Rather be a loser than a pedo

the irony with AI is that it could be an extremely powerful tool for the betterment of humanity but its main spokesmen are douchebag techbros

nice of her to confirm that all of the rich and powerful are depraved sociopaths who should be jettisoned to space

audience: what’s the current distribution of known exoplanets? me: uhhhh nobody knows

determined to give an exoplanets talk that doesn’t show the radius-period diagram

It’s hilarious how you can immediately tell a post is AI slop as soon as they drop the “that’s not X, it’s Y”

RELEASED TO ORG

I may have become too powerful

Research is a gas - it expands freely to fill any free time you might have had

Happy to announce I have a new paper out in Nature Chemistry Communications! The idea of this paper was pretty simple: what's the *minimum* set of chemical compounds that you need to 'boot-strap' terrestrial biochemistry into functionality? And where might that set have come from?

YES

THANK YOU WEATHER GODS

is it wrong of me to wish for a winter storm so severe that the XRP deadline gets pushed back

we used to travel in style (part 2)

passing nyc

CHOO CHOO

we used to travel in style

Planetary friends! Don't want to go to Houston in March, or support an institute that's bending the knee? Then join us for the very first Planetary Science Community Workshop in Louisville, KY on April 14–16, 2026. It's our community. Fight for it! Details at the link: planetaryworkshop.org

any recommendations for recent review articles on space weathering?

Fascinated by the one slight difference between the google search results for North and South Korea

A lot of things impressed me about Disney World: this display, the design of the parks, how they managed the crowds, etc But nothing compares to them finding my car keys that I lost *somewhere in Magic Kingdom* 2 hours after I submitted a lost and found form

Happy New Year!!

the European mind cannot comprehend this

Not everyday you get quoted in the New York Times! Thank you @astrojonny.bsky.social for the chat www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...

if we are all stardust then are rabbits stardust bunnies

willing to bet money that there won’t be a second fifa peace prize

@gcugno.bsky.social and I had a wonderful discussion with @goastromo.bsky.social for @setiinstitute.bsky.social LIVE about our work on the circumplanetary disk around CT Cha b!

The sound is broken on my gas station pump tv screen and I’ve never been so thankful

I used the word “diversity” in my NASA proposal and apparently that’s a no-no

with Stargate coming back this seems like a good time to show off the Destiny I made in SolidWorks (of all things) many years ago during a summer internship I was supposed to be using it for designing radio dish parts

Trump’s reaction to Mamdani makes perfect sense when you realize that the one thing Trump is consistent on is his need to be liked and accepted by other New Yorkers

worst windows ever

those looks of disappointment from the aisle and window seaters when I tell them I’m in the middle seat

heard an interview with Hakeem Jefferies and I’m sorry to report that he sounded exactly like chatGPT trained on Democratic talking points is it too much to ask for the Dem leadership to sound like actual humans

it’s unfortunate that gen z had to touch the stove but I’m glad they’ve come around

You just know he’s had this clip saved in a gif folder for MONTHS

the great thing about democracy is that no matter how much power and wealth gets concentrated in the top 0.1%, when it’s voting time every billionaire still gets only one vote congrats NYC

pendulum is swinging back

it’s a reading-proposals-in-bed sort of day

<candidate> is the most common type of postdoc in the galaxy and yet their origins remain uncertain

going from writing JWST proposals to writing reference letters is interesting because the hype train doesn’t stop I’m just hyping up people instead of ideas

In Cycle 2, I was co-PI of the largest volume limited survey of nearby white dwarfs with #JWST. Our first result is out! Out of 56 white dwarfs, one showed a possible candidate companion between projected separations of 0.5"-2" or roughly 10-40 au. 🔭 #astrosci ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...

30 HOURS TO GO

fun with cropping

everyone in my family is sick right now except me and I’m pretty sure it’s because my body knows that it needs to stay healthy until after the JWST deadline

I don’t like how moist it looks

I’m not panicking you’re panicking