Ward Howard
@wardhoward.bsky.social
Husband to Kate, father, follower of Jesus. NASA Sagan Fellow at CU Boulder in the department of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences working on stellar flares, exoplanets, and extragalactic foregrounds.
Website: https://www.wardshowardastronomer.com
Website: https://www.wardshowardastronomer.com
Curious which race and what your PB was if you are open to sharing? Looks beautiful!
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Curious which race and what your PB was if you are open to sharing? Looks beautiful!
So that's why I passed you on the Boulder Canyon trail a few months ago! Congratulations!
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So that's why I passed you on the Boulder Canyon trail a few months ago! Congratulations!
LEGO as the building blocks of the solar system? Now there’s a conspiracy theory that “clicks”
a close up of a lego character with a smiley face
ALT: a close up of a lego character with a smiley face
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
LEGO as the building blocks of the solar system? Now there’s a conspiracy theory that “clicks”
@miquai.bsky.social I bet you've worked with promising students who might be interested?
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
@miquai.bsky.social I bet you've worked with promising students who might be interested?
Wow— congratulations @dawngelino.bsky.social !
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Wow— congratulations @dawngelino.bsky.social !
As someone who's been on the job market for a few cycles (searches were cancelled/unusually oversubscribed last year) I have anecdotally noted Nature papers do tend to correlate with who gets offers, but it's certainly not the only path to success.
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
As someone who's been on the job market for a few cycles (searches were cancelled/unusually oversubscribed last year) I have anecdotally noted Nature papers do tend to correlate with who gets offers, but it's certainly not the only path to success.
Also, this is my first time writing one of these as a parent and it’s a whole new experience!
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Also, this is my first time writing one of these as a parent and it’s a whole new experience!
Nice! I just keep thinking about how much only being as popular as your last hit applies to so much of astro lol.
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Nice! I just keep thinking about how much only being as popular as your last hit applies to so much of astro lol.
I hope many of those are placeholders 😬
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I hope many of those are placeholders 😬
They did this at UNC CH to nonviolent student protestors pretty regularly when I was there. Weird seeing it happen on the national stage
October 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They did this at UNC CH to nonviolent student protestors pretty regularly when I was there. Weird seeing it happen on the national stage
Are these values from Table 2 of Benneke & Seager 2013?
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ....
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ....
How to Distinguish between Cloudy Mini-Neptunes and Water/Volatile-dominated Super-Earths
One of the most profound questions about the newly discovered class of low-density super-Earths is whether these exoplanets are predominately H<SUB>2</SUB>-dominated mini-Neptunes or volatile-rich wor...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Are these values from Table 2 of Benneke & Seager 2013?
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ....
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ....
Great example of how motivated reasoning and biblical illiteracy can be a (literally) lethal combination 😭
September 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Great example of how motivated reasoning and biblical illiteracy can be a (literally) lethal combination 😭
Isn’t the atmospheric retrieval statistically consistent with a flat line and stellar surface contamination?
September 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Isn’t the atmospheric retrieval statistically consistent with a flat line and stellar surface contamination?
Sleep deprived, but well 🙏
September 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Sleep deprived, but well 🙏
This has been our first full “normal” week with a newborn, so your message hits different this time.
September 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This has been our first full “normal” week with a newborn, so your message hits different this time.
Reposted by Ward Howard
Paper #1 led by @jhuartssciences.bsky.social graduate student Jay Chittidi here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.02825
High Resolution ALMA Data of the Fomalhaut Debris Disk Confirms Apsidal Width Variation
We present long-baseline observations of the Fomalhaut outer debris disk at 223 GHz (1.3 mm) from ALMA Cycle 5, which we use along with archival short-baseline observations to produce a 0".57 resoluti...
arxiv.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Paper #1 led by @jhuartssciences.bsky.social graduate student Jay Chittidi here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.02825
Way to go, Dr. Davis!!
September 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Way to go, Dr. Davis!!
You beat me to it. Also, congrats on the Chandra time!
September 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
You beat me to it. Also, congrats on the Chandra time!
Ngl I misread this as “Einstein having alien DNA or getting massages from aliens” and did double take😬
August 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ngl I misread this as “Einstein having alien DNA or getting massages from aliens” and did double take😬