L. C. Mayorga

I'm an asteroid! minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/sh...

Is there a gluten-free bakery in the Maryland/DC area that isn't going to charge me >$40 for a pumpkin pie?

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I'm looking for a new #postdoc to join Leicester's #planetsci atmospheres team, working with us on the treasure-trove of #JWST giant planet data to study atmospheric composition, weather, and variability. Deadline Nov 5th with a start date in early 2027. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

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Shoddy AI in the wild 😑 Taking a screencap of your own app is that difficult?

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.

*8* postdoctoral positions in atmospheric physics, from the Earth to Exoplanets: aas.org/jobregister/... This is part of the Multiscale Physics of Clouds Across Planetary Atmospheres collaboration, funded by the Simons Foundation, led by Prof. @astrocaroline.bsky.social!

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 🫠

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

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.

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

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: https://bit.ly/4w1BVLT

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

Someone please explain how feeds work

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 😮‍💨