Caroline Morley
@astrocaroline.bsky.social
Astronomer, Associate prof at UT Austin, mother of two small humans
UT Austin Astro is hiring! It's an open call, but definitely interested in getting another exoplanet person! Feel free to reach out with any questions about the department or living in Austin! aas.org/jobregister/...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society
The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in August 2026. We welcome applicati...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
UT Austin Astro is hiring! It's an open call, but definitely interested in getting another exoplanet person! Feel free to reach out with any questions about the department or living in Austin! aas.org/jobregister/...
Little old Texas just *quietly* transitioning to our clean energy future shhhhhh don't tell anyone. Drill baby drill, uh, sir.
ERCOT fuel mix from 2006 to 2024 now available:
- Natural gas above its 19-year running average of 43% to 44% in 2024.
- Solar hitting 10% of total energy generated.
- Wind holding steady %-wise, but up in absolute terms.
- The ERCOT grid is now 42% clean energy!
- Natural gas above its 19-year running average of 43% to 44% in 2024.
- Solar hitting 10% of total energy generated.
- Wind holding steady %-wise, but up in absolute terms.
- The ERCOT grid is now 42% clean energy!
January 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Little old Texas just *quietly* transitioning to our clean energy future shhhhhh don't tell anyone. Drill baby drill, uh, sir.
Reposted by Caroline Morley
ERCOT fuel mix from 2006 to 2024 now available:
- Natural gas above its 19-year running average of 43% to 44% in 2024.
- Solar hitting 10% of total energy generated.
- Wind holding steady %-wise, but up in absolute terms.
- The ERCOT grid is now 42% clean energy!
- Natural gas above its 19-year running average of 43% to 44% in 2024.
- Solar hitting 10% of total energy generated.
- Wind holding steady %-wise, but up in absolute terms.
- The ERCOT grid is now 42% clean energy!
January 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ERCOT fuel mix from 2006 to 2024 now available:
- Natural gas above its 19-year running average of 43% to 44% in 2024.
- Solar hitting 10% of total energy generated.
- Wind holding steady %-wise, but up in absolute terms.
- The ERCOT grid is now 42% clean energy!
- Natural gas above its 19-year running average of 43% to 44% in 2024.
- Solar hitting 10% of total energy generated.
- Wind holding steady %-wise, but up in absolute terms.
- The ERCOT grid is now 42% clean energy!
Reposted by Caroline Morley
🚨 SPECIAL FIRST POST 🚨
Applications to @exoclimes.bsky.social (7-11 July, 2025 at @umontreal.ca) is now OPEN until Jan 24, 2025! Join us for a week of exciting talks on planetary atmospheres interspersed with ample opportunities to discuss and forge new collaborations! forms.gle/mpeZ3LXGoFb9...
Applications to @exoclimes.bsky.social (7-11 July, 2025 at @umontreal.ca) is now OPEN until Jan 24, 2025! Join us for a week of exciting talks on planetary atmospheres interspersed with ample opportunities to discuss and forge new collaborations! forms.gle/mpeZ3LXGoFb9...
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
🚨 SPECIAL FIRST POST 🚨
Applications to @exoclimes.bsky.social (7-11 July, 2025 at @umontreal.ca) is now OPEN until Jan 24, 2025! Join us for a week of exciting talks on planetary atmospheres interspersed with ample opportunities to discuss and forge new collaborations! forms.gle/mpeZ3LXGoFb9...
Applications to @exoclimes.bsky.social (7-11 July, 2025 at @umontreal.ca) is now OPEN until Jan 24, 2025! Join us for a week of exciting talks on planetary atmospheres interspersed with ample opportunities to discuss and forge new collaborations! forms.gle/mpeZ3LXGoFb9...
WHERE DID ALL YOU PEOPLE COME FROM? WE WERE ENJOYING TALKING AMONGST THE TWELVE OF US HERE!
Just kidding hi AstroTwitter! I'm an associate professor on a blue island in a deep red state and therefore have only lukewarm takes on the world unless you meet me in person. We have the best tacos though.
Just kidding hi AstroTwitter! I'm an associate professor on a blue island in a deep red state and therefore have only lukewarm takes on the world unless you meet me in person. We have the best tacos though.
November 13, 2024 at 10:56 PM
WHERE DID ALL YOU PEOPLE COME FROM? WE WERE ENJOYING TALKING AMONGST THE TWELVE OF US HERE!
Just kidding hi AstroTwitter! I'm an associate professor on a blue island in a deep red state and therefore have only lukewarm takes on the world unless you meet me in person. We have the best tacos though.
Just kidding hi AstroTwitter! I'm an associate professor on a blue island in a deep red state and therefore have only lukewarm takes on the world unless you meet me in person. We have the best tacos though.
Apropos of nothing... Taylor Swift has released collections of her songs divided into the 5 stages of grief. This one is anger.
music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad Songs on Apple Music
Playlist · 26 Songs
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November 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Apropos of nothing... Taylor Swift has released collections of her songs divided into the 5 stages of grief. This one is anger.
music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Reposted by Caroline Morley
"Should I trust the Dark Lord who attempted to topple the White City of Gondor? Or do I trust the Elf Queen representing the coalition of Men and Elves who defeated Sauron when he tried to enslave the Free Peoples, but could maybe do more meet-and-greets?"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About
I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. Fo...
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October 16, 2024 at 1:10 AM
"Should I trust the Dark Lord who attempted to topple the White City of Gondor? Or do I trust the Elf Queen representing the coalition of Men and Elves who defeated Sauron when he tried to enslave the Free Peoples, but could maybe do more meet-and-greets?"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
New email signature day!
It’s been a wild ride for the past 6 years of Assistant Professor life at UT, growing a research group amidst a global pandemic and growing my family. Happy and proud to be leveling up today to Associate Professor with tenure. Here’s to the next 6 years!
It’s been a wild ride for the past 6 years of Assistant Professor life at UT, growing a research group amidst a global pandemic and growing my family. Happy and proud to be leveling up today to Associate Professor with tenure. Here’s to the next 6 years!
August 16, 2024 at 2:06 PM
New email signature day!
It’s been a wild ride for the past 6 years of Assistant Professor life at UT, growing a research group amidst a global pandemic and growing my family. Happy and proud to be leveling up today to Associate Professor with tenure. Here’s to the next 6 years!
It’s been a wild ride for the past 6 years of Assistant Professor life at UT, growing a research group amidst a global pandemic and growing my family. Happy and proud to be leveling up today to Associate Professor with tenure. Here’s to the next 6 years!
Reposted by Caroline Morley
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program has named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. These young scientists will begin their programs in the fall of 2024 at a university or research center of their choosing in the United States: bit.ly/49c3ZjK
April 2, 2024 at 2:09 PM
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program has named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. These young scientists will begin their programs in the fall of 2024 at a university or research center of their choosing in the United States: bit.ly/49c3ZjK
Hi Bluesky! I'm advertising a position to join our modeling efforts to bring GPUs and machine learning/AI into both self-consistent and retrieval models for exoplanets. If you have interest in either ML/AI or in modeling brown dwarfs/exoplanets, please apply! due 2/12
jobregister.aas.org/ad/0395a595
jobregister.aas.org/ad/0395a595
January 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Hi Bluesky! I'm advertising a position to join our modeling efforts to bring GPUs and machine learning/AI into both self-consistent and retrieval models for exoplanets. If you have interest in either ML/AI or in modeling brown dwarfs/exoplanets, please apply! due 2/12
jobregister.aas.org/ad/0395a595
jobregister.aas.org/ad/0395a595
May have just handed a person sniffing and sneezing in my vicinity at the gate for my flight my spare N95 mask 😬 Too bold? He looked surprised but did put it on!
December 11, 2023 at 7:31 PM
May have just handed a person sniffing and sneezing in my vicinity at the gate for my flight my spare N95 mask 😬 Too bold? He looked surprised but did put it on!
UT Austin is hiring a new assistant professor this year! Come join us! We have a great group of faculty here, and awesome students/postdocs. And telescopes! And Austin is in the habitable zone for at least 8 months every year.
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Astronomy | AAS Job Register
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October 13, 2023 at 6:50 PM
UT Austin is hiring a new assistant professor this year! Come join us! We have a great group of faculty here, and awesome students/postdocs. And telescopes! And Austin is in the habitable zone for at least 8 months every year.
jobregister.aas.org/ad/359bf302
jobregister.aas.org/ad/359bf302
I am hoping to hire a postdoc to start in the summer or fall, to work on exoplanet or brown dwarf atmospheres! Details here: jobregister.aas.org/ad/c0d2c3a8
Join us here in beautiful Austin!
Join us here in beautiful Austin!
October 4, 2023 at 6:00 PM
I am hoping to hire a postdoc to start in the summer or fall, to work on exoplanet or brown dwarf atmospheres! Details here: jobregister.aas.org/ad/c0d2c3a8
Join us here in beautiful Austin!
Join us here in beautiful Austin!
Reposted by Caroline Morley
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲'.
Ok, probably everyone has seen the headlines about K2-18b by now.
I've put together this thread to collate some thoughts on why many exoplanet astronomers are pretty sceptical about these claims - THREAD (1/N)
Ok, probably everyone has seen the headlines about K2-18b by now.
I've put together this thread to collate some thoughts on why many exoplanet astronomers are pretty sceptical about these claims - THREAD (1/N)
September 13, 2023 at 2:20 AM
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 '𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲'.
Ok, probably everyone has seen the headlines about K2-18b by now.
I've put together this thread to collate some thoughts on why many exoplanet astronomers are pretty sceptical about these claims - THREAD (1/N)
Ok, probably everyone has seen the headlines about K2-18b by now.
I've put together this thread to collate some thoughts on why many exoplanet astronomers are pretty sceptical about these claims - THREAD (1/N)
Save the date for Cool Stars 22! It's been fun to be on the SOC of Cool Stars for the first time, and I'm excited for our all-star list of invited speakers! See you in San Diego, June 24-28
coolstars22.github.io/program.html
coolstars22.github.io/program.html
September 1, 2023 at 6:24 PM
Save the date for Cool Stars 22! It's been fun to be on the SOC of Cool Stars for the first time, and I'm excited for our all-star list of invited speakers! See you in San Diego, June 24-28
coolstars22.github.io/program.html
coolstars22.github.io/program.html
I'll now be taking bets on whether 0, 1, 2, or all 3 of the rest of us test positive this evening 🫣
🚨OH NO THE HUSBAND HAS COVID🚨
1.5 weeks into the semester and COVID has entered the preschool class at school. It's going to be a FUN semester y'all!
August 31, 2023 at 7:16 PM
I'll now be taking bets on whether 0, 1, 2, or all 3 of the rest of us test positive this evening 🫣
🚨OH NO THE HUSBAND HAS COVID🚨
1.5 weeks into the semester and COVID has entered the preschool class at school. It's going to be a FUN semester y'all!
August 31, 2023 at 6:09 PM
🚨OH NO THE HUSBAND HAS COVID🚨
1.5 weeks into the semester and COVID has entered the preschool class at school. It's going to be a FUN semester y'all!
August 31, 2023 at 3:53 PM
1.5 weeks into the semester and COVID has entered the preschool class at school. It's going to be a FUN semester y'all!
Anyone know what XRP funding percentages were this year? I feel like I'm hearing lots of good news from people, but maybe my friends are just awesome
August 30, 2023 at 7:46 PM
Anyone know what XRP funding percentages were this year? I feel like I'm hearing lots of good news from people, but maybe my friends are just awesome
The universe could not have better timing, to give me my biggest funded proposal a week before my department votes on my tenure case! A big push for cold exoplanet and brown dwarf modeling on the way! 🪐
August 30, 2023 at 5:32 PM
The universe could not have better timing, to give me my biggest funded proposal a week before my department votes on my tenure case! A big push for cold exoplanet and brown dwarf modeling on the way! 🪐
Reposted by Caroline Morley
Hi all- I'm again crowdsourcing a list of faculty looking for MS/Phd students *worldwide* in planetary science/exoplanets/astrobiology. If you are such a faculty member, please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2024
Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...
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August 29, 2023 at 7:11 PM
Hi all- I'm again crowdsourcing a list of faculty looking for MS/Phd students *worldwide* in planetary science/exoplanets/astrobiology. If you are such a faculty member, please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
So this is my 6th year of teaching at UT... older professors, will I ever *not* be super amped up for at least an hour after teaching my class?
August 24, 2023 at 7:39 PM
So this is my 6th year of teaching at UT... older professors, will I ever *not* be super amped up for at least an hour after teaching my class?
Putting together one's tenure packet is a fun trip down memory lane. So many papers! Grants! Students! Service!
I can't tell this to the committee but I can tell it to you: There was no more herculean task than teaching 3 days a week with morning sickness during my 1st pregnancy
I can't tell this to the committee but I can tell it to you: There was no more herculean task than teaching 3 days a week with morning sickness during my 1st pregnancy
August 4, 2023 at 10:08 PM
Putting together one's tenure packet is a fun trip down memory lane. So many papers! Grants! Students! Service!
I can't tell this to the committee but I can tell it to you: There was no more herculean task than teaching 3 days a week with morning sickness during my 1st pregnancy
I can't tell this to the committee but I can tell it to you: There was no more herculean task than teaching 3 days a week with morning sickness during my 1st pregnancy
Jumped off the sinking Twitter ship. Hi everyone! 👋
July 5, 2023 at 1:36 AM
Jumped off the sinking Twitter ship. Hi everyone! 👋