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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!

What Evgenya said!

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

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This sounds awesome!

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.

I’ll be the new Manager for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program NASA Exoplanets 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 NASA JPL colleagues to move the exoplanet community forward!

Wooo!!! 🙌 Congratulations Shawn, and your fellow editors and contributors!

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 Nature Astronomy NASA nature.com/articles/s4155…

I’m so, so, so excited about this program! And a fabulous use of Hubble’s unique UV capabilities! The team is filled with experts I adore working with, co-led by Parke Loyd and Shreyas Vissapragada. Big thanks to the TAC for seeing the vision here!

PhD student Bethlee Lindor bethlee ♥️ just dropped a preprint on viewing the Solar System as a multi-transiting habitable-zone terrestrial planet system. arxiv.org/abs/2407.13154

For the last week I have pushed myself to write for an hour every day and the results have been nothing short of extraordinary (thread)

The print copy is out today in Nature 📰💪

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!

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/careers…

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.

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/2024/10/s…

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.

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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) research.wisc.edu/uncategorized/…

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