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Tori Bonidie
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astrophysics PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh | astrobites author | exoplanet enthusiast | (she/her)
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In this bite, the Astrobites authors discuss recent changes to the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/10/04/n...
Big Changes to the NSF’s Graduate Fellowship Mean Big Problems
In this bite, the authors discuss recent changes to the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help.
astrobites.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Tori Bonidie reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems. aasnova.org/2025/10/01/p... 🔭
Planetary Hide and Seek
Astrobites reports on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems.
aasnova.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by Tori Bonidie
Have you ever wondered how we might go about finding microscopic black holes from the dawn of time?

Check out my new article for @supercluster.com — my first published piece of science writing outside of @astrobites.bsky.social! ✨⚫️🔭

www.supercluster.com/editorial/da...
Dark Matter Detectives Are Searching for Tiny Black Holes
It was first proposed that black holes could form directly from the small, random density fluctuations inherent to the chaotic primordial universe. The studies from which the idea emerged — pioneered ...
www.supercluster.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Tori Bonidie
The official number of exoplanets has surpassed 6,000! And you can access data on all 6,007 of them right here at IPAC 📈 🪐

Watch the video & read all about the center of the exoplanet universe (also known as NExScI!) here:
www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/the-nas...
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Reposted by Tori Bonidie
Do you love WASP-107 b? Do you love making use of *both* ground VLT + space JWST obs to detect molecules in a "warm" (Teq<800K) #exoplanet in transmission, even in a crazy confusing cloudy atmosphere?!

🚨 It's PAPER* DAY! Which means #scicomm thread!

🧵⬇️🔭🪐🧪

*pre-print!

arxiv.org/abs/2508.18964
VLT/CRIRES+ observations of warm Neptune WASP-107 b: Molecular detections and challenges in ground-based transmission spectroscopy of cooler and cloudy exoplanets
Atmospheres of transiting exoplanets can be studied spectroscopically using space-based or ground-based observations. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so there are benefits to both approache...
arxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social : Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, the today’s authors have discovered plasma conditions that don’t exist anywhere else we’ve ever explored in the solar system, giving rise to a whole new type of plasma wave mode. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/08/23/s...
Strange New Plasma
Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, the authors of today’s paper have discovered plasma conditions so peculiar they don't exist anywhere else we've ever explored in the solar system, giving rise to a...
astrobites.org
August 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Want to learn what 5 nights of high res emission spectra of an ultra hot jupiter can get ya? Come on down to my poster at #exoclimesVII today 🤪
July 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
graphic design is my passion
June 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Tori Bonidie
Your Senators have until tomorrow to request robust levels of funding for NASA, NSF, and the DOE Office of Science - use our easy form to request that they do so today!

aas.org/advocacy/get...
Action Alerts | American Astronomical Society
COVID-19 has caused lab and user facility closures, withdrawn job offers, canceled conferences, caused equipment delays, and increased costs for ongoing research. We can counter these threats to resea...
aas.org
May 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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From Tori Bonidie @toribonidie.bsky.social: This astrobite will summarize the recent constraints of biosignatures on K2-18 b, answer important questions like “are there aliens?” and “how bad does this biosignature smell?”, and discuss some critiques it has drawn. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/05/13/s...
Sniffing Out Clues in K2-18 b’s Atmosphere: Biosignature or False Alarm?
This astrobite will summarize the recent constraints of biosignatures on K2-18 b, answer important questions like “are there aliens?” and “how bad does this biosignature smell?”, and discuss some crit...
astrobites.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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From Tori Bonidie: Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface? 🔭✨
astrobites.org/2024/12/24/i...
It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your H2O
Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface?
astrobites.org
December 25, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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From @toribonidie.bsky.social: The authors of today’s paper put forth theoretical models of how habitable exoplanets might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) using the molecules present in the Earth’s atmosphere from earlier eons 🔭✨️

astrobites.org/2024/11/04/l...
Life is Like a Box of Potential Biosignatures
The authors of today’s paper put forth theoretical models of how habitable exoplanets might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) using the molecules present in the Earth’s atmosphere fr…
astrobites.org
November 7, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Let's investigate the case of shrinking exoplanets!
astrobites.org/2024/03/28/t...
The Case of Shrinking Planets
The authors of today’s papers investigate whether photoevaporation or core-powered mass loss is the more likely culprit for the exoplanet radius gap.
astrobites.org
March 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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From the Astrobites collaboration: The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our colleagues. 🔭

astrobites.org/2024/03/27/a...
Astrobites Statement on the Educational Siege in Gaza
The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our c…
astrobites.org
March 27, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Using my first Bluesky post to promote my first Astrobites post!
Can Planets Survive Being Eaten?
The authors of today’s paper present a detection of a planet orbiting around its middle-aged host star – a star that was predicted to eat any planets in its way. Now the question remains, how does …
astrobites.org
March 5, 2024 at 3:07 PM