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bmacastro.bsky.social
Astronomer working on imaging extrasolar planets, instrumentation, and science policy. Spare time involves hiking with a golden retriever, and not playing enough boardgames. Director, University of California Observatories, but opinions are my own. He/him
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Beautiful new results from my @stsci.edu colleagues Kielan Hoch and collaborators (on here: @mattkenworthy.bsky.social, @offallingstars.bsky.social , @bmacastro.bsky.social , @balmer.bsky.social) with JWST + MIRI www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I grew up in Kingston - it’s a lovely city - and Queen’s is a pretty damn good university that is doing something morally good, self-beneficial, and brilliantly trolling here. A perfect trifecta

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Everyone of the brilliant people in this picture has spent their life trying to enable humanity to discover new things, and they were forced to sneak out to take the picture celebrating their organizations 75th anniversary next to a parking lot.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

new article for @astrobites.bsky.social out today! we’re talking about crafting strong and precise science objectives for mission design #instrumentation 🔭🤩 astrobites.org/2025/05/19/m...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If there are Popes and Antipopes then physics says there must also be Superpopes and Superantipopes. They have a different spin but celebrate the same Mass.

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

Back from a nice visit to New Mexico State University. Based on the departmental poster I realized the audience might want something different so I responded accordingly.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t tell if LAS is exceptionally soul-crushing even by airport standards or if my soul is extra pre-crushed

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Weirdly, although I qualify to some extent in both explanations, I use LaTeX very little and only when I absolutely have to.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I and my colleagues, @carpenterlab.bsky.social and Carol Greider, wrote an op-ed for our local media site, @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social, about the recent cancellations of NIH funded training programs meant to broaden participation in science at UCSC: lookout.co/trumps-escal...

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

"Can a Kalman filter experience anger or boredom? Does my Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo implementation deserve overtime pay?" I was intrigued.

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

Great article in UCSC science news about @lickobservatory.bsky.social - a very special place in the history of astronomy and the history of science in California news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/lick...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely clear thread about why you should not be excited about the K2-18b detection.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I used to say, looking to the future, not to believe the first 3 or so or so claimed life detections. May need to increase that number.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment