BA UC Berkeley, PhD Yale. Currently working on CGM observations with the Dragonfly FRO. Interested in galaxy evolution and statistical methods! Author of Astronomical Python and the pysersic code.https://bsky.app/profile/prappleizer.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/prappleizer.bsky.social/post/3lhee22cbwk26Happy to share my latest paper, characterizing a rare-to-catch post collision galaxy with nine rings! Nice write up from stsci https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-00604 Feb 2025 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:um2isjftlajem4d3f2syvite/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhee22cbwk26https://bsky.app/profile/prappleizer.bsky.social/post/3lax2dcwljk2nInterested in working on the development of novel data analysis techniques? Our team at Dragonfly is hiring for a data algorithms position for a forthcoming 1000 lens array observatory in Chile! 5 year position w/great benefits and location flexibility: https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/cee8458f14 Nov 2024 23:47 +0000at://did:plc:um2isjftlajem4d3f2syvite/app.bsky.feed.post/3lax2dcwljk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/prappleizer.bsky.social/post/3kwrngz3wkw2nNew Paper! With tim miller, @avapolzin.bsky.social, and pieter van dokkum, we explore whether forward modeling+simulation based inference can provide a robust, likelihood-free way to estimate galaxy distances in the distance range of 2-20 Mpc (too close for hubble-flow)🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2407.04091 https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.0409108 Jul 2024 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:um2isjftlajem4d3f2syvite/app.bsky.feed.post/3kwrngz3wkw2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/prappleizer.bsky.social/post/3kmxqjx7aao2sThrilled to announce an event I've long been thinking about! Join us at Yale University for a "Hack Day Conference," in which a group of educators come together to build resources and exercises for teaching research methods in astronomy. See astrocodex.github.io for more.05 Mar 2024 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:um2isjftlajem4d3f2syvite/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmxqjx7aao2shttps://bsky.app/profile/prappleizer.bsky.social/post/3kcda34irfx2aAfter half a decade of getting to use this incredible facility, today I got to visit Keck! It was both awe inspiring to see the telescopes and instruments that have defined my time in astronomy, and eye opening to see how much work is needed to keep this place looking upward night after night.22 Oct 2023 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:um2isjftlajem4d3f2syvite/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcda34irfx2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/prappleizer.bsky.social/post/3k6viwm2bie2tAstro folks using novel/cool data science techniques in your work: we’d love to hear you talk about it at the Yale Astro Data Science Seminar . We also have space for code demos or workshops if you want to demo new packages you’re working on. Please reach out if interested! (More info below)08 Sep 2023 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:um2isjftlajem4d3f2syvite/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6viwm2bie2t