Interview done! Now time to dig in to this really thorough, horrifying paper by Olivier Hainaut about what the night sky will look like with future satellites https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.09427
This is similar to the kind of modelling that I've done with my collaborators, but using totally […]
This Trans Day of Visibility, I want cis people to understand that we don't need "validation."
We need *action.*
Write to your representatives; call out transphobic language; write letters to the editor; campaign for gender-inclusive washrooms at your office, school, or business.
*Do something.*🏳️⚧️
🔭🪐 Open question for the exoplaneteers on here: what gripes do you have with current 1D atmospheric modelling and retrieval packages? Are there features you'd like to see, or ways we could make your life easier?
@maddielam.bsky.social did a deep dive into silicate clouds with JWST observations of brown dwarfs to identify whether the clouds at the poles and equator look different: arxiv.org/abs/2603.24662
@astrotoole.bsky.social used the Hubble space telescope to identify the causes of variability in three brown dwarfs, finding that changes in the surface features due to clouds or magnetic spots likely drives the changes in brightness: arxiv.org/abs/2603.24663
🔭 New paper day from the ExoAimser group at Trinity College Dublin! Not one, but two exciting papers from PhD students @astrotoole.bsky.social and @maddielam.bsky.social. 🪐
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
OH GOD IT’S HAPPENING #JWSTCycle5
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
Fellow astronomers, please submit your name if you'd like to join the Astronomers for Planet Earth (@a4e.org) statement on the proposed megaconstellations 🔭
Astronomers for Planet Earth are submitting a statement about some of the proposed megaconstellations that would ruin ground-based astronomy to the FCC.
You can read the statement below: 🔭☄️
Publication day for our paper on the T2.5 brown dwarf/exoplanet analog SIMP0136! We find cloud formation appears to drive upper atmospheric temperature and chemical structure. We also debut a new, novel method for vertical mapping extrasolar atmospheric dynamics.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
There are lots of aspects of silicate clouds in substellar objects that we don't often think about. Luckily, Sarah Moran (@offallingstars.bsky.social) and Elijah Mullens are here to fill us in on the interesting details. #exoplanets #astronomy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYWZ...
bluesky, the canadian sports app
This kind of just sounds like a nicer way of describing an anti-satellite weapons system, which feels much less charming. Good way to pay for an AO upgrade I guess...
Astronomers: highly recommend this thoughtful opinion piece by @hogg.bsky.social on how to think about our field in light of the development of large language models. whether you agree with him or not it’s vital to discuss the principles behind our science. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181
Announcing the 8th Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) Exoplanet Summer Program, Aug 10-27, 2026. We wish to foster new and existing research collaborations by outstanding visitors, with stays of 1 to 3 weeks at the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus. Applications accepted Feb 5-March 5.
owl.ucsc.edu/summer/
The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
I am hiring a postdoc in exoplanet atmospheres! (ASIAA, 4yrs, funded through 2030)
Job ad here. Feel free to reach out if there are any questions!
aas.org/jobregister/...
PS. There’s also another postdoc position in cosmology with an awesome colleague
We're so excited to share the results of the ALMA large program ARKS that studied the distribution of dust and gas in a sample of 24 exoKuiper belts. With @lucaroundtheworld.bsky.social, Meredith Hughes and a large collaboration, we just published 10 papers presenting our first results arkslp.org
You can start calling yourself a space geologist
1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks
NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-p...
He's being pretty subtle about the real reasons for his war
Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!
The application for the ESO Summer Research Programme 2026 has just opened!
It‘s a six week programme in Garching close to Munich where pre-Ph.D students can work on a hands-on project.
Working at @eso.org is a fabulous experience, so please help me spread the word ✨
🔗 eso.org/sci/meetings...
🔭 A bit late, but I've finally put together a zenodo archive for the JWST observations and retrievals of SIMP-0136, based on my paper from earlier this year. If you want to play around with this super interesting models, or dive into the results, it's all available at zenodo.org/records/1785...! 🧪
Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope at the right with its gold, hexagon-shaped primary mirror and multi-layer sunshield. At left is a representation of its 18 primary mirror segments, which takes up about two-thirds of the view. Each segment is outlined in yellow and contains a different Webb image, artist’s concept, or spectrum (graph). The images display dying stars puffing off layers of gas and dust, spiral galaxies, planets, and deep fields of space spattered with fuzzy white galaxies. Three yellow, orange, and red wavy lines appear atop everything else, running left to right. The backdrop shows filaments of red gas and dust, white and blue stars, and distant galaxies, all against the black background of space.
The demand to use #NASAWebb shows no signs of slowing! For its fifth year, researchers around the world submitted a record-breaking 2,900+ proposals.
The types of requests show astronomers are ready to answer even bolder scientific questions: https://bit.ly/4nYC0LS 🔭 🧪
The NH3 absorption starting circa 2027 is going to be a wild ride.