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Check out this new way to leverage photometry to learn about planetary formation and evolution! This is an idea I'm particularly proud of and have worked on with Rodrigo Luger and Shishir Dholakia for the past year, so here's a thread! Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2109.03250 🧵(1/N)

#NASAWebb’s @Ariane5 rocket is now on internal power and in its final launch configuration. We’ve had a final weather forecast, and all systems are go for launch to #UnfoldTheUniverse in less than 10 minutes at 7:20 am ET (12:20 UTC): go.nasa.gov/3z1jsCz

Wish I could be at #Exo4 - but if you’re there, be sure to meet brilliant new UQ student Shashank Dholakia and see his poster extending Rodrigo Luger’s starry code to oblate stars!

Now that I'm en route to Las Vegas for #Exo4 it's a good time to officially announce: I'll be moving to Brisbane in a week to start a PhD in astrophysics at University of Queensland!

Photos of the total #LunarEclipse from Mt. Kent today and the guardian frog of the observatory bathrooms

TWO successful #JWSTCycle2 proposals from University of Southern Queensland! Awesome work from our first year PhD student Alex Venner, it was his first ever space telescope proposal!

Super proud of Shashank Dholakia winning a Highly Commended in the Malin Awards for this incredible Moon-Mars occultation! davidmalinawards.com/highly-commend…

My first PhD paper is on arxiv today! Rotating planets are slightly wider at their equator compared to the poles. Saturn in our Solar System (below, minus the rings), is about 10% oblate! Can we detect this shape difference in transits from JWST? (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2410.03449