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Andrea Zonca
@zonca.bsky.social
High Performance Computing, Kubernetes, Python, Cosmology with Planck, now data pipelines for Simons Obs and CMB-S4. Staff at San Diego Supercomputer Center & consultant. he/him.
Need a day off to recharge! (my GPT-codex limit) #AI
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New tutorial on running the #Nextflow workflow management software on the SDSC Expanse supercomputer.

zonca.dev/posts/2025-1...

I'm impressed with how easy to use and elegant Nextflow is, also their training material is great: training.nextflow.io
Running Nextflow on Expanse – Andrea Zonca
zonca.dev
October 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Vibe-coded a tool to create #Trello cards automatically when I post a #Github issue or PR in specific repositories, really useful!
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
New preprint 🔭 “Hunting B‑modes from anisotropic cosmic birefringence”. We measure the amplitude parameter as 0.42 × 10⁻⁴ (1 σ) and set a 95 % CL upper limit of 1 × 10⁻⁴. Dive in 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2504.13154 #CMB #cosmology ​​
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
New paper on Arxiv with the Panexperiment Galactic Science group about models of Galactic emission in the microwaves for Cosmic Microwave Background experiments:

buff.ly/lAF52GC

The models are available publicly through the PySM3 (Python Sky Model) software package:

buff.ly/1EUPFbT
March 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
OpenInfra NAm begins tomorrow! I'm excited to show how
@projectpythia.bsky.social serves reproducible Jupyter notebooks on NSF/Indiana University's Jetstream2, thanks to the pioneering work of @zonca.bsky.social of UCSD-SDSC! @axis-of-meh.wtf oidiu2024.sched.com/event/e41851...
OpenInfra Days North America 2024 at Indiana University: The development and deployment of a pers...
View more about this event at OpenInfra Days North America 2024 at Indiana University
oidiu2024.sched.com
October 14, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Simple bash script that uses the @github.com-cli to post Notebooks as Gists, then appends #nbviewer links to a Markdown file:

gist.github.com/zonca/f0515d...
publish_plot_cl.sh
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
October 24, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
San Diego Comic Fest (www.sdcomicfest.org) is this weekend, and I'm one of the Science Guests. Here is where to find me. Hope to see you there!
October 22, 2024 at 4:01 AM
I'm always quite impressed by Github Copilot...

the completion of this is exactly what I was thinking and it is not that straightforward, you need to understand the relationship between a beam and smoothing
October 20, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
Anyone ages 12 – 26 living in the United States can get a San Diego Public Library Books Unbanned card. With the card, the library’s online collection of banned or restricted eBooks and eAudiobooks are available for FREE, no matter where you live in the U.S. libraryfoundationsd.org/news/stories...
San Diego's Books Unbanned protects the freedom to read
Library Foundation SD and library launch Books Unbanned in San Diego to resist book bans, promote intellectual freedom among young readers, and cement libraries as a place where everyone belongs.
libraryfoundationsd.org
October 3, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
Space Typography xkcd.com/2863
December 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
System Collapse, the next Murderbot book, comes out tomorrow November 14 and my book tour information is here: marthawells.dreamwidth.org/637680.html
November 13, 2023 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
Redshift xkcd.com/2853
November 11, 2023 at 2:05 AM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
Sign up for the “Python and Astropy for Astronomical Data Analysis” Workshop at AAS243 on Sun, Jan 7 from 9am-5 pm! 🔭🧪

Covers Python tools for astronomical data analysis and visualization. Familiarity with Python and numpy helpful but not required.

Register at: aas.org/meetings/aas...
October 18, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
Over at JOSS (joss.theoj.org) we're looking to recruit more editors in all areas! Check out the blog post for more info, and I'd be very happy to chat: blog.joss.theoj.org/2023/10/call...
Call for editors | Journal of Open Source Software Blog
Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>
blog.joss.theoj.org
October 9, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Interview on @npr.org by @jorgitomoreno.bsky.social about early galaxies detected by JWST. 🔭
September 24, 2023 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
September 19, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Interesting talk about turning IPywidgets based notebooks in production web apps using Solara:

youtu.be/VfPZv5qH9FE?...

JupyterCon Python
Maarten Breddels IPywidgets: From an experiment in the Notebook to Production ready data app
IPywidgets is the go-to library for building interactive interfaces in the Jupyter notebook. What may start as an experiment with a few sliders and buttons, ...
youtu.be
September 22, 2023 at 4:25 PM
After a few months of debugging, this summer I completed the new version of the tutorial on Kubernetes deployment on Jetstream 2 via Kubespray:

docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/k8sk...

The main improvement is the Terraform recipe not creating network resources but relying on existing.
Jetstream2 Documentation
https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/k8skubespray/…
September 20, 2023 at 10:25 PM
Interesting talk by Allan Wasega on improving the Documentation of JupyterHub using the Diataxis framework at JupyterCon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETnb...

diataxis.fr
@projectjupyter.bsky.social
September 20, 2023 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Andrea Zonca
New to Bluesky? I just made a blog post with tips and information to help you get started on the platform, including tips on how to find people here and information about feeds.

Check it out! 🔭

emilydoesastro.com/posts/230824...
August 24, 2023 at 12:15 PM