Ecologia Digital"On 10 April, astrophysicists announced that they had captured the 1st ever image of a #blackhole.
No headlines mentioned that the image would have been impossible without open-source software: #Matplotlib, a #Python library for graphing data.
Just 5 days later, the NSF rejected a grant to support that ecosystem, saying that the software lacked sufficient impact.
#opensource is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably."
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