Alexander Thomas

Some tidbits about the most recent 1,000 exoplanets:

- Nearly half (~490) were discovered with NASA's TESS mission
- As a result, their host stars are nearly *10 times brighter on average* than previous stars!
- We have found a lot more cool giant planets (Jupiter analogs), with RV and imaging

I hope this isn't vague-posting but like...man every day I become more and more convinced that i need to become a professor. Not because I want to but because people have to fight back/push back against some of these people dude.

Im not saying that people aren't. Im just saying we need more.

HE HAS A JERSEY 🧡🧡🧡

Hooooooooly

I've been talking with faculty at Ohio universities while at a meeting this week, and this legislation sounds extremely bad.

The MLB Trade Deadline is Christmas in July for me

Wild berry, cookie dough, cherry

Five days in Pasadena with exoplanets and friends (both old and new)!!

A poster of Bubba Wallace

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Bubba Wallace becomes the first Black driver to win on Indianapolis Motor Speedway's oval, taking the Brickyard 400.

BUBBA WALLACE WINS THE BRICKYARD LETS GOOOO

Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time Astronomers get rare glimpse of earliest stages of planet formation around a baby star.

Astronomers get rare glimpse of earliest stages of planet formation around a baby star

go.nature.com/4kIKUvi

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Honestly I think it would be hilarious if Astronomers got sponsorships.

And Im not talking about grants. Im talking about rolling up to a conference head to toe in Adidas while constantly holding a Red Bull.

"Hello and welcome to my talk on exoplanets brought to you by Adidas and Red Bull"

Bowman Gray is the "Waffle House parking lot at 3 am" of racing

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

If i had a nickel for every time I went "Oh that could be a really cool system to get RVs for!" only to realize that its like 16th magnitude, I wouldnt have to worry about postdoc funding

Being a Bubba Wallace fan this year has been agony

I know Im late, but Alaska was special

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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Hi hello! It’s still May, which means it’s ALS Awareness Month!

We’re less than a week away from MLB Lou Gehrig Day, celebrated on June 1+2 this year!

#EndALS

Full Gehrig Day games schedule, including teams on road 6/1-2⬇️

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Making a note of this for when CFB 26 comes out

bad weekend to be a rampant team penske stan (me)

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article) The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

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And that confirms what we thought! Which is awesome!

And it makes those systems with more irregularly spaced planets even more interesting! Especially with observations of Kepler-20 in 2016 and recent reanalysis of Kepler-139 data discovering additional planets!

We used real and synthetic planetary systems to determine how system-wide metrics change if we "miss" a planet. For real systems, we removed one planet at a time. For the synthetic systems, we applied the Kepler detection pipeline. Turns out, missing a planet really messes with the system's spacing!

Biases from Missing a Small Planet in High Multiplicity Systems - IOPscienceSearchopens in new tab Biases from Missing a Small Planet in High Multiplicity Systems, Thomas, C. Alexander, Weiss, Lauren M., He, Matthias Y.

I'm super late to this, but I am super happy to say that I had my second paper published! Here is a link to it if anyone is interested: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

#exoplanets

This is my Kendrick vs Drake of 2025

Advocacy Action Center The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.

Write and urge your Senators to co-sign Mark Kelly's letter supporting NASA science: planet.ly/senateletter

Deadline is FRIDAY.

wow, all these Dems looking for the left's Rogan, as if a thrice-weekly, very long sports podcast that loves stats and science BUT ALSO baseball players kissing THOUGH ONLY IF THEY WANT TO isn't right there WOW

Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

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