Took stock of local EV charger rates to compare to home rate. Last time I did this they were at $0.17/kWh now its $0.38/kWh Looks like my home energy is still competitive at 0.22 but it used to be 0.16 🫠

Me, flossing because I want a gold star from my dentist, a totally reasonable thing to desire My permanent retainer wire: FREEEEEEDOM So not only do I have to call around to dentists tomorrow, but I have to keep from messing with it all night while I'm trying to sleep

When someone responds to a question with "this is what Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/MarginallyDistinctFromPaulieTheParrot says ..." If I ask you something I am not using you as an intermediary between me and a search engine.

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In the age of AI slop, people would do well to remember words ascribed to Samuel Johnson: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure"

The only thing worse than forgetting something in the washer as you go to bed is when you forget the sheets you were going to sleep on in the washer when you're really too tired to keep staying up

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University comment letter warns that proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance could weaken merit-based review, increase administrative burden, and disrupt the federal research partnership

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New paper! Here we look at Titan as an exoplanet and attempt to agnostically determine whether it has a haze and what it its made of. #exoplanets

Saturn and its Moon in Space

Alt: Saturn and Titan in Space

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Is there a word for when something is enjoyable the first time but is not enjoyable any subsequent time? Perhaps a German one 😅

Someone please explain how feeds work

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Samuel Grunblatt tackles asteroseismology with TESS. This can be difficult because single sector datasets are too short to retrieve pulsation signals. Asteroseismology not only enables refined masses and radii measurements but also ages. #exoplanets6 #exo6

Xian-Yu Wang looks at Rossiter McLaughlin measurements of a population sub Saturn's to super Juptiers. From their eccentricity and obliquity, there seems to be no explanatory mechanism across mass. See stellarobliquity.com 🤣 #exoplanets6 #exo6

Pietro Leonardi looks at the HIP 41378 system, which contains three transiting planets, def, in 7:5 resonance with period of 278d+ So some transits have never been seen again. #exoplanets6 #exo6

Niamh Mallaghan (which I don't know how to pronounce!) will close out the session with a talk on exoRings. ASASSN-21js is unusual in that it seems to *still* be transiting Plot from Pramono et al 2024! #exoplanets6 #exo6

Gaia Lacedelli examines the sub Neptune pop. Where recent works have tried to explain the formation of the savannah, ridge, and desert with various migration types. With espresso and supporting photometry they are looking at spin-orbit alignments as a tracer of migration #exoplanets6 #exo6

As room hopping continues, Morgan Saidel explains extreme mass loss not only affects the atmosphere but the escaped gas can torque the planet and change its orbit. Saidel attempts to build a survey of escaped gas structures with hires data. #exoplanets6 #exo6

Georgia Mraz looks at hires observations of uHJ WASP-33b as a function of phase. Due to the acceleration changes getting quadratic phases is difficult apparently. Looked at CO as a function of pre- and post- transit/eclipse. #exoplanets6 #exo6

As the room fills to the brim, Dario González Picos shows hires data of beta Pic b with support from photometry to break the cloud-metaliciity degeneracy. Finds a super color metallicity and solar-like C/O. The carbon isotopologue ratio would indicate it is very young. #exoplanets6 #exo6

As I give up fighting for wifi, Julia Seidel looks at winds in uHJs as a population study. In Seidel et al 2026, the data shows that the wind speeds are being damped as eqT increases. The theory is magnetic drag is dissipating energy. #exoplanets6 #exo6

Guo Chen looks at ultra-hot Jupiters in hires NIR spectra. As shown in Yang et al 2024 and submitted 2026 they find an inverted atmosphere and some tentative detections of various species. They've built a 3D parameterized model to infer phase offsets, temperatures, chemistry, etc #exoplanets6 #exo6

Engin Keles is looking for am atmosphere around 55 Cnc e with hires xc spectroscopy He posits that a variable atmosphere is present given the various detections and non detections #exoplanets6 #exo6

The typical shenanigans ensue as organizers attempt to take the group photo I am waiting until the last possible moment to leave the shade #exoplanets6 #exo6

The Massive Exoplanet MEME Exhibition was here at #exoplanets6 #exo6 Their goal is to collect memes for use in engaging the public. Next exhibition is in January and they have been holding a contest here The youth have different memes! The memes have changed, I am elderly 😮‍💨

Jean-Michel Désert will "entertain" us with XUV flux impacts on atmospheric escape Particularly he'd like to apply multiple tracers to get around degeneracies but there is disagreement between tracers sometimes as in V1298 Tau c which is very young around a very active star #exoplanets6 #exo6

Jared Kolecki attempts to convince us that stellar oxygen enrichment is a better predictor of giant planet formation rather than silicon using protoplanetary disk models #exoplanets6 #exo6

Diego Muñoz is looking at eccentric warm Jupiters and spin-orbit alignments to understand the physics behind their orbital evolution and the effect of tides #exoplanets6 #exo6

Nono Santos is telling us about the PoET telescope Essentially it enables ESPRESSO to observe the Sun at Paranal observatory #exoplanets6 #exo6

Ignasi Ribas emphasizes a critical aspect of exoplanet research, our knowledge of planets is directly linked to our knowledge of their parent stars #exoplanets6 #exo6

This soap smells so strongly of pink bubble gum, it's crazy

Charles Cadieux speaks on the HARPS data that has been taken of the sun for the past 10 years (almost a solar cycle) Essentially the Sun is made of 3 components in a linear model coming from the quiet sun, bright regions, and spots #exoplanets6 #exo6

Nadiia Kostogryz tackles magnetism in stars and how they impact our measurements of the transit depth via its effect on the appearance of the stellar disk Spectral modeling with 3D MHD small scale simulations allows us to explore this effect #exoplanets6 #exo6