Dr. Macy Huston

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I'm hiring an intern for a 6-month research position related to the NASA Pandora SmallSat Mission, project and start date flexible. Must be a current astro PhD student :) www.llnl.gov/join-our-tea...

Here's this year's bsky.app/profile/aas....

I think they have opportunities to volunteer and get a discount or free registration!

happy birthday flea!!

I haven’t said this in a while, and it bears repeating: it is actually very easy to not work with abusers and rapists in the field! Moreover, we owe it to ourselves, our colleagues, and our future.

Proud adviser with a whole host of @pseticenter.bsky.social students, postdoc, and alumni!

Winter Parts, Olivia Curtis, @cayladedrick.bsky.social (honorary), Nick Tusay, @mhuston.bsky.social, Pinchen Fan, Evan Sneed, Sofia Sheikh, Lennon Nichol, and Arianna Nielsen.

screenshot of a webcam livestream that shows several telescope domes in front of the night sky, with a laser beam emitting from one into space. the sky is a bit noisy but many stars are visible. the corner text reads 20:05:23 2025.08.10 Live from Subaru Telescope, Hawaii

keck night 3/4 for this run of our astrometric microlensing program! i love watching our laser on the subaru livestream

yesterday at an estate sale we overheard a zoomer explain to their friend that a furby is "like an old labubu"

happy dwight slappe buys a cookie cake day i guess

Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.

first quintile hst rejection 🙃

dril tweel from 2012 reading "this whole thing smacks of gender, i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbecue grill and turn the 4th of july into the 4th of shit"

once again

NASA Needs Your Help! NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready to be launched, put tens of thousands out of a job, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask congress to prevent these ...

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The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

The third SETI Symposium, presented by the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, will be hosted at the Penn Stater Hotel and Convention Center on August 18–21, 2025.

We are excited to announce registration and abstract submission for talks, posters, and breakout sessions are now open for the 2025 SETI Symposium at Penn State, August 18-21, 2025!

sites.psu.edu/setisymposiu...

Please help us spread the word and we hope to see you in State College!

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5 beanie baby type stuffed frogs in a circle. There are all different shades of brown and green. Overlaid is black text that says “Busy… (plotting!)”

working on HST proposals

📸: @/frogwitch on IG

Magneto: I can control all metals

astronomers: oh my god

A scientific conference poster with the title 'Late-time (t ~ 330 d) HST and JWST Observations of GRB 221009A.' The background is pink and orange and is reminiscent of the fabric clouds used by the dancers at the opening of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour. There are 3 figures on the poster. The first is a set of colored images showing the field of the GRB. The second is a SED of the data showing a blue upturn. The third is a light curve showing a break at 50 days. At the bottom is a summary statement saying "GRB 221009A shows an optical/NIT temporal break at 50 d and evidence for an additional blue component, maybe a star cluster or a light echo !" See the paper for more information on all figures and conclusions.

It's been a long time coming... the paper I led on GRB 221009A was recently accepted for publication by ApJ ! : ) Check out this poster I made for the project for the upcoming 'Celebrating 20 Years of Swift Discoveries' Conference !!

🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro #womeninSTEM

New from my officemate Yuhan Yao! I heard some exciting conversations about this when it was in the works, happy to see the paper out now!

Chloe's first Astrobite!!

NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System - NASA Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the

Some cool new science from our group at NASA/Goddard. www.nasa.gov/universe/nas...

Anyway, this paper is why I thought the Onion post the other day was really funny. bsky.app/profile/mhus...

Earth Detecting Earth Could a twin Earth detect Earth? February 3, 2025, Mountain View, CA – A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric Technosignatu...

Check out the @setiinstitute.bsky.social press release here too. This includes a video of the detectable distances of present-day Earth's technosignatures with Earth's telescopes, animated by Zayna Sheikh and narrated by Seth Shostak. www.seti.org/press-releas...

Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth's Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology? - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth’s Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology?, Sheikh, Sofia Z., Huston, Macy J., Fan, Pinchen, Wright, Jason T., Beatty, Thomas, Martini, Connor, Kopparapu, Ravi, Frank, Adam

Earth Detecting Earth is out! Dr. Sofia Sheikh led this paper, with me as second author. It's been a long project, and we're really proud of it! It's hard to write a long post about science right now, so I'll just share some links here for today. First, the paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

red bridge best bridge

(this only partially a joke lol, our Earth Detecting Earth paper is coming out soon from Sofia Shiekh, me, et al.! We'll share more next month!)

i can't believe i got scooped

YouTube video by allluckyseven RLM Clip: 'Eraserhead is my most Spiritual Film' - David Lynch

drinking extra black coffee today in his honor ☕ youtu.be/3rhzfxtqwZM?...

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017