Toby Rodel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦕🦖

Toby Rodel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦕🦖

@astrotobe.bsky.social

(They/Them) PhD astronomer studying exoplanets at Queen’s University Belfast Lover of dinosaurs

470 Followers 143 Following 48 Posts Joined Oct 2023
3 weeks ago

While we were in competition I want to commend them on their clear, prompt and professional conduct through the whole process. This is how science ought to be done! Independent verification of results done in a spirit of openness!

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3 weeks ago
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TIC65910228b: A single-transit discovery of a massive long-period warm Jupiter with TESS Context. Warm Jupiters are excellent case studies for the investigation of giant planet internal structures and formation theories. However, the sample of long-period transiting giants is still small ...

There is also another paper by Felipe Rojas et al on the same object. The papers are independent but we agreed a simultaneous submission. Give theirs a read too: arxiv.org/abs/2602.13125

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3 weeks ago
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TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a 180 day transiting warm super-Jupiter We present the discovery of TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a giant exoplanet with a radius of $1.081\pm0.047$ R$_\text{J}$ and a mass of $4.78_{-0.37}^{+0.40}$ M$_\text{J}$ on a long-period ($180.52791\p...

My third first author paper “TIC-65910228 b / NGTS-38 b, a 180 day transiting warm super-Jupiter” is now on the arXiv!!!
arxiv.org/abs/2602.12977

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1 month ago

Me and my emotional support power wash simulator

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5 months ago

How much did it take for Patrick Stewart to say “lewtenant” instead of “left tenant” on the set of Star Trek the next Generation.

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5 months ago

Damn right!

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5 months ago

When I was a kid I thought divorces involved a ceremony where you break up in a church in front of all your family and friends

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6 months ago

I am begging, pleading for conference organisers to start including live captioning.

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6 months ago
Old Luke shouting “The sacred texts!” meme from The Last Jedi

citing an exoplanet paper from 2010

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6 months ago

Plant based? Yeah they’re pretty cool I guess…

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7 months ago
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This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance

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7 months ago

Good thing this isn’t going to be the norm for summers into the future…

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7 months ago

The power of humidity + infrastructure completely unequipped to cope with heat I guess.

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7 months ago

How is the heat in Belfast more punishing than Albuquerque?!

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7 months ago

Why is Walmart so expensive?!

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7 months ago

Grateful to whoever lit up a joint on my street because at least something is masking the smell of sun baked split rubbish bags

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8 months ago

Also I enjoyed the new movie a lot. Bright hopeful superman is back!

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8 months ago

It’s interesting comic book writers in the 50s wrote around superman coming from an inhospitable planet due to its “red sun” and being stronger from Earth’s “yellow sun”. Given all the current scientific debate about the (un)habitability of planets around red M dwarf stars.

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8 months ago

Praying for @davehone.bsky.social in this trying time with the two largest most recent paleomedia projects featuring spinosaurus as an aquatic pursuit predator

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8 months ago

If you can’t to the time (gestures to end credits of return of the king extended edition) don’t do the crime (gestures to myself)

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8 months ago

I want to go see superman this weekend but unfortunately, I live in Belfast

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8 months ago

It’s also very mid

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8 months ago

Trigger warning for those of us in Academia.
The new Jurassic World film mentions the word “postdoc”

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8 months ago

Anyone else ever have that experience where you slip in the bathtub or shower and are overcome with the feeling that in some parallel universe you didn’t catch yourself and your parallel universe housemates are about to find your naked pruning corpse? Embarrassing

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9 months ago

Never let RTD cook again

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9 months ago

[DOCTOR WHO SPOILER]

So Belinda got the worst on-screen companion-sendoff in the 62 year history of the show, right

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9 months ago
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Apparently there's a new Doctor Who again.

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9 months ago

it’s so funny russ is the last true moffat shooter left. he was watching the wedding of river song like wow tv never gets better than this

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9 months ago

Local nerd disappointed with doctor who!
I’m sorry though I absolutely hated that

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9 months ago

If the walking with dinosaurs revival came out 5 years ago I would think it was the best thing ever. But I think Prehistoric planet has set the bar so high and WWD is falling short in most aspects.

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