Dr. Macy Huston

I got called "ma'am" by one flight attendant and "sir" by another on the same flight the other day! it's so made up!!

This image is a composite of artist's illustrations of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope pointing towards a lengthy collection of exoplanets against a background image of the Galactic Plane. The text says "2026 Sagan Summer Workshop" and the theme "Exoplanets with Roman Surveys: Microlensing and Transits July 20-24, 2026, Pasadena, California" followed by the hashtag #sagan2026.

⏰Time to Register for #sagan2026⏰

The hybrid workshop focuses on expected #exoplanet science from the @nasaromantelescope.bsky.social Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. Travel support requests for early-career participants are due 3/5. nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2026
🔭 #astrocode #instrumentation

This image advertises the event as taking place on Thursday Jan 15th, 6-8 PM, at Fergie's pub 2nd floor, 1214 Sansom Street.

Next Astro On Tap Philly: January 15th, 6 PM at Fergie's Pub, 1214 Sansom Street. This time, Dr. Huei Sears will tell us about the oldest light in the Universe via similarly old 2010s pop music, while Prof. Federica Bianco will cover the robots that have overrun Astronomy. See you there!

Astronomy on tap flier for a free event january 14 at 7 pm. Bernardita Reid Guachalla will present "Cosmic Silhouettes: Galaxies Seen Through Ancient Light". I (Macy Huston) will present "Discovering the Invisible with Gravitational Microlensing". The event is casual talks on the stars at your local bar. Standard Deviant Brewing, 280 14th St, 1 drink minimum. There is an illustration of stars, a galaxy, a rocket, and a planet being poured from a tap into a pint glass, and an image of each presenter.

For folks in the bay area: I'm speaking at Astro On Tap San Francisco tomorrow night! ✨🔭

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

AAS week

Selections from 2025: Could Earth Detect Earth? Researchers explored the reaches of humanity's technological signatures to determine if intelligent life like that on Earth could detect Earth.

Selections from 2025: Researchers explored the reaches of humanity’s technological signatures to determine if intelligent life like that on Earth could detect Earth. 🔭🧪 aasnova.org/2025/12/30/s...

I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

every day I get emails

concert venue marquee reading "david byrne nov 16 17 18"

david byrne and his 11 supporting musicians playing on stage. they are wearing matching blue suits, and the screen in the background shows the same people in the same suits but with animal masks on

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old navy could be a good option, they have a variety of fits, and their 'long' jeans are actually quite long

The fallacies behind the cult of Loeb How media hype and misunderstanding fuel pseudoscientific fascination  Introduction The word “cult” is used here in the sense given by...

"The fallacies behind the cult of Loeb"
New entry in my blog. Other articles have covered the scientific aspects; this one reflects on the social phenomenon. I argue it’s driven by a series of fallacies
tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

big day for TurboVicki

Textbook cover for The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Theory and Practice by Jason T. Wright published by an American Astronomical Society and IOP Publishing Partnership (ebooks)

I wrote a textbook!

I hope you like it.

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being a part of @astrobites.bsky.social was one of the best things I did in grad school !! such a supportive collaboration where everyone just wants to make astronomy better

apply ! apply ! apply !

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Pandora Research Graduate Intern <p><strong>Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!</strong></p><p>Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence...

I'm hiring an intern for a 6-month research position related to the NASA Pandora SmallSat Mission, project and start date flexible. Must be a current astro PhD student :) www.llnl.gov/join-our-tea...

Here's this year's bsky.app/profile/aas....

I think they have opportunities to volunteer and get a discount or free registration!

happy birthday flea!!

I haven’t said this in a while, and it bears repeating: it is actually very easy to not work with abusers and rapists in the field! Moreover, we owe it to ourselves, our colleagues, and our future.

Proud adviser with a whole host of @pseticenter.bsky.social students, postdoc, and alumni!

Winter Parts, Olivia Curtis, @cayladedrick.bsky.social (honorary), Nick Tusay, @mhuston.bsky.social, Pinchen Fan, Evan Sneed, Sofia Sheikh, Lennon Nichol, and Arianna Nielsen.

screenshot of a webcam livestream that shows several telescope domes in front of the night sky, with a laser beam emitting from one into space. the sky is a bit noisy but many stars are visible. the corner text reads 20:05:23 2025.08.10 Live from Subaru Telescope, Hawaii

keck night 3/4 for this run of our astrometric microlensing program! i love watching our laser on the subaru livestream

yesterday at an estate sale we overheard a zoomer explain to their friend that a furby is "like an old labubu"

happy dwight slappe buys a cookie cake day i guess

Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.

first quintile hst rejection 🙃

dril tweel from 2012 reading "this whole thing smacks of gender, i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbecue grill and turn the 4th of july into the 4th of shit"

once again

NASA Needs Your Help! NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready to be launched, put tens of thousands out of a job, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask congress to prevent these ...

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The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

The third SETI Symposium, presented by the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, will be hosted at the Penn Stater Hotel and Convention Center on August 18–21, 2025.

We are excited to announce registration and abstract submission for talks, posters, and breakout sessions are now open for the 2025 SETI Symposium at Penn State, August 18-21, 2025!

sites.psu.edu/setisymposiu...

Please help us spread the word and we hope to see you in State College!

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