hello astronomy parents: do you have an 8-12 year-old reader? would you or they like to read a short excerpt of a fun spacey book project? hit me up!

today in “seven learns about tax brackets she’s not in”: pasta alla ruota?? pasta served in a wheel of cheese?? and the wheel costs $600-$3000 dollars??

Seven Machina Rasmussen kill them with kindness? wrong. gamma radiation.

if anyone at #AbSciCon24 has cool stickers to offload my inbox is open and my students LOVE mission/telescope stickers

Our paper on 55 Cnc e was published today! We used JWST to measure the rocky planet's thermal emission and found that it should have a substantial, volatile-rich atmosphere. The atmosphere is probably sustained by outgassing from a vast magma ocean. rdcu.be/dHkeu

shakabrah’s in tacoma you will always be #1 in my heart

British friends can pre-order my book now (American friends need to wait a little longer still!): amazon.co.uk/Mixed-Signals-…

thanks for the shout-out, Lee! here’s my latest for Scientific American!

can’t believe they canceled the tacoma aroma

experiencing a strange and indescribable feeling about this picture of a whole Carboniferous tree trunk discovered in a coal seam like this tree used to be part of a thriving ecosystem and now it’s the only thing in the cave that remembers the form it wore on an ancient earth

driving at responsible speeds but irresponsible volumes past my local elementary school hope these 3rd graders like Chapelle Roan as much as I do

what eldritch horrors do you guy think are trapped inside The Bean quietly biding their time until the day of wrath

does anyone have any advice for a mentee of mine? he has a comp sci degree + several credits of astronomy classes + research/authorships. he wants to do an astronomy master’s that would put him on a track to write software for instrumentation. anyone know of any programs?