📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d4158…

Researchers, including Dr Joanna Barstow, have used NASA’s JWST to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b. Observations suggest clouds cover the nightside, clear skies on the dayside, and up to 5,000 miles p/hr mixing gases around the planet. ounews.co/science-mct/re…

Today, May 10th, is the anniversary of the outbreak of the largest anti-colonial uprising in history: the violent revolution known in Britain as the Indian Mutiny and in India as the First War of Independence. Empire Podcast has two episodes on the events of 1857: No.3- Mutiny,

It was great to be part of the NIRSpec team that independently arrived at the same conclusion. Methane (or lack of it) once again doing the heavy lifting for helping us learn about atmospheric dynamics! Congratulations to Luis Welbanks, David Sing and both teams.

Quintessentially Dutch. At #exoplanets5 in Leiden.

"WASP-107b is a popcorn planet." Luis Welbanks (Luis Welbanks) #Exoplanets5 #ExoV

Presented our work today at #exoplanets5 ! It has indeed been a memorable experience! Also thank you @smastrophysics - my conference partner for a decade now!

🚨 An atmosphere on a super-Earth in the habitable zone? 🔎🌍🔭 We're excited to share our new NASA Webb Telescope observations of the super-Earth LHS 1140b. THREAD

Wow, this new Exxon ad is surprisingly candid.

Speaking now at #NAM2024: Agnibha Banerjee on "Atmospheric retrievals reveal a hybrid atmosphere and possible sulfur species on super-earth L 98-59 d". Agnibha has published in #MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article… Oxford Journals Royal Astronomical Society RAS NAM - Hull 2024

This week we are taking a break from the American Empire series to cover an important and tragic event from 20th-century Indian history - the 1943 Bengal Famine

Rickshaw wallahs blockaded traffic, women draped their bodies over ppl to protect, teachers put their bodies on line for students, ppl went w/ sticks facing an armed military. March to Dhaka, ppl went prepared to be killed today, changing phone display w/ details to be identified

Could this exoplanet be home to fiery volcanoes? Read on to find out at The Conversation : theconversation.com/a-distant-plan…