Matt Craig
@astronomatty.bsky.social
Professor (soon Emeritus) of Physics and Astronomy at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Long time Python user
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Did you know NASA science is facing a 50% budget cut??? Please read this @astrobites.bsky.social post to learn more about it and what you can do astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...
NASA Needs Your Help!
NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready to be launched, put tens of thousands out of a job, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask congress to prevent these ...
astrobites.org
April 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Did you know NASA science is facing a 50% budget cut??? Please read this @astrobites.bsky.social post to learn more about it and what you can do astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...
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alert! we're organizing to help folks in astronomy + planetary sciences who've lost their jobs without warning, or have important DEIA initiatives that suddenly lost funding
please share with your networks!! #extragalactic #exoplanets #astronomy #cosmology
please share with your networks!! #extragalactic #exoplanets #astronomy #cosmology
MUTUAL AID ALERT:
Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread!
- choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)
Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread!
- choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)
February 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
alert! we're organizing to help folks in astronomy + planetary sciences who've lost their jobs without warning, or have important DEIA initiatives that suddenly lost funding
please share with your networks!! #extragalactic #exoplanets #astronomy #cosmology
please share with your networks!! #extragalactic #exoplanets #astronomy #cosmology
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oh so hey I kind of have started that women in stem open source project.
DNS stuff still churning but repo is here: github.com/MelSumner/wo...
Feel free to fork, open issues, etc. It's just a static site RN. My goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute.
#womenInStem
DNS stuff still churning but repo is here: github.com/MelSumner/wo...
Feel free to fork, open issues, etc. It's just a static site RN. My goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute.
#womenInStem
February 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
oh so hey I kind of have started that women in stem open source project.
DNS stuff still churning but repo is here: github.com/MelSumner/wo...
Feel free to fork, open issues, etc. It's just a static site RN. My goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute.
#womenInStem
DNS stuff still churning but repo is here: github.com/MelSumner/wo...
Feel free to fork, open issues, etc. It's just a static site RN. My goal is to make it as easy as possible to contribute.
#womenInStem
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can try to silence or erase us, but we aren’t going anywhere. We will keep fighting and being awesome 😤
February 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can try to silence or erase us, but we aren’t going anywhere. We will keep fighting and being awesome 😤
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
January 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
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To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
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“NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the judge's stay of Trump's order and implement the spending pause.”
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January 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
“NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the judge's stay of Trump's order and implement the spending pause.”
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New Senior Software Engineer position available at @spacetelescope.bsky.social. Apply by Feb 3. 🧪🔭
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January 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New Senior Software Engineer position available at @spacetelescope.bsky.social. Apply by Feb 3. 🧪🔭
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#astrocode one of the most useful little tools I know of is ezpadova by @mfouesneau.bsky.social - it can download Padova+PARSEC stellar evolution isochrones with Python.
It is SO much easier than having to use the default web form, and it just got a big new update:
It is SO much easier than having to use the default web form, and it just got a big new update:
GitHub - mfouesneau/ezpadova: A python package that allows you to download PADOVA isochrones directly from their website
A python package that allows you to download PADOVA isochrones directly from their website - mfouesneau/ezpadova
github.com
October 5, 2024 at 9:53 AM
#astrocode one of the most useful little tools I know of is ezpadova by @mfouesneau.bsky.social - it can download Padova+PARSEC stellar evolution isochrones with Python.
It is SO much easier than having to use the default web form, and it just got a big new update:
It is SO much easier than having to use the default web form, and it just got a big new update:
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I've entered my first graduate recruitment season as a professor, and I am going to go crazy reading these rec letters. Writers, please remember...
November 16, 2024 at 3:54 PM
I've entered my first graduate recruitment season as a professor, and I am going to go crazy reading these rec letters. Writers, please remember...