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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Guest lecturing today on direct imaging and some demographics for @jjfplanet.bsky.social !😃

Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hubble Symposium as 2nd year Sagan Fellow! Presented some prelim cloudy retrieval results. Had a great time catching up with folks #BlackInAstro

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Talked science for 3 hours during one day of OWL and got great science ideas!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My stellar abundance paper is finally published! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Had an amazing time at Spectroscopy Summer Camp 🏕️ in Yosemite this week. Met so many awesome folks doing spectroscopy and learned so much! Truly a special conference that I’ll never forget.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So incredibly proud of my student Citlali Alcala who presented her work as a LAMAT fellow this Summer. We worked on a Spitzer variability project and I had THE best time working with her. Looking forward to many good things in store for her!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My heart is so full! The “Charting Substellar Worlds” conference was a great success. Amazing science talks and community building. Conference organizing was so stressful, but so worth it in the end. Along with talks and we had s’mores, karaoke, and even some folks surfing 🏄🏾‍♂️.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There's lots of more goodies in the paper so please check it out! Lastly and really important to me is that I dedicated this work to my late mother, Janet Leigh Phillips. She passed away very suddenly as I started this work in 2024 and I hope she is proud of me in everything I do. I miss her dearly.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We also compare our work to some literature values from the Brewer Catalog and find generally good agreement in our abundance measurements. With notable differences in OI and N abundances will are notoriously hard to measure.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We also used the framework by Emily Calamari to predict the types of clouds expected to form in the brown dwarf companions based on the host star Mg/Si ratio! We can also look at comparing the Mg/Si ratio of the host with the inferred Mg/Si ratio from BD companion via retrieval analysis.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We also see a spread beyond solar in metallicity for the host stars as well!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It turns out that the in our sample, the host stars of some companion brown dwarfs exhibit similar diversity in their C/O ratios as some hosts of directly-imaged exoplanets. The dashed line is solar C/O values for reference. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We sought out to "Know Thy Star, Know Thy Brown Dwarf", as a lot of retrieval analysis and forward modeling of brown dwarfs in companions systems have made assumptions about host stars being solar-like. But is this true? We use the code BACCHUS to find out! Look at that beautiful spectra from PEPSI!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Paper accepted! Coming to the arXiv - once I fix these red warning errors lol. First paper in my postdoc, 2 years in the making!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#Exo6 check out my poster on stellar abundances of FGK hosts of wide orbit brown dwarf companions. We use high resolution (R ≈ 130,000) spectra from PEPSI to characterize 32 stars to report C/O, [Fe/H], and Mg/Si and MORE to predict cloud species in the BD companions. Poster #34. Topic 4! 🤓

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Porto is gorgeous and Exo6 is great so far. I might literally die on these hills lol.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Cool Stars 23 and Tokyo have been amazing 🤩!!!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy Black Space Week from Tokyo! 🇯🇵. My name is Caprice, I am the current VP for @blackinastro.bsky.social and I am a NASA Sagan Fellow at UCSC! I work on brown dwarf research, like to do artsy things, trying to learn how to play my banjo 🪕, and love frogs 🐸. #BSW2026 #BlackSpaceWeek

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

First RCSA conference as a 2026 RCSA Fellow! Had a great time! 🏜️ @rescorp.org

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My grandparents house or whats left of it. I am so devastated.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Congrats to Phoenix for successfully defending her undergraduate thesis! She’s headed to UW Madison Physics PhD program as a NSF-GRFP Fellow! #BlackinAstro

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Headed to my first #bdexocon conference! Very excited because I’ve always wanted to go! Also presenting!!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Day 1 of the Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship Program & Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship Spring Academic Retreat! Great day! Im presenting tomorrow!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Amy made a beautiful bowl I commissioned for a friend! And it came out sooo good! My friend loves it!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Had a great time as the colloquium speaker for UC San Diego Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics! I even got to talk about @blackinastro.bsky.social in a “Antiracism in the Physical Sciences” class! #BlackInAstro

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So...planning a workshop/conference is actually super hard 🥲, I see why people be conference princesses. So many things...so little time. The things I am learning from the other side of the conference scene, helpful but stressful lol.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Spending time with my nibling for their Spring Break.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

#AAS247 I'm giving a talk in Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs session from 10:00 - 11:30 in 229A. I'm going at 10:30 if you wanna learn about abundances of stars that host benchmark brown dwarfs! Can we assume solar? What kinds of clouds can we predict? Come learn!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My nephew made this hangman so cute. His spelling is off lol but it says “Auntie Caprice is awesome she like space”. My heart 💜!!! 🥰🥰🥰

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Holiday sadness is hitting me hard. I wish my mom was here.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Went to Kia here in Cali and they really quoted me $336 for a basic oil change. I wanna go home lol. 🤡. I did not pay these prices lol. Gonna be shopping around more.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Great NSBP-NSHP conference in San Jose. My first as a postdoc and invited speaker. Great to see mentees and folks shine. And see my peeps!

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This is the face of astronomy! Like this is one of my new favorite photos! We ate!!!! 💅🏾

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Congrats @ohdearz.bsky.social on receiving the Nancy Grace Roman Award from ASP for promoting gender equity snd inclusion in astronomy and related fields! It was awesome to be there and see all the amazing things! Truly well deserved! astrosociety.org/who-we-are/a...

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Had an amazing time at the first gathering for the 2030STEMxBWF Fellowship meeting at AMNH! So exiting for many things to come! Ll

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I'm giving my first invited speaker talk for the NSBP/NSHP conference in November! Super honored and excited to talk about brown dwarfs from their host stars to the brown dwarf atmospheres themselves! #BlackInAstro

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I put my couch 🛋️ together and only put on one piece backwards! Progress lol.

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

So proud of Phoenix! She’s amazing, does cool research and has done so much at an early stage in her career. She’s applying to grad programs too! So 👀. Y’all would be lucky to have her! #BlackInAstro

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Me at the Hubble Symposium and my friends reaction to it lol. 😂

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Dr. Caprice Phillips @capricephillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It’s humbling me lol. Trying to practice and learn this song on my 🪕. Switching chords is super hard. 😭

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