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Greg Gilbert

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Astronomer @Caltech

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 05/10/2026
If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this. **Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers** math.mit.edu/~elmos/petit...
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Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For those who enjoy ANIMALS and WORDLE and CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS (which I suspect is upwards of 96% of my followers): metazooa.com/play/game
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Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hey y’all hope you’re ready to fight for NASA again! www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hey folks - if you are interested in astronomy news, you should be following @caltechipac.bsky.social!!! IPAC hosts the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the NASA Extragalactic Database, the InfraRed Science Archive, as well as data from ongoing missions like Euclid, SPHEREx, and upcoming missions like Roman!
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Paper day! What the difference between a giant planet and a brown dwarf? Maybe not so much. Read on to find out more. 1/ Paper I: arxiv.org/abs/2511.12816 Paper II: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11818
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Orbital Eccentricities Suggest a Gradual Transition from Giant Planets to Brown Dwarfs
To date, hundreds of sub-stellar objects with masses between $1-80\ M_{\rm Jup}$ have been detected orbiting main-sequence stars. The current convention uses the deuterium-burning limit, $M_c \approx ...
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Paper day! What the difference between a giant planet and a brown dwarf? Maybe not so much. Read on to find out more. 1/ Paper I: arxiv.org/abs/2511.12816 Paper II: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11818
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Orbital Eccentricities Suggest a Gradual Transition from Giant Planets to Brown Dwarfs
To date, hundreds of sub-stellar objects with masses between $1-80\ M_{\rm Jup}$ have been detected orbiting main-sequence stars. The current convention uses the deuterium-burning limit, $M_c \approx ...
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!
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Kevin Hardegree-Ullman @kevinkhu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Kepler mission: smaller stars have more short-period, small #exoplanets. Theory: the smallest stars won’t have enough disk material to make small planets so there must be a turnover. Kepler+K2: We have found a turnover! Check out our newest Scaling K2 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05734 🧵 1/9 🔭🧪☄️
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Scaling K2 VIII: Short-Period Sub-Neptune Occurrence Rates Peak Around Early-Type M Dwarfs
We uniformly combined data from the NASA Kepler and K2 missions to compute planet occurrence rates across the entire FGK and M dwarf stellar range. The K2 mission, driven by targets selected by guest ...
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Want to learn about the relationship between planet size and orbital eccentricity? Read this thread! 🧪 🔭 🪐
The eccentricity (ellipticity) of a planet’s orbit is a relic of its
formation history. We measured eccentricities of 1646 planets
with sizes ranging from 0.5 to 16 Earth-radii (R⊕). On average,
large planets (4–16 R⊕) are four times more eccentric than
small planets (0.5–4 R⊕), pointing to distinct formation chan-
nels for these two size groups. Small planets typically form
on nearly circular orbits and experience minimal perturbations,
while large planets are more likely to experience eccentricity
excitation. Small planets are bifurcated into at least two groups,
super-Earths (1.0–1.5 R⊕) and sub-Neptunes (2.0–3.0 R⊕),
with few planets in between. The planets that fall between
these two populations may also have elevated eccentricities,
pointing to dynamically exotic formation histories.
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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 02/07/2025
Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System! ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
First the rumour was a 20% budget cut. Then, 50%. Now the president's NASA budget is out and it's a 68% cut to astrophysics ($1.5B to $487M). Even if this gets reversed in four years, we will *never* recover the missions, partners, people who will be gone. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan
The preliminary version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, known as a “passback,” would cut the agency’s science budget funding nearly in half.
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thanks for the write-up, @dtstarkid.bsky.social
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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’m working on a piece about funding basic science and if you’ve never explored spinoff.nasa.gov, I would really encourage you to do so. Even though I’ve been doing this for 20 years, it really is humbling and informative to see the ways in which space science works its way into our daily lives.
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Home | NASA Spinoff
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 17/02/2025
The best dark sky in the world - the Atacama Desert in Chile, which hosts many @eso.org telescopes - is under threat from an industrial project. 🔭 Astronomers can sign a petition in favour of moving the planned industrial project: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
But more accurately... Physics major → existential crisis → the improv years (TM) → teaching high school → start grad school → get sick → in-and-out of the hospital for 3 years → finish grad school → astrophysics postdoc Just a reminder that winding paths can look straight when zoomed out
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you went to college... 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. Physics research 2. Physics 3. Physics 4. (Astro)physics research
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 15/01/2025
The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes.A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line
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Dr. Susan E. Mullally @mustaric.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Astronomy friends, don't forget to give MAST @mast-news.bsky.social a follow.
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Baby Ledecky @claireeinstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My friend @gjgilbert.bsky.social has likened building a full colony on Mars to getting a flat tire and rebuilding your entire car from scratch, including mining the ore for all the metals yourself. We're so much better off fixing the problems here, where there's oxygen and lakes and normal sun.
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Every university physics building in America looks like a rejected GoldenEye level on the inside. Immaculate vibes, no notes.
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
My favorite 2017 eclipse moment -- I watched from a farm in rural Missouri. As the twilight of totality set in, the crickets chirped and the barn animals fell asleep. Two and a half minutes later, the sky brightened and the geese began angrily honking for their breakfast. #goosenap2017
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Greg Gilbert @gjgilbert.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Observing on KPF tonight. AKA Friday Night Lights: Clear skies, full charts, can't snooze.
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