It’s so so good on a run.

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The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

I’m having a blast with this.

Roman Space Telescope Science Platform Will Open New Frontiers in Space Science

My team and others at @stsci.edu are working to make this work for you. 🔭 #astrocode

A cartoon by Robert Leighton.

See more cartons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JCnwxc

Red field-of-view outlines for the Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Imager detectors near the galactic center, shown over a color composite of 2MASS imaging in the near-infrared.

One season's view of the Roman Space Telescope's
Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey.

Roman will study millions of stars, and how they vary in time. It will reveal tens of thousands of planets throughout the Milky Way, including habitable rocky planets.

Plus many unknown unknowns! 🔭🧪🤞 #stellarastro

It ought to be.

Let’s toast those astronauts.

Then let’s wake up tomorrow and remind every American of what we all stand to lose to this regime.

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The Center for Computational Astrophysics @flatironinstitute.org is hiring a new Research Software Engineer to work on @astropy.org and to support the software and computing efforts within the CCA. Apply by May 22!
apply.interfolio.com/184639
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Send strength to all of your NASA and federal contractor friends, and send letters to your representatives. 🧪🔭

Assume Congress won't have our back. They need to hear from us.

Thrilled by this passive (agressive?) spelling choice.

Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn

Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Posted this and a friend texted to say they were on the fence about going and this tipped them into going. Let your friends know you're going! Invite them along! They're mad too and doing something always feels better than doing nothing. We're in this together. ❤️👊

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Fig 7: Spot filling factors of HAT-P-11 as a function of time. Filling factors derived from rotational variability in Kepler and TESS light curves (using Equation 2 of Rackham et al. 2019) are compared with values inferred from multi-component spectral fits to HST G102 and G141 data. Independent chromospheric activity measurements (S-index values from the literature) are shown on the right axis. The Kepler era exhibits relatively high filling factors with substantial variability, whereas the TESS epochs indicate a transition to markedly lower spot coverage. Red vertical dotted lines mark the epochs of JWST observations

Sweet deep dive from Prajwal Niraula, @benrackham.bsky.social et al. on a star near and dear to my heart. #stellarastro 🔭

Evidence from HST, Kepler, TESS, and ground-based spectroscopy all agree: 2024 #JWST observations HAT-P-11 were taken near activity minimum.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.24585

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Artist's concept of rocky exoplanet GJ 486 b

Save the date for the Rocky Worlds DDT Data Challenge and Workshop. Get the details: ow.ly/I0oM50YwrEq

Rocky Worlds DDT Data Challenge and Data Challenge Workshop — Save the Date

For hunters of rocky worlds: save the date! 🔭 #astrocode

We're preparing a Data Challenge modeled after the 2015 Spitzer Exoplanet Data Challenge, this time with MIRI observations from the Rocky Worlds DDT program.

Have you noticed the brimming graveyard of proposals I’ve left in my wake?

Some people say it gets easier to accept the low odds, but I’ve never felt that way. 🔭

Good to remember. Everyone who writes proposals gets 5th quintile rankings. sometimes there are lessons to learn for sure, but there’s a huge randomness factor.

One year old golden retriever looking longingly into the distance.

Melba registers her disappointment with the lack of pie today.

My bet: top, private institutions with endowments are going to pay for the most advanced AI tools, generating more academic noise and superficial hype, while public universities doing the real work get defunded year over year.

It took a decade for most institutions to pay for Overleaf.

I’d guess: it’s not going to.

In celebration of pi day, let us be constantly irrational.

So many proposals to the slaughterhouse.

Alright JWST friends, deep breaths before checking your inbox. 🔭

The TESS All-Sky Rotation Survey: Periods for 944,056 Stars Within 500 pc Stellar rotation is a fundamental tracer of stellar magnetic evolution, age, and activity, with broad implications for Galactic archaeology and exoplanet characterization. The Transiting Exoplanet Sur...

I'm super excited to share a HUGE paper out from Young Worlds Lab team member Andy Boyle.

I present for you, ~900,000 rotation periods from TESS!

🤯🔭🧪⭐ #exoplanets #stellarrotation

arxiv.org/abs/2603.05586

Join @stsci.edu as a software engineer, working on interactive data analysis and visualization tools for astronomers. 🔭 #astrocode

Apps due March 18, 2026.

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The Habitable Worlds Observatory in Historical Context We summarize the past four decades of astrophysics and exoplanet direct imaging mission concept studies, technology developments, and scientific progress that have led to the initiation of the Habitab...

Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL/Caltech) and I summarize the historical context that has led us to the Habitable Worlds Observatory. We always build upon the work of many. HWO is no exception. We hope you find this short paper enlightening.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.14823