36dScience outreach that actually worksLast month we ran an open observing night for local schools – over a hundred kids, and several came back with their parents. What outreach formats have worked for you? I feel public engagement is undervalued in academic evaluation.Interactions (9)
29dFree compute for researchers – what is available in Poland?For students and researchers who need more computing power: Polish academic HPC centres offer computing grants through their own application systems, and there are European programmes for larger allocations. Share your experiences – how long did your application take?Interactions (6)
27dWhere do you archive large observational datasets?Our light-curve dataset is around 400 GB. Zenodo has a per-record limit and our university repository is not really designed for this. What are people in other fields using for large datasets that need a DOI?Interactions (8)
24dMachine learning for classifying variable star light curvesWe have a large set of labelled light curves and want to test modern sequence models for classification. Looking for someone from ML who finds this kind of data interesting – the astrophysics side is covered.Interactions (10)
10dActive learning in a lecture with 150 students – what works for you?I teach the astronomy lecture for first-year physics: around 150 students in a large hall. Attendance drops after week four and I suspect pure slides are part of the problem. Has anyone used short polls, peer instruction or think-pair-share at that scale? I would love concrete examples of what worked and what took too much time.Interactions (10)