Congratulations to Dr. Allison McCarthy, who successfully defended her PhD “The Physical Basis for L and T Dwarf Variability” on Friday! Allie is now off to Trinity College Dublin for a postdoc with the ExoAimsir group led by Prof. Johanna Vos! 🪐🔭 @alliemccarthy.bsky.social @johannavos.bsky.social

Thank you to our Perkins-Telescope-partner North Carolina A&T @ncatsuaggies.bsky.social for hosting me for their Physics Colloquium this week! I had a wonderful time meeting with their undergrads, grad students, and faculty, and talking about small stars, brown dwarfs and exoplanets!

It’s my birthday and my wife got me a label maker 😍 You can probably guess my age from how happy I am about this gift.

We went on Tuesday! That was such a cool experience. (Family in silhouette.)

Not sure how many New England Falls we have left on this planet, but yesterday's Boston Half Marathon could not have been nicer.

Great talks at Cool Stars 22 by BU PhD students Caeley Pittman and Allie McCarthy!

If you missed BU-PhD-student Allie McCarthy's awesome weather-app-inspired poster at Exoplanets V, you can catch the TALK version at Cool Stars 22 on Monday!

The third largest tall ship in the world is currently a block from my apartment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish...

Hey I know that one.

Bunky, the Bunker Hill turkey, stands watch over Charlestown. Apparently wild turkeys can fly? Or she just took the stairs @universalhub.com

Bonding leave started today. Ferry ride to the Aquarium! It’s 26F and icy but baby has the Marimekko spacesuit.

Octopus costume for me and the quadroweek.

Little Amal is here!

“It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That’s the hard part. But it does get easier.”
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“Ok”

The dome reskinning project at the Perkins Telescope is almost complete! Only a few more panels at the top to replace! (Photo credit: Observatory Manager Colt Pauley.)