Thomas Beatty
@tgbeatty.bsky.social
Astronomer/Exoplanetary Scientist/Professor at the University of Wisconsin
Reposted by Thomas Beatty
WiCOR seeks a #postdoctoral fellow to participate in Center #research in any discipline related to our two main research questions:
1. How do habitable planets form? 🪐
2. How does life emerge on habitable planets? 🧬
Full information at: wicor.wisc.edu/postdoc/
Apply by Nov 15
🔭 🧪
#postdoc #hiring
1. How do habitable planets form? 🪐
2. How does life emerge on habitable planets? 🧬
Full information at: wicor.wisc.edu/postdoc/
Apply by Nov 15
🔭 🧪
#postdoc #hiring
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
WiCOR seeks a #postdoctoral fellow to participate in Center #research in any discipline related to our two main research questions:
1. How do habitable planets form? 🪐
2. How does life emerge on habitable planets? 🧬
Full information at: wicor.wisc.edu/postdoc/
Apply by Nov 15
🔭 🧪
#postdoc #hiring
1. How do habitable planets form? 🪐
2. How does life emerge on habitable planets? 🧬
Full information at: wicor.wisc.edu/postdoc/
Apply by Nov 15
🔭 🧪
#postdoc #hiring
Fishing! All the kids involved managed to catch something (thankfully!).
August 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fishing! All the kids involved managed to catch something (thankfully!).
This July 4, remember that the US is the only country whose national anthem ends in a question.
July 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This July 4, remember that the US is the only country whose national anthem ends in a question.
How some of my Zoom calls feel:
June 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
How some of my Zoom calls feel:
Congratulations Dr. Matthew Murphy! Matthew is off to Michigan State next year to work on a great JWST atmospheres project with @afeinstein20.bsky.social.
May 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Congratulations Dr. Matthew Murphy! Matthew is off to Michigan State next year to work on a great JWST atmospheres project with @afeinstein20.bsky.social.
Jim Lattis and I will be on Madison's local NPR affiliate tomorrow afternoon from noon - 1pm, as a part of the Larry Meiller Show.
We'll talk about exoplanets, the search for life, and the new WiCOR center at UW.
Locals can listen on FM 88.7, or online www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...
We'll talk about exoplanets, the search for life, and the new WiCOR center at UW.
Locals can listen on FM 88.7, or online www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...
The Larry Meiller Show
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May 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Jim Lattis and I will be on Madison's local NPR affiliate tomorrow afternoon from noon - 1pm, as a part of the Larry Meiller Show.
We'll talk about exoplanets, the search for life, and the new WiCOR center at UW.
Locals can listen on FM 88.7, or online www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...
We'll talk about exoplanets, the search for life, and the new WiCOR center at UW.
Locals can listen on FM 88.7, or online www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...
nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi...
"We will close NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, along with reducing their workforce."
"We will close NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, along with reducing their workforce."
The NASA RIF Has Begun
This was just sent to the NASA workforce:
nasawatch.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi...
"We will close NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, along with reducing their workforce."
"We will close NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, along with reducing their workforce."
Reposted by Thomas Beatty
February 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Thomas Beatty
It's the weekend, baby
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It's the weekend, baby
The budget bill passed last night allocated about $43 billion next year for Function 250, which covers NASA, NSF, and DOE Science. That's only about $1 billion less than the previous FY25 budget from last summer.
February 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The budget bill passed last night allocated about $43 billion next year for Function 250, which covers NASA, NSF, and DOE Science. That's only about $1 billion less than the previous FY25 budget from last summer.
Reposted by Thomas Beatty
Hello from the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research!
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WiCOR’s Mission is to advance our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife in the #Universe through interdisciplinary #research and #education.
Follow us to stay updated on all things WiCOR!
linktr.ee/wicenterforo...
👋🧪🔭
WiCOR’s Mission is to advance our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife in the #Universe through interdisciplinary #research and #education.
Follow us to stay updated on all things WiCOR!
linktr.ee/wicenterforo...
February 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hello from the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research!
👋🧪🔭
WiCOR’s Mission is to advance our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife in the #Universe through interdisciplinary #research and #education.
Follow us to stay updated on all things WiCOR!
linktr.ee/wicenterforo...
👋🧪🔭
WiCOR’s Mission is to advance our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife in the #Universe through interdisciplinary #research and #education.
Follow us to stay updated on all things WiCOR!
linktr.ee/wicenterforo...
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm, —
A cry of defiance and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm, —
A cry of defiance and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
February 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm, —
A cry of defiance and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm, —
A cry of defiance and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
Ice skating! I like that Madison's parks clear off big sections of the ponds and run skate rental booths.
January 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Ice skating! I like that Madison's parks clear off big sections of the ponds and run skate rental booths.
I'm pleased (?) to report that my school-based stress dream has now switched from "arrive on the last day of class for the final exam and realize you haven't attended all semester" to the alternate version of "arrive on the first day of class and realize you haven't prepared anything."
January 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm pleased (?) to report that my school-based stress dream has now switched from "arrive on the last day of class for the final exam and realize you haven't attended all semester" to the alternate version of "arrive on the first day of class and realize you haven't prepared anything."
Check out grad student Max Kroft's new paper on TOI-6054: two dynamically interacting sub-Neptunes (both ~ 10 M_E) around a bright (K=6.7) sub-giant. The star has started evolving - so the inner planet has gone from a life of leisure to strong mass-loss in the last few Myr.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09095
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09095
A Pair of Dynamically Interacting Sub-Neptunes Around TOI-6054
We confirm the planetary nature of a pair of transiting sub-Neptune exoplanets orbiting the bright F-type sub-giant star TOI-6054 ($V=8.02$, $K=6.673$) as a part of the OrCAS radial velocity survey us...
arxiv.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Check out grad student Max Kroft's new paper on TOI-6054: two dynamically interacting sub-Neptunes (both ~ 10 M_E) around a bright (K=6.7) sub-giant. The star has started evolving - so the inner planet has gone from a life of leisure to strong mass-loss in the last few Myr.
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09095
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09095
I recommend everyone stop by the ExEP desk at the NASA portion of the exhibit hall. They have "smell an exoplanet" that is pretty entertaining. It includes WASP-107b from our MANATEE work! #AAS245
January 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I recommend everyone stop by the ExEP desk at the NASA portion of the exhibit hall. They have "smell an exoplanet" that is pretty entertaining. It includes WASP-107b from our MANATEE work! #AAS245
Matthew Murphy: new panchromatic limb-asymmetry obs. of WASP-107b show lots of morning/evening differences and evidence for nightside formation of KCl clouds. For once both 1D and GCM models agree! #AAS245
January 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Matthew Murphy: new panchromatic limb-asymmetry obs. of WASP-107b show lots of morning/evening differences and evidence for nightside formation of KCl clouds. For once both 1D and GCM models agree! #AAS245
Good morning #AAS245! Want to learn about how JWST is giving us our first insights into weather on exoplanets? Come to Matthew Murphy's dissertation talk at 11:10am in Potomac 3-4. He is doing the first direct measurements of East/West differences in transmission spectra and sees some cool stuff!
January 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Good morning #AAS245! Want to learn about how JWST is giving us our first insights into weather on exoplanets? Come to Matthew Murphy's dissertation talk at 11:10am in Potomac 3-4. He is doing the first direct measurements of East/West differences in transmission spectra and sees some cool stuff!
Fun fact for those watching the AAS plenary talk on DART and planetary defense: the asteroid Apophis was named after the main villain in the first few seasons of Stargate: SG1. #AAS245
January 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Fun fact for those watching the AAS plenary talk on DART and planetary defense: the asteroid Apophis was named after the main villain in the first few seasons of Stargate: SG1. #AAS245
There is a bird flying around the plenary hall. According to the speaker this is the "AAS bird" and if it lands on your head you give the plenary next year. #AAS245 #aviocracy
January 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
There is a bird flying around the plenary hall. According to the speaker this is the "AAS bird" and if it lands on your head you give the plenary next year. #AAS245 #aviocracy
Rezi Ashtari showing results from a big survey of WFC3 observations to try and see trends in clouds. They find a "clear sky corridor" around 1000K, but with an intriguingly strong mass dependence. #AAS245
January 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Rezi Ashtari showing results from a big survey of WFC3 observations to try and see trends in clouds. They find a "clear sky corridor" around 1000K, but with an intriguingly strong mass dependence. #AAS245
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger now showing the same sort of thing in similar obs. of the similar planet TOI-5205b. Very odd. Jacob suggests that since both host stars have significant spots, maybe we need to improve our spot modeling. #AAS245
January 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Jacob Lustig-Yaeger now showing the same sort of thing in similar obs. of the similar planet TOI-5205b. Very odd. Jacob suggests that since both host stars have significant spots, maybe we need to improve our spot modeling. #AAS245