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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think anyone can read your words and judge for themselves what they literally convey, intended or not. Regardless, retaliation for publishing public data says more about the retaliators than anything else. That is the attitude that needs to change. Nobody, including the PI, owns public data.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see no gain in personal slights. FWIW, I am content with my place in the community. Being a good member also means using public resources, paid for by not-us, wisely. We're stewards: we get to shape what data are taken, have first access, and get paid to analyze them. But the public owns them.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, already know that. 🙄 It may be *better* to contact for many reasons. But it is 100% decent and acceptable to analyze and publish data well past the proprietary period w/o contacting the PI. I do not have the right to get upset if someone else publishes data I took but didn't publish.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nope. Do not agree. This reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of data ownership.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think that is 'nice' to do and could be advantageous. But I do not agree it should be required or considered bad form when the data are years past the proprietary period end. Data acquisition is a privilege, not a right. Contrary to some opinions I've seen, we do not 'own' it like we own a car

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hope so. I think we should normalize the position that analyzing public data (once it becomes public) as 100% acceptable, especially for facilities like JWST. And the funding of said efforts through archival programs.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm strongly pro-'this'. But there are a *lot* of people who think analyzing, and publishing public data --even if it became public years ago -- is somehow bad form. And they will retaliate against you if you do these things (has happened to me mult times). Hopefully, that attitude is waning.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your spouse's face when you tell them "hey, the JWST Cycle 6 deadline got extended, so I'm going to pull another all nighter and work through the day tomorrow"

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I nearly spit out my drink when I heard the punchline.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Maunakea summit tonight just after Tropical Storm Nolo has passed through the islands. Dry, almost no wind, and down to 0.2" seeing.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I know which paper you are talking about :)

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

8 months without getting a report at all?

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two days after a Tropical Storm rolled through the islands, the seeing on Maunakea tonight right now is 0.28" (!!!)

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm a registered Republican but this guy is the anti-Christ. In of the parade of horribles from this administration, he somehow is a contender for the worst.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New directly-imaged planet discovery from Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez & @thejason.wang at Northwestern + collaborators, using JWST/NIRCam. arxiv.org/abs/2609.20748

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 14/09/2026

The American Astronomical Society today announced that Dr. Emily Levesque (University of Washington) has been confirmed as the next Editor in Chief of the AAS journals. 🔭https://aas.org/press/emily-levesque-named-editor-chief-aas-journals @publishing.aas.org

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have far fewer qualms with using LLMs for internal reviews of things *I* have written, though (e.g. as a better version of a spellchecker/grammar check).

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(less "curmugeony" version of response) AAS Journals gives guidelines on using LLMs for articles: here, for referees. FWIW, I have never used an LLM to review a paper for me.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

eek. Apparently not the only thing ADS is messing up (it's not getting arxiv bibliography entries right anymore). I really really do not want to rely on Google Scholar...

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

what about redirecting to scixplorer?

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are @scixcommunity.bsky.social and ADS not working anymore for citations from arxiv postings? The last time where they seemed to consistently work was ~late July.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I remember being a very 'green', junior reviewer (barely out of grad school) and was very stoked that Chris Sneden sent me such a separate "thank you" note for my first ApJL review assignment. These things are much appreciated.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

and the coding students do in my class shall be solid.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Roman is such a good, brilliant idea that launched ahead of time and on budget. Insane that it was on the chopping block *multiple times*. I don't think we are ready for all the crazy stuff it is going to find.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Very excited for the #NASARoman telescope launch. Just as a reminder, our group played a role for the Roman Coronagraph, finding the targets it will look at to test Earth-imaging technologies in space for the first time. bigthink.com/starts-with-... www.maunakeaobservatories.org/stories/suba...

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 29/08/2026

Hot take: right or left, both sides of the political spectrum are vulnerable to disinformation, and we see that in full swing with the attitudes towards AI that some people on the left have

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Observing on Maunakea with Subaru. 0.37" seeing. Nice little dark hole in this QL image from SCExAO/CHARIS.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 28/08/2026

How will #NASARoman see exoplanets that are close to its host star? With its Coronagraph Instrument, which will block as much of the starlight as possible while letting the exoplanet's light through to the detector. It does this with an opaque mask that covers the target star. 🔭

scientificamerican.com

To see exoplanets, NASA's Roman Space Telescope will throw shade on stars

NASA's newest major observatory will include the most advanced planet-imaging tech ever flown in space. Here's how it works

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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've just seen this stunning photo of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope being prepared for launch, and I swear it looks just like an angel. flic.kr/p/2sx7SVx

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Teams inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida encapsulate the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope within the payload fairing on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, ahead of mating to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Encapsulation shields the spacecraft during rollout, ascent, and the early phases of flight. Roman will investigate dark energy and dark matter, conduct a statistical census of planetary systems, and enable a broad range of additional astrophysics research. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy is targeted for no earlier than Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Photo credit: NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz)

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 28/08/2026

Named for NASA's first chief astronomer, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to reveal new information about the expansion of the universe and discover multitudes of planets orbiting distant stars. #NASARoman 🔭

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NASA is about to launch a space telescope that could change how we see the universe

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches Aug. 30 on a mission to explore some of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 26/08/2026

➡️ Follow @stsci.edu for the most up-to-date information on this weekend's scheduled launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 🔭 #NASARoman Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Hot take: of all the things that probably shouldn't be canon, the Borg are up there." Dare I ask why?

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I guess I'm a bit more skeptical of this? What about "'Paxton is a uniquely bad candidate and Talarico has run a solid campaign thus far' is not the same thing as irreversible long-term trend for all Dems"? What data support "2024 was brief break from a trend" vs. a GOP-tilted recalibration?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ronald Reagan has a message for MAGA as Trump escalates the trade war with Canada: “We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag.”

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 20/08/2026

We're just 10 days away from the scheduled launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida! As you can see from the banner above our door at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, we're very excited about the science #NASARoman will deliver. 🔭

The image shows the entrance of the Space Telescope Science Institute, featuring a large banner for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The banner reads, "Expanding Our View, Charting the Unknown. Roman: Ready to Deliver!"

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

As an added bonus, I believe we report the first contrast curves for SCExAO/CHARIS after the AO3K upgrade: Typical performance is in between that of gamma Boo and eta Uma/eps Uma. We can probably do a bit better than gamma Boo when the seeing/AO correction is the best.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Finally, we show that adding our fourth target – gamma Boo – which is not currently on the Roman CPP team reference star list would improve schedulability for the tech demo’s key targets.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We show that these companions likely lack companions that could corrupt the Coronagraph’s dark hole digging and preclude reflected-light planet detection.

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We focus on 4 northern targets – in or near the Roman Continuous Viewing Zone – that can be paired with key tech demo targets HIP 71618 (orbited by a BD discovered by Mona) and HIP 54515 (has a planet discovered by me + Yiting Li)

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For those interested in the Roman Coronagraph, here’s our paper led by myself + grad student Jie Li & Mona El Morsy, reporting the first extreme-AO depth vetting of PSF reference stars for the Coronagraph’s technology demonstration. arxiv.org/pdf/2608.17008

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Thayne Currie 🇺🇦 @astrothayne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I.e. we found the target that the Roman Coronagraph will use to demonstrate TTR5 and did analysis confirming its efficient scheduling. Also found the other key early target -- HIP 54515 b -- for spectroscopy. A full journal paper reporting our PSF reference star vetting is imminent.

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