the mandalorian and grogu is the only movie brave enough to ask: what if jabba the hutt was just a guy?

ASU used AI for graduate commencement but actually pulled it off well bc we’re #1 in innovation

please, Mr. Smith was my father. call me Dr. Smith

there is already enough sadness in the world, why do we need IPAs

my “this is not a golden calf” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

when you die anubis weighs your heart against the most bags of groceries you ever held in one hand

Recent pics of the Extremely Large Telescope Credit: ESO/G. Vecchia @eso.org 🧪🔭

love doing required lab safety modules bc it’s an hour of unskippable videos followed by a quiz with questions like “You should drink hydrofluoric acid. ⚪️TRUE ⚪️FALSE”

for sale: mines, never swept

for sale: crypt, never kept

In fantastic 4 Galactus passes by Jupiter without notice, finally giving us a much awaited confirmation that there is no life on MCU Europa

Hello World! A new chapter of Astronomy on Tap just dropped in sunny Tempe, AZ ☀️. We’re so excited to announce that starting this August, we’ll be hosting FREE monthly events at Four Peaks Brewing with professional astronomers who love talking about space! Follow for event details and sneak peaks 👀

I did a lot of Vibe Physics in undergrad, especially during exams. I also failed a lot of exams

exoplanet lottery - everybody gets assigned a random hydrocarbon and if you can show it fits K2-18 b MIRI data at 4 sigma you get a faculty job offer

as it turns out the trans service people were in charge of putting on the parking brakes for the jets

as an exoplanet astronomer I feel uniquely qualified to remind everyone this Earth Day that Earth is literally the best planet in the universe. every other planet is a shithole. its true.

nice. these posteriors imply K2-18 b's atmosphere could be anywhere from 0 to 100% DMDS (and same for the other molecules)

will read this in more detail in the morning but a quick thread of some technical quirks: for context, "sigma"/confidence intervals here describe the preference of one model/hypothesis over another, not a signal strength over noise as in most types of "detections" 0/3 arxiv.org/abs/2504.12267

unfortunately due to tariffs we had to pay 2 sigmas on that DMS detection

you’re telling me this data is based?

we’re speedrunning the Cultural Revolution which famously went Extremely Well for China

if I don’t publish again soon They will Take me

Just announced: 10% tariff on spectra from K2-18b

returning to all the neglected projects and responsibilities after submitting proposals

I know it’s pi day because you’re spinning my head right round

I got 11 unconstrained hyperparameters call that kernel sanders

hey astronomers while slack is down we can use this google doc instead :) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

slack is down

while you were writing a finesst proposal I was studying the blade

when the world (me) needed him (my windows laptop) most, he vanished (restarted for no reason)

I went to lovely person island and they had an idol built in your likeness

trump has obviously never played civ

I'm pretty sure the average TA has taken more conflict of interest and ethics training than the people in charge of *checks notes* actually all of the money rn

the european mind cannot comprehend the trauma of having to make an unprotected left turn on an average american road

“we thank the anonymous referee for their feedback which improved the manuscript”

4/ Our colleague Juan Beltran, an engineer at Paranal, did not miss the chance to capture the comet either, seen here next to an Auxiliary Telescope.

when they said the future is female I didn’t realize they meant starting on Jan 20 mashable.com/article/trum...

this was easily one of my favorite science results of 2024. Happy to see it published - congrats Lisa and the CRIRES+ folks!

why call it a derivative when disintegration is right there

i hope the government bans slack next

AAS was a blast but I’ll admit doing exoplanets w high res in the US is lonely at times!!

not sure who to root for b/t UT vs ASU in the peach bowl today. I’ve been at ASU a semester longer than I was at UT, but UT has given me more degrees 🤔

I was visited by three spirits on christmas eve and they said I was doing just okay. not bad but I could do better. and maybe work out more.

exciting news Ames and Goddard employees - you get to move to Alabama!

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Astronomer: ah you mean when I was Dark Working

okay I’ll admit it. interstellar is good

after weeks of debugging and optimizing, I’m proud to say I’ve decreased a function call time by 0.001 seconds

This paper is now published in AJ! You can check it out here iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... A huge thanks to all of my collaborators who made this possible ❤️ If you're in a hurry, a thread below: 0/8

professorships are like “congrats! you are so good at research you can never do it again”

My latest paper is on the arXiv! We take a look at the dayside of ultra hot Jupiter WASP-121 b with IGRINS on Gemini South (rip) and show you can simultaneously measure both the C/O and refractory/volatile ratios with a single instrument arxiv.org/abs/2410.19017