In not-very-good news, extreme winds (114 mph gusts) on the early morning of the 25th caused significant damage to the 36" Great Refractor at Lick Observatory. Half of the main shutter broke off and landed on the main building.

Tornado warning in LA County was not on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are.

We've added a tool to upload your published parameters to the NASA Exoplanet Archive! This tool can help us get your new planets and planet parameters onto the archive, so check it out and consider using for your next #exoplanet paper! 🔭🧪 exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/support/uplo...

Today marks 1 year since I started as a staff scientist at @caltechipac.bsky.social! I'm excited to be supporting the #exoplanet community while continuing my own research and collaborations! www.ipac.caltech.edu/meet-the-sta...

#Exoplanet folks, check out Eric's posts to follow along with all the great talks at #ExSoCal! 🔭

Happy to be a small part of @caltechipac.bsky.social's support of the astronomical community! 🔭

If you're into #astronomy and #LEGO bricks, this is definitely a project worth supporting! 🔭🧪

Happy 14 orbits to the NASA #Exoplanet Archive! Launched on December 5, 2011, the archive has become THE destination for published exoplanet parameters. I've been using it since its inception, and now I'm lucky enough to get to help maintain it and make it better for all astronomers!

Big changes at NExScI! 🥲 www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/charles...

A holiday gift for #exoplanets Chrome users: how to set up the coolest exoplanet shortcut ever. Click the three-dot menu in the upper right -> Settings -> Search Engine -> Manage search engines and site search. Scroll to site search and click Add. Fill like this and save: (1/2)

Ugh. Today I learned there is a new satellite constellation called Kepler. Did they not know there was already an instrument in space called Kepler? kepler.space/kepler-annou...

Despite not being a professor, I do actually love guest lecturing about #exoplanets!

You know a country has a gun problem when this is being sold to 3-year-olds in a store called "The Baby Shop."

Interesting timing. Today, Caltech sent an email call for nominations for the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. A few years ago I tried (and failed) to get them to rename the prize.

Brown. Dwarfs. Are. Purple. Fixing what really matters (to me) on the NASA #Exoplanet Archive since December 2024. 🤣 🔭

(To be clear, we also spruced up a bunch of other content and functionality on the overview pages, the first of a series of rolling updates, so do check them out!) Updates are summarized here: exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/exonews...

Brown. Dwarfs. Are. Purple. Fixing what really matters (to me) on the NASA #Exoplanet Archive since December 2024. 🤣 🔭

Little kids are quite clever at naming things for which they do not know the word. 3 yo recovering from a 24 hr stomach bug: "Mommy, I want to keep my diaper on. I have melty poop." 🫠💩

So I’m reviewing *post doc applications* and so far I’ve seen multiple applications with 30-80 papers. Astronomy what are you doing.

The culture of "you must first-author publication(s) as an undergrad in order to succeed/get into grad school" is toxic and favors privileged students. It needs to stop. 🔭🧪

Halloween observations this year: kids prefer fruity candy over chocolate by at least 2:1. Also, nobody ever has, or ever will, like Almond Joy. 🎃

Awesome, another paper of mine has reached 100 citations! 📜

Thank you Colorado State University! Congrats on 60 years of the Madison-Macdonald Observatory! 🔭

Happening tomorrow!

The NASA #Exoplanet Archive now has Gaia DR3 IDs! This should hopefully make your work and planning observations easier! exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu

It has been a while since I just got to "play" with a telescope! 🔭

How do giant planets influence the type of #exoplanets that form in the habitable zone? A thread 1/🧵

Hey, that narrator sounds familiar! Check out our new NASA #Exoplanet Archive homepage overview! 🔭 youtu.be/RHbvnodAX3g

Now I want a statistical survey of astronomers' favorite planets. But at least K2-138 made this article's list. 🤣

Do you even lift?

The Arecibo sky bridge, as seen from the secondary support structure in 2013. Sadly, this bridge no longer exists. 😞

Join me at Colorado State University's Madison-Macdonald Observatory 60th anniversary celebration on October 17th from 3-8:30 pm! 🔭 There will be solar observing, physics demos, and stargazing, and I will be presenting a public lecture about #exoplanets! www.physics.colostate.edu/about/astron...

Join me at Colorado State University's Madison-Macdonald Observatory 60th anniversary celebration on October 17th from 3-8:30 pm! 🔭 There will be solar observing, physics demos, and stargazing, and I will be presenting a public lecture about #exoplanets! www.physics.colostate.edu/about/astron...

I'm hiring at Haverford - a 2 year NASA funded postdoc to work on Galaxy Zoo with Roman Space Telescope Data: www.haverford.edu/human-resour... 👩‍🔬🔭

I gave a talk about my paper last month with this as the title slide. Can you tell I recently watched #Murderbot? 🔭 #Exoplanets

You can access parameters for all 6,007 planets on the NASA Exoplanet Archive at exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu!

Sometimes 2025 just feels like a lot, and you need an excuse to celebrate your fabulous team (and the whole exoplanet community!) reaching a new milestone… Happy 6,000 Confirmed Exoplanets Day, everybody!!!! (You may recognize the narrator of the video at the link! 🫣) www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

On the way to daycare, my 3 year old saw me bringing my Hot Wheels Mars Rovers to work today. 3 yo: I want to go to Mars... with you. We go on rocket ship to Mars. Me: 🥹

Extra observing time tonight because I got bad weather last month? I'll take it! 🔭

The advertisement for Carnegie EPL's 2026 postdoctoral fellowship is out! aas.org/jobregister/... We are also happy to host external fellowships like NHFP, NSF, and 51 Peg b (the latter is due Oct 3rd, one month away!). Please feel free to reach out if you have questions. (1/2)

Hey #exoplaneteers (and other early career folks) - applications for the 2026 NASA Hubble Fellowship Program are open! www.stsci.edu/stsci-resear...

This has been stuck in my head ever since the WISPIT #exoplanet announcements yesterday. 🫠 youtu.be/j_QLzthSkfM

The press release from @stewardobservatory.bsky.social is online now: news.arizona.edu/news/growing... #exoplanets ☄️🧪🔭

Our now published paper can be found here! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #exoplanets

My first press coverage 🥹 protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___ht...

Quite astonishing that we can be observing right now ~50 km from where this volcano is spewing its guts. This is our last night of August IRTF observations with @sakhee-space.bsky.social! 🌋 🔭

Quite astonishing that we can be observing right now ~50 km from where this volcano is spewing its guts. This is our last night of August IRTF observations with @sakhee-space.bsky.social! 🌋 🔭

Completely unrelated, yet surprisingly relevant to our Scaling K2 #exoplanet paper series. See all 8 papers on ADS: bit.ly/41VnRGO

I recently did an interview on the origins of life that is 100% alien-spaceship free. You can read about it here: open.substack.com/pub/storiesf... 🧪🔭