I hosted a karaoke event for Movember. I'm also walking 60km. I've walked 40km out of 60km so far. Typically, people run 60km, but due to having arthritis in my spine, I cannot do this. Please donate to support Men's mental health and to motivate me for the last 20km! movember.com/m/15180010?m...

1) @washingtonpost.com reported Thursday on a controversial policy downgrading how nooses and swastikas are labeled in the Coast Guard. 2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap." 3) The CG said it would review policy language. 4) The CG reversed course.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

🔭🧪 Absolutely blown away by the pedagogy and the *artistry* of this goliath piece of #scicomm ⬇️ Just look at these drawings!! This must have taken an incredible amount of time & talent, and I learned so much (about a fairly-distant-subfield-to-mine) from it! So grateful for scientists who do this!

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Glad to read the announcement that the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will continue!!

🧪🔭⭐ #exoplanets #exoplanet #youngplanets New paper from our group and @madysonbarber.bsky.social today! We report a brand-new planet around a <50 Myr star—adding to a very small (but rapidly growing!) population of the youngest known transiting planets. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10734

Apologies that the banner picture didn't appear. Here it is again. telescoper.blog/2025/11/18/i...

Also this article is fantastic and unapologetic -- and I am a co-author on it! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

This is just a big echo for the need for more Indigenous STEM course content, leadership, and education. I like this article a lot as a place to get started! digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol87/is...

Good conversations with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) this morning on Indigenous data sovereignty in publishing-- a great warmup to the release of our CARE Publishing Guidelines in December. Delighted to join and learn with Dr. Janet Smylie and Dr. Catherine Chamberlain.

Today is #LGBTQinSTEMDay 🌈 ESA proudly joins the STEM community in celebrating the unique contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals. The Pride Flag will fly across ESA sites as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and how much more there is to do. #SpaceForAll

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

So sad to hear that Alice Wong has died. Her work has informed my understanding of disability and disability advocacy for as long as I can remember, and we just listened to her on this episode of Radiolab a few weeks ago: www.wnycstudios.org/story/voice/

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

Thanks to Ben Cassese and @aasnova.org for this lovely summary of our paper!

I just don’t think they comprehend how inspiring NASA has been, and still is, for humanity. Kids are not going “I want to work for ESA when I grow up” they are saying “I want to work for NASA when I grow up”

@karagoucher.bsky.social @deslinden.bsky.social candidates for the Technogym competition! 😆

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Absolutely floored to have received an award for "open and inclusive" #scicomm and outreach. I'm not usually one to broadcast such things, but I think highlighting this type of work is more important than ever. Please consider getting involved in your own communities! 🔭🧪 www.uu.se/institution/...

The second big reason is related: Fundamental, basic science, the foundation of US tech and biotech innovation, is a public good in the economics sense. As @josephestiglitz.bsky.social puts it: a key feature of public goods is that without the gov’t they are underprovisioned. /last vid

The first big reason why NIH is irreplaceable? Scale. The NIMH budget alone is $2.4 BILLION. NIH’s budget is around $48 billion. In comparison @hhmi.org is $1B, the fabulous American Cancer Society is around $150M. We are talking about the diff between millions and billions. 3/

no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI

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I loved this interview, highly recommend.

Have you always dreamed of being a Max Planck director? Well, here is your chance! The Max Planck society has an open call for directors: www.mpg.de/25111395/mpg... #astronomy

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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...

So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭

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w/ Oli Shorttle, @johannateske.bsky.social & Eliza Kempton we reviewed our current understanding and prospects for peaking on the inside of small #exoplanets in "Constraining exoplanet interiors using observations of their atmospheres": www.science.org/stoken/autho... & arxiv.org/abs/2510.08844 🔭🧪⚒️☄️

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Very interesting work!

So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach: Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

this is great - we’re not gonna scicomm our way out of this

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For those frantically trying to submit their Gemini proposals tonight, it’s broken: www.gemini.edu/news/science...

Cugno and Grant @sierragrant.bsky.social with “A Carbon-rich Disk Surrounding a Planetary-mass Companion” detected using #JWST - an impressive detection of several different carbon molecules that are very promising for #exomoon formation around the directly imaged #exoplanet CT Cha b ☄

PRESS RELEASE DAY! Could not be prouder of this result and so happy that it's now out!!! 🤩✨ Thanks to the team at @stsci.edu for the wonderful write-up and image!

Yay @sierragrant.bsky.social and team! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I'm really excited about this one! It's fantastic working with Dr. Yayaati Chachan: arxiv.org/abs/2509.20428 "Revising the Giant Planet Mass-Metallicity Relation: Deciphering the Formation Sequence of Giant Planets" Lots of great nuggets her, including that even super-Jupiters are very metal-rich.

There's a lot to unpack from the paper; the main takeaway is that we're starting to really see these objects in 3D! In the future, we want to really look at how the atmosphere itself evolves over time, rather than just looking at the rotational modulation - this would really be the weather!

🔭 It's paper day! Today I'm sharing the latest in a series of papers looking at the weather on other worlds, in this case bringing you the weather report from a nearby T-dwarf, SIMP-0136. 🪐 🧵 to follow...

“We didn’t evolve in an environment with so much information, and now there is so much available. We just consume information all the time.”

TOMORROW: Two talks, one big night of discovery! Join Earth & Planets Laboratory postdocs Sierra Grant & Shubham Kanodia as they reveal how planets are born—and the giants that defy the rules. #NeighborhoodLecture 📅 Sept 25 | 6:30 PM ET | DC & Online 🔗 RSVP: carnegiescience.edu/birth-worlds...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis: