Caroline Morley

@johannamvos @ERC_Research @tcddublin @ESA_Webb Ahhh amazing news! So excited to see what your group does next!

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!

@jjfplanet I went to her Guts tour show in Austin! She's great! If you had teenage girls instead of boys you'd have heard of her

Apparently there are whole People special issues about people that I've never heard of. #GettingOlder

@toomanyspectra We have an NSF-funded REU program reaching many of the same students (so long as they’re permanent residents, due to NSF restriction). astronomy.utexas.edu/research/ut-as…

@AstroCaroline the TAURUS page says it’s on hiatus due to SB17?

@toomanyspectra What program? We’re still running lots of undergrad-centered research here at UT despite SB 17, targeting students from many different backgrounds!

today i googled an REU program in Texas for a student who wanted to start doing research and then had to explain to her that the program had been shut down because it was considered “DEI” what a grim fucking world we live in

@cornerof_thesky @UMDAstronomy @UofMaryland CONGRATULATIONS! That's amazing news!

Some more exciting news: I will be joining the faculty at University of Maryland’s Department of Astronomy starting Fall 2025! @UMDAstronomy @UofMaryland Tbh I had to google what a terrapin was but I’m so excited to have this cute little guy as a mascot. 😄

@averytomascowx It will still get dark and be cool and weird! Still go out and watch everyone! --signed, a UT Austin Astronomer

Good news! HEB is selling eclipse cakes, which means we can all eat our feelings on Monday as the clouds roll in and block the view of the actual eclipse #atxwx #txwx

@PlanetaryGao What camera do you use Peter? Your photos are gorgeous!

Aoraki/Mt. Cook and iceberg

We live <2 miles from the Moody Center, which seats 15,000 people for concerts. Like any arena, parking is annoying/expensive and ride shares are congested. The fastest way to get there for us is by bike…. And as far as we can tell, we are the only people who EVER bike there

@johannateske @astromarkmarley @smastrophysics I AM THE SNAKE 🐍

@astromarkmarley @AstroCaroline @smastrophysics Who is who is this photo

Getting everyone primed for tonight’s model drop from @AstroCaroline and & @smastrophysics

@bmac_astro We bought Gloomhaven in ~March 2020 and played ~5 or 6 times before our May 2020 baby.... then zero times until now! It took us an hour and a half just to figure out where we left off 4 years ago

@AstroCaroline Excellent plan! Also impressed you managed to get Gloomhaven going with a small child in the house

@V_Parmentier Haha we played twice in a row because it's so complicated that we didn't complete our quest in one night. It's good! But complicated!

@AstroCaroline Great idea and great games in there ! How is gloomhaven, I see you played twice in a row :D

My husband and I did “Dry January” this year, so we figured we had to add something to replace the nightly beer. We decided on board games, which typically just decorate our house. We played a board game every night!

@astrosteven I like Codenames: Duet — I’ve always liked Codenames, and the 2-player version is good. Tokaido is a sleeper hit — not too stressful, pretty fast with two players for a weeknight. Gloomhaven is complicated, intense, and stressful, but a good game for two.

@AstroCaroline What were your favorite two player games?

Y’all I’m SO EXCITED for you to see not one but TWO big modeling papers by the greater Sonora empire of modelers on ArXiv TONIGHT! Including a paper that includes the work I started 5 years, 2 babies, and 1 pandemic ago.

We had fun and vow to continue playing board games, albeit not at a nightly cadence. We take recommendations!

(I also did a 5-10 minute core workout. Everyone needs a stronger core. That’s the other column.)

This is funded by a NASA TCAN grant and has "nodes" in New York (AMNH) and Silicon Valley (NASA Ames) -- so there could be options to travel frequently to these locations too.

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

@planetremco First year of the 2000s is typically called the "aughts" in the US

We talk about the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc., but is there something about the 2000s that distinguishes it from the 2010s? It's been a bit of a blur to me.