1/ It's press day!🔭🧪 We apply a grid of time-dependent physical models to explain TRAPPIST-1 flares, predicting the X-ray & UV flux driving escape and photochemistry in planetary atmospheres, and correcting flare contamination in transit spectroscopy down to ~60 ppm: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1...

Harvard Crimson editorial board: "If higher education — and the rest of American civil society — doesn’t stand with Harvard’s international students now, they may find themselves alone when Trump comes for them next." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The atomic spectral lines in this app come from the NIST atomic spectroscopy group, which has provided the world with spectroscopic measurements for 120 years. Today we got word that the federal government is laying off the entire group. 🔭🧪

Introducing "Signal in the Noise: The Ringberg Workshop on JWST Exoplanet Observations"! Goals: Overcome the instrumental + astrophysical challenges we face when characterizing transiting exoplanet atmospheres with JWST App Deadline: April 1, 2025 sites.google.com/view/jwst-ri... 🔭⭐ #exoplanets

TOI-2015b: a sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07074 K. Barkaoui et al

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2 kicks off today! 💫🤩✨ A follow-on to 2017's successful Know Thy Star meeting, #KnowThyStar2 welcomes almost 200 registrants to Caltech for some stellar discussion on exoplanet science. Talks will be posted to YouTube! conference.ipac.caltech.edu/knowthystar2

Please consider donating to some gofundmes for some friends and colleagues that work at NASA JPL that lost everything in the Eaton Fire in Altadena. I'm advertising a few that I know best who have been really wonderful people to work with my past 8 years on lab.