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John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Fantastic work on the size–mass relation for low-mass galaxies, led by Yasmeen (@yasmeenasali.bsky.social)! arxiv.org/abs/2509.25335 🔭🌌🧪

A sneak preview of Figure 6 in the paper, which shows size (r-band radius) vs stellar mass for SAGA satellites, SAGA background galaxies, and SDSS isolated galaxies. They all obey the same trends but have small offsets, which appears unlikely to be driven by SFR but *does* seem to be driven by environment!

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Viviana Acquaviva @venividivivi.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I am speaking/leading a discussion about teaching Machine Learning in the Physical Sciences tomorrow, Nov 12 at 7pm EST! Will share the resources I have put together (textbook, notebooks, slides, assignments, online courses) and my challenges. Join us + spread the word 🙏 www.compadre.org/PICUP/

PICUP Fall 2024 Webinar Series: A discussion on teaching Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences

Viviana Acquaviva, Professor of Physics, CUNY NYC College of Technology

Tuesday, November 12 at 4 pm PDT | 5 pm MDT | 6 pm CDT | 7 pm EDT

Join via Zoom

I hope to openly and collectively discuss the practice of teaching Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences. I will briefly review some of the challenges I have encountered and the lessons I have learned, and describe the pedagogical materials I have developed, including a textbook, programming notebooks, review quizzes, and slides. I will then transition to an interactive format where we discuss how these resources can be adapted to different users' needs.

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Yasmeen Asali @yasmeenasali.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🔭 The Yale Astro x Data Science Seminar is looking for speakers! Come visit Yale and showcase your work or lead a code demo! Check out our about page for more info: yale-dsaas.github.io/about/ Reach out here or email me at yasmeen.asali@yale.edu if you're interested!

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Erik Tollerud @eteq.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

🔭 Big SAGA (Satellites Around Galactic Analogs) DR3 paper day! III: arxiv.org/abs/2404.14498, IV: arxiv.org/abs/2404.14499, V: arxiv.org/abs/2404.14500 . Too much to summarize here, but upshot: we have 101 MW analogs and 378 satellites around them with completeness understood, and tons of science!

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Yasmeen Asali @yasmeenasali.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

It's SAGA paper day! Mao+ (Paper III) presents the main survey results, Geha+ (Paper IV) investigates the star formation properties of satellites, and Wang+ (Paper V) presents modeling results and explores the galaxy-halo connection! Check out sagasurvey.org for e-poster summaries of each one!

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The SAGA Survey: Satellites Around Galactic Analogs

The Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey presents its Data Release 3, including the census of 101 satellite systems around Milky Way analogs, and an accompany galaxy redshift catalog wit...

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Erin Kado-Fong @kadofong.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

It's DR3 Paper Day for the SAGA Survey!! 🎉 🌟Mao+ gives a satellite census of 101 MW-like hosts arxiv.org/abs/2404.14498 🌟Geha+ surveys the link btwn environment & star formation arxiv.org/abs/2404.14499 🌟 Wang+ models dwarf quenching with the UniverseMachine arxiv.org/abs/2404.14500

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The SAGA Survey. V. Modeling Satellite Systems around Milky...

Environment plays a critical role in shaping the assembly of low-mass galaxies. Here, we use the UniverseMachine (UM) galaxy-halo connection framework and the Data Release 3 of the Satellites...

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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

So excited that our SIRIUS B book is now up on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2312.04041 It is intended to serve as a primer for students looking to pursue astro professionally. Participants in our 2024 program will get printed copies thanks to the IAU NA-ROAD Women & Girls in Astro mini-grant. 1/ 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Cover of the SIRIUS B book, "Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists", which features a drawing of a girl holding her hands out toward space.

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Michael Tremmel @michaeltremmel.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Today is the last day to submit abstracts for our conference Massive Black Holes in the First Billion Years in Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland. You can find more information, including the abstract submission form at the link below. 🔭🧪 t.co/3Gx7ZKzer7

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MBH Conference | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 16/11/2023

Astropy is running a Community Engagement Survey — we would really appreciate your feedback if you are a user of or contributor to astropy! It only takes ~10 minutes to fill out. 🔭 x7lustw0dhs.typeform.com/to/spticxmV (trying again because I forgot the link and the astro feed emoji - oops!)

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Malena Rice @malenarice.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Applications are now being accepted for Yale's Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct astronomy research at Yale during summer 2024! Applications are due February 15th, and more information can be found here: astronomy.yale.edu/undergraduat... 🔭🪐

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Yasmeen Asali @yasmeenasali.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Please reach out if you're interested in presenting! More information on our seminar website: bit.ly/ds-astro-jc

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Yale DSAAS Schedule

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Imad Pasha @prappleizer.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Contact me here or contact yasmeen.asali@yale.edu, imad.pasha@yale.edu, or both. Feel free to tell any friends doing cool work in this area to reach out as well!

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Imad Pasha @prappleizer.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

-we have a *small* amount of funding for those near enough by to take a train to Yale - otherwise, we welcome remote/hybrid presentations - any subfield of astro is welcome, this is a methods focused seminar - talks are ~30 min, and sessions are bi-weekly on tuesdays at noon. Contact below

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Imad Pasha @prappleizer.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Astro folks using novel/cool data science techniques in your work: we’d love to hear you talk about it at the Yale Astro Data Science Seminar . We also have space for code demos or workshops if you want to demo new packages you’re working on. Please reach out if interested! (More info below)

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