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Selected Talks, Presentations & Content

Daina Bouquin speaking at an event

I’m a technical storyteller who speaks on the history of computing, developer tooling, AI/ML evaluation, and open source software. I also teach technical storytelling to others.

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

Selected Presentations

Down the Rabbit Hole: History of the README and Why You Should Care
SciPy 2026
Minneapolis, MN
Recording forthcoming · Proposal

Building for the People Who Build Python
NUMFocus B.O.S.S.
Townhall 2026
Watch the talk · Read the Summary

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
Watch the talk · Proposal

Metadata, Meaning, and Erasure in Astronomy
SUNY Geneseo Phi Beta Kappa Lecture 2024
Geneseo, NY
Slides

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
Watch the talk

MetaSat: Metadata for Good
GNU Radio Conference 2019
Huntsville, AL
Watch the talk

Beautiful Graphs Made Simple with Jupyter
JupyterCon 2017
New York, NY
Watch the talk

Interviews and Media

Give Me Five
NUMFocus (2026)
Watch the interview

Meet the librarian bringing space exploration to the masses
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2022)
Read the Article

AAS Journal Author Series: Daina Bouquin
American Astronomical Society (2021)
Watch the interview

Harvard’s ‘Human Computers’ Revolutionized Astronomy. Their Work is Hidden in Old Notebooks
Discover Magazine (2021)
Read the Article

Unearthing the legacy of Harvard’s female ‘computers’
BBC (2017)
Read the article

A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women ‘computers’
Public Radio International: The World (2017)
Read the article

Short-form Content

Found in the Machine Reels and YouTube Shorts
Instagram · YouTube

DevRel for Anaconda YouTube Shorts
Watch the full playlist on YouTube