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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD

@exobeatriz.bsky.social
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Exoplanet scientist 🪐 Postdoc at the APEx Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy✨️ Intersectional feminist 🌹she/her 🇵🇹🇬🇧🇩🇰🇦🇹🇩🇪

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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Really exicted to be at #Exoplanets6 this week! This is the first conference I am attending in my home country ✨️ Come by poster 131 in the green area if you want know more about the limitations of 1D retrievals of variable planetary-mass objects 😶‍🌫️
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Massive Exoplanet MEME Exhibition @exomemeevent.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨 The schedule for the MEME 2026 main event is ready 🚨 Join us on January 30th at 17:00 (CET) to hear the talks by Anja C. Andersen and Adam Dipert 🔭🧪 ✨ If you want your memes featured in this year’s exhibition please submit them through our website asap ✨ massiveexoplanetmemeexhibition.com/home
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Deadline is 15th of Jan, so there is still time to apply! :)
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Laura Kreidberg @lkreidberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Happy to share the first paper from the SPACE Program, led by my student Angelique Kahle! she observed a hot little sub-Neptune, HD 86226c (Rp = 2.3 Re; equilibrium temp = 1300 K). arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13439 The spectrum is *really* flat ! here's the amplitude compared to other gaseous planets.
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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A companion star …. Inside Betelgeuse’s atmosphere…. You think you know some stuff about the Universe but there’s always more surprises! 🙃🔭✨
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Duncan Christie @astroduncan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
My paper with Tom Evans-Soma and Nathan Mayne on magnetic drag models is now accepted and up on the arXiv. For a quick summary, look at the PDF of my Exoclimes poster that I shared last week. www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.08511
arxiv.org
Geometric Considerations in Hot Jupiter Magnetic Drag Models
Magnetic fields are expected to impact the atmospheric dynamics of hot and ultra-hot Jupiters due to their increased ionization fractions, compared to that of cooler exoplanets, but our ability to mod...
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Excited to be at Exoclimes (@exoclimes.bsky.social) this week! Come find me at poster 139 🪐 I'm building a retrieval framework to help make sense of variability in brown dwarfs and directly imaged planets. Come say hi, and we can nerd out about variable atmospheres 😊
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Duncan Christie @astroduncan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Since many people can't make it to Exoclimes, here is my poster looking at the geometry of magnetic drag models in hot Jupiter atmospheres. There are many caveats about the applicability of these models, but they're a first step in including dayside coupling. www.duncanchristie.net/s/exoclimes_...
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Duncan Christie @astroduncan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As I sit at Exoclimes listening to a Zoom talk from the UK, I thought I'd share this again. When choosing where to host international meetings, we need to consider the ability of attendees to get visas in a timely manner.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/06/2025
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions.

All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry.

All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It's the biggest question there is: are we alone in the Universe? Having the tech to probe the chemical composition of distant planets is 🥳, but as this is just a 3σ result (as likely to be noise as it is likely that today is your birthday) take it with a pinch of salt.👇More on the heated debate👇 🔭🧪
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
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Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
At some point we need to have a discussion about the ethics of participation in press releases as scientists. From today’s K2-18b saga, Nikku Madhusudhan in the press release says ‘The signal came through loud and clear’ (1/n)
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Jiachen Liu @jiachenliu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My new paper with Feng Ding and Jun Yang has been accepted at ApJ: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05233. In this study, we find that lower-tropospheric radiative heating is necessary but not independently sufficient to form the NAIV. Instead, the dynamic heating induced by large-scale subsidence is essential.
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Formation of Near-surface Atmospheric Inversion and Surface Inversion in Hothouse Climates
A hothouse climate may develop throughout Earth's history and its warming future and on potentially habitable exoplanets near the inner edge of the habitable zone. Previous studies suggested that near...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you or someone you know are interested in the postdoc or PhD positions at the IWF (OEAW) in Graz, in the exoplanets weather and climate group, remember I am available to talk about my experience 🚩
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What do people use to archive their twitter accounts? I want to finally do this and delete my account for good.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 03/02/2025
Trans 👏 people 👏 are 👏 not 👏 invisible 👏 Lady Gaga saying what needs to be said as always #Grammys
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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New JWST science by Nick Tusay of Penn State! Thanks @astrolisa.bsky.social for the very good writeup! www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
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A crumbling exoplanet spills its guts
Astronomers have determined the internal composition of a distant, disintegrating planet for the first time.
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Exoplanet memes for all the family 🔭🪐🧪👩‍🔬
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
After years of sweat and tears, my PhD baby is out of the oven. I currently do not have the energy to write a thread about it. In summary: atmospheric modelling with self-consistent microphysical cloud formation is hard. Don't ignore clouds, model them properly. 🪐🔭👩‍🔬🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2501.05521
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The $\texttt{MSG}$ model for cloudy substellar atmospheres: A grid of self-consistent substellar atmosphere models with microphysical cloud formation
State-of-the-art JWST observations are unveiling unprecedented views into the atmospheres of substellar objects in the infrared, further highlighting the importance of clouds. Current forward models s...
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
After years of waiting for another discovery of these bad boys (because I spent way too much time modelling them), finally another one has been found with TESS!!!!
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
REMINDER: The deadline for applying for the summer internships at the MPIA is next Wednesday, the 15th of Jan! Opportunities open for bachelor and masters students from all over the world! 🔭🧪👩‍🔬🪐⭐
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Luca Matrà @lucaroundtheworld.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨🔔 Job alert 🔔 🚨 ERC positions in our E-BEANS team @tcddublin.bsky.social ☘️ on exoplanetary systems (disks/long period planets/volatile delivery), starting Sep ‘25! ☄️🪐💿 🔭 3-yr Fellow: tinyurl.com/5n77ucnk 4-yr PhD: tinyurl.com/bdb3xyp3 Deadline Jan 6th ⏰ Please spread the word!
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Summer Internships are open for applications! This is an opportunity for bachelor and masters students 🤩 If you are interested in doing some exoplanets research, contact me! More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i... 🔭🪐⭐🧪👩‍🔬
mpia.de
Summer internships
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Johanna Vos @johannavos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🚨🚨 I'm hiring!!! 🚨🚨 Postdoc and PhD positions available to join my ERC project Exo-PEA at @tcddublin.bsky.social. The project aims to understand weather in giant extrasolar worlds ☁️⚡🪐 📆 Deadline: Jan 6th Postdoc ad: tinyurl.com/2ufcwvxf PhD ad: tinyurl.com/5amcea6p Please share widely! 🔭🪐
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
People who use wavenumber instead of wavelength: who hurt you? 🪐✨️🔭
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
got this in the mail today ✨️❤️🪐
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Jason Wang @thejason.wang · 23/11/2024
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Exoplanetary scientist: We've detected water in the cup!
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For the record, the grad student who made the discovery is Madyson Barber, a NSF Grad Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, who led the Nature paper on the result. This is her 4th first author paper.
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If you wonder what an astrophysicist does on a friday night: I watch portuguese telenovelas and play stardew valley ✨️ Have to catch up on GBBO soon tho!
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Duncan Christie @astroduncan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Go be one of the most useful people in exoplanet science. This research desperately needs to be done.
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Is chatting at the cinema during a film a thing now? Why do people not go to a cafe instead? Where is the self-awareness?
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
To my new followers: Hello! I'm Beatriz, an exoplanet scientist 🪐 I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the APEx department in the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ✨️ I am a modeller and spend most of my days modelling all kinds of exoplanets (and brown dwarfs) I love music and coffee ☀️
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Me and Celeste are currently moving to Heidelberg to start our new science adventure! Happy to share that tomorrow I officially start my first postdoc at APEx (MPIA) working with Paul Molliere on variable brown dwarfs (and not only). ✨️
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Back here ✨️ I guess the most relevant thing that has happened with my life is that I finally have a PhD in Astrophysics 🪐 Some pictures from my defence with several different moods!
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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
Today I was introduced to what was described as the Worst Plot In Exoplanet Science, and frankly, it is a work of art
A hellishly confusing plot that combines the mass-radius ratio, surface flux, composition, and surface temperature of exoplanets, plus a couple of other things I can't even identify, all crammed on top of each other in a single space.
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
If you are thinking of applying to the postdoc position in exoplanet atmospheres at the University of Copenhagen, please feel free to reach out to me and ask any questions about my experience there 🙃
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
If you are thinking of applying for the postdoc available in exoplanets at the Centre for Exolife Sciences, Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen , please please reach out to me, I'd be happy to share my experience as a PhD there with you. 🙂
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Hannah Wakeford @stellarplanet.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Excited to share the 1st direct evidence of quartz clouds in the atmosphere of a transiting #exoplanet! With #JWST MIRI we found nanoparticles of quartz, SiO2, causing a spike in the planet's spectrum at 8.6 micron unveiling the Oxygen locked in the clouds doi.org/10.3847/2041...
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NASA’s Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
I love this Radiohead song
A sign with a picture of a snapped tree falling onto a car which reads: CAUTION
-Dead trees are rotting
- Wings make trees unstable
-Trees are falling
-Look up; look around
- Watch where you park
-Watch where you walk
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Dr Ryan MacDonald @distantworlds.space · 13/09/2023
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲'. Ok, probably everyone has seen the headlines about K2-18b by now. I've put together this thread to collate some thoughts on why many exoplanet astronomers are pretty sceptical about these claims - THREAD (1/N)
Transmission spectrum graphic of the exoplanet K2-18b made by NASA
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/09/2023
Exoplanet Observation xkcd.com/2828
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
You don't really know what postdoc applications season is until you go through it yourself, do you? 😭🫠
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Sarah Pearson @spacewsarah.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
I’m hiring PhD students and postdocs to my new extragalactic stellar streams group U. Copenhagen. Please reach out if you have any questions and share this if you know anyone who might be interested. PhD link: jobregister.aas.org/ad/e9fe0095 Postdoc link: jobregister.aas.org/ad/8218d16b
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Congratulations to ISRO and India for landing Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon! 🧪🔭
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Beatriz Campos Estrada, PhD @exobeatriz.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
Currently at the Sagan workshop! Yesterday I did some data reduction for the first time in my life... something I never thought I'd get my hands on as a modeller Anyways, I do have a poster on how we can use some peculiar objects to constrain the composition of small rocky planets! #astro
scientist at the sagan workshop next to her poster on dusty-tails of evaporating rocky planets
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💀Adina Feinstein PhD 💀 @afeinstein20.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
the two most common follow-up questions at any astronomy conference 🧪
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