Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 2hYounger siblings everywhere, unite!!! Help one of your own! 030
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 5hHey! If you have a second, vote for my sister to get a chance to host her own podcast. (She's a younger sister and I already got to host one, so she needs to do one too, obviously. 😂) tophost.org/2026/chloe-c...tophost.orgIs Chloe Christiansen the Top Host?Will Chloe Christiansen be a guest on an episode of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, win $25,000, and lead a podcast produced by iHeartRadio? 180
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 7hHello from wine country! Yes, the rumours are true, I am ON VACATION this week. ✨🍷☺️static.klipy.comConan O'Brien's Awesome Giant Wine TastingAlt: Conan O'Brien's Awesome Giant Wine Tasting 3351
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 20h“Oh, no, no, no, you’re a smart guy, clearly picked up some flashy tricks, but you made one crucial mistake. You forgot about the essence of the game. It’s about the cones.” 6340
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sometimes we show the kids classic movies and we have to stop occasionally and explain that the language and/or behaviour is not acceptable anymore. Tonight we watched Bad News Bears and YIKES. I think the explanations were longer than the actual movie. 👀😭☠️static.klipy.comMan's Cringe Fake SmileAlt: Ted Lasso cringes. 3402
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I was watching a very illuminating talk about how AI alignment (how to align AI 'values' with our values) is increasingly in tension with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (how the AI can teach itself by trial and error) and my takeaway is that we're deliberately creating psychopaths. 4343
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I love the idea that you tell AI stories of AI being a good robot to encourage AI to be a good robot. uknowledge.uky.edu/cs_etds/139/uknowledge.uky.eduPractical AI Value Alignment Using StoriesAs more machine learning agents interact with humans, it is increasingly a prospect that an agent trained to perform a task optimally - using only a measure of task performance as feedback--can violat... 191
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Calling it early this week because I know the JWST deadline has everyone knocked flat. It's Friday night. I did enough this week. YOU did enough this week. 2503
Reposted by Dr. Jessie ChristiansenClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Calling all Exoplanets folk! MIT has an opening for a new tenure track assistant professorship in planetary sciences. This is a unique opportunity to help build a new future of exoplanet research at MIT. Applications close Oct 15. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32450academicjobsonline.orgMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences Job #AJO32450, Faculty Position in Planetary Science, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US 2117
Reposted by Dr. Jessie ChristiansenRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit 464142502844
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hello software developers! Come work with our Keck Observatory Archive team at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at @caltechipac.bsky.social!! We have a great team, a hybrid work schedule, and you get to live in fabulous SoCal! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...phf.tbe.taleo.netHiring Application Developer, IPAC - Pasadena, CAView job details and apply now 22211
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’ve lost it, I just made up a whole song to the tune of ‘Kiss the Girl’ from the Little Mermaid but it was ‘Pick SHERA’.static.klipy.comAriel, Prince Eric & Flounder in The Little MermaidAlt: Ariel, Prince Eric & Flounder in The Little Mermaid 7231
Reposted by Dr. Jessie ChristiansenSETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We know planets are common. But we still haven't found another planet quite like Earth. On Oct. 7, @aussiastronomer.bsky.social explores the past, present, and future of our hunt for Earth 2.0 at the next Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 #bayarea www.seti.org/events/the-s...seti.orgThe Search for Earth 2.0: Why We Think It Exists, and How We’re Going to Find it 06614
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh, YIKES - just got an ad targeted at sports mums (guilty!) for A/V recording sunglasses the kid can wear while they play the sport, so you get the POV. Given that *everyone else* being recorded by the glasses will be *literal children*, seems DICEY, guys. DICEY. 2380
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Truly it's already broken. We can't find people to review things. No-one has any bandwidth for anything. It's already burning down. 4250
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Red Sox offense.static.klipy.comMockjup Demands Action from a PotatoAlt: Mockjup Demands Action from a Potato 1160
Reposted by Dr. Jessie ChristiansenSarah E Moran @offallingstars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#JWSTC6 APT has crashed with ~8 minutes before the deadline tonight. Chatter says the deadline will be extended but we don't know until when... 0183
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ummm until yesterday there were actual deadlines listed here 👀 (Maybe this is just the previously discussed move to rolling deadlines, but it seems ominous when bundled with all the rest of the new "The Astro-Core program is anticipated to be especially competitive in Fiscal Year 2027" guidelines.) 3152
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A few times a day I go to the hot corner that shows me all the windows of a given application I have open so that I can see how many draft emails I started and got distracted before I could send them.static.klipy.comAmy Santiago Distracted in Brooklyn Nine-NineAlt: Amy Santiago says "I am definitely distracted" in Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1160
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Truly it's hard for Australians/Americans to grasp both the size of European countries AND their amazing train systems. I was nervous about having to transfer to Leiden, given that I have to fly into Amsterdam. What a hassle! The train from Amsterdam airport to Leiden is 20 minutes. 9491
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On point B, the NASA Exoplanet Archive typically serves ~10-20TB of data per month. In July it jumped to 70TB. In August it jumped to 600TB. So either our user base organically grew *30x* in two months (... unlikely), OR the bots have taken over already. 311447
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you* overlay the old Chen & Kipping (2017) planet mass-radius relationship with the new Dransfield et al. (2026) relationship, you can really see the impact of removing the inflated planets! *ChatGPT. 2204
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My favourite kind of null result: we did a deep dive around 70 Oph AB with radial velocities and found no giant planets. That means there's both (a) lots of material and (b) lots of dynamically stable real estate for small planets for SHERA to find!!! 😉 news.umich.edu/suns-set-on-...news.umich.eduSuns set on hunt for giant planets in nearby binary systemNew research led by the University of Michigan is helping set the stage for future observatories to characterize rocky planets outside our solar system, planets that could prove life isn't confined to... 2293
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I came home, was irritated and snappy at everyone, and took myself to bed at 8pm. 🙄🫠☠️ 4170
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No hyperbole, I have just logged on to my 10th meeting of today.static.klipy.comExhausted Stewie Griffin in BedAlt: Exhausted Stewie Griffin in Bed 5400
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last week we picked up Max Scherzer for our fantasy team championship round on the basis of his double start. His first game was delayed so I thought that was it, and then Mad Max demanded one final start, on short rest. And then this happened. And WE WON! 👑 www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...reddit.comFrom the baseball community on RedditExplore this post and more from the baseball community 0110
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My sister (millennial) and I (xennial) were discussing Garfield in Paradise (1986) the other day. Trying to recall the plot was like trying to piece together a fever dream. Garfield and John go to… Hawaii? John hits that with an islander? The Fonz’s ghost drives a sports car into a volcano?! 7120
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hey isn’t that a scene from a movie series where the AI he builds goes rogue and nearly destroys everyone? 4190
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That face when you have the audacity to volunteer at one event, race over to watch the kid play a baseball game, come home and get everything ready for the kid’s soccer game, volunteer at a second event, and then finally lie down on the couch at 4:30pm without having played with the dog all day. 1400
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026when you look up ‘regulatory capture’ in the dictionary: 0254
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s Friday night! I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week. 2534
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s SUCH an important framing to change from ‘here is the solution I want’ to ‘here is the problem I have’. I see it all the time in teams of scientists and engineers (software AND hardware!). 1246
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Like watching grown men pretend to enjoy whiskey. 4320
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We just passed a VIVIDLY pink truck with the word LIPSTICK in huge white letters on the side and some kiss emojis. Never in a hundred years will you guess what industry the truck was associated with. 25270
Reposted by Dr. Jessie ChristiansenRed Sox @redsox.com · 25/09/2026Summer Fridays. 🗒️ bit.ly/4rtPYZi 3746
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comTom Delonge Blink182 Wtf MemeAlt: Tom Delonge Blink182 Wtf Meme 1163
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cool, great, lucky we're not in the middle of multiple proposal calls at the moment. 🫠 160
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026How To Mildly Threaten Your Co-Authors If They Don't Send You Their Biographies ASAP. 11924
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sydney! I'm coming your way! lnkd.in/p/gdEYRxx3lnkd.inFrom Sydney to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and back to Sydney for AIP Congress 2026. Dr Jessie Christiansen has spent much of her career searching for worlds beyond our… | Th...From Sydney to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and back to Sydney for AIP Congress 2026. Dr Jessie Christiansen has spent much of her career searching for worlds beyond our Solar... 081
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Starting my nth re-read of Eobin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice (Nosy! 😭) in paperback form and listening to @howtoadhd.bsky.social’s How To ADHD in audiobook form. 3101
Reposted by Dr. Jessie ChristiansenMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Girl dinner 6274911670
Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In 2016 I took my 18-month-old daughter door-knocking for Hilary and it was a great experience. In 2020 the world was too contagious for door-knocking, so I did phone-banking. In 2024 I became a citizen and felt political despair. I think it's time for canvassing again! 1263