Astrobiologist, no...really! Never met a terrestrial planet I didn't like. Astronomy Professor, Astrobiology Program Director at the University of Washington.
Joined October 2012
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Please register to come join us and learn more about research on the origins of life, the coevolution of life with its planet, extreme life in the deep ocean, and the search for habitable environments and life beyond the Earth!
The UW Astrobiology Program will be hosting a public lecture series in April 2025 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Program! Registration is FREE but required for both in person and zoom attendance.
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Thrilled to share that our project to rebuild ancient proteins has been awarded the W. M. Keck Foundation award!
We will explore 3+ billion years of molecular diversity to uncover how nitrogenase endured Earth's shifting atmosphere and temperatures. (1)
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A game changer in trauma recovery is when we realize we are rooted, absolutely rooted, in our commitment to our own safety & stability, as opposed to our need to please or impress or entertain or attract anyone else.
Keep returning to that goal. See it. Stay on it, relentlessly.
Wow! What an AMAZING collection of primers on interdisciplinary topics in exoplanet science and astrobiology! Great readings for you classes or for anyone wanting to learn more about these topics.
Is your brain ready for a LOT of interdisciplinary exoplanet knowledge! 🧐🤯 You know it is!
🧵In Jan 2021, Keith Putirka, Siyi Xu, and I joined forces to put together 15 chapters (and a workshop!**) written by experts in their field, where the core of each chapter was:
ALT Screenshot of an email excerpt that Keith sent to Natalie and Siyi, outlining what he thought the focus of the RiMG chapters should be. These sentiments ended up being the crux of all of the chapters. The text says: ' "What do I want and need to learn from other disciplines?" and "What do other disciplines need to know about mine"? '
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UWAB members Jodi Young and Fabian Klenner joined the College of Environment’s FieldSound podcast to discuss how extreme environments on Earth can inform us about the search for life on distant exoplanets and icy moons!
Listen to their full podcast:
environment.uw.edu/news/2024…
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My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders.
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Do you want to be an exoplanetary atmospheres postdoc with Prof. Ty Robinson at the Univ of Arizona?
Models of resolved convection in planetary atmospheres, evolutionary simulations for sub-Neptunes, and co-create a training camp for Cal-Bridge students!
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/care…
If you are applying for a 51 Peg b postdoc fellowship this round and you love exoplanets and astrobiology, I’d strongly encourage you to apply with UW as a host institution. Feel free to contact me about joining our world-class astrobiology community!
Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellowship applications are due October 4th! With a particularly strong program in exoplanet science and astrobiology, we highly encourage applicants to select UW as one of their choices for host institution!
More information: depts.washington.edu/astrobi…
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PhD student Bethlee Lindor @bmlindor just dropped a preprint on viewing the Solar System as a multi-transiting habitable-zone terrestrial planet system. arxiv.org/abs/2407.13154
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I’m so, so, so excited about this program! And a fabulous use of @NASAHubble’s unique UV capabilities! The team is filled with experts I adore working with, co-led by @parkaroni and @astroshrey. Big thanks to the TAC for seeing the vision here!
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Astronomer Michaël Gillon and the #SPECULOOS team discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet around SPECULOOS-3, an "ultracool dwarf" star as small as Jupiter, twice as cold as our Sun, and located 55 light-years from Earth. #ULiège @NatureAstronomy @NASA
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Wooo!!! 🙌 Congratulations Shawn, and your fellow editors and contributors!
If your bookshelf is jonesing for the new Space Science Series book, you're in luck!
Here comes Comets III, a comprehensive update to the latest breakthroughs in comet science over the last twenty years!
Lots of great chapters covering all sorts of good stuff!
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I’ll be the new Manager for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program @NASAExoplanets in a few weeks!! I’m super excited and a little terrified, but looking forward to being able to “Dare Mighty Things” with my @NASA and @NASAJPL colleagues to move the exoplanet community forward!
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PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/3xav0GR
The SETI Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrew Siemion will be honored with the prestigious 2024 Drake Award for his exceptional and pioneering contributions to SETI and radio astronomy and his leadership in the field.
ALT A photo of Andrew Siemion, wearing a long-sleeved blue sweater and light blue jeans, taken in an office with a bright teal wall and a small bookshelf.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This sounds awesome!
Do you love planets? Do you love stars? Do you love high-res spectra? Do you love horses & great conference logos?
If you answered yes to two or more of the above, Two HoRSEs is the conference for you! Join us 15 - 19 July in Berlin.
Register by 16 Feb. sites.google.com/view/two-ho…
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Several coauthors and I wrote a paper about the recent JWST observations of the K2-18b exoplanet: arxiv.org/abs/2401.11082 .
Thesis: JWST observations of K2-18b can be explained by a gas-rich mini-Neptune with no habitable surface
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K stars don’t slow down like we thought when they’re ~100s Myr old and solar-type stars don’t slow down like we thought when they’re several Gyr old! Lots of exciting work ahead to understand all of the physics and what this means for our chances of finding life on their planets!
I first read this as “Stars don’t slow down with age like astronomers do”.
Either way there’s some good and diverse physics at play in this relatively new knowledge.
We (@try2121 et al.) also see this lack of slowing down in K stars manifested as heightened stellar activity.