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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 3h

Went on a hike a few days back on the Pacific Crest Trail to celebrate some wins! The little Belknap Crater flow happened just 1700 years ago in central Oregon. Surreal landscape.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I WAS JUST ON THE BBC INTERNATIONAL NEWS PROGRAM!!! Don't worry, you didn't miss much, the questions were really just the announcer wanting to confirm it's not aliens. :)

Me on the BBC talking about "radio signals detected from distant planet"

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We made the NY Times!!! 🤩 🔭🧪🎢

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

science.org

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Classes start tomorrow for the quarter (yes, we start late in Oregon!) so the campus is filled w parents helping their kids move in for the first time. I’d say in 90% of cases it’s obvious the parents are more nervous than the students. 😅

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yet again, USA: Get the kids their shots. Get yourselves your shots if you have not had them. Get your immunity checked if it is doubt. Require that the state governments expand vaccine mandates. And require that Congress #ImpeachRFKJr and remove him & all the lethal quacks with him.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Y’all, I am so fucking tired of people assuming I’m pregnant. 3+ people assumed I was this week, all in work/ conference situations where I had to just politely explain that I had twins 6 months ago over going off on how rude they’re being. Really a self esteem killer guys ☹️

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...

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First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras

The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I always say I help “a couple people a month” for career advice on Reddit (on astro/ general STEM careers), but never actually counted. Two weeks ago out of curiosity I started a counter on my phone to keep track. Anyway I just answered my 12th query. Guess it’s more than a couple! 🔭🧪

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Went to Oregon State University for the second annual Oregon Astronomy Research Symposium and this beaver mascot of theirs is just a little weird 🦫

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today on the #arXiv: @kortizceballos.bsky.social, Berger, and @whereisyvette.bsky.social 2026, "Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet β Pictoris b" - arxiv.org/abs/2609.16720. Beta Pic b shows up quite neatly in L- and S-band radio, with bursts that imply a kilogauss (!) magnetic field.

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Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet $β$ Pictoris b

Planetary magnetic fields shape atmospheric escape, mediate interactions with stellar winds, and encode information about planetary interiors, yet they have not been directly measured for planets beyo...

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi folks! I'm applying for a fellowship that requires me to list my h-index. As someone who DNGAF about these, does one typically provide the h-index for first author papers only or all papers you've been on? Obviously, one is significantly bigger than the other. 🔭🧪🎢

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Getting feisty on the ArXiv this morning- "More than half of recent astronomy papers are written with language-model assistance" arxiv.org/abs/2609.10664 That said, if their model is actually correct the authors ought to go into the "check for cheating" racket, as that's a huge growth space rn 🔭

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

First day back from maternity leave! I was really lucky with the timing of summer to take five months off with my twins, and still get teaching release this fall, which is positively European! But it’s exciting to get back in the lab and think about research and see what everyone’s up to 🤩

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bird vortex season is upon us! 🐦 (Vaux swifts heading for Agate chimney at the University of Oregon. Thousands of birds a night sleep in there this time of year.)

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Went outside tonight to enjoy clear and dark skies with the Milky Way visible. At any given point there were at least two satellites as bright as bright stars also tracking through the sky. It makes me sad and angry that we had to give up a magical dark sky without having a chance to give input.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Climbed a mountain yesterday! With twin infants and a toddler I feel just getting out is a win 😎🏔️ Bald Peak near Franconia, New Hampshire

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This bookstore got the assignment of this summer down 🦝

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So I’m gonna brag- we just finished a 9 hour trip from PA to my parents in NH (~6.5 hours driving) w no meltdowns from the 2.5yr old or 4mo twins. This is after a 13 hour travel day Thursday where everyone was also super good! Not saying we didn’t have help, but I am so proud of my little girls 🥰

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You know you’re at the Portland airport when…

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oh man if there was ever a better way to ensure I won’t respond to your crank email 🙄

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

IT WORKED! Thousands of you wrote your senators, and the Senate passed a funding bill pausing the OMB rule that would hand political appointees control over science grants. But it's not over: the House's bill doesn't include the pause. Tell your Rep to back the Senate's language: planet.ly/cPbNu

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Storytime! Six years ago I stitched the little bunnies on shoes on the left for my nephew. They came back to us (hence pic is my daughter wearing them), but I bought a second pair when I got the OG ones I never stitched. Anyway, I have twins now, so just stitched little seal shoes for baby 2! 🦭🐰

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Eugene, Oregon is at 218 AQI right now. Anything above 200 is “very unhealthy” 😷

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The weird thing about the current science funding environment is I was rejected again by the NSF, but have no concept of if normally I'd be accepted or not. And not sure I could contact anyone? The rejection email came on a Saturday afternoon w the [brackets] not even removed in the form letter. 🔭🧪

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Whoa 🤯 That story (and the entire Martian Chronicles) had such an impact on teenage me

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m pretty sure Phoebe the cat thinks we get half the baby equipment we do have so she has new and improved places to sit

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Trip to the coast this weekend! Yaquina Head lighthouse, Newport Oregon Open image to see the paraglider 🪂

Rocky coastline with lighthouse in the distance

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Decided today that we really wanted to swim in a lake instead of the city pool, drove a half hour, and ended up here! New local beach uncovered! 😍 Baker Bay, Dorena Lake, Oregon 🏊🏻‍♀️ (Side note- this east coaster will never get over how shoreline is all public here with nary a vacation house on them)

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

To be clear- this is catastrophic for radio astronomy, not just in the UK. If you shut down a facility like this not only do we use access to the facility, dozens (hundreds?) of jobs are gone and with it expertise that never comes back. Please write to your MP if you’re in the UK! 🔭🧪🎢

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I won some ribbons at the county fair!!! 😎 My first time entering and I won $20 in prize money- I’m rich! 😅

Me posing with county fair textiles and my award winning pillow

Blue ribbon winning beaded embroidery Easter egg

Third place cross stitch temperature chart for 2025

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Goddamn it’s beautiful here. Multnomah Falls, Oregon

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Toddler “why?” phase w astrophysicist mom continues: “Why it hot out?” “Because it’s summer.” “Why it summer?” “Because the earth is a ball that’s tilted so we get more direct rays from the sun.” “Why?” “Because when the earth was a young ball it was hit off its axis and that created the moon” 🔭🧪🎢

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Kinda wild fact- if you’re watching the World Cup final right now, you’re doing it with an estimated ~20% of the rest of the planet. ⚽️

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My Dutch in laws just did an American RV trip and it’s hilarious listening to my BIL talk about his observations of America. “Wow, Americans love to set fires! 9am at the campsite, time to build a fire! And what a lot of dogs in America named Quiet, because that’s what everyone shouts at their dog!”

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I find it wild that I moved to Oregon two years ago from New England, but it’s been legit more smoky out east than here since the move. Probably a matter of time before we get smoked out here too, but who would have guessed this a few years ago?

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Working on some proposals for the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa (deadline tomorrow). It forever makes me happy that instead of shying away from the name some astronomers said "screw that, we ARE gonna name our telescope after meerkats because life is more fun this way!" 🧪🔭

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm sad to report that Mark Wise, theoretical physicist at Caltech, has passed away. He was my friend and collaborator, a giant of theoretical physics, and just one of my favorite people. RIP. www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-...

pma.caltech.edu

Mark B. Wise - Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Seriously, who could have thought Miami in July would be a terrible place to have a World Cup game? Especially when it could be Norway vs England, those two famously hot and humid nations

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Astronomers! Heard someone got notice of a NSF AAG award today. Anyone else? Still just “pending” for me and not sure if that’s good or bad 👀 🔭🧪

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Fun talk yesterday up in McMinville to a high school summer science program! All about radio transients and even some radio astronomy cross stitch- look carefully at image 2 😅 McMinville is in wine country, so managed a wine tasting too post talk. The life of an astronomer is tough. 😎🍷 🔭🧪🎢

Talk to an auditorium of high school students

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bunny pillow done in time for the county fair. We’ll see if the judges like it! 🐰

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Update: “Today is America’s birthday and it’s 250 years old. Yours is X and you’ll be 3!” “Why?” “Because you’ll have gone around the sun three times!” “Why?” “Because we orbit the sun.” “Why?” “Because the sun is very big and has a big gravitational potential.” “Oh! Can K come to our party?” 🔭🧪

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Northern lights alert 🚨🚨🚨 Seeing some VERY faint aurora in Eugene, Oregon. If you’re further north than me especially, and under darker skies, take a look! 🔭🧪

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The “why?” stage of toddlerhood when your mom’s an astrophysics professor: “Why is it the end of the day?” “Because the sun is setting.” “Why is the sun setting?” “Because the earth is a ball that turns.” “Why does the earth turn?” “Conservation of angular momentum.” “…oh.” 🔭🧪

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One of my favorite 4th of July traditions is ongoing! 🎆🛸

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