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Marco Bonici

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PostDoc at the Waterloo Center for Astrophysics. Working on Cosmic Voids and Large Scale Structure of the Universe. JuliaLang enthusiast. Improv Theatre and StandUp comedy lover.

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Institut d'astrophysique de Paris @iap.fr · 04/12/2025
La communauté @iap.fr a l'immense tristesse de vous annoncer la disparition brutale de Karim Benabed, dans un accident de la circulation, hier après-midi, le 3 décembre.
Karim Benabed, photographié dans l'amphithéâtre de l'Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, le 27 juin 2019, pendant la Nuit de l'astronomie. Crédit : Jean Mouette /IAP.
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Chris Rackauckas @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
How to properly cook your turkey, using agentic AI and #dyad #julialang! Happy Thanksgiving from JuliaHub, hope we can help you with acausal modeling to change your family's holiday! youtube.com/shorts/qv6Qv...
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How to properly cook your turkey using agentic AI and #Dyad #julialang!
YouTube video by JuliaHub
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Well I, an astronomer, can obviously think of no downsides to a company promising to launch a constellation of reflective mirrors into low-Earth orbit to increase daylight for folks on the ground.
A screenshot of the landing page for Reflect Orbital, promising "Sunlight on demand" in large, friendly orange letters.
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Chris Rackauckas @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"A Guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Expert Programmers" A perspective on the true role of Generative AI and LLM-Based Vibe Coding for the future of development. www.stochasticlifestyle.com/a-guide-to-g... #GenerativeAI #llm #claude #chatgpt #vibecoding
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A Guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Expert Programmers - Stochastic Lifestyle
I get it, you’re too good to vibe code. You’re a senior developer who has been doing this for 20 years and knows the system like the back of your hand. Or maybe you’re the star individual contributor ...
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David Sloan @davesmaths.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This is incredible. $30 per paper in practice. That would mean the entire arXiv would cost about $6m/year based on the 2023 usage report. RLUK puts UK payments to journals alone at about $250m www.rluk.ac.uk/strategicact... We wouldn't all be cash strapped and losing jobs if we didn't waste so much.
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Journal pricing FAQ - Research Libraries UK
I have access to almost all the journal article I need at my desk.  What’s the problem? Access to research journals has improved dramatically over the past 10 years with the move to electronic deliver...
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Guy who was convicted on 34 counts of first‑degree falsification of business records says the numbers were rigged.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵
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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Luxor.jl can now add #typst text - including equations - to drawings. Useful for those with latex allergy 😉 Big thanks to Jakob Peters for his hard work! 🙏 #julialang #typst #epitrochoid
vscode and Julia code drawing epitrochoid and equations using Typst
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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hello Friends! I'm on the job market now! I have a oodles of knowledge for all the software performance engineering tricks in Rust, Julia and other systems languages and would love to work with teams that are looking to skill up in those respects, from back ends to big data crunching!
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
That was satisfying
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Julia Manifolds @juliamanifolds.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We have a new package! LieGroups.jl juliamanifolds.github.io/LieGroups.jl... provides Lie groups based in Manifolds.jl. See the full announcement at discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-liegro...
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Home · LieGroups.jl
Documentation for LieGroups.jl.
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Marco Bonici @marcobonici.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It's that time of the year again.
A meme offering a critique of a growing trend in software development. The image specifically targets individuals who, instead of optimizing their code, intentionally do not spend time trying to write efficient implementations. They then highlight the poor performance of this code, subsequently replace it with a neural network solution, and claim significant performance improvements—thereby presenting themselves as highly competent.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 21/04/2025
READ THE COMPLAINT: Harvard sues the Trump administration for its attempts to "coerce and control" the university in violation of the First Amendment, the APA, etc. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
Cover page of Harvard's complaint, listing many members of the Trump administration as defendants.
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Martin Bauer @martinmbauer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Renormalisation is a central concept in modern physics. It describes how the dynamics of a system change at different scales. A great way to understand and visualise renormalisation is the Ising model (some math, but one can follow without it ) 1/13
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.


We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. 


We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA


WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.


These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!
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Felix Koehler @felix-m-koehler.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Travelling to Singapore next week for #ICLR2025 presenting this paper (Sat 3 pm nr. 538): arxiv.org/abs/2502.19611 DM me (Whova, Email or bsky) if you want to chat about (autoregressive) neural emulators/operators for PDE, autodiff, differentiable physics, numerical solvers etc. 😊
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PRDP: Progressively Refined Differentiable Physics
The physics solvers employed for neural network training are primarily iterative, and hence, differentiating through them introduces a severe computational burden as iterations grow large. Inspired by...
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Tidier.jl @tidierjl.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"The Story Behind Rebuilding the {tidyverse} in Julia" April 24, 2025 6:30 PM Irvine, CA www.meetup.com/socal-rug/ev... #julialang #rstats #tidyverse #pydata
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Tidier.jl: The Story Behind Rebuilding the {tidyverse} in Julia, Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
How far would you be willing to go to make {tidyverse} faster? Would you learn C? Would you learn C++? For the people and teams behind packages like {data.table} and {colla
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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Wish I could attend! The work @tidierjl.bsky.social is doing within #julialang is so 🔥 while also fantastic. Love seeing the bridging happening between the #rstats #tidyverse and the Julia community! 🤝
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The StarXiv ✨ podcast @starxiv.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If I could make exciting enough plots, I would be using this package in a heartbeat! The perfect April Fools paper. Funny but useful. 🔭
Different colormaps in the pastamarkers package.
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Adrian Hill @adrianhill.de · 14/04/2025
The announcement of the "Julia for Machine Learning" course is my most shared skeet on old-BlueSky. Since then, the course material has been extended to include package development in #JuliaLang! 📖: github.com/adrhill/juli...
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Marco Bonici @marcobonici.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Next time someone tells you that LLMs are killing coding, remind them of this👇
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 14/04/2025
This except debugging is also really hard actually if you want to do it right and requires experience with creative practice to get it right
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Oliver Heaviside, who is responsible for there being just 4 Maxwell equations of electromagnetism - he reduced them from Maxwell’s 20 - couldn’t make any sense of Maxwell’s theory. So he spent years trying to re-cast it, using “vector” notation he created www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/oliver-...
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Oliver Heaviside: The Self-taught Pioneer of Electromagnetism and Vector Calculus - News
From the coaxial cable to the bounce-back effect of radio waves against the ionosphere, Heaviside’s contributions have stood the test of time.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
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The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera @guadalupecah.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Cloe-org is getting in shape! Today we release for Euclid Consortium members our cloelib v0.7: a lighter yet more powerful jaxified library for the Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid. Life is good.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Now that Trump has scrubbed all legit climate info from US government websites and wants to convince us that climate change is good, Nature’s newest research journal — Nature Climate Denial — is the place to publish your best work on how CO₂ is plant food and more extreme weather events is good.
Logo for nature climate denial
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
CmdStanR v 0.9.0 released! According to Andrew Johnson, this should make Windows installation easier plus many other improvements and bug fixes discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstanr-v... #Bayesian #MCMC
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CmdStanR: v0.9.0 Release
Hello all, I’m excited to announce that we have now released CmdStanR v0.9.0! This is a minor release, wrapping up several months of bugfixes, quality-of-life improvements, and updates to documentatio...
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Marco Bonici @marcobonici.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Happy for this @ec-euclid.bsky.social meeting that just ended in Leiden! It was very good to catch up with friends, in particular @cosmonist.bsky.social that I couldn't see in a while...and we are cooking something, of course👀
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Tidier.jl @tidierjl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Tidier.jl brings modern data science workflows into #julialang. Batteries included. ✅ Logging data transformations ✅ Unnesting database tables with SQL ✅ Same syntax for dataframes and databases (supporting 12 flavors of SQL) ✅ Customizable grammar of graphics for plotting …and many more features.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Congrats to @desisurvey.bsky.social - it's looking more & more like dark energy isn't Einstein's cosmological constant! If you've woken up to the news & are searching for the publications, they don't appear to be on arxiv 🤷‍♀️ but they are online. 🔭 #cosmology 🧪 ℹ️: data.desi.lbl.gov/public/paper...
A graph of the evolution of the dark energy (vertical axis) as a function of time (redshift on the horizontal axis) - showing an offset from the cosmological constant (a flat horizontal line).   Here is the figure caption from the paper:
FIG. 12. Comparison of the constraints on the equation of
state of dark energy using the CPL parametrization and a bin-
ning reconstruction approach, using DESI+CMB+DESY5.
The solid green line shows the best-fit w(z) based on w0 and
wa inference and the green contours around it represent the
68% and 95% confidence intervals. We also show in blue the
constraints from the binning approach [47], with the hori-
zontal bars indicating the bin width (which is fixed) and the
vertical bars representing the 1σ error. Additionally, we in-
clude in gray the 1D posterior for each binning parameter.
The ΛCDM limit corresponds to the horizontal gray dashed
line.
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Héctor Gil Marín @cosmonautico.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🔊 New BAO analysis from the 3-year observations (DR2). Long story short, as follows. 1. DESI alone is consistent with LCDM. 👉 Boring 2. DESI and Planck have a 2.3 discrepancy in Ωm-H0rd plane. 👉Interesting.
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Bernardita Ried Guachalla @bernarditaried.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
¡Orgullo Chileno! 🇨🇱 Grande Enrique Paillas 💪
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Sesh Nadathur @seshnadathur.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
That's us in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/s... And that's us in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... 🧪🔭
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Astronomers Get ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What They Thought
New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it.
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Guillaume Dalle @gdalle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This fall I'm organizing a conference about open-source software. Thing is, I'm tired of plenaries given by straight white dudes. Does the hive mind have *diverse* recommendations for speakers located in Europe who have interesting things to say about programming? Got some names but would love more!
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Arthur Loureiro @cosmonist.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
TOMORROW! Stay tuned for the first round of Euclid Data Papers!!!! #space #science
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Alex Reeves @cosmicalex.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
About month ago we put our multiprobe paper on the arXiv! If you've ever wondered: - what happens when dynamical dark energy models are confronted with combined probes? - what a consistent multiprobe framework means for neutrino masses? Then this could be for you! arxiv.org/abs/2502.01722
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Tuning the cosmic instrument: robust cosmology through combined probes
As wide-field surveys yield increasingly precise data, multiprobe analyses offer significant advantages. In this work, we use our previously developed framework for jointly analyzing cosmic microwave ...
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Héctor Gil Marín @cosmonautico.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🥁Paper Day! Here goes the first bispectrum analysis of the @desisurvey.bsky.social DR1 LRG and QSO data, led by my PhD student Sergi Novell at @icc-ub.bsky.social. In combination with the power spectrum multipoles we measure 150 triangle configurations corresponding to a total volume of 13.1 Gpc3
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Miles Cranmer @milescranmer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wow, Google Colab just added Julia support!!! 🎉
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Julia has joined Python and R as a native kernel in Google Colab for a complete JuPyteR experience! Now you can use Julia with a free T4 GPU and leverage packages like Reactant without complex setup. Details: github.com/googlecolab/... #JuliaLang #Colab #DataScience
Screenshot of Google Colab's 'Change runtime type' dialog box showing runtime options. The dropdown menu displays language options including Julia, Python, and R. Hardware accelerator options show T4 GPU, A100 GPU, L4 GPU, and v5e-1 TPU. A message at the bottom offers access to premium GPUs
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martinthebard.bsky.social @martinthebard.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Turing.jl announced they are releasing a fortnightly series of updates. First one came out last week. Updates for defining models, automatic differentiation, and sub-models. Take a read: turinglang.org/news/posts/2... Future updates are also being pushed to a github issue. #JuliaLang #Bayesian #PPL
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Turing.jl Newsletter 1 – Turing.jl
The fortnightly newsletter for the Turing.jl probabilistic programming language
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Karandeep(Singh) @kdpsingh.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Google may have just single-handedly revived #JuliaLang by enabling it in Colab. Instantly makes Colab one of the go-to tools for teaching Julia. github.com/googlecolab/...
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Miles Cranmer @milescranmer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This might be the greatest bug report I’ve ever seen
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Mehmet Hakan Satman @jbytecode.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It seems Google Colab is ready for my Operations Research classes with using Julia... Easy Knapsack! #JuliaLang
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miguelraz_t @movraxrax.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Can I get a #julialang @juliacon.bsky.social boost for a Rust x Julia local meetup in Eindhoven? www.meetup.com/rust-nederla...
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Rust x Julia Meetup Eindhoven, Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Join us for an evening full of fun talks and meeting new people at the joint Rust and Julia meetup! This meetup will take place at Sioux labs in Eindhoven. **Schedule** 17
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is an attempt to criminalize free speech and suppress dissent. If we don’t take a strong stand against this, it’s the end of our democracy, and not just higher education. Universities are the trial balloon, but it doesn’t end here. Next, it will be employers, cities and towns, and individuals.
A tweet by @realDonaldTrump that reads: All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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