Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I'm thrilled to announce that I'm going to be starting as an assistant professor at CU Boulder this fall! I'm immensely grateful and excited. Please reach out if you're interested in joining my group as a grad student or postdoc. :D 2241
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Now as a webapp! tinyurl.com/show-me-orbittinyurl.comShow Me the Orbit 030
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If only I could easily embed in html lol 🫥 100
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Here's a fun piece of code I wrote to visualize the astrometric orbital elements. To run the visualization for yourself, check it out here: github.com/sblunt/show-... Black dashed is the line of nodes, and lighter purple indicates the part of the orbit that is behind the plane of the sky. Enjoy! 1305
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Definitely agree! I took an intro cs course in undergrad where Racket was the first language we learned. Although I never use Racket, I think it was extremely valuable to learn that way! Learning to code should be about learning how computers parse, compile, and execute code first. 020
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸yesenia lightyear @vividreams.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I'm a post-bac currently in this program and can help with any questions you might have about applications and participating 💫💫 053
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 28/02/2025Applications are open for #FlatironCCA's 2025-2026 Pre-Doctoral Program. Participants will collaborate with scientists on a project complementary to their thesis for 4.5 months at the Flatiron Institute. Stage 1 applications due 3/14: www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron-ins... #science #astrophysicssimonsfoundation.orgFlatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics Pre-Doctoral ProgramFlatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics Pre-Doctoral Program on Simons Foundation 077
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 27/02/2025HD 80606 b -- its year is a little less than 4 months, and it has an orbital eccentricity of 0.95!! Talk about whiplash! 050
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 28/01/2025Final week to apply for the Code/Astro workshop! Come learn about open-source software development in Python. 0117
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 15/01/2025please, if you have the means, help the displaced black families of altadena, ca hit their gofundme goals. we need each other.docs.google.comDisplaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory 2144129
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 14/01/2025entering conference day 4 and I only know what day it is because the Tuesday crosswords just came out 580
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸MaggieBeth @maggiebeth.space · 11/01/2025For those affected by the LA wildfires, here is a spreadsheet I found of therapists offering pro bono services. #LAwildfires #PalisadesFire #EatonFire docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comPro Bono Therapy for Los Angeles Wildfires 0128
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Still some open slots! Would love to see more nominations :) 141
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 04/01/2025We cover source control with git and github, programming paradigms (i.e. functional vs object oriented), documentation, testing, releasing code on pypi, and more! Hope to see you there. :) (2/2) 060
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Hey bluesky! Do you want to develop your own open-source software in Python? Apply to attend Code/Astro! Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/ Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)semaphorep.github.ioProgram DescriptionA Software Engineering Workshop for Astronomy 37333
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Heading into Christmas Day with 39/50 stars on #AdventOfCode! Will I finish? Absolutely! I learned a ton so far (mostly about path finding algorithms after rage quitting day 16). There’s a lot I don’t know, but there’s nothing I can’t learn. :D 1160
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Hey folks! Just popping in to announce that the full recording of the 2024 Code/Astro workshop is up on youtube. Playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Code/Astro is a week-long software development workshop for astronomers. More info about the workshop here: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/youtube.comCode/Astro 2024 - YouTubeHello world! This is the full recording of the 2024 Code/Astro workshop. Here are some useful resources: Workshop website: https://semaphorep.github.io/codea... 0219
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Prof. Ghosty Neilsen @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Showed the kids Fellowship of the Ring, and the next day, kid the older was describing the Balrog to his cousin: Kid: imagine me, tall as the hills, in fire, and insanely buff Cousin: that’s a lot to imaginemedia.tenor.coma demon with horns is surrounded by a group of people in a dark room .Alt: A huge horned demon, humanoid but with fiery wings. It roars, revealing an internal inferno. It seems very strong but “insanely buff” was not my first thought. 0262
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Kathleen Mandt, PhD @mommascientist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Para aquellos que hablan español y quieren aprender sobre nuestros resultados del cometa publicados aquí www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🔭🧪🪐 #PlanetaryScience theconversation.com/contribuyero...theconversation.com¿Contribuyeron los cometas de la familia de Júpiter a traer el agua a la Tierra?Un nuevo análisis de los datos de la misión Rosetta, que estudió de cerca al cometa 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, aporta nuevas pistas sobre el origen del agua terrestre. 12910
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Reminder: please nominate yourself or others! :) We still have 12 open slots for the winter and spring. 075
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Madyson Barber @madysonbarber.bsky.social · 02/12/2024hi Bluesky! I’m Madyson, a 3rd-year phd student at unc chapel hill discovering and studying young transiting planets. Maybe you saw our recent Nature paper on the discovery of my new favorite, IRAS 04125+2902 b (aka TIDYE-1b 😉) www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk - NatureObservations of a 3-million-year-old pre-main-sequence star with a misaligned disk reveal a giant orbiting planet; the system is ideal for studying the early formation and migration of plane... 4506
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Bruce Macintosh @bmacastro.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Prompted by this and a need for distraction I Did Some Math. Turns out most extrasolar planets are quite cauliflower-compatible. A thread, with citations. And laboratory astrophysics. And footnotes. 933698
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Hey folks! We're currently accepting nominations for the UC Santa Cruz planetary lunch (PLUNCH) seminar in winter and spring. Self-nominations encouraged! Nomination form is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comUC Santa Cruz PLUNCH Astronomy Seminar Nomination FormPlanetary Lunch (PLUNCH) at UC Santa Cruz has been ongoing for nearly 20 years and contains weekly seminars by visiting researchers. Topics span both exoplanetary and solar system science, typically w... 092
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 26/11/2024All right, let me rephrase-- if you are a current or former PhD student in astronomy (or adjacent field) willing to comment on 1-2 statements of purpose for applicants, please let me know! 100
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I did too, sorta. Technically I dropped out of program A and reenrolled as a first year at program B. 230
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Dino Chih-Chun Hsu @chihchunhsu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I am excited to share my third paper of this year, and my first exoplanet paper with @thejason.wang, accepted to ApJL. We detected CO and water in the atmosphere of PDS 70 b, a protoplanet around its natal disk using Keck/KPIC. PDS 70 b shows a stellar-like C/O ratio (!). arxiv.org/abs/2411.15117arxiv.orgPDS 70b Shows Stellar-like Carbon-to-Oxygen RatioThe $\sim$5 Myr PDS 70 is the only known system with protoplanets residing in the cavity of the circumstellar disk from which they formed, ideal for studying exoplanet formation and evolution within i... 2296
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Is anyone in Astro organizing grad school SoP reviews for applicants this year? 020
Reposted by Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸Dr. William O. Balmer @balmer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024expect the expected! new paper from our team on the arxiv today: our observations of the directly imaged planet AF Lep b with optical interferometry. we revise the planet's orbit and composition; both indicate unbothered formation within a disk via core accretion. arxiv.org/abs/2411.05917 24410
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 06/10/2024we need a backronym that spells out "Pompeii" to do that project 010
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 01/04/2024Showmetheorbit! github.com/sblunt/orbit... download and run the notebook to interact 020
Sarah Blunt, PhD 🇵🇸 @blunt-comma-s.bsky.social · 23/02/2024Hi bluesky, just popping on to let you know that I'm going to be heading to UC Santa Cruz as an NSF AAPF fellow in the fall! It's been absolutely wonderful hanging out with @thejason.wang and co remotely at CIERA, but I'm looking forward to working in-person again. Go banana slugs! 3212
