Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

MiTHOS has a new CoI 🐈‍⬛ See you all in Porto for #Exoplanets6 ! (Sorry, Penny the cat is staying at home. She has some reading on Hot Jupiter phase curves to do if she's joing the team 🤓) 🪐🔭🧪 #Exoplanets

I'll be at #Exoplanets6 next week with a poster on MiTHOS, our Astrophysics SMEX mission concept out of @jhuapl.bsky.social MiTHOS studies the climates of hot Jupiters with a large population study of spectroscopic phase curves 🌈 Come find me to grab a sticker and learn about MiTHOS! 💫 🪐🔭🧪

Just a girl taking her cat on an adventure 💕

Adventure Kitty in training. (JK, it's because she runs out the door any chance she gets and I'm hoping I can train her to go outside with a leash onto the back patio instead of out the front in the direction of the road 🤦‍♀️)

Much needed vacation last week. The toddler had the best week of her life and met all her heros (princesses). Her favorite part was "Disney" because everything was her favorite ❤️

I don't know about you, but personally I think using AI to write your JWST proposals and submitting it with hallucinated references is egregious and should be disqualifying regardless of if it is explicitly prohibited in the call for proposals*

👏 don't use LLMs to do science for you 👏

I was just contacted by a reporter asking for comment about the whole Pluto planet thing. Hanging on by a thread over here.

Never let a knitter take up house projects. Signed, a knitter stuck on sleeve island with perpetual second sock syndrome, who has taken up house projects. (if you come to my house, just ignore the half painted wall or half-finished flower bed, please 🙈)

Getting real tired of "AI will revolutionize your workflow!" I am a scientist! I do what I do because I want to dig into things myself. I don't want offload that labor onto a computer, and I don't need to accelerate the rate at which I work, because the point of the work is to learn.

At Space Symposium today for the Space Science Track. We'll discuss current and future efforts towards biosignature detections with JWST and HWO -- both science considerations and engineering hurdles 🪐🔭🧪 #SpaceSymposium #41Space #SpaceFoundation

Brutal.

A few months ago my toddler decided she wanted to fly on an airplane to the Moon. During the Artemis launch last week she was VERY excited to hear that people were going to the moon. Today I told her that they were on their way back home from the moon and she goes "Oh! Is it my turn now?" ❤️🌔

NASA 2027 budget based on the PBR is available: www.nasa.gov/fiscal-year-... 🧪🔭🪐

Small beans in the grand scheme of the NASA budget request, but this is the line item I'm currently the most excited about because WE HAVE A REALLY COOL CONCEPT WE WANT TO PROPOSE AND I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT. 🧪🔭🪐 We *just* got it spun back up and I'm not ready to table it for ANOTHER year 🫠

2027 PBR just dropped. 🧪🔭🪐 NASA Science gets a 50% cut, again. 40 missions terminated. I don't have anything else to say right now. I knew we'd have it again this year, but we *just* finished winning this fight for the 2026 budget. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

I want to emphasize that AXIS's demise largely arose from Goddard being forced to align with FY26 president's budget request (PBR) which zeroed the Probe program. Goddard lost SO MUCH following the PBR, even though the Congressional budget kept that funding! Remember that as FY27 PBR comes soon. 🔭🧪

Hi friendzos! Anyone out there an expert in the formation of star systems, particularly hot/warm Jupiter systems and/or planetary migration models? Looking for someone to talk to for an article. 🧪🔭

Interesting paper on requirements for undergraduate astronomy degrees and how non-uniform they are, and how this impacts students with these degrees: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03959

Excited to see everyone at the Exoplanet Atmospheres conference in Denver! 🔭🪐🧪 I haven't been to an exoplanet conference since Exoplanets IV in Vegas nearly FOUR YEARS AGO. Such is the life of toddler parenthood 🙃

GASP. *supports immediately*

work with Adi! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ I promise you'll love it 🫶

I’m hiring a postdoc to work with me at UMBC on AGN and galaxy mergers 💫 Details: apply.interfolio.com/180085 Please share & feel free to message me with any questions!

Penny was spayed today. Turns out she's a Houdini and this is the third collar or body suit we've had to try so far today.

She's extra helpful today 🙄

Putting up wallpaper for the first time!!! My assistant is becoming a problem though 🐈‍⬛

Just started watching Pluribus. Kepler-22b?? REALLY. it's not rocky!!!

Do other people's toddlers just walk around (loudly) belting their made up songs or is this a special behavior from mine? Do I have a future musical theater star on my hands?

"MAMA! Dis is you" -Toddler

Happy Holidays! From our fuzzy menace, to yours.

Penny's second vet trip. She knows what she's in for this time and is not thrilled.

Penny has learned to open doors, we're all doomed. (Well, mostly it's the plants that are doomed)

It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI. Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭

Me and my shoulder cat waiting at the vet today. (they think she's a couple weeks older than the original estimate, and currently she has double canines on both sides since the kitten ones haven't yet fallen out 🧛)

Me trying to work today:

Sorry for the lack of Penny. The toddler got us all sick. Anyways, their friendship is blossoming ❤️

Your daily dose of Penny-provided serotonin is here 💖

This is probably why the allergies are so bad 😂😂 But what am I going to do?? Move a napping kitten?? 😵‍💫

Just a princess on her throne 👑🐈 (Side note, apparently you can be allergic to only *some* cats, but that's what allergy medicine is for, right? 🫠🙃)

No read, only pets.

OBSESSED.

Hi, I'm obsessed. This is a Penny account now.

Pen is falling asleep on B's favorite chair and I'M FINE I PROMISE I'M NOT CRYING 😭😭❤️❤️

Meet Penelope! Pen or Penny for short, which one could argue is also a nickname for Penguin, so really, the toddler did name her after all.

When was the last time I even posted about science here?? I'm sure all the people who have followed me because I'm on the astronomy lists are confused 😂

We're getting a kitten tomorrow (!!!!!!!!) and have been working with the toddler on the concept of naming something. She now understands (I think) what it means to give something a name, and has suggested we name the kitten either Santa or Penguin 🎅🐧

hey @overleaf.com ! do you have merch? I'd love to rock an overleaf shirt 🥺

Putting the Eras Tour movie on in the background to finish this #JWSTCycle5 Proposal draft with the magical power of ~Girl Summer 2023™️~

Some things change, some things stay the same. Beaumont Bell Tower @ Michigan State. 2025. 2019.