Will Misener
willmisener.bsky.social
Will Misener
@willmisener.bsky.social
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Earth and Planets Lab in DC. PhD from UCLA EPSS. Researching exoplanet atmospheres 🪐. Also into baseball ⚾️ and trains 🚇. He/him
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#NASAWebb has found the first direct evidence of potential moon formation around a giant exoplanet. The discovery is shedding light on how such systems evolve and why moons could be potentially habitable worlds: https://bit.ly/46xGodN 🔭 🧪
September 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The best part of my job is the people I get to work with 🪐💙
September 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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The advertisement for Carnegie EPL's 2026 postdoctoral fellowship is out! aas.org/jobregister/... We are also happy to host external fellowships like NHFP, NSF, and 51 Peg b (the latter is due Oct 3rd, one month away!). Please feel free to reach out if you have questions. (1/2)
aas.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
August 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Don't miss our new NASA Science spending and economic impact resource at dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science.html — see space science spending in every state and congressional district and custom reports for each region. A unique resource.
June 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Still obsessed with maps and waiting for the smallest opportunity to foist it on to others 🚇🗺️
At this month’s Just-for-Fun Lunch Talk, postdoc @willmisener.bsky.social taught us how the principles behind a great subway map are the same as the principles behind a great scientific figure!
March 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Do #exoplanets evolve over time? ☄️

A thread 1/🧵
March 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Apparently, between the switch to Bluesky and my defense and move, I've neglected to post about the last paper of my PhD. Now that it's been published in ApJ, here's a thread on how upper atmospheric opacities can alter escape rates and whether sub-Neptunes can retain primordial H/He 🔭🧪 1/10
Blowin' in the Nonisothermal Wind: Core-powered Mass Loss with Hydrodynamic Radiative Transfer
The mass loss rates of planets undergoing core-powered escape are usually modeled using an isothermal Parker-type wind at the equilibrium temperature, T<SUB>eq</SUB>. However, the upper atmospheres of...
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Calling all undergrads! Just one week left to apply for Carnegie’s 2025 summer internship and work with us on all kinds of interdisciplinary projects in Earth & planetary science! Campus won’t look quite like this in June, but it’ll still be a magical experience ✨ carnegiescience.edu/about/workin...
January 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Excited for my first-ever (!) AAS this week. Look out for my thesis talk, conveniently on Monday morning to ease you back into conferencing:
133.05D “Coupled chemistry and structure of sub-Neptune atmospheres: a window into the interior”
Mon, Jan 8 10:40-11:00am
Room R04 #AAS243
January 7, 2024 at 11:18 PM