I say to my supervisor last night "I'm sick rn, can we postpone our research meeting?" He goes "yeah no worries, but did you submit the telescope proposal due tomorrow?" THE WHAT

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL 0:00 OT This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

FACT-CHECK: This is Eric Adams in his Purim costume as a Torah scroll

MSc defense is tomorrow morning and I can't sleep. My coworkers like my stress baking habit, at least :))

9. The promise of democracy is that it will fix mistakes. The threat of autocracy is that it sets those mistakes in stone. And we would all be better off with a SCOTUS that embraced the former rather than praising the latter. /fin

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MSc paper, MSc thesis, telescope proposal, and big yearly scholarship proposal all due within a week of each other 🙂 sigh

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.

If you live in the Houston area, the Holocaust Museum has free hours from 2-5p.m. on Thursdays. From 2-4p.m., one of many rotating Holocaust survivors are available to talk. You can ask them anything. You need to do this ASAP. They and the curators have a lot to say about history repeating itself.

Paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2508.13145 We obtain the 2nd and 3rd ever Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of hot Jupiters around M dwarfs! ⬇️ #exoplanets #astro

Found out today that by using millisecond pulsars as your reference points, you can determine your position in the galaxy down to 7km or less, which is frankly a ridiculous degree of accuracy on the cosmic scale #PSETI2025

Tips and resources for those who would be interested in pursuing an astro PhD outside this US and applying for programs this Fall, put together by Floor Broekgaarden, Ana Lam, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Deana Tanguay! 🔭 docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Kepler mission: smaller stars have more short-period, small #exoplanets. Theory: the smallest stars won’t have enough disk material to make small planets so there must be a turnover. Kepler+K2: We have found a turnover! Check out our newest Scaling K2 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05734 🧵 1/9 🔭🧪☄️

In Avi's latest he finally figured out why spacecraft would have dusty comae! It almost feels like he read @deschscoveries.bsky.social's complaint about how lazy his "it's aliens" claims have been lately and decided to up his game.

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management. medium.com/@steve.desch...

I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override. If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

Texas House Dems response to Abbott mailchi.mp/texashousede...

It's NIRPS day! Today we are publishing the first results of the new near infrared planet hunter. A high resolution spectrograph with YHJ coverage and capable of measuring radial velocities with a precision better than 1 m/s. We debut it with the detection (in the NIR) of Proxima b. #exoplanets 🔭

If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!

#exoplanets #jobs 📣 I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates. *Launches NEXT YEAR! Please RT & share with your networks! aas.org/jobregister/...

Here it is: the first set of riches from Rubin's Cosmic Treasure Chest! Introducing NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first wide and deep view of the cosmos, the southern region of the Virgo Cluster. Rubin produced this image in just 10.5 hours over parts of 7 nights! 🔭🧪 youtu.be/Gitit3LwQ20

Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

🚨 Paper day!!! 🚨 Excited to announce that this project I’ve been working on these last few years has been published! Read more at : arxiv.org/abs/2506.13004 More info in the 🧵

Didn’t get great pics, but amazing turnout in Toronto!! 750-1000 people, half Americans and half Canadians.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

It looks like Schumer is stalling the Senate with multiple roll call votes to recess.

No matter what anyone says, trans Americans make our military, our communities and our entire nation stronger. On this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, let’s choose love and reject hate wherever we may see it 🏳️‍⚧️

GOOD NEWS! Moderna’s combination COVID/influenza vaccine candidate mRNA-1083 has OUTPERFORMED the current standalone vaccines for BOTH viruses in a large (8000+) Phase III trial. A combination vaccine would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID and influenza at the same time. 🧪🧵⬇️

Canadian Prime Minister Carney's Liberal Party gains an extra seat after recount shows they won by a single vote

A new, thorough reanalysis of the data that led to claims of biosignatures on K2-18b from @luiswel.bsky.social & friends - a nicely written lesson on why this stuff is hard. They find no significant evidence for DMS, the gas the Cambridge team claimed to have found. arxiv.org/abs/2504.21788

For Pride month this year, Astrobites is looking to highlight transgender astronomers and we want YOU! We are planning to interview four astronomers about their experience being transgender in science, how they've dealt with barriers throughout their career . . . (1/4)

CTV HAS DECLARED A LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In case y'all haven't heard about this, Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are holding a livestreamed sit-down on the steps of the US Capitol. A small crowd has gathered to listen, but I bet we could get that crowd to be much bigger.

Bagley from halfcourt at the buzzer to cut it to 49!

Most importantly, this is not a 3σ detection. In exoplanet atmosphere research, we use something called 'Bayes factors' (B) to express how confident we are in a spectral signal. • No evidence (B < 3) • Weak evidence (3 < B < 12) • Moderate evidence (12 < B < 150) • Strong evidence (B > 150)

First the rumour was a 20% budget cut. Then, 50%. Now the president's NASA budget is out and it's a 68% cut to astrophysics ($1.5B to $487M). Even if this gets reversed in four years, we will *never* recover the missions, partners, people who will be gone. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Tonight, in summary:

Republicans just cancelled votes in the House for the rest of the week after Democrats and a handful of Republicans took down the rule (a procedural vehicle to bring legislation to the floor). ATTN: "grind legislative business to a halt" appreciators

Good news is rare these days so here's some: This winter's COVID wave was less than half as deadly as last year's covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

he's the absolute king. bill kennedy acting like he forgot dillon brooks' name 10/10 no notes

The cat is actually explaining the concept of the habitable zone. If you are far from your heat source, it is too cold and not habitable. If you are at the right distance, the place is habitable. If you are too close... that concept doesn't exist for the cat. It's never too close from the heat.

Yeah that's gotta be it

The atomic spectral lines in this app come from the NIST atomic spectroscopy group, which has provided the world with spectroscopic measurements for 120 years. Today we got word that the federal government is laying off the entire group. 🔭🧪

1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban! It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare! Subscribe to support my journalism. You'll want to read this one.

👋🏾🗳️To clarify. If you voted in the 2024 election in Florida, then you can still vote in the special election and you have until March 20 to request a mail ballot. 📬🗳️