I’m the Innovation Scientist of the Center for Astrophysics and formerly the American Astronomical Society. I help other astronomers do research better and faster. You can find out more on my About Me page, and you can find me on Mastodon as @pkgw@mastodon.world or over email at peter@newton.cx.

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Latest post:

A Modest Proposal for How to Do Digital Conference “Posters”

Apropos of nothing in particular (really), here is how conference organizers should handle “posters” when they need to be digital, either because the conference has a virtual component or there’s no standard poster hall.

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Recently:

A Tool and Workflow for Radio Astronomical “Peeling”
The xz Backdoor and Release Automation
DASCH Scanning is Complete — What’s Next?
Beta-Testing DASCH “DRnext”