Matthew Feickert
@matthewfeickert.com
Research scientist at UW-Madison data science institute working on #LHC #physics and data science with the ATLAS experiment @ CERN and IRIS-HEP. PhD @ SMU
#SciPy2026 talks are up on YouTube now! www.youtube.com/@SciPy-Conf/...
If you weren't able to attend the conference you can still watch all of the talks and if you did attend the conference but can't be in two place at once or were enjoying the hallway track you can catch up on all you missed! :D
If you weren't able to attend the conference you can still watch all of the talks and if you did attend the conference but can't be in two place at once or were enjoying the hallway track you can catch up on all you missed! :D
SciPy
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2026 at 9:33 PM
#SciPy2026 talks are up on YouTube now! www.youtube.com/@SciPy-Conf/...
If you weren't able to attend the conference you can still watch all of the talks and if you did attend the conference but can't be in two place at once or were enjoying the hallway track you can catch up on all you missed! :D
If you weren't able to attend the conference you can still watch all of the talks and if you did attend the conference but can't be in two place at once or were enjoying the hallway track you can catch up on all you missed! :D
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From #CTAN:
Lawrence Lee submitted the INSPIRE-HEP package.
Version: 0.2
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: An INSPIREHEP × LaTeX interface for automatic reference management
ctan.org/pkg/inspirehep
#TeXLaTeX @inspirehep.net
Lawrence Lee submitted the INSPIRE-HEP package.
Version: 0.2
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: An INSPIREHEP × LaTeX interface for automatic reference management
ctan.org/pkg/inspirehep
#TeXLaTeX @inspirehep.net
CTAN: Package INSPIRE-HEP
ctan.org
August 30, 2026 at 11:09 PM
From #CTAN:
Lawrence Lee submitted the INSPIRE-HEP package.
Version: 0.2
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: An INSPIREHEP × LaTeX interface for automatic reference management
ctan.org/pkg/inspirehep
#TeXLaTeX @inspirehep.net
Lawrence Lee submitted the INSPIRE-HEP package.
Version: 0.2
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: An INSPIREHEP × LaTeX interface for automatic reference management
ctan.org/pkg/inspirehep
#TeXLaTeX @inspirehep.net
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"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."
August 26, 2026 at 2:37 AM
"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."
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RIP Dolly Parton. There are so many wonderful things to remember her for, but the one I like to bring up is all the work she did for childhood literacy. Probably its greatest advocate in our lifetimes.
God bless Dolly Parton.
God bless Dolly Parton.
Entertainer, childhood literacy advocate, and *scientific philanthropist* Dolly Parton was born #OTD in 1946.
Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶
dollyparton.com/imagination-...
Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶
dollyparton.com/imagination-...
August 25, 2026 at 6:20 PM
RIP Dolly Parton. There are so many wonderful things to remember her for, but the one I like to bring up is all the work she did for childhood literacy. Probably its greatest advocate in our lifetimes.
God bless Dolly Parton.
God bless Dolly Parton.
People in the coffee world will usually give you the recommendations for better coffee as:
1. Buy good quality coffee.
2. Buy the best grinder you can afford.
but I think an often unsaid 0th recommendation is to clean your equipment thoroughly and regularly.
1. Buy good quality coffee.
2. Buy the best grinder you can afford.
but I think an often unsaid 0th recommendation is to clean your equipment thoroughly and regularly.
August 13, 2026 at 5:02 AM
People in the coffee world will usually give you the recommendations for better coffee as:
1. Buy good quality coffee.
2. Buy the best grinder you can afford.
but I think an often unsaid 0th recommendation is to clean your equipment thoroughly and regularly.
1. Buy good quality coffee.
2. Buy the best grinder you can afford.
but I think an often unsaid 0th recommendation is to clean your equipment thoroughly and regularly.
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Yale is on the verge of cutting a deal with Trump to change its admission procedures.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.
Yale Loses the Capitulation Bowl - The American Prospect
The university’s president embarrasses herself in trying to give in to Trump blackmail.
prospect.org
July 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Yale is on the verge of cutting a deal with Trump to change its admission procedures.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.
Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.
Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.
Bicycles are joy machines.
July 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Bicycles are joy machines.
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Proud of UW-Madison and the Madison area's showing with Genesis (even though my proposal wasn't selected). Happy to say that the Data Science Institute is supporting some of the successful proposals.
UW–Madison will receive 5 Phase I Genesis Mission awards from the Department of Energy addressing urgent energy, scientific, and engineering challenges with AI and advanced computing. @uwmadison.bsky.social earned more awards than any other public university in the US. news.wisc.edu/5-projects-a...
5 projects at UW–Madison aimed at transforming science and energy with AI receive DOE Genesis Mission funding
The projects, spanning fusion to critical minerals, are among 278 funded awards to national labs, companies, universities and non-profits in order to accelerate breakthroughs in energy, scientific dis...
news.wisc.edu
July 22, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Proud of UW-Madison and the Madison area's showing with Genesis (even though my proposal wasn't selected). Happy to say that the Data Science Institute is supporting some of the successful proposals.
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The full list of Genesis Proposals. I see @uwmadison.bsky.social mentioned 5 times as well as Realta Fusion, SHINE technologies, and a mention of TypeOne fusion.
science.osti.gov/-/media/fund...
science.osti.gov/-/media/fund...
July 22, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The full list of Genesis Proposals. I see @uwmadison.bsky.social mentioned 5 times as well as Realta Fusion, SHINE technologies, and a mention of TypeOne fusion.
science.osti.gov/-/media/fund...
science.osti.gov/-/media/fund...
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Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social has updated its commitment to the principles in blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS...
JOSS's 2026 Updated Commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure | Journal of Open Source Software Blog
Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>
blog.joss.theoj.org
July 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social has updated its commitment to the principles in blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS...
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The Sprints are one of our favorite parts of the conference! 🎉
This is where many of us made our very first contribution to the Scientific Python ecosystem, thanks to the welcoming and friendly maintainers who make it easy to get involved. 🫶
Here's to all the new contributors started this week 💙
This is where many of us made our very first contribution to the Scientific Python ecosystem, thanks to the welcoming and friendly maintainers who make it easy to get involved. 🫶
Here's to all the new contributors started this week 💙
July 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The Sprints are one of our favorite parts of the conference! 🎉
This is where many of us made our very first contribution to the Scientific Python ecosystem, thanks to the welcoming and friendly maintainers who make it easy to get involved. 🫶
Here's to all the new contributors started this week 💙
This is where many of us made our very first contribution to the Scientific Python ecosystem, thanks to the welcoming and friendly maintainers who make it easy to get involved. 🫶
Here's to all the new contributors started this week 💙
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💛 That's a wrap on Day 1 of #SciPy2026!
Today's tutorials covered Python fundamentals, LLM agents, GPU computing, causal inference, interactive notebooks, scientific web apps, and image analysis. 🚀
Looking forward to another full day of tutorials tomorrow!
Today's tutorials covered Python fundamentals, LLM agents, GPU computing, causal inference, interactive notebooks, scientific web apps, and image analysis. 🚀
Looking forward to another full day of tutorials tomorrow!
July 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
💛 That's a wrap on Day 1 of #SciPy2026!
Today's tutorials covered Python fundamentals, LLM agents, GPU computing, causal inference, interactive notebooks, scientific web apps, and image analysis. 🚀
Looking forward to another full day of tutorials tomorrow!
Today's tutorials covered Python fundamentals, LLM agents, GPU computing, causal inference, interactive notebooks, scientific web apps, and image analysis. 🚀
Looking forward to another full day of tutorials tomorrow!
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Approaching ***300,000*** comments on the proposed OMB regulations on federal grants.
TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY, GET YOUR PERSONALIZED (NOT COPIED-AND-PASTED!) COMMENT IN BY NOON EST.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY, GET YOUR PERSONALIZED (NOT COPIED-AND-PASTED!) COMMENT IN BY NOON EST.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
July 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Approaching ***300,000*** comments on the proposed OMB regulations on federal grants.
TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY, GET YOUR PERSONALIZED (NOT COPIED-AND-PASTED!) COMMENT IN BY NOON EST.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY, GET YOUR PERSONALIZED (NOT COPIED-AND-PASTED!) COMMENT IN BY NOON EST.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
I've got a suitcase full of coffee, a brain full of computational workflows I'm excited to teach, and a heart full of excitement to see amazing colleagues and friends. Must be time for #SciPy2026!
July 12, 2026 at 6:10 PM
I've got a suitcase full of coffee, a brain full of computational workflows I'm excited to teach, and a heart full of excitement to see amazing colleagues and friends. Must be time for #SciPy2026!
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New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.
www.nature.com
July 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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⚡ Tutorial Spotlight: Reproducible CUDA doesn't have to be complicated! Matthew Feickert, Ruben Arts & Katrina Riehl will show you how to easily create reproducible scientific and AI/ML environments that leverage GPU acceleration across multiple machines and platforms with Pixi. 🚀
July 7, 2026 at 4:51 PM
⚡ Tutorial Spotlight: Reproducible CUDA doesn't have to be complicated! Matthew Feickert, Ruben Arts & Katrina Riehl will show you how to easily create reproducible scientific and AI/ML environments that leverage GPU acceleration across multiple machines and platforms with Pixi. 🚀
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Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.
July 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.
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Our not-too-secret project allows Pixi to depend on packages built from source. Build graphs, multi-language support and more are handled transparently. Sounds great, doesn't it? Then let us finally introduce it officially! prefix.dev/blog/pixi-b...
prefix.dev – solving software package management
The software package management platform for Python, C++, R, Rust and more
prefix.dev
July 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Our not-too-secret project allows Pixi to depend on packages built from source. Build graphs, multi-language support and more are handled transparently. Sounds great, doesn't it? Then let us finally introduce it officially! prefix.dev/blog/pixi-b...
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The 25th annual #SciPy2026 conference is only two weeks away!
Join us in Minnesota or virtually for a plethora of scientific Python talks, including the Physics and Astronomy track 👀 see the full schedule at scipy2026.scipy.org/schedule
You can sign up here 👉 ti.to/scipy/scipy2026
Join us in Minnesota or virtually for a plethora of scientific Python talks, including the Physics and Astronomy track 👀 see the full schedule at scipy2026.scipy.org/schedule
You can sign up here 👉 ti.to/scipy/scipy2026
June 29, 2026 at 5:59 PM
The 25th annual #SciPy2026 conference is only two weeks away!
Join us in Minnesota or virtually for a plethora of scientific Python talks, including the Physics and Astronomy track 👀 see the full schedule at scipy2026.scipy.org/schedule
You can sign up here 👉 ti.to/scipy/scipy2026
Join us in Minnesota or virtually for a plethora of scientific Python talks, including the Physics and Astronomy track 👀 see the full schedule at scipy2026.scipy.org/schedule
You can sign up here 👉 ti.to/scipy/scipy2026
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So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
June 29, 2026 at 11:35 AM
So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey.
Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...
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📣 Last but not least 🥁🥁
🚀Meet our third keynote: Dr. Joseph H. Kennedy, Staff Scientist at the Alaska Satellite Facility & Geophysical Institute, UAF. He specializes in bridging the gap between scientists and software engineers, building ground-up Cloud and HPC data processing/analysis platforms 🙌
🚀Meet our third keynote: Dr. Joseph H. Kennedy, Staff Scientist at the Alaska Satellite Facility & Geophysical Institute, UAF. He specializes in bridging the gap between scientists and software engineers, building ground-up Cloud and HPC data processing/analysis platforms 🙌
June 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM
📣 Last but not least 🥁🥁
🚀Meet our third keynote: Dr. Joseph H. Kennedy, Staff Scientist at the Alaska Satellite Facility & Geophysical Institute, UAF. He specializes in bridging the gap between scientists and software engineers, building ground-up Cloud and HPC data processing/analysis platforms 🙌
🚀Meet our third keynote: Dr. Joseph H. Kennedy, Staff Scientist at the Alaska Satellite Facility & Geophysical Institute, UAF. He specializes in bridging the gap between scientists and software engineers, building ground-up Cloud and HPC data processing/analysis platforms 🙌
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📣 And our second keynote speaker is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
🚀 Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute & Research Director at the Metagovernance Project. MIT & Harvard fellow dedicated to making technology work for humans, not the other way around!
Catch her talk at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
🚀 Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute & Research Director at the Metagovernance Project. MIT & Harvard fellow dedicated to making technology work for humans, not the other way around!
Catch her talk at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
June 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
📣 And our second keynote speaker is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
🚀 Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute & Research Director at the Metagovernance Project. MIT & Harvard fellow dedicated to making technology work for humans, not the other way around!
Catch her talk at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
🚀 Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute & Research Director at the Metagovernance Project. MIT & Harvard fellow dedicated to making technology work for humans, not the other way around!
Catch her talk at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
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📣 Meet our first keynote 🥁🥁
🚀 Thomas Caswell: Project Lead for Matplotlib & staff scientist at Brookhaven National Lab. 15+ years of scientific Python: from a 1-character patch to leading one of its most-used libraries 📊
Don't miss him at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
🚀 Thomas Caswell: Project Lead for Matplotlib & staff scientist at Brookhaven National Lab. 15+ years of scientific Python: from a 1-character patch to leading one of its most-used libraries 📊
Don't miss him at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
June 10, 2026 at 10:32 PM
📣 Meet our first keynote 🥁🥁
🚀 Thomas Caswell: Project Lead for Matplotlib & staff scientist at Brookhaven National Lab. 15+ years of scientific Python: from a 1-character patch to leading one of its most-used libraries 📊
Don't miss him at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
🚀 Thomas Caswell: Project Lead for Matplotlib & staff scientist at Brookhaven National Lab. 15+ years of scientific Python: from a 1-character patch to leading one of its most-used libraries 📊
Don't miss him at #SciPy2026
🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
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🎯 Tutorial Spotlight: Think everything is a for-loop? Think again. Jim Pivarski & Iason Krommydas show you how array-oriented thinking unlocks Python performance you didn't know was possible. Time to rethink the basics 🧠 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
June 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
🎯 Tutorial Spotlight: Think everything is a for-loop? Think again. Jim Pivarski & Iason Krommydas show you how array-oriented thinking unlocks Python performance you didn't know was possible. Time to rethink the basics 🧠 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org