Warrick Ball
warrickball@mas.to
<p>asteroseismologist turned research software engineer</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@joss" class="u-url mention">@<span>joss</span></a></span> associate EiC (astronomy, astrophysics & space science)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries" class="u-url mention">@<span>thecarpentries</span></a></span> instructor</p><p>boosts & toots about <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Academia</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Astrophysics</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenSource</span></a>, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenScience" cl
Posts
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Post #3121487
Genuinely looking forward to this star-studded World War II drama about... a (truly critical) weather forecast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQwG9Xi13g
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Post #3121486
@gvwilson&#39;s blog is absolutely on fire lately 🔥. My favourite so far is &quot;Big Tech is Like the Beauty Industry&quot;, which draws parallels to criticize both. https://third-bit.com/2026/04/25/big-tech-as-beauty/
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Post #3121485
Hiranya Peiris&#39; comment in Nature #Astronomy is worth a read. Titled &quot;Large language models are not the problem&quot;, the argument is broadly that LLMs are only accelerating trends that astronomers had already established well before LLMs. I certainly don&#39;t agree with everything but I do agree with a lot of the section &quot;What the anxiety reveals&quot;. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22071
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Post #3121484
@gvwilson&#39;s blog, The Third Bit, is continuing the &quot;Sex &amp; Drugs &amp; Guns &amp; Code&quot; series and still 100% on fire. A recent favourite is &quot;Taming Tobacco&quot;: https://third-bit.com/2026/05/08/taming-tobacco/ I didn&#39;t realise that the tobacco industry has also so broadly attempted to undermine evidence of the harms of smoking. In fact, until now I thought the harms were only scientifically established much later (&gt;1970s)!
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Post #3121483
You may have forgotten about #TESStuesday! But rest assured... so did I actually. Anyway, Panetier et al. yesterday presented power spectra of some very bright (G&lt;6ish) stars which are solar-like oscillators, from TESS data: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14713 Though I&#39;d question the significance of some detections, there are plenty of great detections in Appendix B. Here&#39;s υ Cep, which is known to be a binary star. I&#39;m not sure if all these oscillations are certain...