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Posts by Dr. Michaela Leung
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AAS Journal Author Series: Amber Young on 2024PSJ.....5....7Y
Amber Young (Northern Arizona University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on Earthlike exoplanets.
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
Michaela stands to the right of a purple screen showing a PowerPoint title slide for her PhD dissertation defense. Her advisor stands on the left side of the screen.
Michaela opens a box containing a sword. She stands next to a man in a blue shirt, her husband, and has an expression of surprise.
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Artist's impression of the exoplanet K2-18b. Credit: A. Smith, University of Cambridge.
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K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3ฯ'.
Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n).
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We are hiring several post-bac positions at NASA Goddard! This is a single application for 8+ positions where you can list your preferred project(s). I am involved in hiring at least one so please feel free to reach out with any questions!
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you can tell Taylor Swift is not an academic because of โnow and then she re-reads the manuscriptโ could NOT be me
The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA โ the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program.
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I got a rejection from a fellowship I withdrew from, they never miss a chance to reject you.
I don't know what to say about LA except that we elected a climate denialist as our next president.
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why does my vet have better wifi than my office
Yeah I definitely felt a little out of it for like an afternoon but the mRNA ones were taking me out for a whole weekend so definitely an improvement for me!
I had novavax for the first time this year! I thought the side effects were less noticeable but I think it could vary person to person so not sure how helpful that is. They had it at my local cvs!
Apply to & advertise the AAS CSMA Micro-grants program! Offers grants of >$500 to support BIPOC undergrads to pay grad school application fees, GRE testing fees, virtual conference registrations, or to purchase textbooks and research supplies. Deadline is October 13! aas.org/posts/news/2...
The takeaway? If students are using AI to cheat, it's not because they're lazy or uninterested. It's because we've created a society and an education system where failing academically means falling into precarity, but where students rarely get the support they need to succeed. 6/