Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"

Had a great time at #ExoclimesVII hearing about so much new exoplanet science - huge thanks to the organisers @exoclimes.bsky.social for all their hard work!

I don't post super often here, but I just came by to share this news article with you (published alongside the paper in Nature yesterday). www.nature.com/articles/d41... There are a couple of sentences in the news article that stuck with me more than anything: 1/x

Exciting PhD opportunity at @exeter.ac.uk: Forecasting Martian Dust Storms (funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social)! Please share widely! More details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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. 🔭🧪

Do #exoplanets evolve over time? ☄️ A thread 1/🧵

We went from 2,000 satellites in 2019 to 11,000 satellites today 😱 Opening slide from @merrdiff.bsky.social

🚨New paper alert🚨! Cloudy skies on the hot Neptune LTT 9779b using JWST NIRISS/SOSS lead by my colleague Louis-Philippe Coulombe! By observing the exoplanet as it completes a journey around it's host star, we mapped out its temperature and cloud coverage across the globe! shorturl.at/6FLH3

Sorry, folks! Background: www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭🧪

Dan Huber kicking off #knowthystar2 with some motivations for the conference

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

ok I need some chemistry/spectroscopy people to weigh in: what molecular, atomic, ionic species or combinations thereof have a sharp band head within like 50 nm of 3 microns? Not peak absorption, but band head, with the rest of the band going to longer wavelengths

My supervisor, Jens Hoeijmakers, is advertising a postdoc position: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Working with Jens and being part of his group has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life—I enjoyed every second of it. Ask me anything! I'm an open book! 🪐🔭

So you want to measure the atmosphere of Proxima b? A🧵on how to do this with HARMONI@ELT in the next decade. You can also check out my paper showing these results 🔭 🪐: arxiv.org/abs/2401.09589 Or this summary phys.org/news/2024-01... 1/N

If you're looking to do a PhD (DPhil) in Astrophysics in the city of dreaming spires, check out our projects in Oxford Physics! I have one on exoplanet atmospheres, and another with Ray Pierrehumbert on technosignatures. Email questions. Apply before Jan 5th! www.physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgr... 🔭

Last week I passed the final exam of my life (hopefully!) #PhDone Huge thanks to my supervisor @airbornegrain.bsky.social for guiding me through the past 4 years