Melissa Hobson
@melissa-hobson.bsky.social
Exoplanet astrophysicist. Currently a postdoc at Geneva Observatory, working on TESS follow-up with NIRPS and ESPESSO. She/her.
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Is the detection of a feature significant when even the model is consistent with a flat line? Might "we" be overinterpreting astrophysical data to get headlines? (rethorical question)🔭#exoplanets
April 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Is the detection of a feature significant when even the model is consistent with a flat line? Might "we" be overinterpreting astrophysical data to get headlines? (rethorical question)🔭#exoplanets
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Shared some (highly skeptical) thoughts on today’s “habitable planet” #K218b news. Thank you @npr.org for the responsible reporting on this topic!
"I think this is one of those situations where extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence": Laura Kreidberg
@mpi-astro.bsky.social about signs of life beyond our #solarsystem.
npr.org/2025/04/16/n... #exoplanets #K218b @npr.org @lkreidberg.bsky.social
@mpi-astro.bsky.social about signs of life beyond our #solarsystem.
npr.org/2025/04/16/n... #exoplanets #K218b @npr.org @lkreidberg.bsky.social
Is this a hint of life on another world, or just a lot of hot air?
The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being greeted with both enthusiasm and skepticism.
npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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March 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Horrendously unethical!
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Horrendously unethical!
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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.”
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.”
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time
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February 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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all jwst images this time 😌
January 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
all jwst images this time 😌
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The MEME2025 Exhibition is already around the corner! We have switched things up a bit this year: we will open the doors to the exhibition already next Monday at 4 pm CET and keep them open all the way until our closing ceremony on Friday‼️ This way you have all week to vote for your favorite memes 🪐
January 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The MEME2025 Exhibition is already around the corner! We have switched things up a bit this year: we will open the doors to the exhibition already next Monday at 4 pm CET and keep them open all the way until our closing ceremony on Friday‼️ This way you have all week to vote for your favorite memes 🪐
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The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.
www.eso.org
January 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject.
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
🔭
📷 ESO/P. Horálek
This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
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📷 ESO/P. Horálek
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Would you like to help astronomers name a (quasi)moon around earth?
I teamed up with panelists around the world to whittle 2,700+ name suggestions down to just 7!
And you can vote for your favorite until January 1st. Visit radiolab.org/quasi-moon to #NameThatQuasiMoon!
I teamed up with panelists around the world to whittle 2,700+ name suggestions down to just 7!
And you can vote for your favorite until January 1st. Visit radiolab.org/quasi-moon to #NameThatQuasiMoon!
Name a Quasi-moon Contest | Radiolab | WNYC Studios
Welcome to Name a Quasi Moon - a global naming contest from Radiolab and the International Astronomical Union.
Vote now and make your mark on the heavens!
radiolab.org
December 5, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Would you like to help astronomers name a (quasi)moon around earth?
I teamed up with panelists around the world to whittle 2,700+ name suggestions down to just 7!
And you can vote for your favorite until January 1st. Visit radiolab.org/quasi-moon to #NameThatQuasiMoon!
I teamed up with panelists around the world to whittle 2,700+ name suggestions down to just 7!
And you can vote for your favorite until January 1st. Visit radiolab.org/quasi-moon to #NameThatQuasiMoon!
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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OH MY GOD!! WE HAVE THE COMBINED WEBB AND CHANDRA VIEW OF NGC 602!! IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL 🤩🌌
December 17, 2024 at 7:09 PM
OH MY GOD!! WE HAVE THE COMBINED WEBB AND CHANDRA VIEW OF NGC 602!! IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL 🤩🌌
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✨#JWST jewelry giveaway time! 🤩
Available to win are 3 of my best-selling #JWST jewelry pieces! ✨
💫 How to participate:
1) follow me
2) enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway
3) like & repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.com for your holiday gifts this year :)
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Available to win are 3 of my best-selling #JWST jewelry pieces! ✨
💫 How to participate:
1) follow me
2) enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway
3) like & repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.com for your holiday gifts this year :)
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December 9, 2024 at 12:59 AM
✨#JWST jewelry giveaway time! 🤩
Available to win are 3 of my best-selling #JWST jewelry pieces! ✨
💫 How to participate:
1) follow me
2) enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway
3) like & repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.com for your holiday gifts this year :)
🔭🐡🧪🎨
Available to win are 3 of my best-selling #JWST jewelry pieces! ✨
💫 How to participate:
1) follow me
2) enter here sciencesocks.com/giveaway
3) like & repost
🚨 P.S.: please consider sciencesocks.com for your holiday gifts this year :)
🔭🐡🧪🎨
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This is fantastic 😂 (and completely accurate)
To accompany all those BlueSky science/academia #starterpacks, let’s share introductions to the literature of our fields.
Here's my #exoplanet version 🪐🔭⭐
Here's my #exoplanet version 🪐🔭⭐
November 18, 2024 at 9:29 PM
This is fantastic 😂 (and completely accurate)