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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very thankful to my collaborators as I go through another #JWST cycle recovering from illness (not covid this time thankfully!). I managed to get my resubmits in and will have to hope I get a chance at next year for my new ideas.

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Took stock of local EV charger rates to compare to home rate. Last time I did this they were at $0.17/kWh now its $0.38/kWh Looks like my home energy is still competitive at 0.22 but it used to be 0.16 🫠

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Me, flossing because I want a gold star from my dentist, a totally reasonable thing to desire My permanent retainer wire: FREEEEEEDOM So not only do I have to call around to dentists tomorrow, but I have to keep from messing with it all night while I'm trying to sleep

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When someone responds to a question with "this is what Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/MarginallyDistinctFromPaulieTheParrot says ..." If I ask you something I am not using you as an intermediary between me and a search engine.

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The only thing worse than forgetting something in the washer as you go to bed is when you forget the sheets you were going to sleep on in the washer when you're really too tired to keep staying up

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Johns Hopkins University @jhu.edu · 14/07/2026

Johns Hopkins University has submitted a formal comment letter urging OMB to reconsider proposed changes to federal research funding rules, warning they could weaken merit-based review and destabilize the nation's innovation ecosystem. Read more: bit.ly/4w1BVLT

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Johns Hopkins calls for preserving merit-based review in federal research funding

University comment letter warns that proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance could weaken merit-based review, increase administrative burden, and disrupt the federal research partnership

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New paper! Here we look at Titan as an exoplanet and attempt to agnostically determine whether it has a haze and what it its made of. #exoplanets

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Saturn and its Moon in Space

Alt: Saturn and Titan in Space

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Is there a word for when something is enjoyable the first time but is not enjoyable any subsequent time? Perhaps a German one 😅

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Someone please explain how feeds work

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Idk how anyone finds anyone anymore but hopefully someone can find this family of backpackers going through #porto #portugal #backpacking www.instagram.com/p/Dac36pJI_W...

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Samuel Grunblatt tackles asteroseismology with TESS. This can be difficult because single sector datasets are too short to retrieve pulsation signals. Asteroseismology not only enables refined masses and radii measurements but also ages. #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Xian-Yu Wang looks at Rossiter McLaughlin measurements of a population sub Saturn's to super Juptiers. From their eccentricity and obliquity, there seems to be no explanatory mechanism across mass. See stellarobliquity.com 🤣 #exoplanets6 #exo6

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SOCat — Stellar Obliquity Catalog

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Pietro Leonardi looks at the HIP 41378 system, which contains three transiting planets, def, in 7:5 resonance with period of 278d+ So some transits have never been seen again. #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Niamh Mallaghan (which I don't know how to pronounce!) will close out the session with a talk on exoRings. ASASSN-21js is unusual in that it seems to *still* be transiting Plot from Pramono et al 2024! #exoplanets6 #exo6

Crazy transit light curve of ASASSN-21js from Pramono et al 2024

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Gaia Lacedelli examines the sub Neptune pop. Where recent works have tried to explain the formation of the savannah, ridge, and desert with various migration types. With espresso and supporting photometry they are looking at spin-orbit alignments as a tracer of migration #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As room hopping continues, Morgan Saidel explains extreme mass loss not only affects the atmosphere but the escaped gas can torque the planet and change its orbit. Saidel attempts to build a survey of escaped gas structures with hires data. #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Georgia Mraz looks at hires observations of uHJ WASP-33b as a function of phase. Due to the acceleration changes getting quadratic phases is difficult apparently. Looked at CO as a function of pre- and post- transit/eclipse. #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As the room fills to the brim, Dario González Picos shows hires data of beta Pic b with support from photometry to break the cloud-metaliciity degeneracy. Finds a super color metallicity and solar-like C/O. The carbon isotopologue ratio would indicate it is very young. #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As I give up fighting for wifi, Julia Seidel looks at winds in uHJs as a population study. In Seidel et al 2026, the data shows that the wind speeds are being damped as eqT increases. The theory is magnetic drag is dissipating energy. #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Guo Chen looks at ultra-hot Jupiters in hires NIR spectra. As shown in Yang et al 2024 and submitted 2026 they find an inverted atmosphere and some tentative detections of various species. They've built a 3D parameterized model to infer phase offsets, temperatures, chemistry, etc #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Engin Keles is looking for am atmosphere around 55 Cnc e with hires xc spectroscopy He posits that a variable atmosphere is present given the various detections and non detections #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The typical shenanigans ensue as organizers attempt to take the group photo I am waiting until the last possible moment to leave the shade #exoplanets6 #exo6

Conference attending milling about in the hot sun

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Massive Exoplanet MEME Exhibition was here at #exoplanets6 #exo6 Their goal is to collect memes for use in engaging the public. Next exhibition is in January and they have been holding a contest here The youth have different memes! The memes have changed, I am elderly 😮‍💨

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Jean-Michel Désert will "entertain" us with XUV flux impacts on atmospheric escape Particularly he'd like to apply multiple tracers to get around degeneracies but there is disagreement between tracers sometimes as in V1298 Tau c which is very young around a very active star #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Jared Kolecki attempts to convince us that stellar oxygen enrichment is a better predictor of giant planet formation rather than silicon using protoplanetary disk models #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Diego Muñoz is looking at eccentric warm Jupiters and spin-orbit alignments to understand the physics behind their orbital evolution and the effect of tides #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Nono Santos is telling us about the PoET telescope Essentially it enables ESPRESSO to observe the Sun at Paranal observatory #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ignasi Ribas emphasizes a critical aspect of exoplanet research, our knowledge of planets is directly linked to our knowledge of their parent stars #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This soap smells so strongly of pink bubble gum, it's crazy

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Charles Cadieux speaks on the HARPS data that has been taken of the sun for the past 10 years (almost a solar cycle) Essentially the Sun is made of 3 components in a linear model coming from the quiet sun, bright regions, and spots #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Nadiia Kostogryz tackles magnetism in stars and how they impact our measurements of the transit depth via its effect on the appearance of the stellar disk Spectral modeling with 3D MHD small scale simulations allows us to explore this effect #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

First speaker this morning is Daniel Apai who will speak on the challenges of detecting and interpreting biosignatures. He reminds us not to time travel too far back in our time machines because the earth was not habitable yet @danielapai.bsky.social #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's gonna be the warmest day of the week and I clearly don't understand weather enough to get why it's heckin wimdy #backonmynonsense #exoplanets6 #exo6

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It Fucken Wimdy Fox

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Jonathan Fortney kicks off the afternoon with every astronomer's favorite topic....metallicity @jjfplanet.bsky.social #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm too American to know the difference between the croquettes, fritters, and all these other foods so I can't tell which thing actually is the one that contains my allergen because they are not labeled!

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kevin Hoy briefly takes the stage to show us some hot off the press RV data about CD-35 2722, which is an eccentric M dwarf Brown Dwarf binary and is proposing an exomoon interpretation (which is a poster here) #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Steven Giacolone is looking into disintegrating planets. Like BD+05 4868Ab which has a very deep transit around a bright star such that the obliquity of the stars can be measured via the rossiter-mclaughlin effect #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Florian Lienhard is intrigued by earth sized planets orbiting late m dwarfs, the smallest stars and 15% of the stellar population The habitable zone of these stars is very close-in so planets are more accessible to surveys like speculoos (a collection of ground based telescopes) #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Jonas Sauter chases measurements of the inner regions of the beta pic debris disk Looking for asteroid belts and circumplanetary disk transits (did I hear that right?) #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our next speaker could not attend due to visa issues, so a stand-in takes the stage to discuss China's Tianlin, a 6.6m L2 bound observatory. It will have a wide-band hires imager and a high contrast coronagaph #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

René Doyon will speak on the future of high precision radial velocity of the future. But first, of course, we examine our history It's been ~two decades of dogged improvement to get down to earth mass sensitivities, most recently enabled by better stellar activity modelling #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oscar Carrión Gonzáles is describing the early observation plans for the Roman coronagraph The goal is to demonstrate the 10^-7 contrast at 575nm in narrow field imaging on a V~5mag star #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fighting the wifi a lot this morning. But you can't stop the signal! Scott Gaudi will talk about Roman, which will launch in August! Roman will do lots of work for longer period planets with microlensing methods #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Back at it this morning with a talk by Don Pollacco on ESA's PLATO mission, which will be launch ready in the December timeframe. PLATO will do photometric observations of transits and asteroseismology #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Anastasia Triantafillides presents transmission spectra observations of WASP-80b from ~1-12μm which show CS2 and SO2 This supports the theory that sulfur chemistry is shaped by temperature-metallicity relation and reduced carbon. #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Michael Radica is intrigued by super Puffs, the lowest density type of planet (<0.2g/cm^3) The proposed theory is that tidal circularization dumps energy into the interior and puffs up the atmosphere #exoplanets6 #exo6

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Jared Splinter et al. in prep look at phase curves of WASP-121b from SOSS and G395H (there's also a MIRI/LRS obs) covering ~0.5-5μm and measure a suite of species and their changes in phase near daytime Nightside remains elusive but maybe CH4 and CO, patchy clouds muddy things #exoplanets6 #exo6

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