Excited to share our work on AF Lep A+b! Interested in planet formation via atmospheric compositions? or... Struggling with atmospheric retrievals for your favorite self-luminous planets or brown dwarfs? Check out our work! (AJ in press) 🧵1/n arxiv.org/abs/2309.02488

Thank you, Jonathan, for this empowering thread! And thank my wonderful colleagues at UVA astronomy for being so supportive! Tagging those who are on twitter Ilse Cleeves Bradley Johnson

Is proposer’s high a thing?

Aged like milk.

ChatGPT: Through profound introspection, I have delved into and leveraged my understanding of the extensive nature of my unawareness in numerous domains, revealing a sophisticated grasp of my limitations.

ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’. As we’ve see for other domains, here is the increase of ‘delve’ in astronomy publications (ChatGPT was launched on 30 November 2022).

Paper day on the arXiv today! We took two beautiful Hubble phase curves of a couple of really special brown dwarfs and ran a ton of retrievals to understand their atmospheres. arxiv.org/abs/2404.16813

💫Single-author Research Note Day! Interested in AF Lep b? Wondering about the initial entropy, and the formation epoch of this planet? Dive into my new work here! 🧵1/11 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…

Extremely large telescopes will be among humanity’s most ambitious scientific instruments - and will provide our first opportunity to probe nearby planetary systems for Earth-like planets. But what will they find? Check our new, comprehensive study led by Kevin Hardegree-Ullman !

What a headline! China has made significant strides in science. Instead of celebrating it, The Economist’s default reaction is to worry about it. economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

Twenty-min bike ride away from Leiden. Pretty happy about my Airbnb choice so far!

Check out these crazy light curves and be in awe of the most detailed weather reports from two extrasolar worlds, made available by JWST and the hard work of Beth, Johanna, and everyone involved.

It's disappointing to see this argument promoted by an academic, a new dean at my alma mater. Every advanced country has programs to support science and scientists to try to attract and retain talent. Investments in science and technology by governments help improve humanity...