A fitting way to finish a very stimulating week, thanks to Didier Queloz #ExSSV

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Check out this article I wrote for Scientific American on the history of understanding hot Jupiter formation... and why we haven't quite solved the problem yet! scientificamerican.com/article/bizarr…

anyway prof edward said said (hehe) it better than i could:

After a decade of work and an exciting+challenging academic journey, I am going to be a professor! Next year I will join Oregon State University as an assistant professor of physics!!!⭐️🦫 how it started // how it’s going

which one says "assistant professor in physics & astronomy (starting in 2025)"?

My chapter for the upcoming (undergrad-level) Encyclopedia of Astrophysics is out (well, on arXiv.org) It's about the Solar System's formation, and also its present and future. arxiv.org/abs/2404.14982 Quick thread 1/

Our paper "Amortized Variational Inference: when and why?" has been accepted to #UAI2024. Grateful for the opportunity to present this work and looking forward to the conference in Barcelona!

Yesterday, I successfully defended and can finally say that I am Dr. Kiersten Boley! I'm so thankful to everyone that helped me along the way! ❤️☺️😄

Massive congratulations to Dr Lili Alderson who passed her PhD viva today from School of Physics - University of Bristol with no corrections 🤗 So very proud of the amazing science she has done and leadership she has shown 🤓 (Also epic cakes from our PhD students Charlotte and Lucy)

It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legendary investor and a generous philanthropist. simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/sim…

Fabulous range of NY area exoplanets / disks / brown dwarf science on show Flatiron CCA today! Sabina Sagynbayeva mapping stellar surfaces using transit data.

UIUC is BLESSED

Photo from Cool Stars 12 in Boulder in 2001. Denise Stephens, me, Kelle Cruz, and Adam Burgasser are still here at 22 and still sitting around tables outside eating while trying to understand these wonderful cool non-stars.

If you’re at Cool Stars right now, make sure to check out my poster! She’s beautiful and full of fun stats!!🌟

Today is paper day and my 4th first author paper is out and I'm really proud of it! This is work on performing retrieval analysis in the complicated young cloudy L-dwarf regime. #BlackInAstro Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2407.01694 Here's the story (1/n)

🔍 New Tutorial: Hierarchical GPs with PyMC Developers https://bayes.club/@pymc ! 📊 Excited to share our 2nd #HSGP tutorial with Bill Engels! - Fast approx to a Hierarchical GP - Advanced custom GP models - HSGPs for larger #PyMC models - Exploiting #Kronecker structure 👉 Read here: pymc.io/projects/examp…

🌟🚨big news! 🚨🌟 Thrilled to announce that I accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Prof. in the amazing astronomy department of UCSDAstro UC San Diego 🥰starting Sept 1! 🙌astro.ucsd.edu/people/faculty… Come visit/join my gravitational-wave paleontology group & UCSD!🩶

my writing: 🫣😭💩👎 advisor's writing: 😍💫⭐️🔥

Today, Sept 9th, is the 25th anniversary of the transit detection of exoplanet HD 209458b: 9-9-99! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_209458…