Logan Pearce
@loganpearce.com
Astronomer, ELT Fellow at U-M.
Website: www.loganpearcescience.com
Website: www.loganpearcescience.com
And “Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris”
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
And “Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris”
“Don’t you hate pants?”
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“Don’t you hate pants?”
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I liked Caroline Morley's Exoclimes poster describing our Sonora model set so much that I'm going to hang up a replica in my office.
July 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I liked Caroline Morley's Exoclimes poster describing our Sonora model set so much that I'm going to hang up a replica in my office.
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#exoplanets #jobs 📣
I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates.
*Launches NEXT YEAR!
Please RT & share with your networks!
aas.org/jobregister/...
I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates.
*Launches NEXT YEAR!
Please RT & share with your networks!
aas.org/jobregister/...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey PIT | American Astronomical Society
IPAC, part of the Physics, Math, and Astronomy Division at Caltech, provides science operations, user support, data and archive services, and scientific vision to maximize discovery with observatories...
aas.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
#exoplanets #jobs 📣
I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates.
*Launches NEXT YEAR!
Please RT & share with your networks!
aas.org/jobregister/...
I'm advertising for a postdoc! Come work with me in sunny SoCal on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team. You'll help build the pipeline for Roman* occurrence rates.
*Launches NEXT YEAR!
Please RT & share with your networks!
aas.org/jobregister/...
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From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
NSF and NASA Budget Requests Pose an Unprecedented Threat to Astronomy
The president's budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. This post summarizes the major cuts and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against thi...
astrobites.org
June 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
From Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social : This post summarizes the proposed major cuts to NASA and the NSF and the impacts they would have, and provides resources to help fight back against this wasteful and unnecessary attack on science. 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
astrobites.org/2025/06/02/b...
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TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, A STAGGERING NUMBER OF JOBS ARE IN BOXES LIKE THIS IN THIS BUDGET REQUEST.
*speechless horror*
(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
(Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, A STAGGERING NUMBER OF JOBS ARE IN BOXES LIKE THIS IN THIS BUDGET REQUEST.
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TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.
May 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.
As an elder millennial I was raised to put two spaces after a period. Coming back to academia a few years ago I learn is now forbidden and struggle to break this habit. So it's anyone's guess how many spaces I'm going to put after any given period.
May 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As an elder millennial I was raised to put two spaces after a period. Coming back to academia a few years ago I learn is now forbidden and struggle to break this habit. So it's anyone's guess how many spaces I'm going to put after any given period.
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Ready for the latest K2-18b drama?
Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all.
Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵
#exoplanets 🔭
Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all.
Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵
#exoplanets 🔭
Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence for alien life
Are there aliens living on the exoplanet K2-18b? Some astronomers believe they have evidence for molecules on the planet that must have a biological origin, but others disagree
www.newscientist.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ready for the latest K2-18b drama?
Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all.
Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵
#exoplanets 🔭
Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all.
Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵
#exoplanets 🔭
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NIRCam Yells at Cloud! The first results from JWST 6122 Cool Kids on the Block are out today -- if you're using JWST for direct imaging of #exoplanets around nearby stars, consider adding MIRI imaging (no coronagraph) to your program to see the coldest, cloudiest planets:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15995
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15995
May 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Schedule for #BlackSpaceWeek 2025! Links to register coming soon🤭 Which event/panels pique your interest? 👀
May 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Schedule for #BlackSpaceWeek 2025! Links to register coming soon🤭 Which event/panels pique your interest? 👀
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Whoa whoa whoa how am I just learning this now. AAhhhhhhh I literally named my laptop "Sanctuary Moon"
Murderbot tonight at 9 pm Eastern! That is all
May 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Whoa whoa whoa how am I just learning this now. AAhhhhhhh I literally named my laptop "Sanctuary Moon"
Here's what we lose if we lose Roman (by my collaborator Mary Anne Limbach) 🔭🧪
spacenews.com/im-an-exopla...
spacenews.com/im-an-exopla...
I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.
The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Set to launch in just two years, Roman is poised to t…
spacenews.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here's what we lose if we lose Roman (by my collaborator Mary Anne Limbach) 🔭🧪
spacenews.com/im-an-exopla...
spacenews.com/im-an-exopla...
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Last time we all lost our minds over K2-18b 🔭 , I wrote this blog post. The summary is... don't.
K2-18b. We urgently need to get our shit together about life detection — Girl & Kat
We have not discovered life on K2-18b. We have not even discovered water on K2-18b. All we can say is that the planet does not… not… have an ocean.
girlandkat.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Last time we all lost our minds over K2-18b 🔭 , I wrote this blog post. The summary is... don't.
A great explanation from my friend, officemate, and K2-18b expert
𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.
K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'.
Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n).
🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet
K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'.
Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n).
🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet
April 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A great explanation from my friend, officemate, and K2-18b expert
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An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
White Lotus fans + Austin people: I feel like Kate lives in Steiner Ranch. Yah?
April 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
White Lotus fans + Austin people: I feel like Kate lives in Steiner Ranch. Yah?
A petition to reinstate U Michigan's DEI office and programs: chng.it/b6FfpRzXZK
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Bring Back DEI to the University of Michigan
chng.it
March 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A petition to reinstate U Michigan's DEI office and programs: chng.it/b6FfpRzXZK
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Farewell Gaia! Incredibly successful mission, that has utterly transformed our knowledge of our home galaxy.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets
www.cam.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Farewell Gaia! Incredibly successful mission, that has utterly transformed our knowledge of our home galaxy.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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UCSC grad student superstar Sagnick Mukherjee is moving on to ASU with a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation!
news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/pega...
news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/pega...
Astronomy Ph.D. candidate researching mysteries of sub-Neptune planets wins fellowship
UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. candidate Sagnick Mukherjee has received one of the most sought-after postdoctoral awards in the field: the prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. In its March 27 announceme...
news.ucsc.edu
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
UCSC grad student superstar Sagnick Mukherjee is moving on to ASU with a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation!
news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/pega...
news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/pega...
F'ing damn it.
NEW: The University of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide, the president said in an email
New story from me: Imani* was in class when she discovered a scholarship program she relied on had been shut down.
“I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"
“I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"
March 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
F'ing damn it.
My JWST Cycle 4 program made it to this article: www.universetoday.com/articles/sci... 🔭🧪
JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 1: Exoplanets and Habitability
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has announced the science objectives for Webb's General Observer Programs in Cycle 4 (Cycle 4 GO) program. The Cycle 4 observations include 274 programs t...
www.universetoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My JWST Cycle 4 program made it to this article: www.universetoday.com/articles/sci... 🔭🧪