Time to update that affiliation I guess! I‘m starting my fellowship @eso.org in Garching 🇩🇪 today! Wish me luck ❤️🤭

Congratulations to Dr Tobias Meier (@tgmeier.bsky.social) on his #ExoclimesVII poster presentation about the lava world K2-141b!

Congratulations to Dr Jake Taylor (@astrojake.bsky.social) on his poster at #ExoclimesVII concerning the JWST NIRISS/SOSS transmission spectrum of the super-Earth GJ 357b. The paper is published and can be read here: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

In case you’re interested in the paper(s) about WASP-121 b using the 4UT mode of ESPRESSO — or as I like to call it: ESPRESSO’s superpower — check out: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26... ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025Natu...

Nature study: when do girls fall behind in #maths? During their 1st year at primary school. 4 yr study, 2.6M French children. By comparing kids born a month apart but in diff school years they show it's education, not age, that triggers the gap☹️ 🧪👩‍🔬 ℹ️: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👇Excellent 🧵

I don't post super often here, but I just came by to share this news article with you (published alongside the paper in Nature yesterday). www.nature.com/articles/d41... There are a couple of sentences in the news article that stuck with me more than anything: 1/x

Last Friday, I defended my PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics 🪐 Still processing… but you can call me Dr. Bibi now. 💅 I am eternally grateful to my supervisors, mentors, and everyone who supported me on this journey. 💜 #astronomy #exoplanets

𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

Meu vídeo sobre a “detecção de bioassinaturas” na atmosfera do exoplaneta K2-18b e os possíveis problemas relacionados a essa análise, do ponto de vista de quem trabalha na área 🪐 Links abaixo:

An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

Chris, this is terrible scholarship from Nikku and his team. It's also INSANELY irresponsible scicomm on the part of everyone involved with reporting on it. It's going to take such an effort to correct this misinformation, and it comes at a time where scrupulousness is sorely needed.

Reading more about this, I'm disappointed in the authors of this study & how they've turned a very marginal result into worldwide press releases. In this climate, we as scientists have a responsibility to lead by example and represent our work accurately to the press. This is not that. ☄️🔭🧪

Nu finns Populär Astronomi här på Bluesky också! 🚀🥳 Vi har skrivit om rymden och astronomi i mer än hundra år – papperstidningen kommer ut med fyra nummer per år och nyhetsartiklar publiceras löpande på vår hemsida. www.popularastronomi.se

Nailed it! As per Swedish tradition, I’ve officially nailed my thesis to the wall to announce that I’ll be defending my PhD in #exoplanets atmospheres in 3 weeks and 3 days. Dr title, I’m coming for youuuu!

After maybe wikipedia, the most important page on the internet is hiring. 🧪🔭

Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities in #astronomy at my new employer, UC Chile aas.org/jobregister/... If you are interested in writing a proposal to work on #exoplanets or planet formation with me, get in touch!

The cat’s out of the bag! 🥳 I'm thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @eso.org as a 2025 ESO Fellow in Germany starting this October! Expect plenty more #astronomy and #exoplanets spam from me in the years to come 🤓 But first—gotta earn that Dr. title! www.eso.org/sci/publicat...

👇 Extremely cool work by the awesome @alinenovais.com on #exoplanet atmospheres with HST, highlighting some key challenges in today’s research: retrievals are hard, clouds are hard… everything is hard, which is why it’s important to revisit older data! 🧪🔭☄️

@sophienewman.bsky.social and Ana Sainz de Murieta absolutely made my day. Thanks for this! 💜 arxiv.org/abs/2503.24188 This is my favourite day on astro-ph. Thanks #astronomy for being such a fun field to work in!

I am thrilled to announce my second PhD paper, under the supervision of Luan Ghezzi, Kevin Heng, and Chloe Fisher 🪐📄 This study is a summary of my PhD thesis (2019–2024), where we analysed retrievals of HST WFC3 transmission spectra and parameter degeneracies associated with them. Read more ⬇️

In the heat of battle that was submitting my PhD thesis, I completely forgot to share this with you! @nature.com invited us to contribute a Research Briefing on our latest #exoplanets paper 🪐 Hope you enjoy it 😊

This is absolutely detrimental for all things spectra … 😱😭 #exoplanets

🚨 ESO analysis confirms that the INNA industrial megaproject would have a devastating and irreversible impact on the facilities at Paranal Observatory. Full story ➡️ www.eso.org/public/news/... Details in 🧵 below 👇 🧪 🔭 #astrosci 1/

Thank you @astrokimcartier.bsky.social for writing this lovely article about our work. It was an absolute pleasure talking to you!

📢 *3* astronomy #PhD positions now open at 🇸🇪 Uppsala University studying stars with 2 incredible supervisors! I genuinely cannot vouch for our astro dept enough: supportive yet relaxed, fun yet challenging... PLEASE apply & feel free to ask me Qs! Deadline 4 April 🧪🔭🪐 uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

One of the possible supervisors is Diane and let me tell you, she‘s one of the most awesome women I‘ve met. Want a great supervisor for your PhD? This is your chance! 🔭 ⭐ 🪐 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Tired of wondering which atomic lines are in your spectra? You need: *whose line is it anyway?* An interactive tool for identifying atomic spectral lines. 🧪🔭 #stars install: pip install whoseline source: github.com/bmorris3/who...

We started this project back when I worked at ESO Chile for a year during my studentship. Julia was one of my supervisors there and I’ll be forever grateful for the opportunity to work with this dataset and everything I learned along the way ❤️ Check out Seidel+ and Prinoth+ 🫶🪐🔭

Seidel+ 2025 and Prinoth+ 2025 are now out in the world 🪐🔭 www.eso.org/public/unite...

Happy and relieved to see @esa.int do the right thing and pick up focus on Bluesky above the old place — please reward good behaviour & encourage more of the same by giving these accounts a follow! 🔭🪐🚀🧪

"This computer lab investigated the possibilities of the detection of exo-plants." 🪐 -- one of my favourite moments when correcting lab reports 👀

In case you‘ve been looking for a link to check out the memes: meme25.analysed.ch 🪐

If #exoplanets and memes are your thing, then this ones for you! ⬇️ The Massive Exoplanet MEME Exhibition kicks off on Monday, and on Friday they‘ll close with a couple of lovely talks! Go give them a follow to stay up-to-date 🪐 Also, this is my favourite one from a couple years back 🤓

🧵 1/ Mind-blowing! An international team of astronomers has made an unexpected discovery: supersonic winds are raging on the exoplanet WASP-127b, a gas giant larger than Jupiter but with a much lower mass, located over 500 ly from Earth. Source➡️ eso.org/public/unite... 🔭 🧪 #exoplanet #planetsci

Extremely proud and excited to have been part of the team behind today's @eso.org news item about WASP-127 b and its crazy winds (read here: www.eso.org/public/news/...) ... but even more BLOWN AWAY (!) by the incredible animation that I didn't know was going to be attached to it!!! 🤯🪐🔭🧪

Part of the job of a scientist is to try as hard as you can to prove yourself wrong before claiming any result. So any good scientist will spend most of their time doubting themselves, which can be very stressful. Of course, bad scientists have it much easier.

Writing your thesis literally means that you‘re doubting EVERY SINGLE THING you‘ve ever done in your PhD 😰 Glad this is soon over … 🪐

PRESENTING: #AAS245 Bingo Thanks to the fantastic community responses, we have a bingo card for the next week! Complete the bingo card and post it tagging me here or IG/Threads to be entered into a drawing for a prize.

Hey everyone at #AAS245 (“Super Bowl of Astronomy” 🔭 ) - play along with the #AAS245 bingo card!

Application & interview season is in full swing! Two reminders: 👉 GOOGLE your prospective supervisors 👉 TALK to people who’ve been at that university in that field. (Even better if they’re not from the same group!) Please, be careful. Do your research and trust your gut. I am an open book. 🪐

Our institute is advertising a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position on Astronomical Data Science and Machine Learning: aas.org/jobregister/.... The position is broadly defined and explicitly also open to researchers with a background in planetary and exoplanetary research. Please share! 🔭💻👩‍💻

#Postdoc alert: come join us at Uppsala University 🇸🇪 to work on the first stars of the universe (Pop III) 🌟✨⭐️ Deadline Jan 20! aas.org/jobregister/... I can honestly *not* praise UU’s Astro dept and its work environment enough, it’s so lovely and kind. Please feel free to DM me if you have Qs! 🔭 🧪

As astronomers, we're always looking for clear blue skies! Hello, world! Hello, @bsky.app ! ✨ This drone picture shows the construction site of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope's (ELT), the world's biggest eye on the sky. 📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

My supervisor, Jens Hoeijmakers, is advertising a 4-year PhD position in exoplanet atmospheres in Lund! 🪐🔭 I’ve absolutely loved working with Jens, and I’ll be very sad to leave after defending my PhD. Jens is an excellent supervisor and mentor! 🔗 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: January 15

Resharing this for all my new followers 🪐 🔭 Shoot me a message if you have any questions ☺️

My partner 3D-printed Saturn for me 🪐 New necklace unlocked.

Three-year postdoc in exoplanet atmospheres is open for applications, under the supervision of one of my most treasured collaborators, in beautiful Sweden: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 🧪🔭🪐

Apply to come work in sunny Los Angeles at NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Office as a postdoc! Applications are due December 6th! #jobs #exoplanets 🔭🪐👩‍🔬

Applications are open for the 2025 Dorrit Hoffleit Research Fellowship program for current undergraduate students to conduct summer research in the Yale Department of Astronomy! Open to 2nd/3rd year undergrads of any nationality — due February 15th 🪐🧪🚀 astronomy.yale.edu/undergraduat...

My supervisor, Jens Hoeijmakers, is advertising a postdoc position: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Working with Jens and being part of his group has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life—I enjoyed every second of it. Ask me anything! I'm an open book! 🪐🔭