Honored to celebrate 3 new astro doctors yesterday @joybee8.bsky.social, @capricephillips.bsky.social, @astroalison.bsky.social with @scottgaudi.bsky.social! Thanks to @jajohnson.bsky.social for lending me UC Santa Cruz regalia & to the OSU French & Italian prof who fixed my own backwards hood. 😂

Check out this excellent video about the Habitable Worlds Observatory, narrated by John Rhys-Davies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwD...

Brad Lander was a Jewish candidate in the race. Landers & Mamdani even cross endorsed each other. And he did answer the question of fighting Islamophobia. Let’s not further division of the Jewish & Muslim communities by adding to the disinformation out there. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

#exoplanets #jobs 📣 I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates. *Launches NEXT YEAR! Please RT & share with your networks! aas.org/jobregister/...

Our country steadily marches backwards into darkness. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Roman is so close to being completed!

I'm sitting a sidewalk table at a coffee shop in NYC charging my cell phone off my laptop that is tethered to my cell phone and I'm cautiously optimistic that I've just created a pertpetuatal motion machine.

Go California.

Dear astronomer friends, I don't know who needs to hear this, but thank your referee in your acknowledgements, even if they are anonymous, and even if you don't completely agree with them. Refereeing is a lot of work, and the least you can do is say thank you.

news.osu.edu/carter-asks-... Yeah, I think we all know what "pivot" really means.

The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.

🥳for International Transgender Day of Visibility! Being an ally means listening, learning, & standing up against discrimination, not just today, but every day. Support, respect, and uplift trans voices. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Back from a four month sabbatical visit to Goddard Space Flight Center. It was a great visit and so amazing to see the progress on the Roman Space Telescope.

As I've been getting back into vinyl after decades of cassettes, CDs, MP3s, etc., I realize how much time artists used to put into where the songs existed on the records, how the songs related to each other, and how each side had a different experience and told a different story.