Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Driving AI innovation to explore cosmic origins and make astronomy more accessible and collaborative.https://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mwvo2pem3k2bWe're hiring! CosmicAI Accelerated Universe Postdoctoral Fellow NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to initiate a comprehensive research program exploring the surrogate modeling of astrophysical systems. https://cosmicai.org/jobs/cosmicai-accelerated-universe-postdoctoral-fellow02 Oct 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvo2pem3k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mwqupfpbi22aCosmicAI Lightning Talk! Sanjana Gautam is a Senior Applied Scientist at @microsoft.com Listen to the talk “Building Accountability and Trust with AI in Research” https://youtu.be/qh4i7hjasHE?si=colOc60PdXbyS7_l30 Sep 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqupfpbi22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mwqe2xwdwk2v@aas.org Special Session - Advances in Foundation Models and Agentic AI for Astronomy January 13th, 2027 Salt Lake City Speakers: Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro Mike Smith Rachel Mandelbaum Eytan Adar https://cosmicai.org/events/aas-agentic-ai-for-astronomy30 Sep 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqe2xwdwk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mwlg3d5efk25CosmicAI recent highlights 💫28 Sep 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlg3d5efk25https://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mwdyfclb3s2kUpcoming CosmicAI Hybrid Seminar Wed. September 30th from 12pm-1pm MT (1pm-2pm CT)! Tracking Topology in Continuous Models w/ Dr. Bei Wang Phillips Advanced Neural Operators w/ Dr. Shandian Zhe Zoom and in-person at University of Utah cosmicai.org/events/shandian-zhe-bei-wang-phillips25 Sep 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdyfclb3s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mwbypxyyuc2qLearn how CosmicAI researcher William Rudman explored why vision-language models hallucinate visual details of nonexistent objects to follow prompt-based information. Ablating a few attention heads cuts this prompt-induced hallucination from 64% to under 11% https://cosmicai.org/news/visionlanguagemodels24 Sep 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbypxyyuc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mw4ca3zznk2xLearn about a new clustering paradigm to segment radio astronomy cubes based on unsupervised machine learning The algorithm uses graph-based clustering of multiview data graphs produced by neural vector quantization &a latent space generated by a self-organizing UMAP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9hESI589A22 Sep 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4ca3zznk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mvzy7dk3os2yCosmicAI Lightning Talk! Omkar Bait is a CosmicAI Postdoc at NSF @thenrao.bsky.social Listen to the talk “Bayesian Radio Spectral Modeling of Extreme Starburst Galaxies” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b34G_IpTzM&list=PLhEmhDMQG0buGFQC8dQ-C_EXy1P0UV03V&index=1921 Sep 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvzy7dk3os2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mvsky37cv22vAs part of the Explorable Universe Working Group, CosmicAI Researchers Knut Olsen (NOIRLab) and Jixian Li (TACC) led a project to recover high resolution information from blurred images crowded with stars. @noirlabastro.bsky.social @taccutexas.bsky.social https://cosmicai.org/news/knutolsenjixianli18 Sep 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsky37cv22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mvnriajbds2yDr. Omar Ghattas presenting "Real time Bayesian inversion, prediction, and OED for tsunami early warning" to a packed house at today's CosmicAI hybrid seminar!16 Sep 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnriajbds2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mvndnchykc2pCosmicAI Lightning Talk! William Rudman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at CosmicAI. Listen to the talk “VESTA: Visual Exploration with Statistical Tool Agents” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z395sgWkR4o&list=PLhEmhDMQG0buGFQC8dQ-C_EXy1P0UV03V&index=2216 Sep 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvndnchykc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mvirwo7gms2hCosmicAI student Jialu "Walter" Wang attended the Open @skai-institute.bsky.social 2026 conference at Chicago, presenting his poster “Validity isn’t one number: Benchmarking ML surrogates for cosmological simulations”14 Sep 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvirwo7gms2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mvidvtcq6k2zLearn how CosmicAI Researchers Md. Khairul Islam, Zeyu Xia, Ryan Goudjil, and Judy Fox, with Jialu Wang and Arya Farahi, developed AI that reconstructs 3D maps of the early universe up to 46 times faster https://cosmicai.org/news/earlyuniverse14 Sep 2026 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvidvtcq6k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mvasnhztfc2zCosmicAI Hybrid Seminar Wed., September 16! Real time Bayesian inversion, prediction, and OED for tsunami early warning with Dr. Omar Ghattas (Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin) 1-2 PM CT https://cosmicai.org/events/omarghattas11 Sep 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvasnhztfc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mv656van722dCosmicAI Lightning Talk! Saiyang Zhang is a PhD student at UT Austin Listen to the talk “Dark Matter and Early Cosmic History” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xT72jP9Qh0&list=PLhEmhDMQG0buGFQC8dQ-C_EXy1P0UV03V&index=2010 Sep 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv656van722dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mv47xttae22pLearn how CosmicAI Researchers in the Observable Universe Working Group applied machine learning to support scalable, science-ready radio astronomy data delivery, helping observatories detect calibration anomalies more accurately. https://cosmicai.org/news/machinelearningastronomy09 Sep 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv47xttae22phttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mv45oyyrqs24Earl Bellinger (Assistant Professor at Yale University) giving his talk "Emulators for Asteroseismology" at our September 9th CosmicAI hybrid seminar! https://cosmicai.org/hybrid-seminar-series09 Sep 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv45oyyrqs24https://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3muz33gj72c2oCosmicAI Research highlight! Listen as CosmicAI Research Intern as Adam Zacharia Anil describes his research in building Quasar, an open source AI research assistant for natural language access to Astronomy Archives. Want to try it for yourself? Go to quasarassistant.com08 Sep 2026 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3muz33gj72c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3muozojvjxk2cCosmicAI Hybrid Seminar Wed Sept 9! -Emulators for Asteroseismology w/ Earl Bellinger (Yale University) -Physics-Informed Stellar Structure w/ Manuel Ballester (University of Arizona) Zoom/in person at UT Austin 1PM – 2PM CT https://cosmicai.org/events/emulators-for-asteroseismology04 Sep 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3muozojvjxk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mumiarajc22hCosmicAI researcher Omkar Bait how ionizing radiation escapes from a rare class of tiny, chemically primitive starburst galaxies using multi-frequency radio observations. https://cosmicai.org/news/star-forming-galaxies03 Sep 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumiarajc22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3muk7umjvi22bWe have kicked off our Fall Hybrid Seminar Series! Theme: Surrogate Modeling of (Astro) Physical Systems Our next hybrid seminar will be Wed. September 9th from 1-2pm CT (2-3pm ET) (details to come!) Check out the schedule https://cosmicai.org/hybrid-seminar-series02 Sep 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk7umjvi22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mufip6e4ks25CosmicAI Lightning Talk! Xiaowei Ou is a Postdoc at University of Virginia Listen to the talk “Mapping Dark Matter with Stars and AI” https://youtu.be/lczNjJZvbyk?si=D5SnTLO8s8mkBQYg31 Aug 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufip6e4ks25https://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mu5mpeymys2rNSF @thenrao.bsky.social and University of Virginia participated in a campus AI event to talk with students about CosmicAI, NSF NRAO telescopes and data archives, and opportunities for students!28 Aug 2026 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5mpeymys2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mu3mernlic2nCosmicAI Research highlight! Adam Zacharia Anil on Quasar, an AI research assistant for natural language access to Astronomy Archives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdGr9oNnUqE27 Aug 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3mernlic2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mtyy3vfji22xDr. Stella Offner delivering the first CosmicAI hybrid seminar of our Fall Series to a packed house! "Welcome & 2026 Director’s Report: NSF-Simons CosmicAI through Year 2 and Beyond" Check out the upcoming seminar schedule https://cosmicai.org/hybrid-seminar-series26 Aug 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyy3vfji22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mtymf5w63k22CosmicAI Lightning Talk! "HATANN: High-dimensional approximation using Taylor expansions and Adaptive Nearest Neighbors" with Ben Longaker (PhD Student, UT Austin), Prajwal Prathiksh (Masters Student, UT Austin), and Skandan Subramanian (PhD Student, UT Austin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMvPaYvAZU26 Aug 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtymf5w63k22https://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mtwaw4floc2dLast call to apply for the CosmicAI Winter School at NSF @thenrao.bsky.social ! Deadline: Monday, August 31 Program: December 14 - 23 -40 hours online Ananay Sethi shares why this school is helpful for students who want to build skills in AI-astro research https://public.nrao.edu/cosmicai-opportunities/25 Aug 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwaw4floc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mtlwtfy5hc2bApplication reminder! The deadline for the (Spring 2027 cohort) Graduate Certificate In AI and Machine Learning with an Astrophysics-AI Badge is Sept 1! In partnership with the UT Austin CDSO program Apply cdso.utexas.edu/caiml Scholarship https://form.jotform.com/261535798839174 @thenrao.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtlwtfy5hc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mtjeyybt2s2hUpcoming CosmicAI Aug 26th Hybrid Seminar! 1 PM CT / 2 PM ET! UT Austin POB 4.304 / Zoom Welcome & 2026 Director's Report: NSF-Simons CosmicAI through Year 2 and Beyond w/ Dr. Stella Offner (Curtis T. Vaughan Jr. Centennial Chair in Astronomy, UT Austin & CosmicAI PI/Director)20 Aug 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjeyybt2s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social/post/3mth7chfv3s26CosmicAI Lightning Talk! Aklant Kumar Bhowmick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Astronomy at the University of Virginia Listen to the talk “Unraveling the origins of Supermassive Black Holes using Cosmological Simulations and Machine Learning” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwVWmiFc4hw19 Aug 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:5ckl3jssbee2ook46kcnrglu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth7chfv3s26