Jimmy Newland
@jimmynewland.bsky.social
Academic and STEM educator working at TACC at UT Austin. PhD in physics education using computer science pedagogy from University of Houston. https://jimmynewland.com
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From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/11/10/f...
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Fast metal factories at z ~ 5, lessons from ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST
JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang.
astrobites.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
From Niloofar Sharei @astroneal.bsky.social : JWST reveals galaxies that built up heavy elements at record speed, reaching near-modern metallicities only a billion years after the Big Bang. ⚛️🔭☄🧪
astrobites.org/2025/11/10/f...
astrobites.org/2025/11/10/f...
Next week, I am presenting with a teacher friend at the Texas science education conference about how to bring data science into a high school astronomy class. The activity is using a few different data moves. Here is the coding version. github.com/jimmynewland... #datascience #astronomy #csed
colabnotebooks/Color_Magnitude_Diagram_using_Gaia_and_IRSA.ipynb at main · jimmynewland/colabnotebooks
Google Colab Notebooks Labs. Contribute to jimmynewland/colabnotebooks development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Next week, I am presenting with a teacher friend at the Texas science education conference about how to bring data science into a high school astronomy class. The activity is using a few different data moves. Here is the coding version. github.com/jimmynewland... #datascience #astronomy #csed
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Ever handed your students a “ready-to-paint” dataset?
In our latest Learning Progressions Blog post, Tim Erickson shows why students should help prepare the data—filtering, grouping, and summarizing—before diving in.
Read → ds4e.substack.com/p/making-dat...
#LearningProgressions
In our latest Learning Progressions Blog post, Tim Erickson shows why students should help prepare the data—filtering, grouping, and summarizing—before diving in.
Read → ds4e.substack.com/p/making-dat...
#LearningProgressions
Making Data Moves: The Prep Work Behind Every Good Analysis
Tim Erickson, Epistemological Engineering
ds4e.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ever handed your students a “ready-to-paint” dataset?
In our latest Learning Progressions Blog post, Tim Erickson shows why students should help prepare the data—filtering, grouping, and summarizing—before diving in.
Read → ds4e.substack.com/p/making-dat...
#LearningProgressions
In our latest Learning Progressions Blog post, Tim Erickson shows why students should help prepare the data—filtering, grouping, and summarizing—before diving in.
Read → ds4e.substack.com/p/making-dat...
#LearningProgressions
I’m a big fan of Desmos. Yesterday I taught BigO notation to teachers practicing for the CS Praxis certification exam. www.desmos.com/calculator/h... #csed
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’m a big fan of Desmos. Yesterday I taught BigO notation to teachers practicing for the CS Praxis certification exam. www.desmos.com/calculator/h... #csed
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📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do K–12 computer science education policies boost CS majors in college?
Using 20+ years of data, Paul Bruno & colleagues show these policies are often too light-touch to matter, reflecting, not driving, rising CS interest.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301
Using 20+ years of data, Paul Bruno & colleagues show these policies are often too light-touch to matter, reflecting, not driving, rising CS interest.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do K–12 computer science education policies boost CS majors in college?
Using 20+ years of data, Paul Bruno & colleagues show these policies are often too light-touch to matter, reflecting, not driving, rising CS interest.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301
Using 20+ years of data, Paul Bruno & colleagues show these policies are often too light-touch to matter, reflecting, not driving, rising CS interest.
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1301
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CHOOSE STATISTICAL TEST in 4 QUESTIONS (NO MATH! 🤯) Stop struggling with T-Tests, ANOVAs & Chi-Square. Use this simple flowchart guide to pick the right test every time👇
Watch the full beginner's guide now: youtu.be/EeASQZvGRcg
#Statistics #DataScience #DataAnalysis #stats
Watch the full beginner's guide now: youtu.be/EeASQZvGRcg
#Statistics #DataScience #DataAnalysis #stats
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
CHOOSE STATISTICAL TEST in 4 QUESTIONS (NO MATH! 🤯) Stop struggling with T-Tests, ANOVAs & Chi-Square. Use this simple flowchart guide to pick the right test every time👇
Watch the full beginner's guide now: youtu.be/EeASQZvGRcg
#Statistics #DataScience #DataAnalysis #stats
Watch the full beginner's guide now: youtu.be/EeASQZvGRcg
#Statistics #DataScience #DataAnalysis #stats
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"Pairing computer science with culturally responsive education shows results" great to get details of this study via Ed Finkel in K12 Ed Dive whose bluesky handle i can't find anywhere. #cseducation #k12 #research
www.k12dive.com/news/compute...
www.k12dive.com/news/compute...
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Pairing computer science with culturally responsive education shows results" great to get details of this study via Ed Finkel in K12 Ed Dive whose bluesky handle i can't find anywhere. #cseducation #k12 #research
www.k12dive.com/news/compute...
www.k12dive.com/news/compute...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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🔭 ~1,400 people globally have contributed to the construction of Rubin, including
500 construction staff,
500 contractors,
100 staff on operations (so far), and
300 in-kind contributors, from software and hardware contributions to follow-up observing time on other telescopes
500 construction staff,
500 contractors,
100 staff on operations (so far), and
300 in-kind contributors, from software and hardware contributions to follow-up observing time on other telescopes
June 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🔭 ~1,400 people globally have contributed to the construction of Rubin, including
500 construction staff,
500 contractors,
100 staff on operations (so far), and
300 in-kind contributors, from software and hardware contributions to follow-up observing time on other telescopes
500 construction staff,
500 contractors,
100 staff on operations (so far), and
300 in-kind contributors, from software and hardware contributions to follow-up observing time on other telescopes
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Rubin First Look is FIVE days away! The best part of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory? The community we've grown along the way 💫
Rubin is only able to #CaptureTheCosmos because of its global collaboration. ✨ 🌎 Over the past couple of decades, over 4,000 people made Rubin a reality!
Rubin is only able to #CaptureTheCosmos because of its global collaboration. ✨ 🌎 Over the past couple of decades, over 4,000 people made Rubin a reality!
June 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Rubin First Look is FIVE days away! The best part of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory? The community we've grown along the way 💫
Rubin is only able to #CaptureTheCosmos because of its global collaboration. ✨ 🌎 Over the past couple of decades, over 4,000 people made Rubin a reality!
Rubin is only able to #CaptureTheCosmos because of its global collaboration. ✨ 🌎 Over the past couple of decades, over 4,000 people made Rubin a reality!
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From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...
astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...
Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet
For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College!
astrobites.org
June 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...
astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...
On Tuesday at the WeTeach_CS Summit, Dr. Stella Offner will share with CS educators how CS and AI can lead to new science. Below are animations from the STARFORGE showing a simulation of star formation (Guszejnov et al. 2021, Grudic et al. 2021).
June 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
On Tuesday at the WeTeach_CS Summit, Dr. Stella Offner will share with CS educators how CS and AI can lead to new science. Below are animations from the STARFORGE showing a simulation of star formation (Guszejnov et al. 2021, Grudic et al. 2021).
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An object called 2017 OF201 is shaking up our ideas about the outer zone of our solar system.
It follows an extreme, 25,000-year orbit.
It may be 1 of 100s of such bodies filling a seemingly vacant region.
And its existence casts doubt on searches for Planet 9. 🧪🔭
www.ias.edu/news/extreme...
It follows an extreme, 25,000-year orbit.
It may be 1 of 100s of such bodies filling a seemingly vacant region.
And its existence casts doubt on searches for Planet 9. 🧪🔭
www.ias.edu/news/extreme...
May 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
An object called 2017 OF201 is shaking up our ideas about the outer zone of our solar system.
It follows an extreme, 25,000-year orbit.
It may be 1 of 100s of such bodies filling a seemingly vacant region.
And its existence casts doubt on searches for Planet 9. 🧪🔭
www.ias.edu/news/extreme...
It follows an extreme, 25,000-year orbit.
It may be 1 of 100s of such bodies filling a seemingly vacant region.
And its existence casts doubt on searches for Planet 9. 🧪🔭
www.ias.edu/news/extreme...
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Nicely done video applying foundational educational and cognitive psychology ideas to the case of GenAI. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky youtu.be/0xS68sl2D70?...
Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
AI is advancing faster than anyone predicted—and it’s already reshaping industries around the world. But what does that mean for education?In this livestream...
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May 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Nicely done video applying foundational educational and cognitive psychology ideas to the case of GenAI. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky youtu.be/0xS68sl2D70?...
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A recent paper led by collaboration members Yoonsoo Kim and Elias Most (both at Caltech) is in @aasnova.org today! This work explores the formation of strongly magnetized "monster" shocks and a transient "black hole pulsar" state from mergers of a magnetized neutron star and a black hole.
⚛️🧪🔭
⚛️🧪🔭
May 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A recent paper led by collaboration members Yoonsoo Kim and Elias Most (both at Caltech) is in @aasnova.org today! This work explores the formation of strongly magnetized "monster" shocks and a transient "black hole pulsar" state from mergers of a magnetized neutron star and a black hole.
⚛️🧪🔭
⚛️🧪🔭
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🚨 First annual LA Area PICUP Workshop 🚨
THIS SATURDAY!!!
📍 Riverside City College
📅 Saturday, May 17
⏰ 8:30am to 4:00pm.
Workshop details and registration information can be found here: www.compadre.org/PICUP/events...
Registration is open!
#iteachphysics #physicssky #astrosky #physics
THIS SATURDAY!!!
📍 Riverside City College
📅 Saturday, May 17
⏰ 8:30am to 4:00pm.
Workshop details and registration information can be found here: www.compadre.org/PICUP/events...
Registration is open!
#iteachphysics #physicssky #astrosky #physics
LA Area PICUP Workshop 2025
www.compadre.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨 First annual LA Area PICUP Workshop 🚨
THIS SATURDAY!!!
📍 Riverside City College
📅 Saturday, May 17
⏰ 8:30am to 4:00pm.
Workshop details and registration information can be found here: www.compadre.org/PICUP/events...
Registration is open!
#iteachphysics #physicssky #astrosky #physics
THIS SATURDAY!!!
📍 Riverside City College
📅 Saturday, May 17
⏰ 8:30am to 4:00pm.
Workshop details and registration information can be found here: www.compadre.org/PICUP/events...
Registration is open!
#iteachphysics #physicssky #astrosky #physics
jimmynewland.com/astronomy/ip... Trying to create a pipeline to categorize young stellar objects through SED analysis. Not there yet, but the SED look pretty!
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May 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
jimmynewland.com/astronomy/ip... Trying to create a pipeline to categorize young stellar objects through SED analysis. Not there yet, but the SED look pretty!
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I think we downplay the role of social media algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns in drawing voters to Trump and away from Democrats at our own risk — it’s frankly a refusal to reckon with reality. Social media has created a matrix-like info control environment.
April 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I think we downplay the role of social media algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns in drawing voters to Trump and away from Democrats at our own risk — it’s frankly a refusal to reckon with reality. Social media has created a matrix-like info control environment.
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Elevation scan
source: observablehq.com/@neocartocnr...
source: observablehq.com/@neocartocnr...
March 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Elevation scan
source: observablehq.com/@neocartocnr...
source: observablehq.com/@neocartocnr...
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Boycotting on Feb 28th? Make sure your impact goes on the record! Click to add your name!
bit.ly/boycottcentral
#BuildTheResistance
bit.ly/boycottcentral
#BuildTheResistance
February 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Boycotting on Feb 28th? Make sure your impact goes on the record! Click to add your name!
bit.ly/boycottcentral
#BuildTheResistance
bit.ly/boycottcentral
#BuildTheResistance
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Knowledge is power. Each day during this Black History Month—a month the government doesn’t want us celebrating—I will be sharing amazing books by Black authors.
Book 1: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. A title written decades ago, but begins on February 1, 2025.
#Edusky
#Books
#Booksky
Book 1: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. A title written decades ago, but begins on February 1, 2025.
#Edusky
#Books
#Booksky
February 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The Astropy Project is made by our community, for our community. But who are we, exactly?
We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey:
forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV...
Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭
We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey:
forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV...
Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭
2025 Astropy Community Survey
This survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Your responses are voluntary and will remain anonymous and confidential.
The aggregated, anonymized data will be used to determine developmen...
forms.gle
February 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Astropy Project is made by our community, for our community. But who are we, exactly?
We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey:
forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV...
Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭
We want *your* input in the first astropy user survey:
forms.gle/KX2cNuFsQYgV...
Share how you use astropy, how to improve it, and how we can support you and your work! 🧪🔭
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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...