UT Austin Astro is hiring! It's an open call, but definitely interested in getting another exoplanet person! Feel free to reach out with any questions about the department or living in Austin! aas.org/jobregister/...

Little old Texas just *quietly* transitioning to our clean energy future shhhhhh don't tell anyone. Drill baby drill, uh, sir.

ERCOT fuel mix from 2006 to 2024 now available: - Natural gas above its 19-year running average of 43% to 44% in 2024. - Solar hitting 10% of total energy generated. - Wind holding steady %-wise, but up in absolute terms. - The ERCOT grid is now 42% clean energy!

🚨 SPECIAL FIRST POST 🚨 Applications to @exoclimes.bsky.social (7-11 July, 2025 at @umontreal.ca) is now OPEN until Jan 24, 2025! Join us for a week of exciting talks on planetary atmospheres interspersed with ample opportunities to discuss and forge new collaborations! forms.gle/mpeZ3LXGoFb9...

WHERE DID ALL YOU PEOPLE COME FROM? WE WERE ENJOYING TALKING AMONGST THE TWELVE OF US HERE! Just kidding hi AstroTwitter! I'm an associate professor on a blue island in a deep red state and therefore have only lukewarm takes on the world unless you meet me in person. We have the best tacos though.

Apropos of nothing... Taylor Swift has released collections of her songs divided into the 5 stages of grief. This one is anger. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

"Should I trust the Dark Lord who attempted to topple the White City of Gondor? Or do I trust the Elf Queen representing the coalition of Men and Elves who defeated Sauron when he tried to enslave the Free Peoples, but could maybe do more meet-and-greets?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

New email signature day! It’s been a wild ride for the past 6 years of Assistant Professor life at UT, growing a research group amidst a global pandemic and growing my family. Happy and proud to be leveling up today to Associate Professor with tenure. Here’s to the next 6 years!

The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program has named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. These young scientists will begin their programs in the fall of 2024 at a university or research center of their choosing in the United States: bit.ly/49c3ZjK

Hi Bluesky! I'm advertising a position to join our modeling efforts to bring GPUs and machine learning/AI into both self-consistent and retrieval models for exoplanets. If you have interest in either ML/AI or in modeling brown dwarfs/exoplanets, please apply! due 2/12 jobregister.aas.org/ad/0395a595

May have just handed a person sniffing and sneezing in my vicinity at the gate for my flight my spare N95 mask 😬 Too bold? He looked surprised but did put it on!

UT Austin is hiring a new assistant professor this year! Come join us! We have a great group of faculty here, and awesome students/postdocs. And telescopes! And Austin is in the habitable zone for at least 8 months every year. jobregister.aas.org/ad/359bf302

I am hoping to hire a postdoc to start in the summer or fall, to work on exoplanet or brown dwarf atmospheres! Details here: jobregister.aas.org/ad/c0d2c3a8 Join us here in beautiful Austin!

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲'. Ok, probably everyone has seen the headlines about K2-18b by now. I've put together this thread to collate some thoughts on why many exoplanet astronomers are pretty sceptical about these claims - THREAD (1/N)

Save the date for Cool Stars 22! It's been fun to be on the SOC of Cool Stars for the first time, and I'm excited for our all-star list of invited speakers! See you in San Diego, June 24-28 coolstars22.github.io/program.html

I'll now be taking bets on whether 0, 1, 2, or all 3 of the rest of us test positive this evening 🫣

🚨OH NO THE HUSBAND HAS COVID🚨

1.5 weeks into the semester and COVID has entered the preschool class at school. It's going to be a FUN semester y'all!

Anyone know what XRP funding percentages were this year? I feel like I'm hearing lots of good news from people, but maybe my friends are just awesome

The universe could not have better timing, to give me my biggest funded proposal a week before my department votes on my tenure case! A big push for cold exoplanet and brown dwarf modeling on the way! 🪐

Hi all- I'm again crowdsourcing a list of faculty looking for MS/Phd students *worldwide* in planetary science/exoplanets/astrobiology. If you are such a faculty member, please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So this is my 6th year of teaching at UT... older professors, will I ever *not* be super amped up for at least an hour after teaching my class?

Putting together one's tenure packet is a fun trip down memory lane. So many papers! Grants! Students! Service! I can't tell this to the committee but I can tell it to you: There was no more herculean task than teaching 3 days a week with morning sickness during my 1st pregnancy

Jumped off the sinking Twitter ship. Hi everyone! 👋