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Training computers to map the Universe // Prof at @uwastronomy // @VRubinObs builder
Seattle, WA Joined January 2009
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馃毃: Millions of solar system objects to be found in the next few years

It took over two centuries to discover the ~1.5 million asteroids and comets we know today. The @VRubinObs will double that in less than two years.

See the 馃У for the studies we just published馃憞
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I can't tell you how excited I am by what these guys (and similar teams all over the world) are doing.

For centuries astronomy was driven (and gated) by the need for large observatories, closed teams, and large institutions. Telescopes were expensive. Data was scarce. Spots were few. Access was hard to get.

Not any more. We've built observatories that download the sky. The data that is being made public. The skills needed to analyze it now overlap more with what an industry researcher does than an old-school physicist. And the process of research itself got supercharged by AI -- the adoption of which is still (disturbingly) lagging in traditional academia (not to talk about speed of execution).

The barbarians are through the gates. Millions of people now have the skills, the tools, and the data to do real science. No permission needed.

Acceleration ahead. Fsck yeah!
will depue Verified account @willdepue 4h
announcement: i'm launching a $100,000 grant for amateur astronomy research: claudestronomy.com

over the past few weeks, @joshuawolk @LukeFarritor and i have been digging through public telescope data, hunting for new planets, asteroids, and more

our first release: we found a new dwarf planet in our solar system!! it's insane how much you can find with some claude + codex credits

it's about 1/4 the width of Pluto and orbits about twice as far (way past Neptune), and looks like it's about the 50th largest object in our solar system. @joshuawolk is in the process of confirming it

this dwarf planet has sat in public images for over a decade without anyone noticing. there's tons more out there: all sitting in public NASA/ESA/etc. databases for you to analyze

there's tons of stuff still out there, sitting in data that astronomers don't have enough time to go through all of

you can do this too! apply for a grant. more info below
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Mario Juric Verified account @mjuric
This Is The Way.
will depue Verified account @willdepue 4h
announcement: i'm launching a $100,000 grant for amateur astronomy research: claudestronomy.com

over the past few weeks, @joshuawolk @LukeFarritor and i have been digging through public telescope data, hunting for new planets, asteroids, and more

our first release: we found a new dwarf planet in our solar system!! it's insane how much you can find with some claude + codex credits

it's about 1/4 the width of Pluto and orbits about twice as far (way past Neptune), and looks like it's about the 50th largest object in our solar system. @joshuawolk is in the process of confirming it

this dwarf planet has sat in public images for over a decade without anyone noticing. there's tons more out there: all sitting in public NASA/ESA/etc. databases for you to analyze

there's tons of stuff still out there, sitting in data that astronomers don't have enough time to go through all of

you can do this too! apply for a grant. more info below
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Mario Juric Verified account @mjuric
I think this may be right.
The Darkest Matter Verified account @Dr_Dark_Matter_ Oct 27
Rethinking @arxiv

arXiv is now too slow & restrictive to serve modern academia as a preprint server.

We鈥檒l increasingly treat it as a great distribution platform, almost like a journal, while researchers post their work directly on GitHub and perhaps get a DOI.

Mark my words鈥攁s you always do.
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