very cool thing I saw on arXiv is an @astrobites.bsky.social linked on the arXiv page of the paper [click “1 blog link”]  !!! I’ve been pushing for this for the past few years, and I’m excited to see it live — big thanks + congrats to the team that made this happen !!!! 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2501.09580

From Mary Ogborn: Tidal disruption events can happen when stars are torn apart by a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/05/13/wandering-smbh/

Our Hubble Space Telescope Survey of the Galactic bulge is out! This large HST program is primarily conducted in support of the upcoming Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS). Here is the paper published in Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) today: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

This Hubble image of a microlensing event, OGLE-2013-BLG-0341, shows how astronomers can use Hubble to distinguish lensing objects from background stars, allowing them to interpret future events that will be seen by #NASARoman: https://news.stsci.edu/42TpwwF

Are you an astronomy graduate student who’s interested in science communication? Apply for the AAS Media Fellowship by June 26! aasnova.org/2026/04/08/a... 🔭 @aas.org

⏰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

Next Astro On Tap Philly: January 15th, 6 PM at Fergie's Pub, 1214 Sansom Street. This time, Dr. Huei Sears will tell us about the oldest light in the Universe via similarly old 2010s pop music, while Prof. Federica Bianco will cover the robots that have overrun Astronomy. See you there!

For folks in the bay area: I'm speaking at Astro On Tap San Francisco tomorrow night! ✨🔭

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

AAS week

Selections from 2025: Researchers explored the reaches of humanity’s technological signatures to determine if intelligent life like that on Earth could detect Earth. 🔭🧪 aasnova.org/2025/12/30/s...

I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

every day I get emails

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"The fallacies behind the cult of Loeb" New entry in my blog. Other articles have covered the scientific aspects; this one reflects on the social phenomenon. I argue it’s driven by a series of fallacies tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

big day for TurboVicki

I wrote a textbook! I hope you like it. store.ioppublishing.org/page/detail/...

being a part of @astrobites.bsky.social was one of the best things I did in grad school !! such a supportive collaboration where everyone just wants to make astronomy better apply ! apply ! apply ! 🧪☄️🔭

I'm hiring an intern for a 6-month research position related to the NASA Pandora SmallSat Mission, project and start date flexible. Must be a current astro PhD student :) www.llnl.gov/join-our-tea...

I haven’t said this in a while, and it bears repeating: it is actually very easy to not work with abusers and rapists in the field! Moreover, we owe it to ourselves, our colleagues, and our future.

Proud adviser with a whole host of @pseticenter.bsky.social students, postdoc, and alumni! Winter Parts, Olivia Curtis, @cayladedrick.bsky.social (honorary), Nick Tusay, @mhuston.bsky.social, Pinchen Fan, Evan Sneed, Sofia Sheikh, Lennon Nichol, and Arianna Nielsen.

keck night 3/4 for this run of our astrometric microlensing program! i love watching our laser on the subaru livestream

yesterday at an estate sale we overheard a zoomer explain to their friend that a furby is "like an old labubu"

happy dwight slappe buys a cookie cake day i guess

Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.

first quintile hst rejection 🙃

once again

The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

We are excited to announce registration and abstract submission for talks, posters, and breakout sessions are now open for the 2025 SETI Symposium at Penn State, August 18-21, 2025! sites.psu.edu/setisymposiu... Please help us spread the word and we hope to see you in State College! 🔭

working on HST proposals 📸: @/frogwitch on IG

Magneto: I can control all metals astronomers: oh my god

It's been a long time coming... the paper I led on GRB 221009A was recently accepted for publication by ApJ ! : ) Check out this poster I made for the project for the upcoming 'Celebrating 20 Years of Swift Discoveries' Conference !! 🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro #womeninSTEM

New from my officemate Yuhan Yao! I heard some exciting conversations about this when it was in the works, happy to see the paper out now!

Chloe's first Astrobite!!

Some cool new science from our group at NASA/Goddard. www.nasa.gov/universe/nas...

Earth Detecting Earth is out! Dr. Sofia Sheikh led this paper, with me as second author. It's been a long project, and we're really proud of it! It's hard to write a long post about science right now, so I'll just share some links here for today. First, the paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

red bridge best bridge

i can't believe i got scooped

drinking extra black coffee today in his honor ☕ youtu.be/3rhzfxtqwZM?...

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

I don't think we talk enough about how even if you're staying on the same health insurance plan, each year it resets, and there is some time period where you cannot get prior approval because they cannot confirm that you will have coverage by a schedule-able date.

About two years ago, I was on UnitedHealthcare insurance. They sat on a prior authorization request for about 2 months then denied it the day before my intended surgery.

new from me! We looked at very late time HST + JWST imaging of the exceptional GRB 221009A & see a break in the light curve + also see evidence for an additional component - maybe a light echo or a star cluster. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2412.02663

New paper from me + collaborators on arxiv recently!! It's the SynthPop software paper, a code that began as my undergrad project 8 years ago: arxiv.org/abs/2411.18821

i was at goddard three weeks too early 😭

Astrobites was one of the best things I did during grad school, and I can't recommend it enough for any astro grads who are interested in science communication!!

some day i will start posting more science here. that day is not today.