1/3 Adventures in doctor land: Have a cold, attempt to use teledoctor through insurance to save time. Teledoctor recommends going in to urgent care to get tests done. Urgent care (no appointments available, but can walk-in and wait forever). There about 2 hours, they run flu, covid, & strep tests.

IPAC's Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship (#VGSRF) is accepting applications! ✨Gain research experience and mentoring from IPAC scientists ✨Access large science datasets🔭 ✨Receive a monthly stipend Browse the projects and apply by 3/31: www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduate-fellowship-2027

#Astronomy grad students, apply for this incredible fellowship! Let me know if you have any questions. I am a former VGSRF fellow and I am currently a mentor!

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days). And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of? Small red stars. PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!! Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.

Interesting new M dwarf #exoplanet occurrence rates paper! I'm glad to see that the new TESS result (with much lower uncertainties) is consistent with our Kepler result! arxiv.org/abs/2602.23364

Today, I'm 2000 weeks old. Surprisingly, it took that many weeks for me to get my first passport. 😬

Wow, pleasantly surprised to see this paper out in the wild again!

Are any #scientists/#astronomers here members of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society? Are there any major benefits to joining?

Just a reminder that I'm hiring! Looking for an engineer/research for some fun projects (some building! some designing!) Come build spectrographs at UW.

Neat M dwarf #exoplanet system!

It's incredible how much of my work depends on services like ADS/@scixcommunity.bsky.social. Anybody know why they've been having intermittent/frequent issues the last ~week? #astronomy 🔭🧪

Apparently if your dog is sprayed by a skunk, the smell permeates everything in your house, even if the dog didn't try to rub off the ick onto it. -100/10, would not recommend. 🦨

Very happy to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science position with me and Christian Schwab at Macquarie University in Sydney. We'll be working on applying machine learning & differentiable physics models to extremely precise radial velocity surveys.

While searching for whatever the dog rolled in, I saw this Monarch butterfly just chilling in the grass.

To top off the extremely long day, our dog Galileo rolled in something bright yellow. It is excessively pungent and smells like a garlic electric fire. I can't find it outside. Any ideas?

Another very Tucson photo. 🌵🌖

⏰Time to Register for #sagan2026⏰ The hybrid workshop focuses on expected #exoplanet science from the @nasaromantelescope.bsky.social Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. Travel support requests for early-career participants are due 3/5. nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2026 🔭 #astrocode #instrumentation

3 new videos are posted on YouTube for our Tour of the NASA #Exoplanet Archive series! 🔭🧪 Watch & subscribe: www.youtube.com/@NASAExoplanetArchive

There's nothing quite like a Sonoran Desert sunset. 🌵🌅

The JWST Cycle 6 deadline will be September 30th. I don't think past JWST proposal deadlines have coincided with ground-based telescope deadlines. I have expressed my concerns to the JWST User's Committee Chair and I encourage you to do the same. #astronomy 🔭 www.stsci.edu/jwst/science...

Of course this got pushed back when I am basically ready to hit submit... Reminds me of when the NESSF (now FINESST) deadline was pushed because of another winter storm. We had 2 feet of snow at that time. ❄️ #exoplanets

Hey folks - if you are interested in astronomy news, you should be following @caltechipac.bsky.social!!! IPAC hosts the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the NASA Extragalactic Database, the InfraRed Science Archive, as well as data from ongoing missions like Euclid, SPHEREx, and upcoming missions like Roman!

#Exoplanets are slowly infiltrating pop culture, and I am here for it! youtu.be/9fHRciLc_fs HT: @lindsaythesmall.bsky.social

It's happening!!! Pandora is going to space in just over 16 hours (if all goes well). Pandora is going to help us study exoplanet atmospheres, even when their host stars are misbehaving. I am headed up to Vandenberg to watch the launch shortly, and will make a thread about the mission/launch here!

✨ New NASA #Exoplanet Archive Tutorial Video! ✨ This one highlights the differences between the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables. Take note of the strong warning NOT to use these tables directly for population or exoplanet demographic studies! youtu.be/MsUev8aMPKg

HD 101581 b is a real planet about the size of Earth, meaning it is probably also rocky! exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/HD%... Did @theonion.com use the NASA #Exoplanet Archive for source material for this article?! 🤔

Eye dilation is weird. I can see clearly in front of me between 5 and 20 cm without glasses, and a few meters ahead of me with glasses, but in between is a blur. Sounds like there's a physics problem in there. 🤓😵‍💫

Check out the @caltechipac.bsky.social booth at #AAS247! Also, be sure to ask about our student opportunities! (www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/students) 🔭

Am I the only #exoplanet astronomer irked when people don't refer to this planet as the full Proxima Centauri b or at least Proxima Cen b? 🔭

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. 🔭🧪