Dr. Heloise Stevance
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Dr. Heloise Stevance
@sydonahi.bsky.social
Astrophysicist - Schmidt A.I. in Science Fellow - Oxford Uni - she/they

Sky surveys
Exploding stars
Hungry black holes
AI Literacy

Beatrice Tinsley Lecturer 2021
Caroline Herschel Prize 2024
hfstevance.com
Ice Crystals in the atmosphere!
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Design.

The hardest part of applied ML is asking the right question and choosing the right metrics.

Once you've done that you can pick the right model and in science it's often not the biggest newest thing!

ML is not a dick measuring contest but I'll leave this for another rant later today 💅
September 11, 2025 at 6:14 AM
But everyone goes for viridis (hahaha cuz it's the default)
August 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Happy to deliver
August 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Aimed for plasma, got magma. Winning
August 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Aimed for plasma, got magma
August 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Sidereal time is the time in which the moon looks the same relative to background stars my bad I got the two confused 😅
August 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Reposted by Dr. Heloise Stevance
PS if you’re a member of the press: I and my colleagues will happily talk about 3I/ATLAS until the (interstellar) cows come home. But my only comment on whether it’s an alien spacecraft is: Avi is talking nonsense on stilts, and doesn’t understand comets.
August 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Thanks! I knew bluesky woulD come through
August 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I am looking for proper scientific literature, SOME anthropologist SOMEWHERE must have written about it but I can't find it on the hell the internet has become

❤️🙏
August 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM