Sitting at the airport waiting for my connecting flight home, and taking advantage of the downtime to do some stellar light curve classification for my Research class. 🔭

Nichelle Nichols was an amazing woman! Glad my daughter and I got to meet her once!

I guess they know their audience… I was amused, even though it means I can’t find the paper I want. 🔭

Link to ESO press release… www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭

When your professor asks you to create a plot for stellar Teff vs. Mv, and that's too easy, you do it in Python and learn a bit about MatPlotLib :)

Never mind jobs you had, tell me classes you took in college: 1) Habitable Worlds (why I fell in love with exoplanets) 2) Research Skills in Astronomy 3) Gender, Race, & Sex in Sci Fi 4) Welcome to the Future 5) Principles of Programming

Reading (and thoroughly enjoying) “The Possibility of Life” by Jaime Green, and who should appear as a source? @aussiastronomer.bsky.social talking about the #exoplanet archive at JPL and working with creatives to entice readers to read about the new discoveries.

Proud to be working with @emily.space on this amazing community! Congrats to Emily and the rest of the dedicated team working behind the scenes to bring you the AstroSky Ecosystem! 🔭

🔭 Adding to astronomy feed of the AstroSky Ecosystem (astrosky.eco)

#exoplanets Use of the Saturn emoji no longer posts to the exoplanets subfeed.

The spring semester has started! Really looking forward to my research skills class at ASU!

✨ New NASA #Exoplanet Archive Tutorial Video! ✨ This one highlights the differences between the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables. Take note of the strong warning NOT to use these tables directly for population or exoplanet demographic studies! youtu.be/MsUev8aMPKg

Really cool gift I got for Christmas. Lit orb with the solar system etched in the glass. 🔭

A holiday gift for #exoplanets Chrome users: how to set up the coolest exoplanet shortcut ever. Click the three-dot menu in the upper right -> Settings -> Search Engine -> Manage search engines and site search. Scroll to site search and click Add. Fill like this and save: (1/2)

Sadly, this is too spot on... www.youtube.com/shorts/ilry6...

Interview by @earthskyscience.bsky.social with the lead author Melissa McClure at Leiden University in the Netherlands on their amazing discovery of the very early stages of solar system and planet formation inside a pro-planetary disk around HOPS-351. #exoplanets 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1za...

This is ALL on Murkowski now! She ALONE could have stopped this! CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES - TELL THEM THIS IS A DISASTER AND THEY NEED TO VOTE NO! www.newsweek.com/big-beautifu...

I did my part, finishing off New Hampshire for #SkypeAScientist. givebutter.com/USS2025

Lego art 🍳 😄

Happy #catturday

Guess who just discovered that Zotero integrates nicely with Google Docs? This will make my English Composition class much simpler!

Tell Congress: Save NASA Science 🔭https://www.congressweb.com/PlanetarySociety/55?framed_parent_url_id=16B9560B-5056-86BC-D9795683FC992423

Had to cringe at trivia tonight. The emcee asked what constellation was on the Alaska state flag :( 🔭

Another thing Trump and the GOP are destroying: our first ever legitimate chance to detect life beyond Earth. Great article at SciAm: www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum... 🔭🧪

In other news, the oriole and hummingbird feeders have been hung at the house in New Hampshire. Likely a bit early, but at least we will be the chosen stop when they come through! @katlikespie.bsky.social

Have to write a how-to for the BlueSky #astronomy feed team to get some stuff set up locally, so why not take this opportunity to teach myself LaTeX?

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Hot off the presses at NASA! www.nasa.gov/missions/rom...

Fascinating article about the discovery of the ashes of Willy Ley, a prophet of space travel. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/n...

France is joining Australia (and I’m sure many others - haven’t seen actual reporting) in openly recruiting American scientists, many from our TOP institutions. #science www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

More #citizenscience for #exoplanet research! This is a light curve of Kepler 17-b analyzed using data from the NASA Exoplanet Watch program, and the EXOTIC computer program to analyze about 85 images from 2006-12-08.

🔭 This deeply saddens me as an aspiring astrophysicist.

@drbecky.bsky.social once again does a fantastic job explaining why the reported observation of DMS in the atmosphere of K2-18b is NOT the sign of alien life the media is making it out to be. #astronomy www.youtube.com/shorts/zPYHP...

When translations fail…

Yes, this is how I do all my #astronomy homework.

#exoplanets - the planet emoji has been deprecated from the Astronomy feed...

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

THIS is a good use of #science!!! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...

Just submitted my first transiting light-curve of WASP-135 b to AAVSO for NASA's Exoplanet Watch. How did I not know about this before, and why do I have to wait 2 days for my next set of data? Time to get my telescope set up and observing! #exoplanets

My mug is empty, and the coffee in the pot is getting cold, but it would be against cat law to disturb her…

While what Colossal accomplished and announced the other day is amazing for science, it's not what they claim. Dire wolves were not "de-extincted". @hankgreen.bsky.social does a great job sifting through what they actually accomplished, and what is likely marketing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0z...

Another pull request of mine successfully merged into main for the open source package I'm contributing to... Yay!!

Do better @nytimes.com, @npr.org!!

Spent the better part of the day learning Docker, standing up a dev PostgreSQL database, and working on migration scripts/steps to migrate from SQLite (for dev) and MySQL (for Prod) to PostgreSQL. Productive!

The Oregon Trail

Isn’t the usual concern that America is falling behind in #STEM? How does this help?

Enjoying seeing all the photos from across the pond of the partial #solareclipse today. We had rain and clouds in New England, so missed it here.

If you live in the US New England area, be sure to check out Massachusetts Space Week from April 21-27! 🔭 spaceconsortium.org/space-week-s...