AI: Google has called governments around the world to intensify their efforts to prepare the labor force for a world automated by AI. blog.google/outreach-initi… I am concerned developing countries might already be at a disadvantage.

Happy Solstice!! The longest night of the year, and the reason we have so many holidays around this time. #Solstice

Pic update. The amazingly talented Ricardo Pinzon (IG: ricardopinzonhidalgo) is behind the camera. Special significance that it was taken in the 🏡 I grew up in. Had no idea I was going to become a professional astronomer. I was raised in a country without such a program.

I thought I would share a very important research result about plastic. In a nutshell, in bottled water they found copious amounts of nano plastic particles that the human bodies assimilate easily (more than microplastics). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

On my bday, I had to take my daughter to the hospital because a boy in her third grade class hurt her deliberately 😢. With her good hand she did this

I wonder, howmuch more science could young Colombians do if they were not thinking about having to pay for the expenses that should be paid for by governing institutions?

OpenAI called for ‘the best researchers and engineers in the world to meet the [superalignment] challenge’, very proud that my spouse Kristen Menou’s ideas got funded (1 of the 50 out of 2700!) #AIsafety.

If, at the most basic level, you cannot explain what you are doing to a kid, it probably means you don't understand what you are doing. If you need to use big words to explain your model, then it means you're hiding your insecurities. Kids are quite perceptive.

Heading to Earth and Planets Origin Workshop in Paris. Super excited to reconnect with my colleagues. But this #academic mom is with a heavy heart from leaving my girl crying in the train station. Ouch. I know it gets better, but darn.

Finished giving my talk on exoplanets to planetary scientists. This was my first in person talk after Covid, and I was nervous 😬. But in the end, I had a blast. Shared so many good ideas. Science at its finest. Darn for carbon footprint 👣 #academic

Another night of playing Tetris with the fridge and the dishwasher. I lost to the fridge tonight.

Active volcanism on Venus!! By using archive data (from the 90s) scientists were able to « see » , by comparing images, vents changing side and lava flows from three volcanoes (one reported last year, the other two recently). jpl.nasa.gov/news/ongoing-v…

Tell me your story. Mine: Me: how is the safety situation in Colombia? Him: oh, you don’t live here? Me: no, we were in France last year and thinking of living in Bogotá for a year Him: oh, because of your husband’s job? Me: no, because of mine Him: puzzled look

Very proud of my student Bo Peng for successfully defending his PhD thesis. Bo tackled 2 very different streams: magma ocean and atmosphere physics-chemical coupling & carbon outgassing of planetesimals with a different physical-mechanical-chemical model. Well done!