🎉 New paper accepted and now out on the arxiv: Early evidence for isotropic planetary obliquities in young super-Jupiter systems Michael Poon has been the lead on this! Michael constructs a hierarchical Bayesian model that combines all published exoplanet […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Thursday is my hands-on statistics lecture. We'll first make some fresh popcorn. We record the time it takes for individual kernels to pop and use that to talk about the central limit theorem. We also do a hands-on MCMC with 24 human walkers who walk up and down a corridor as determined by a […]

Making plans for our rather small walk-in closet.

We are trying to capture some stray kittens. We got one! There might be up to 4 more.