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"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?' "Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷‍♂️

blogging through the sickness www.astrowill.page/blog/what-do...

the classic sickness after stressful deadlines has impeeded halloween fun this year :(

the closest r1 physics dept to my hometown is hiring: 😀😀😀 ... in cm theory: 🫥🫥🫥

my favorite weatherman on channel 0136 @evertnasedkin.bsky.social

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

first fellowship submitted. brain hurts

Let that sink in "Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

🔭 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...

need to take a break from fellowship drafts because i think im driving myself crazy

surely the others will be different, right guys

About half of Americans say they've put off healthcare services due to cost barriers, with Millennials most affected by far, per new study by Madaket Health. Percent of age groups who've put off getting care: Millennials: 78% Gen X: 56% Baby Boomers: 30% www.morningstar.com/news/busines...

the question is not "when will you finally write the 51 eri b GRAVITY paper" the question is "when will the observations work twice in a row"

Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls detained, beaten, and choked in Israel during humanitarian aid trip #ChrisSmalls was among 21 others when he was singled out, detained, and beaten by Israeli forces on Saturday. thegrio.com/2025/07/29/a...

“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn’t just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?” by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

The recent news of #JWST imaging of 14 Herculis c prompted me to draw my own depiction of the planet. A superjovian planet with water clouds kept warm by internal heat, it has thin haze due to low radiation, making it white-blue due to methane. #astronomy #space #art #exoplanet #14Herculis

i told jwst what to do today

saw one finally

my student just tipped me off that my first jwst observations as PI were scheduled! fingers crossed for clear skies (on the other planet, i mean)

don't forget the gravity fringes! this was a very fun target to observe. welcome to the fold HD 135344 A b and, in the paper, finally a happy use case for backtracks.readthedocs.io (we used the code to reject the null hypothesis that this source is a distant background star)

have to say, not exactly an exciting year to be applying for postdocs

let the record state that i called most of the jumbos as background sources day one, and that the fragmentation predicted binary fraction would hold up

Payel then discussed a planetary system not too far away from our own where the two giant plants were directly imaged by JWST. They're very misaligned! Very different from our solar system where the planets are coplanar. arxiv.org/abs/2506.09201 🔭

here's the rest of the pixels :)

my team and i took an image of a cold, strange planet with JWST! press release out now: webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

Amidst all the horrific news for astronomy lately, I'm still excited to share a new work that I was a part of, led by Kielan Hoch at @stsci.edu ! Using @nasawebb.extwitter.link , we found a new circumplanetary disk and strong silicate absorption in the YSES 1 planets. www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

fourth pixel. come see the talk in a few hours. press release tomorrow at 10am alaska time (fake timezone). all pixels will be revealed in time.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

the third pixel. apparently i was supposed to upload my slides friday, but they weren't done friday. they'll be done by monday, 10:20 AM in session 116, though, i promise.

the second pixel. if oomfies are in anchorage hit me up.

i will be releasing one (1) pixel of our coronagraphic image of this cool* planet each day, up until our AAS 246 press release on tuesday. you can get a sneak peek if you come see my talk on monday. i will not be stopped. *literally

burnt out on this project but have to present it in a press conference + talk in a week. need to make two presentations in the next few days. anyone have advice on how to power through or find the excitement?

In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

<The Biggest Planet We Know Is Doomed> I don't know if that's good enough clickbait but I am intensely proud of Gavin Wang (recent Goldwater winner!) whose paper "A Revised Density Estimate for the Largest Known Exoplanet, HAT-P-67 b" was accepted to AJ and is on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.13997

hard at work at the wretched truth factory making more wretched truth

In this News Brief, "Dem Leaders, Free Speech Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Dissidents," we detail political and media responses to Trump deporting Gaza protestors––ranging from support to indifference to hilariously qualified, tepid opposition

Exoplanets around star HR 8799 are enriched in heavy elements compared to their host star says study, which suggests they share an evolution similar to that of Jupiter and Saturn www.chemistryworld.com/news/jwst-re... Thanks to @balmer.bsky.social who led the study of JWST data for the insights

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

In Ep 217, "A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic," we detail the rise of AI-washing––an increasingly popular media trope that helps those in power avoid responsibility by blaming rogue tech for insurance claim denials, war crimes and rising rents. w/ guest @stevenrenderos.bsky.social

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

and the pixels behind the PR

HR 8799 via JWST NIRCam [NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), L. Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI)]

Tada webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

This is fucking awful.

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

still a bit stunned, but excited to get the chance to take more pictures of exoplanets in the next year of JWST operations. very grateful for my advisor and collaborators encouragement and support.

need to buy a lottery ticket