An Open Chatbot for Astronomy: @botastro
Hubot is an open source chatbot created by GitHub. It's used by various companies, groups, and other techie types, to control systems, gather information, andâ¦
Coding Comes to the National Astronomy Meeting 2014
The latest issue of Astronomy & Geophysics includes an article by your truly about the GitHub/.Astronomy Hack Day at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting inâ¦
Executable Publications as Sensors for Science
Executable papers are a cool idea in research [1]. You take a study, write it up as a paper and bundle together all your code, scripts and analysis in such aâ¦
The littleBits Exoplanet Detector: A NAM 2014 Hack Day Project
Yesterday was the Hack Day at the UK National Astronomy Meeting 2014 in Portsmouth. I organised it with my good friend Arfon Smith of GitHub, formerly…
LSST, Public Data, and NAM Hack Day 2014
Today is the start of the UK National Meeting in Portsmouth. Iâll be there tomorrow, and running the NAM Hack Day on Wednesday with Arfon Smith - which isâ¦
Ideas Worth Spreading: My TED 2014 Experience
TED 2014 has just ended here in Vancouver and I have finally now experienced an event Iâve heard a lot about for many years. Iâve watched TED talks online forâ¦
.Astronomy 5: What's Next?
The .Astronomy 5 Unphoto - Credit: Demitri Muna As the fifth .Astronomy came to a close on Wednesday, I felt as I always do at the end of these meetings:â¦
Tracking A Perseid: Citizen Science in Action
During the Perseid meteor shower, I blogged a video of a bright meteor taken by astrophotographer Mel Gigg. He had shared the image fairly widely and soon…
More on Men and Women in Astronomy
The response my previous blog post about gender bias took me by surprise. Apparently if you talk about this stuff openly, people have a lot to say. More thanâ¦
Men, Women and Self-Promotion in Astronomy
Weâre running the fifth .Astronomy conference later this year in Boston. .Astronomy is a small (and awesome) conference for astronomers, where you must applyâ¦
The 3Rs: Citizen science in the classroom
This article from the British Science Association explains why Citizen Science should be fantastic for classrooms, but also why some projects just don’t click…
Unproceedings of .Astronomy 4
We’re very pleased to present the Unproceedings of the Fourth .Astronomy Conference (.Astronomy 4), which was held in Heidelberg, Germany, July 9-11 2012. The…
.Astronomy Hack Day NYC
On Saturday, New York astronomy geeks will convene at the offices of bit.ly for the first .Astronomy Hack Day! We do hack days as part of the main .Astronomyâ¦
.Astronomy 4
In 2008, in the midst of my PhD, I ran a conference called .Astronomy. The idea was to bring together all the other astronomers who were into the web andâ¦