to find... great job by @fallingstarIfA !

Tony Dunn

@tony873004

10 months

Newly-discovered #asteroid 2023 NT1 passed about 1/4 the Moon's distance on July 13, but wasn't discovered until July 15, as it approached Earth in the daytime sky. It may be as large as 60 meters across, possibly larger than the asteroid that caused Meteor Crater in Arizona.

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@mjuric

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. @LSST -ers from around the world have descended onto Tucson for #LSST2017 . So, to kick us off...: 😀!

LSST 2017 Opening Crawl

August 14th - 18th, 2017Westin La Paloma, Tucson, AZ...LSST 2017: Project and Community WorkshopExcitement across the LSST Project is growing as our focus tu...

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@mjuric

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On the way to #LSSTEurope5 in Poreč, Croatia. A week of talks and events around European participation in @VRubinObs .

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@mjuric

2 months

Walking through Frontera at @TACC , the @NSF 's fastest supercomputer. 8,368 nodes with 56 cores each, for 468,608 cores and 38.8PFLOPS of liquid-cooled goodness.

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@mjuric

2 months

Starship will ultimately let you build and launch 1000lbs satellites on a single-PI, NFS/AAG-level grant budget. Let that sink in.

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

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A dazzling glimpse of what is yet to come.

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@mjuric

7 years

Nice tour of @NCSAatIllinois 's NPCF, where @LSST computing/storage lives (first four racks of many). The intimidating tunnel is Blue Waters.

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@mjuric

7 years

What do people think counts for tenure? Career Working Group report at #DSESummit2017 .

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@mjuric

7 years

. @Tiana_Athriel , the assoc director of @uwdirac , asks a question we'll have lots of fun answering going forward. ( @uwastronomy colloquium)

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@mjuric

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And that's a wrap for LSST @Europe5 . Congratulations to the organizers, the best in the series so far. Looking forward to LSST @Europe6 next year in La Palma!

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@mjuric

7 years

1 down, 20 to go.

SLAC

@SLAClab

7 years

1st of 21 science rafts for 3.2-gigapixel @LSST camera arrived from @BrookhavenLab this week. The rafts are arrays of 9 imaging sensors, or CCDs, each with 4K-by-4K pixels. We're assembling & testing the digital camera, the largest ever built for astronomy

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@mjuric

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Excellent results from the first LINCC Incubator w. @megschwamb 's group, the LINCC team, Matt Holman & @uwdirac 👇. Code speedups of >20x! We can now generate a @VRubinObs solar system sim in a ~day (not weeks as before). Future incubator applications: .

LINCC Frameworks Incubators | LSST Discovery Alliance

Read about the LINCC Frameworks incubators, which engage the scientific community in creating software tools for the analysis of Rubin LSST data.

lsstdiscoveryalliance.org

Meg Schwamb

@megschwamb

9 months

I took 13,017 main belt asteroids and put them into our LSST Solar System survey simulator that my LINCC Frameworks Incubator team is developing. In < 18 minutes the code went through 10 years of simulated LSST observations and figured out which ones would be detected!!!!!!

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@mjuric

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At Višnjan Observatory (MPC obscode L01) with Korado and Luka. Trying to follow up some Near Earth Objects through two magnitudes of clouds.

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@mjuric

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(HAPPENING NOW): If you want to learn how to access the @VRubinObs simulated solar system dataset (aka "DP 0.3"), join the DP0.3 Kickoff Live event at . Happening NOW, 9am - 10am PDT, Fri, Aug 18 2023.

Data Preview 0.3 (DP0.3) Solar System catalogs now available

Rubin Observatory is pleased to announce that the third phase of Data Preview 0 (DP0.3) containing simulated Solar System catalogs is now available. The DP0.3 data set was generated by members of the...

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

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ComCam is back on @VRubinObs Simonyi telescope. Initial (engineering) on-sky observations are scheduled for July 2024. Though covering <5% of the area of the main camera, ComCam is still sizable: approximately 40' x 40' field of view spread over 9 CCDs and 144 megapixels.

Rubin Observatory

@VRubinObs

6 months

Guess who's back, back again? ComCam's back, tell a friend🎶 Our summit team reinstalled the commissioning camera (ComCam) onto the telescope to continue tests! ComCam isn't taking images right now, but is instead acting as a balancing mass for the telescope during these tests.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

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Replicating Toomre & Toomre was my science fair project in high school. 10th grade, IIRC. Coded it up in C++ on a DECstation (ULTRIX) at @SrceHr . Mentored by the one and only @DejanVinkovic . Fun times! And guess what: every single figure from that paper reproduced perfectly!

Michael Brown

@MJIBrown

7 months

While providing comments to a student, I was reminded that films of the Toomre & Toomre galaxy merger simulations from the 1970s are available online.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

We hates clouds over our telescopes.. Our precious xenorock observations... They STOLE it from us... Gone, gone, gone... #A2017U1

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

Lots of fun yesterday with @jradavenport and Sarah Greenstreet, showcasing the six years of @uwdirac to the @UW Foundation's Board. 400+ co-authored papers, 13k+ citations, dozens of postdocs and grad students trained, with the best yet to come as we work to finish the Rubin

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

We need an automated follow-up observation marketplace. A system where an observation request is submitted and automatically matched to an available resource based on the properties of a request and the "price" (in some form of credits) the requestor is willing to pay and the

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

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After many years of my team's focus on products and algos for Rubin's solar system mission (💪), the time has come to integrate the work into the larger system (💪💪). So I spent a few hours today, figuring out the LSST middleware... This is a visualization of the experience.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

@PSETI_Center @Astro_Wright Jason, I respect your work and I'm sure your intentions are good. But to rig a CoC to blacklist a scientist from a conference because of their choice of collaborator seems wrong. It doesn't feel like deterrence of bad behavior, it feels like exacting vengeance on someone (junior)

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

Around 8,300 volunteers combed through 430,000 images of known asteroids, looking for comet tails or other signatures of active asteroids. ... “For an amateur astronomer like me it’s a dream come true,” said co-author Virgilio Gonano, an Active Asteroids volunteer in Udine,

Active Asteroids

@ActiveAsteroids

2 months

Check out this story about our discoveries at University of Washington News:

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

9 years

B. Willman named the #LSST Deputy Director http://t.co/rnHAXkPdSv. Stellar choice of Galactic proportions embedded in a halo of awesomeness!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

We welcome the new events @uwdirac 's new associate director is introducing 😁. @Tiana_Athriel

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

Partially successful compromise of SSH via xz. It failed because the attacker(s) became impatient and careless. This is likely just the tip of the iceberg. As practiced today, many (most?) OSS projects have a huge cybersecurity problem.

Dominik Penner

@zer0pwn

2 months

wild stuff re: xz/liblzma backdoor

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

3 months

@chargedcurrent We're the Arts of the STEM world.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

4 months

A great article by @SquigglyVolcano in @NatGeo about @VRubinObs and the impact it will have on our understanding of the Solar System. Importantly, Rubin's Solar System discoveries and measurements will be open and available within days. All this (and more) coming next year!

Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋☄️

@SquigglyVolcano

4 months

NEW: The next-gen Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile is almost ready to start surveying the stars. What might it find? Well, everything—including interstellar comets and, just maybe, the solar system's hidden Planet Nine. 🤯 Me, for @NatGeo

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

10 months

Saw this at #Rubin2023 . Also lots of emphasis by the leadership that, no matter the project challenges and tight deadlines, in @VRubinObs inclusivity, kindness and wellbeing come first.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

. @Lynne73 speaking at #DPS17 about @LSST 's capability to detect Near Earth Objects. Expect a paper on arXiv later this week.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

A tech recruiter just called to thank me for referring a @UW u'grad in 2015 (!) & ask if we had more ppl like that 😁. #proudBeyondAcademia

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 months

Have ideas for high-impact projects in data-intensive astrophysics (including early science with #LSST )? Would benefit from being embedded in a group with decades of leadership in @VRubinObs , data science + AI? Apply for the @uwdirac postdoctoral fellowship and join us at @UW !

The DiRAC Institute

@uwdirac

7 months

We invite applications for the 2024 DiRAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington! Deadline: December 5th, 2023. Details:

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

8 months

Today I learned: @VRubinObs has an artist in residence, @m_jones_m . Interesting.

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

Congratulations to @sdssurveys , as well as the @SloanFoundation for the foresight to support big data & survey astronomy.

Sloan Digital Sky Surveys

@sdssurveys

7 years

After-Sloan-IV is changing call signs. AS-IV is now SDSS-V!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

Good example how the lack of discovery (detection) does not imply lack of value (information); can be the opposite! Publish non-detections.

LIGO

@LIGO

7 years

And finally, @ego_virgo . Note #GW170817 is in one of Virgo's blind spots..so even NOT seeing the signal helped us localize! (3/3)

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

Congratulations to our @LSST Solar System Science Collaboration co-chair for the ***much*** deserved 🏅!!

Meg Schwamb

@megschwamb

7 years

Truly honored to receive this today #DPS17

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

9 months

@SquigglyVolcano My guess is this was a "mislinkage". This is when two sightings of two different objects (or a real object + some image processing artifacts) are misidentified as the same one. CNEOS' scout () is a good resource. If you click on 'Observation File

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

7 years

Marvel the "radiated GW energy" line! That's enough to kick the Earth out of the Solar System 200 *trillion* times. #GW170814 #SpacePinball

LIGO Hanford

@LIGOWA

7 years

Want all the numbers from #GW170814 in one place? Our fact sheet is the perfect thing for you

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

2 months

Happy Easter // Sretan Uskrs!

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Mario Juric

@mjuric

6 years

Students/Postdocs: want to join our group in imagining and building the software machinery to enable analysis of 100TB @ztfsurvey catalogs? All open source? Manipulate a billion objects with hundreds of observations each? Build tools, derive first science? Apply below👇.

The DiRAC Institute

@uwdirac

6 years

Interested in developing new approaches for analyzing massive astronomical time series data sets with @ztfsurvey and @LSST ? Know @Python ? Would like to think about astronomical applications of @ApacheSpark , @dask_dev , etc.? Join us at @uwdirac !

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