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hi new followers 👋 quick intro - I'm Adina, currently a NASA Sagan fellow at Michigan State, but I'll be starting as an assistant prof here next year 👩🏻🏫 my research focuses on observing very young planets and stars 🌟🪐🔭 I'm a crafter 🧶, baker 🥧, cat-mom 🐱, and Halloween enthusiast 🎃👻 🧪
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We're back with Part II - A detailed analysis of the starspots on the young solar analog V1298 Tau as viewed with JWST
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and LCO led by MSU postdoc Matthew Murphy 🌟
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check out the manuscript here 👉
arxiv.org/abs/2606.16782
👈 and the big takeaways below!
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A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide
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Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationw...
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-must-restore-history-science-materials-parks-us-judge-rules-2026-06-12/
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btw did I mention all of the data behind the figures in the manuscript are publicly available? 👀
github.com/kronos-jwst/...
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after a wild ride, I am so so so excited to have the first paper of our JWST KRONOS program out! "KRONOS I: The 1−2.8µm JWST Transmission Spectrum of the 23 Myr V1298 Tau c" led by MSU postdoc Matthew Murphy 👉
arxiv.org/abs/2606.03740
👈 (short summary thread below)
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#planetsci
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AAS Nova
18 days ago
Elise Koo reports for
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on how researchers have taken advantage of the unique TOI-3884 system to directly probe a starspot with JWST.
aasnova.org/2026/06/02/t...
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The First Starspot Spectrum Revealed by JWST
Astrobites reports on how researchers have taken advantage of the unique TOI-3884 system to directly probe a starspot with JWST.
https://aasnova.org/2026/06/02/the-first-starspot-spectrum-revealed-by-jwst/
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This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone
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#nsf
canceled
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postdocs. That’s nifty. Let’s pretend we aren’t messing up the planet and be super sure to stop training people who can help.
eos.org/research-and...
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NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs - Eos
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
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Michigan State's Darryl Seligman discusses how interstellar interlopers and dark comets are challenging our understanding of the behavior and properties of comets and asteroids. Today's lecture is part of the weekly 2026 Spring Colloquium talks at STScI.
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ready to go!!!
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ESA Space Science
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Welcome to the new fellows selected to pursue their research in space science at ESA! Their projects span a broad range of topics from investigating the nature of dark matter to learning how Jupiter’s atmosphere works. Discover more about them 👉
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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about 2 months ago
i feel like society moved on from these too quickly
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Science Magazine
about 2 months ago
U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation.
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Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
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astro hive mind - a student in my intro to astro for non-majors class asked about good astronomy documentaries they could watch. does anybody have any recommendations? 🔭 🌟#astronomy
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Just released: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval" - Minority Staff Report Prepared for Members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives
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2 months ago
This administration really hates Goddard Space Flight Center. I hope we can save it. 🧪
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Assessing the Goddard Space Flight Center: Call for Experts
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a little delayed, but congratulations to MSU grad student Sydney Petz for receiving an NSF GRFP 🥳
astro.natsci.msu.edu/news-events/...
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First Year Graduate Student Sydney Petz Wins NSF GRFP
https://astro.natsci.msu.edu/news-events/latest-news/grad-student-sydney-petz-wins-NSF-GFRP.aspx
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2 months ago
LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.
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3 months ago
Anti-war demonstrations occurred all across Israel this evening. US media decided you really didn't need to know about them.
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#ArtemisII
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3 months ago
Is this a new headline or did they just translate from the original German?
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Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-jews-penn-list-judge.html
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the number of times I've been mistaken for an undergrad on campus is now up to 5
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1) Let's 2) Go 3) Mets
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we were talking about solar flares and solar activity cycles in the intro astro for non-majors class today and somebody asked, "Do solar flares happen more frequently if a star spins faster?" ngl, I was shook by this intuition 💪
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András Gáspár
3 months ago
Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.
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really exciting work lead by Catriona Murray! TOI-3884 b is a planet on a polar orbit around an M dwarf. The transit has a persistent starspot crossing event. Using JWST, we measured the properties of the starspot and the Prot of the star 👀
arxiv.org/abs/2603.15414
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end of week cat cleanser
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4 months ago
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
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Read more:
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Cookie Clicker is still alive and thriving. that is all
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Happy "did you know the International Space Station is roughly the size of a football field?" Day to those who celebrate
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Mueller, She Wrote
5 months ago
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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starting the week off with a good laugh as Harvard astrophysicist shares his depiction of the aliens "aboard" the certified comet 3I/ATLAS: three-eyed Cornish pixies
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Joaquin Castro
5 months ago
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took on college. - Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville - Sports and Entertainment in Greece and Rome (yes, we were entertained) - Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology - Underworlds - Advanced experimental physics
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Adam Parkhomenko
5 months ago
Seems like a good video for his trial
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I’m glad there is an apology for posting Jew-hate on Holocaust Remembrance Day, but this is notably not an apology for the Jew-hate itself, just the timing of it. The article itself, which perpetuates ancient antisemitism, remains unchanged.
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New job opportunity at
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: Senior Astronomical Data Scientist for data analysis tools, working closely with my team and me. This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭
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Representative Seth Magaziner
5 months ago
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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5 months ago
Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)
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5 months ago
The headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
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Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
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5 months ago
these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw
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5 months ago
There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426?from_app=1&darkmode=System&from_mobile=1&utm_source=webview?utm_source=copy
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5 months ago
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
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andy™
5 months ago
nine years old
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5 months ago
"You can only preach against ICE for so long before God calls you to get out of the pulpit and get to the streets”
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