Benjamin Rackham

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12.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Harvard Crimson editorial board: "If higher education — and the rest of American civil society — doesn’t stand with Harvard’s international students now, they may find themselves alone when Trump comes for them next." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

23.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 481    🔁 109    💬 9    📌 5

The atomic spectral lines in this app come from the NIST atomic spectroscopy group, which has provided the world with spectroscopic measurements for 120 years.

Today we got word that the federal government is laying off the entire group. 🔭🧪

19.03.2025 17:26 — 👍 209    🔁 141    💬 11    📌 13

Introducing "Signal in the Noise: The Ringberg Workshop on JWST Exoplanet Observations"!

Goals: Overcome the instrumental + astrophysical challenges we face when characterizing transiting exoplanet atmospheres with JWST

App Deadline: April 1, 2025

sites.google.com/view/jwst-ri...

🔭⭐ #exoplanets

04.03.2025 19:08 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 5

Yeah, that's what I did, and so far, so good

01.03.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anaconda | A Faster Solver for Conda: Libmamba conda 22.11 update: The libmamba solver's experimental flag has been removed. To use the new solver, update conda in your base environment: conda update -n base conda To install and set the new solver...

Have you tried the libmamba solver? It's definitely sped things up for me.

www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faste...

28.02.2025 21:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07074 arXiv abstract link

TOI-2015b: a sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07074
K. Barkaoui et al

12.02.2025 08:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

11.02.2025 14:26 — 👍 2325    🔁 1027    💬 29    📌 50

Dr. David Ciardi, Deputy Director of NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), poses with Dr. Catherine Clark, NExScI's Scientific Outreach Coordinator, in front of a Caltech speaker's podium on the first day of the Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2 conference held Feb. 3-7, 2025 on the Caltech campus.

Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2 kicks off today! 💫🤩✨

A follow-on to 2017's successful Know Thy Star meeting, #KnowThyStar2 welcomes almost 200 registrants to
Caltech for some stellar discussion on exoplanet science.

Talks will be posted to YouTube!
conference.ipac.caltech.edu/knowthystar2

03.02.2025 20:39 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Please consider donating to some gofundmes for some friends and colleagues that work at NASA JPL that lost everything in the Eaton Fire in Altadena. I'm advertising a few that I know best who have been really wonderful people to work with my past 8 years on lab.

15.01.2025 05:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Donate to Supporting Jenn & Sam after the Eaton Fire, organized by Jenn Burt Hi friends, As many of you already know, the wildfires that tore through Alta… Jenn Burt needs your support for Supporting Jenn & Sam after the Eaton Fire

gofund.me/fcc55095

13.01.2025 16:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0