The Sprints are one of our favorite parts of the conference! 🎉 This is where many of us made our very first contribution to the Scientific Python ecosystem, thanks to the welcoming and friendly maintainers who make it easy to get involved. 🫶 Here's to all the new contributors started this week 💙

💛 Volunteer appreciation post 💛 A huge shoutout to all of our amazing #SciPy2026 volunteers! 🎉 Your time, energy, and enthusiasm are what make this conference possible. We couldn't do it without you! 🫶

📣 One of the best parts of #SciPy2026 is seeing the Scientific Python ecosystem evolve in real time. Today's Tools Plenary featured updates from the teams behind Zarr, Xarray, Tiled, Pangeo, scikit-image, Matplotlib, and napari, showcasing new features & future directions 🫶

🫶 A huge thank you to Amber Case for an inspiring keynote this morning at #SciPy2026! 👏 She challenged us to rethink how we build technology, reminding us that the best systems don't demand more of our attention; they help us focus on what matters. ✨️

⚡ Lightning Talks are back at #SciPy2026! Five minutes. Any topic. No excuses. They're one of our favorite SciPy traditions. You might end up presenting with tiny hands 🤏, lobster claws 🦞, or even petting a loon 🦆 while giving your talk. Get ready for the unexpected over the next two days. 👀

🛠️ The Tools Plenary gave us a tour of what's new across the Scientific Python ecosystem! 💛 Thanks to the maintainers of NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, Astropy, Scientific Python, MNE-Python, NetworkX, and Marimo for sharing their latest updates. 🚀 #SciPy2026

🥁🥁 #SciPy2026 is officially underway! We kicked things off with opening remarks from our fantastic conference chairs, Madicken and Gil 🫶, followed by an inspiring keynote from Thomas Caswell 🚀 on how the stories we share, and the communities that shape them, are at the heart of open source. ✨️ 💛

🙌 Day 2 of #SciPy2026 is complete! Another day of tutorials covered array programming, RAG systems, network analysis, GPU acceleration, Xarray, Shiny, interactive visualization, JAX, remote sensing, and more 🚀 We're so excited to see you all tomorrow for our main conference 🫶

💛 That's a wrap on Day 1 of #SciPy2026! Today's tutorials covered Python fundamentals, LLM agents, GPU computing, causal inference, interactive notebooks, scientific web apps, and image analysis. 🚀 Looking forward to another full day of tutorials tomorrow!

@scipyconf.bsky.social 2026 is almost here. We are gold sponsors heading to Minneapolis next week at the University of Minnesota. Open tools. Reproducible research. Our kind of crowd. Coming? Come say hi 👋

🚀 #SciPy2026 starts today! We're kicking off the week with tutorials 👩‍💻 Looking forward to a great week of learning, collaboration, and conversations with the Scientific Python community. 🙌 See you at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Education Center ✨️

🌀 Talk Spotlight: Nicholas Geneva is orchestrating AI-driven weather forecasting at scale. Python pipelines navigating the chaos of ensemble models and atmospheric data. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🧠 Talk Spotlight: Jarrod Millman traces his path from fMRI frustration to co-creating Scientific Python. A story about community, tooling, and what happens when scientists build together. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

📡 Talk Spotlight: Yevgen Matviychuk introduces Tiled, a server for remote access to scientific datasets. Query just the slice you need without downloading the whole file. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🌱 Talk Spotlight: @terrytangyuan.xyz shares what years on the open source front lines have taught him about sustainable maintenance. Hard-won lessons for the whole community. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

☁️ Talk Spotlight: Bobby Jackson built Nepho to let multimodal LLMs automatically explore and describe atmospheric science plots. AI meets earth science visualization. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🔬 Talk Spotlight: Bhavuk Jain brings simulation-based inference to SciPy, turning complex model fitting into a Python-native workflow. No hand-tuned likelihoods needed. Just science. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

📐 Talk Spotlight: Michael Zargham bridges textbook math and code — Motivate, Symbolize, Derive, Lambdify, Simulate, Validate. marimo notebooks that make graduate-level applied math actually click. 🧮 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

📊 Talk Spotlight: Josh Pollock introduces GoFish — a Grammar of More Graphics! Go beyond the Grammar of Graphics to compose custom visual structures that Altair & matplotlib can't easily express. 🐟 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🎙️ Talk Spotlight: Katie Wetstone is fixing ASR for kids — because most speech recognition is trained on adults & fails children. Better models = better reading assessments, speech therapy & classroom tools. 📚 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

⚗️ Talk Spotlight: Filippo Balzaretti explores how ML is transforming materials modeling — from battery electrolytes to atomic-level simulations. Python replacing decades-old simplifications. 🔋 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🤝 Talk Spotlight: Kristijan Armeni shows how open-source practices become social infrastructure in civic tech — where your users are journalists & policy researchers, not devs. Maintainership reimagined. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

⚡ Tutorial Spotlight: Reproducible CUDA doesn't have to be complicated! Matthew Feickert, Ruben Arts & Katrina Riehl will show you how to easily create reproducible scientific and AI/ML environments that leverage GPU acceleration across multiple machines and platforms with Pixi. 🚀

👕 🎉 The official #SciPy2026 t-shirt is now available! This year marks the 25th anniversary of SciPy, and the limited-edition shirt is a great way to celebrate 🙌 👉️ Order by June 28 for conference pickup: ti.to/scipy/scipy2... 📦 Home delivery available before and after the conference!

🧩 Talk Spotlight: @hadley.nz shares 20 years of tidyverse lessons; data grammar that shaped how we think about wrangling. Plus, his take on AI's impact on future data science workflows 🚀 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🤝 A big thank you to our Community Partner DevITJobs.com for supporting #SciPy2026! Connecting tech talent with great opportunities, we're glad to have you as part of our community. 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🧠 Talk Spotlight: Ravi shows how to shrink LSTMs by 73% while boosting accuracy 47%. Deploy retail forecasting models that actually fit in production 📦 Learn the compression tricks: pruning, quantization, distillation. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

📣 Shoutout to our Silver Sponsor Ansys, part of Synopsys, for supporting #SciPy2026! Your investment brings together engineers and scientists pushing the boundaries of computation. 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

📣 Thank you to our Silver Sponsor Kitware for supporting #SciPy2026! Your long-standing commitment to open-source scientific software helps make this community what it is. 🐍 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🤖 Talk Spotlight: Chirag is building the future of scientific data. Learn how ARM's new AI, ready infrastructure uses agentic RAG, vector stores, and Kubernetes to supercharge atmospheric research. The data ecosystem is leveling up 🚀 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org