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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 · 15/09/2026

I did read a twilight version in a similar vein but that one was much better and when I later actually read and watched twilight, I was disappointed (for all the usual reasons too lol)

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did not finish and share some of your sentiments

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

They have new different ones, the old ones don't work and you can't even log into your account anymore, and you can just use a credit card now.

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I somehow was given a poblano pepper seedling instead of a bell peppers. I wonder if tortilla soup would be a good use for them 🤔

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's giving HWOPSI i.e. hwhoopsie

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My xrp for that was rejected unfortunately

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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 · 25/07/2026

I've adopted the electric racket defense and jerry-rigged mosquito netting defense if I can't find their nesting grounds

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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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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I had stopped trying to grow cucumber and zucchini in maryland the pests were too much!

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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

Big thanks to my co-authors (and NASA funding) for making results like these possible and shareable! doi.org/10.3847/1538...

Open access article header with coauthors listed

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

These tests of our methodologies on Solar System objects, where we KNOW the answers are critical as we prepare for exoplanet data. We have a couple more papers coming down the pipeline that get into the modeling of Exo-Titans so keep an eye out!

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

Turns out that with JWST-like observations, both can get a good fit, but they have different guesses of what parameters it takes to make it. The models separate at the shortest wavelengths, which means observatories, like HWO, will have the data we'll need to figure out what haze is made of.

An expanded wavelength range showing the model lines start to diverge at shorter wavelengths despite being all on top of each other at longer wavelengths

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

Then we said, well what if we were looking at an Exo-Titan. If a planet like TRAPPIST-1h had a hazy Titan-like atmosphere could we figure out where the haze is and what it is made of?

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

We looked at two exoplanet tools and put them to the test of on actual Titan. One with an actual physical haze particle prescription and another with a model of what haze does to a spectrum. This is our control! Both are able to get something resembling Titan with consistent parameters.

Spectrum of Titan with all the model lines mostly on top of the data lines

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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 · 13/07/2026

In every world cup game I've watched, the team I rooted for has lost 😬 Except Argentina, but I didn't watch the whole game

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Oooooo @astronomay.bsky.social had me do 87k and 98 floors in Porto Looks like I made my husband do 76k and 123 floors 😅 woops

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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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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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L. C. Mayorga @mayorgalc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

She had been intending to retire

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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

Two systems architectures are still possible, if only they had one more transit of d or f! #exoplanets6 #exo6

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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

Q&A poses it might be a free floating planet drifting by this background star, which is also a fascinating prospect #exoplanets6 #exo6

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

If ring modeling is to be believed, we will never see another transit as the P>100kyrs. They recently acquired hires data and are trying to disentangle stellar, ISM, and disk spectral features. Mallaghan also has a poster on NOI 105872 and is on the postdoc market #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

HATS-12, who recently had an amended radius, means HATS-12b snuck into their sample despite being a super Jupiter 😅 #exoplanets6 #exo6

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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

Wind continues but is no longer nice and breezy; it is hot and saps the liquid right off you

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