This year's New York Area Exoplanets Meeting (NYAEM III) will take place at the American Museum of Natural History on Friday, May 15th. Abstracts are due March 10th (1 month from today!) and registration is due April 15th - see the conference website for more information: nyexoplanets.github.io

some musings on the pursuit of passion, and reflections on my journey into astrophysics: sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/30/t...

The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST closes with pitches for team projects to ignite discovery with @vrubinobs.bsky.social. Initiative cosponsored with @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, with additional support from Leinweber Foundation and Kevin Wells.

Astro PhD applications for Edinburgh are open! Deadlines are: * 24 Nov: Career Development Scholarship (for students of Black heritage) * 5 Dec: Bell Burnell Scholarship (for all URM students) * 5 Jan: all applications Come to beautiful Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Applying is free! 🔭🧪 ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fe...

Astrophysics applications for this scholarship are open and due 24 November! ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fe...

New paper on arXiv, analyzing Rubin Observatory data of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. This is the first science paper with data from LSSTCam!!!!! arxiv.org/abs/2507.13409

Enjoyed a rowboat and conversations with @malenarice.bsky.social over the weekend!

Applications for the 2025-2026 cycle of the 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy are now open! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you are interested in applying with Yale as a host institution :) www.hsfoundation.org/programs/sci...

Finding out about Gaia at #EAS2025Cork! ☄️ Just announced: Gaia DR4 will be released in December 2026!

Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please watch the @aas.org Press Conference where @balmer.bsky.social presented this thrilling result: THE NEW(even if expected from astrometry)LY IMAGED, COLD (~2ºC), MATURE giant exoplanet 14 Her c with JWST/NIRCam!!! Congrats Daniella, William and the whole team 😀 www.youtube.com/live/Z7niXAH...

Join us for NASA's ExoPAG 32 Meeting on June 3rd! This free virtual meeting is open to all, but please register to receive the access link: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/... #exoplanets #astronomy

Delighted that Yan Liang will be joining us at Yale this fall as our newest 51 Pegasi b Fellow, leveraging AI to disentangle planetary signals from stellar spectra! Our 51 Peg family grows 💜 news.yale.edu/2025/04/04/y...

We are excited for a fantastic program that is coming together for NYAEM, which will take place on May 22nd at the CCA! We will be accepting additional poster abstracts on a first-come, first-serve basis up through the registration deadline (April 22nd). #exoplanets

Paper day! I introduce a new all-in-one tool to generate and drizzle/resample space-based point spread functions for more accurate photometry 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2503.02288

Applications are open for our visiting grad student program (pre-doc program) at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org! Reach out if you're a student interested in: - Preparing for Gaia DR4 - Stellar streams - Data-driven methods for spectroscopy (and want to apply!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔭

Nominations to the Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) Executive Committee, including nominations for the ExoPAG Chair, are due March 7. ExoPAG is a community-based forum coordinating input to NASA Astrophysics. Reach out with any questions! 🔭🪐 exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...

Tomorrow! Join us — in person or online at 6:30pm Chicago time — for the last Picture an Astronomer public lecture with galactic archaeologist Anna Frebel (MIT), who will describe the cosmic origin of the heaviest elements. More (incl. registration) at pictureanastronomer.github.io 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

Abstract deadline for this year's New York Area Exoplanets Meeting (NYAEM II) is coming up in just under 2 weeks (March 10th)! It'll be a 1-day regional meeting at the CCA, bringing together astronomers in the greater New York area working on exoplanets + adjacent topics 🔭🪐 nyexoplanets.github.io

From Huei Sears @starlights.bsky.social and Jessie Thwaites @jthwaites.bsky.social: Today we highlight the “Picture an Astronomer” Symposium at UChicago, created primarily by grad student Ava Polzin, with lectures and events in February/March! Registration ends 2/15.✨🔭 astrobites.org/2025/02/11/t...

Registration ends Feb. 15! 🔭🧪👩‍🔬 We encourage *all* professional astronomers/astrophysicists to attend (in person or remotely)! More at pictureanastronomer.github.io/symposium

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

#PlanetaryScience 🔭🧪: GoFundMe for JPL employees and Habitable Worlds Observatory team members suffering amidst the #LAFires. Confirmed organized on the HWO slack by @astrodave2.bsky.social. www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...

Folks, a huge number of people at JPL have been affected by the LA wildfires, with many losing their homes. If you can, consider contributing to a fund that's been set up to help them: (Link looks sketch but site is legit) caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

Hey folks - like many people, our friends have lost their house and everything in it. If you are able to help support them through a long, slow recovery, please do. #LAFires gofund.me/a24b7e39

Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Visionary Science and Transformational Technology www.stsci.edu/contents/eve...

The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025. FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor... #WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

In the last year, in addition to work through SIRIUS B and all of the immense response online, hard copies have been shared at five universities, and the book is now being translated into other languages! Here’s to another year of trying to make astro more accessible! 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2312.04041

Yesterday was the last day of Fall 2024 classes at Yale, and one of my students gifted me this custom-made lithophane of the HL Tau protoplanetary disk! Look how awesome it is?! 🤩

Happy holidays from the Rice research group! ♡ 🪐

#Exoplaneteers - NASA's Exoplanet Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) is recruiting new members! Do you have opinions on what support NASA is providing to the exoplanet community? HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Link to the 2025 recruitment details here: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...

Reminder: please nominate yourself or others! :) We still have 12 open slots for the winter and spring.

Mark your calendar for the ExoPAG31 on Jan 11 & 12! 🌟 Join us in person or online to explore new exoplanet science and learn how you can get involved and contribute to upcoming missions like Ariel and Roman. Register & view the program here: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...

One of my favourite #planetaryScience conferences, which I only discovered in 2023, is the Gordon Conference on "Origins of Solar Systems." It brings together observers, theorists, cosmochemists, planetologists, and astronomers. The next one is in 2025! 🧪 Registration: www.grc.org/origins-of-s...

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is partnering with the Arizona Astrobiology Center to host a workshop 4 US-based science journalists seeking to understand the search for extraterrestrial life & prepare to report its discovery. Funding for travel is available 🔭

Coming soon! The Inaugural Open Community Conference for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory 🔭, in DC from 28-31 July 2025! Here, a crew of characters from AURA, STScI, and GSFC scout out site options to share with the good people planning the HWO mtg. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Looking for speakers for Yale's Galaxy Lunch! If you're a grad student or postdoc working on galaxy formation/evolution research, we'd love to have you present at our seminar. Reach out to me ([email protected]) or find more information about the seminar here: yalegalaxylunch.github.io/about/

#Scialog: Early Science with the LSST wraps up today with pitches for team proposals to ignite discovery with the Rubin Observatory's upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Thanks to everyone for helping get this initiative off to a great start!

Applications are open for the 2025 Dorrit Hoffleit Research Fellowship program for current undergraduate students to conduct summer research in the Yale Department of Astronomy! Open to 2nd/3rd year undergrads of any nationality — due February 15th 🪐🧪🚀 astronomy.yale.edu/undergraduat...

✅The 2025 ESA internship opportunities are now live! Positions are open in a wide range of fields, including engineering, space science, IT, natural and social sciences, business, economics, and administrative services.🚀 www.esa.int/About_Us/Car...

From @aip.bsky.social on the other place -- awards to cover grad application fees!

#Uranus reaches 2024 opposition tomorrow. For more than 30 years, #Hubble has watched the shifting Uranian seasons, from southern summer solstice (seen by Voyager 2 in 1986), through equinox in 2007, and (hopefully) on to northern summer solstice in 2030. #planetaryscience 📸 NASA/ESA/STScI/Fletcher

Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 27th. ✨🔭 astrobites.org/2024/10/27/a...

🔭 The Yale Astro x Data Science Seminar is looking for speakers! Come visit Yale and showcase your work or lead a code demo! Check out our about page for more info: yale-dsaas.github.io/about/ Reach out here or email me at [email protected] if you're interested!

New release of Octofitter, the ultra fast 🪐 orbit modelling code for Python and Julia. Version 5 with some nice speed improvements for RV modelling large datasets. Check it out here: - sefffal.github.io/Octofitter.j... - github.com/sefffal/octo... 🔭

Perhaps more timely now than ever: We are hosting a scientific symposium (among other events -- see pic) at UChicago, focused on promoting and retaining women in astrophysics. Symposium registration (link in next tweet) is open through Jan. 30 and we offer hybrid attendance. 🔭👩‍🔬🧪

Early Career Scientists! Only 1 day left to apply to present your research at the ExoPAG31, happening just before the January AAS meeting. Travel support is available: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...

Applications are now open for the 2025 ExoExplorers cohort!! And we are also accepting nominations (including self-nominations) for 2025 ExoGuides. ***ExoExplorer and ExoGuide applications are both due by 6pm Pacific time on October 18th, 2024.*** 🪐🔭👩‍🔬✨ exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...

It was an honor to speak as part of today’s Kavli Astrophysics Symposium, rounding out an incredible week in Oslo! Feeling so inspired from this remarkable week with remarkable people ♡

Delighted to see this new paper out, led by Ben Cassese, describing squishyplanet — a jax-based Python package to model the signals of oblate planets! arxiv.org/abs/2409.00167 Check out the readthedocs page for more, including some awesome visualizations: squishyplanet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/