I’m thrilled to share that I will be an EXP Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics at Caltech 🥹🥹🦫🦫 I will continue working on the direct imaging of exoplanets. So excited I get to continue doing what I love while staying in my beloved Southern California 🫶🪐🔭

#exoplanets #jobs 📣 I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates. *Launches NEXT YEAR! Please RT & share with your networks! aas.org/jobregister/...

Look at those two spiral galaxies. Two Milky Ways. Two hundreds of billions of stars and planets. Two homes. *slams fists onto table* DAMMIT the universe is SO COOL.

im a doctor ahhh 🥹🥹 got hooded for my PhD in astrophysics today it’s so unreal!!

defended my thesis and officially have a PhD in Astrophysics 🥹🥹 5 years of hard work, dedication and lots of support from my advisor and the department 🫶 so grateful for what’s been and what’s to come

thesis sent to committee :O unreal

Very excited about this paper led by Ilyse Clark resolving an extragalactic, low metallicity photodissociation region for the first time! 5x more CO-dark H2 column than the comparable Milky Way PDR! arxiv.org/abs/2504.06247

kind of relieving that the solar system is also going through it

my last thesis paper in a nutshell

alright, they're locked in

n-body simulating so hard i can see all the mean motion resonances in my head D:

"wow why is my parallel code still taking so long to run??" my parallel code:

after doing direct imaging for so long, I think I’ve become the condescending one

how my last thesis project feels right now

how the phd acknowledgements section is going... she's so timely with her album drops it's actually insane

ah, yes, the daily question arrives: should I write my thesis intro or should I write my last dissertation paper (chapter)?

feeling accomplished because I found the two major questions my phd thesis is trying to answer in a way that everything seems related. It only took four years and six months, but I guess it's good it happened before my defense?

trying to stay sane while thinking about torques in a protoplanetary disk to understand my planet migration plots D:

protoplanetary disks making me lose my mind for (no joke) probably the twentieth time within the last two years

channeling my inner @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social for thesis writing

the ucsd defense document is driving me MAD with this table formatting business ughhhh

actually so sad that Michelle Trachtenberg passed away :( when I was 10 I watched ice princess and that’s what got me into physics and ice skating which are both things I pursued even as an adult…. She unironically inspired me to be where I am now. RIP Michelle

Meanwhile: we're doing the first full cooldown of the upgraded spectrograph for the Gemini Planet Imager.

pov you just scheduled your thesis defense and booked the room so now the clock is officially ticking

y'all want some pizza? I just figured out how to cut some slices from this protoplanetary disk

Perhaps a little premature since it's still under review, but I'd like to share a couple results from our preprint now up on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05359 🔭 We dive deep into the orbits of the binary brown dwarf companion 🪐 GL229 Ba / Bb newly discovered this fall by Xuan et al. [1/4]

makes one wonder if any AAPF offers were made at all this year, since broader impacts sections are mandatory (as they should be!)

Hey bluesky! Do you want to develop your own open-source software in Python? Apply to attend Code/Astro! Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/ Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)

amazed to discover that the solar system wallpaper on new ios actually shows where the planets currently are in their orbits lol (also I think the individual planet ones also rotate given how they look when they’re facing the sun)

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

mandatory photo in front of the #AAS245 sign!

gave my #AAS245 dissertation talk so can finally breathe again 🥲

@astroclary.bsky.social's dissertation talk : Constraining the Formation and Orbital Architecture of Directly Imaged Exoplanets on Monday, January 13 2025, 2:10-2:30 PM in Potomac Ballroom C

Great presentations, engaging discussions, and valuable community inputs at the ExoPAG 31 meeting! A big thank you to everyone who joined and contributed 📸👏

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...

#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...

Feeling tremendous guilt that I can’t contribute to every single Go Fund Me myself, as if I alone were meant to be the public safety net.

had the wonderful opportunity to give an early career talk at ExoPAG 31. My last slide aims to convince people that cleanroom suits are very fashionable

Jenn Burt & Sam Halverson are wonderful astronomers doing it tough in these fires - I hope we can help them out as a community

Northwestern press and Nature Astronomy research highlights nicely summarize our new paper on a baby planet’s atmosphere news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

does anyone know of any undergraduate/graduate summer internships in direct imaging that take international students? While at a conference in Brazil I chatted with multiple students who want to work in direct imaging but can't find internships that take international students!

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/...

I have made my way back here just to announce how excited I am to have given a conference talk in Brazil, where I grew up, about all the orbit stuff I've been working on for my PhD!

been working with spectroscopy and now I have the nirspec telluric lines imprinted in my brain

hello Bluesky! I am happy to be here (special thanks to @aussiastronomer.bsky.social for sending me a code) and look forward to reconnecting with my astronomy peers :D