BREAKING: A new study suggests millions of planets in our galaxy may be in the "habitable zone" capable of sustaining liquid water. "Eyes are shifting toward this population of stars,” says its author, UF Astronomy PhD student Sheila Sagear. From PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Call for applications! The TheWOCproject would like to announce our 2023 Graduate School 101 Workshop, which will be held at Harvard University this fall. Applications are due August 20

In Colombia 🇨🇴 we use both last names as our official name. Let me awknowledge my mom’s influence in my career: I am astrophysicist Diana Valencia Pineda and very proud of this prize ☺️

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Finally, we take a look at the properties of the host stars themselves and explore the relationship between metallicity and planet multiplicity (number of planets in a system). We compare the [Fe/H] of the single-planet and multi-planet host stars and we find that ...

M-dwarfs hosting a single planet have on average much higher metallicities than those hosting multiple planets

...with flat, coplanar configurations and predominantly rocky (denser) planets. Should be interesting to see whether these trends will hold for sunlike systems as well! </end 🧵>

We're less than 3 months away from #JWSTCycle3 proposal deadline... you're welcome 🔭 #notameme

So are there aliens or not god dammit

Did you know you are entitled to time away from your work when taking qualifying exams? Check out your time off benefits here: hr.ufl.edu/manager-resour…

Everyone else in your department knows it is ungovernable. Everyone else your department also knows they are not the reason why it is ungovernable.

It’s OK if it’s bad, it just can’t look bad.

Faculty meeting

Today was Ohio State commencement. So proud of Romy Rodríguez! Good luck on your next adventure!

Check out my latest astrobites article! Had a wonderful time reading and learning about new results for TRAPPIST-1c led by Sebastian Zieba! ☺️🙌🏼

The college would have a lot fewer problems if faculty and staff stopped bringing problems to our attention.