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¦
.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…
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¦
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¦