Selected Talks, Presentations & Content

For a complete list of publications and presentations, see my CV.

Presentations

Building for the People Who Build Python
NUMFocus B.O.S.S. Townhall 2026
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Is Your LLM Evaluation Missing the Point?
PyData Boston 2025 · Cambridge, MA
Watch the talk · Proposal

MCP Basics with conda and Claude
PyData Vermont 2025 · Burlington, VT
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Metadata, Meaning, and Erasure in Astronomy
SUNY Geneseo Phi Beta Kappa Lecture 2024 · Geneseo, NY
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Explained the Stars
Harvard University, Stellar Physics Lecture 2023 · Cambridge, MA
Slides

The Importance of Software Licenses
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, NSF REU Lecture 2022 · Cambridge, MA
Slides

How to Lose a Legacy
Space Telescope Science Institute, Engineering and Technology Colloquium 2021
Slides

Acknowledging Scientific Software to Ensure the Future and Legacy of Scientific Research
SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2019 · Spokane, WA
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MetaSat: Metadata for Good
GNU Radio Conference 2019 · Huntsville, AL
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Beautiful Graphs Made Simple with Jupyter
JupyterCon 2017 · New York, NY
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Interviews

Give Me Five
NUMFocus 2026

AAS Journal Author Series: Daina Bouquin
American Astronomical Society 2021
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Short-form Content

I create short technical videos on Python tooling, AI/ML concepts, and developer workflows for Anaconda.
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