Just reviewed the demands letter the government sent to Harvard. Strong McCarthy vibes with this administration. Here are just a few of the most insane. Full letter here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Very sad to hear of the passing of my former colleague astrophysicist Bob Kurucz from CfA. Bob's expertise in stellar atmospheres was legendary. His countless hours of discussion on spectra with me during SSP coffee was effectively a free graduate level class taught by the grandmaster himself.

World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject: www.eso.org/public/news/... Petition against it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Press release of our paper from last week: www.origins-cluster.de/en/news-even...

This may be the most important paper in the planet formation field in recent years - showing how to go from dust to a chain of massive planets 🟤🪐🔵🔵 If you are at #Exoplanets5 you can talk to the first author, Tommy Lau 😉 arxiv.org/abs/2406.12340 With @birnstiel.bsky.social @stammler.bsky.social

🥳Congratulations to Dr. @astrothomas.bsky.social for defending his excellent thesis with distinction! 👏Next up: @flatironinstitute.org Fellowship! They grow up so fast! 😅

🚨⚠️ Job alert ⚠️🚨 Postdoc & PhD positions in computational astrophysics / planet formation in Munich. Details here: jobregister.aas.org/ad/c541e053

🚨My ARA&A review is out on arXiv. I did my best to summarize the state of the field but surely some parts will be outdated quickly! I hope you like it: arxiv.org/abs/2312.13287

⚠️ paper alert! 👇

Yo, Bayern, was geht? www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/e...

Today we were in Garching for the „Maus“ open House day with the kids. Good timing! Congratulations to Ferenc Krausz!

Since so many have asked, here’s my hot take on the spherules Loeb found and the manuscript he’s loudly rushed to the world. These are pretty typical cosmic spherules. Had he done the *obvious*--a control sample 100 km away from the meteor--he’d have found the same thing. 1/20

Thanks to Dan Clery for this Science article on Avi's latest. www.science.org/content/arti... Lots of interesting details here! A few stand out to me. 1) The paper has been submitted for publication in the peer reviewed journal Ocean Science. That's good for the scientific process.