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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great opportunity to come to LPL for a postdoc to work on outer solar system atmospheres w/ Prof. Tommi Koskinen. Exoplanet folks, this is your chance to broaden into solar system atmospheres & build your experience with a world expert on atmos. structure and E balance. aas.org/jobregister/...

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Postdoctoral research associate in planetary atmospheres

The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) at the University of Arizona invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the field of solar system planetary science. The successful...

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Calling all Exoplanets folk! MIT has an opening for a new tenure track assistant professorship in planetary sciences. This is a unique opportunity to help build a new future of exoplanet research at MIT. Applications close Oct 15. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32450

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences

Job #AJO32450, Faculty Position in Planetary Science, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I grew up going to the Academy of Natural Sciences and Franklin institute (my mom was a member and took us regularly). I probably wouldn’t be a scientist without them. Outreach is crucial to get future generations excited about science and engaged in school, and museums play a huge part in that.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deepayan's thesis @utoronto.ca was advised by Profs. Marta Bryan and Kristen Menou, covering the fluid dynamics of stellar envelopes and planetary atmospheres. This paper wouldn't have happened without the OWL summer program (owl.ucsc.edu/summer/) -- somehow every time I go to OWL a paper happens!

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Summer 2026

The Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) will soon be accepting applications for the eighth annual Exoplanet Summer Program (ESP), from August 10 –…

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Newly minted) Dr. Deepayan Banik's final thesis paper is now on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/2609.38128)! He studied the circulation of tide-locked planets with variable instellation using shallow-water theory and Dedalus simulations, finding resonance when instellation variation and wave timescales match.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations! Extremely well deserved.

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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to @jjfplanet.bsky.social for his recognition with the Fred Whipple Award and Lecture!

2026 Recipient Fred Whipple Award and Lecture Jonathan J Fortney

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/09/2026

I said I'd do a thread about my new Space Science Reviews paper, so here it is! This is part of a collection of papers arising from a meeting at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in 2024: a workshop to better understand rocky extrasolar planets. A 🧵:

Interior structure models of Earth, Venus, Mercury, Mars, the Moon, and Io, all shown to scale and key elements labelled.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My strategy is to assume that every proposal I submit is immediately rejected upon submission, and move on. Then when something actually gets selected it feels like a gift!

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes! It’s an amazing group of cross-disciplinary experts we’ve assembled. Come work with us on some really cool projects! 😎😶‍🌫️🤩

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Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich @eth-eaps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Many congratulations to Francesca Miozzi on receiving the Europlanet Early Career Medal 2026 in recognition of her pioneering experimental work on the interiors of rocky planets and exoplanets. www.europlanet.org/europlanet-e...

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Europlanet Early-Career Medal – Europlanet

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Laura Kreidberg @lkreidberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy to share two postdoc ads for positions in the APEx department at MPIA - please spread the word! - direct imaging and spectroscopy of wide-separation planets with Wolfgang Brandner aas.org/jobregister/... - forward modeling of exoplanet atmospheres with Elsie Lee aas.org/jobregister/...

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BOWIE+ Seminar Series @bowieseminar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The BOWIE+ seminar autumn schedule is out! Next week, we will begin with a talk by Matthäus Schulik of Imperial on his work on atmospheric escape. The rest of the autumn will be highlight talks by early career researchers. To get the zoom links, see the details in our bio. #exoplanets #astronomy

Upper left: A picture of Matthäus Schulik in front of ruins. To the right, the title of his upcoming talk -- From bulk to space -- on September 10th. Below, a table of other upcoming talks from October until December.
Bottom: text describing the BOWIE+ Collaboration: "We are a UK based collaboration with a focus on studying the atmospheres of exoplanets using the James Webb Space Telescope. We work together to create proposals for JWST GO time, holding both in-person and virtual collaborative meetings. If you are interested in getting involved, please reach out via our email: bowie.collaboration@gmail.com"

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another local business gone in our neighborhood. We need housing, but not like this.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Also did phoneline last time I was there (in Jan), i miss Sabino

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

you are the person I aspire to be

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’d be all for a highway sound barrier for the ring road, especially near port meadow so @rvandaalen.bsky.social and I don’t hear the drone of tire noise drowning out the birds on our nightly walks.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Of course you did -- congratulations!!

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ExoClimesVIII @exoclimesviii.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🔈Save the date! ExoClimes VIII will take place at the Institute of Science Tokyo, from 11–16 July 2027. The conference will bring together the international community studying planetary climates, atmospheres, and habitability🌏 Stay tuned for more updates! exoclimes.org

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Fully agreed with this thread, thanks @airbornegrain.bsky.social for writing it.

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Harrison Nicholls @nichollsh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New paper on arXiv today! On the efficacy of using novel Bayesian machine learning to dispatch 'expensive' forward models of planetary evolution. This connects with #PLATO ageing and can help solve degeneracies in current static-retrieval approaches which treat #exoplanets as snapshots.

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Constraining the lives and times of exoplanets through evolutionary Bayesian retrievals

Static retrieval frameworks are leading tools for interpreting exoplanet observations, yet time-independent modelling leaves them prone to degeneracy and unable to resolve exoplanets' histories. The c...

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Johanna Teske @johannateske.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Yaaay Harrison! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our last Oxoplanets talk of #HoRS3S is by finishing DPhil student and incoming Schmidt AI in Science Fellow Luke Parker (advised by @jaynebirkby.bsky.social) on tracing cloud condensation and formation histories across the giant planet population with observations of silicon chemistry!

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Today's Oxoplanets highlight at #HoRS3S is Breakthrough Listen DPhil Student Mitchell Yzer (advised by @jaynebirkby.bsky.social and @climatebook.bsky.social), with a poster on detecting technosignature greenhouse gases on nearby Earth-like exoplanets using high-resolution spectroscopy with METIS/ELT

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our first Oxoplanets talk at #HoRS3S was by Prof. @jaynebirkby.bsky.social on pre-ELT characterisation of small exoplanets at high spectral resolution!

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Many of us Oxoplaneteers have now made the journey from Porto to Granada for #3HoRSES! Our first shoutout of the week is Dr. Mei Ting (Martha) Mak (Croucher Fellow @oxfordphysics.bsky.social), presenting a poster on the impact of photochemical haze on the chemistry of hot Jupiter atmospheres.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It’s Jake Taylor! I’m very grateful to him for running @oxoplanets.bsky.social.

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Jonathan Fortney @jjfplanet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hello! We have a very-off-cycle postdoc fellowship at UC Santa Cruz. Open to any area of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Applications are due July 15th. It is funded by the Moore Foundation. Looking for someone to start Oct 1, 2026 (!, approx), see details below. aas.org/jobregister/...

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz | American Astronomical Society

The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the University of California, Santa Cruz, funded by the Moore Foundation. The searc...

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I had a blast hosting Dr. Rogers today! I hosted in person, but he was a visitor to our Planetary Climate Dynamics group led by @climatebook.bsky.social. It was a great talk!

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Honestly very cool to see a former LPL classmate succeeding basically right around the corner from where I went to high school! Hopefully this is the start of more planetary science research in the Philly area. It’s also perhaps fitting that Arizona and Nova share a mascot — Go Wildcats!

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Congratulations!! Very well deserved.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Huge congratulations, Dr. Balmer!! Looking forward to seeing your postdoc work (and continued writing musings).

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Andrew Williams @andrewilwilliams.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🎉 🎉🎉 We are LIVE!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Join us for the 1st of 50 hours of non-stop weather & climate science! www.youtube.com/watch?v=v64j...

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Love is love. Gender affirming care saves lives. Happy pride, y’all 🦄

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Department of Physics at the University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We start Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 with great news: Our Physics LGBT+ Network has a new logo (thanks @jobium for designing it) and merchandise is coming, watch this space!. All proceeds go to support our activities, that started in 2022 thanks to @AstroJake, Glasstone Fellow at Physics.

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Dr Jake Taylor @astrojake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I’m super excited to host our third annual Pride Lecture!

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Incredibly well deserved, congratulations!!!

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

There's free coffee and snacks in the poster hall during the breaks! I was confused about this too.

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Rocky Worlds Meetings @rockyworlds.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Famous #exoplanet K2-18 b: is it a super-Earth, a sub-Neptune, or something else entirely? 🌍🌔☁️🪐 The secret of its interior lies in its exterior... the atmosphere! Hear more from Shang-Min (Shami) Tsai's #RockyWorldsDiscussion on Thu 7 May @ 13:00 UTC! More: www.rockyworlds.org/event-detail... 🧪🔭

An image of the speaker, Shang-Min (Shami) Tsai. He is smiling and looking into the camera. He has short dark hair, is wearing glasses, and a white striped shirt. He is stood inside, with a blurred background behind him featuring a window.

Credits: Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI); Science: Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA)

This illustration shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone and lies 120 light years from Earth.

A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide.

The abundance of methane and carbon dioxide, and shortage of ammonia, support the hypothesis that there may be a water ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere in K2-18 b.

In this illustration, the exoplanet K2-18 c is shown between K2-18 b and its star.

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Tad Komacek @tadkomacek.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Please join @astroyami.bsky.social, Keren Duer-Milner, and I for a session on Giant Planets Across the Solar System and Beyond! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2026/ses...

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Congratulations Sally! Best of luck in your postdoc. I'm looking forward to seeing more great work from you.

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I don't know what I would do without @democracynow.org and Amy Goodman

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