Logan Pearce

2000 presidential election

Me too! My non-traditional path was a huge benefit in grad school and gave me such good skills and perspective. Huge plus for me

Image of a poster describing the different Sonora models, including Bobcat, Diamondback, Elf Owl, Flame Skimmer, and Gila monster.

I liked Caroline Morley's Exoclimes poster describing our Sonora model set so much that I'm going to hang up a replica in my office.

Avi and 3I/ATLAS Avi Loeb has gained a reputation for suggesting and outright claiming things could be alien spacecraft even when there’s little to no objective reason to think so. So when the third interstellar objec...

On Avi and 3I/ATLAS:
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#exoplanets #jobs 📣

I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates.

*Launches NEXT YEAR!

Please RT & share with your networks!

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Hi! I’m an Astro postdoc at Michigan doing exoplanet direct imaging 😁

When I bought my Tucson house I went to Home Depot every day for like two weeks and then couldn’t stand to go again for a full year almost

NSF and NASA Budget Requests Pose an Unprecedented Threat to Astronomy The president's budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. This post summarizes the major cuts and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against thi...

From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...

Well they do say they want to fund GMT and not TMT…🤷‍♀️

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, A STAGGERING NUMBER OF JOBS ARE IN BOXES LIKE THIS IN THIS BUDGET REQUEST.

A screenshot of the number of people involved in NSF activities being reduced from 330,100 to 90,000.

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

Also super congrats!

An intake form recently asked me “highest grade completed” and I was like um…. The most grade? All the grades? Idk

As an elder millennial I was raised to put two spaces after a period. Coming back to academia a few years ago I learn is now forbidden and struggle to break this habit. So it's anyone's guess how many spaces I'm going to put after any given period.

Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence for alien life Are there aliens living on the exoplanet K2-18b? Some astronomers believe they have evidence for molecules on the planet that must have a biological origin, but others disagree

Ready for the latest K2-18b drama?

Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all.

Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵

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Image promoting #BlackSpaceWeek 2025, scheduled for June 15–21. Each day has a theme and event: • June 15, Sunday: #IntroducingTheUniverse – Virtual mixer and reading with StriveHigher • June 16, Monday: #PicturingTheUniverse – Black in Planetarium Panel • June 17, Tuesday: #AccessingTheUniverse – Black in Space Policy Panel • June 18, Wednesday: #SharingTheUniverse – Black in Journalism Panel • June 19, Thursday: #ShowcasingTheUniverse – Social Media Scavenger Hunt • June 20, Friday: #ReadingTheUniverse – Black in Storytelling Panel • June 21, Saturday: #CraftingTheUniverse – Virtual Craft Night Background features a starry sky. Logo includes a purple raised fist with “BIA.” Graphic by @CheyennePolius, website: www.blackinastro.com.

Schedule for #BlackSpaceWeek 2025! Links to register coming soon🤭 Which event/panels pique your interest? 👀

Apple TV's New Sci-Fi Action Comedy With Alexander Skarsgård Debuts To Rare Rotten Tomatoes Score The reviews are finally in for Apple TV's latest sci-fi series.

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Whoa whoa whoa how am I just learning this now. AAhhhhhhh I literally named my laptop "Sanctuary Moon"

I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman. The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Set to launch in just two years, Roman is poised to t…

Here's what we lose if we lose Roman (by my collaborator Mary Anne Limbach) 🔭🧪

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And: bsky.app/profile/dist...

K2-18b. We urgently need to get our shit together about life detection — Girl & Kat We have not discovered life on K2-18b. We have not even discovered water on K2-18b. All we can say is that the planet does not… not… have an ocean.

Last time we all lost our minds over K2-18b 🔭 , I wrote this blog post. The summary is... don't.

I thought about something stronger like “DMS destroyer” but pulled back a bit 😅

A great explanation from my friend, officemate, and K2-18b expert

Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

Yooo this right here

White Lotus fans + Austin people: I feel like Kate lives in Steiner Ranch. Yah?

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Bring Back DEI to the University of Michigan

A petition to reinstate U Michigan's DEI office and programs: chng.it/b6FfpRzXZK

Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets

Farewell Gaia! Incredibly successful mission, that has utterly transformed our knowledge of our home galaxy.

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