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Caroline Morley @AstroCaroline

Associate Prof at UT Austin, modeler of substellar atmospheres

Joined October 2012
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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!
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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
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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.

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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!
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(I also did a 5-10 minute core workout. Everyone needs a stronger core. That’s the other column.)
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We had fun and vow to continue playing board games, albeit not at a nightly cadence. We take recommendations!
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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/0395a…

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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.
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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/c0d2c… Join us here in beautiful Austin!

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The universe could not have better timing, to give me my biggest funding proposal a week before my department votes on my tenure case! A big push for cold exoplanet and brown dwarf modeling on the way, along with @jjfplanet, @NatashaBatalha, @astromarkmarley, @smastrophysics
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With actual work within my group here at UT done by my talented pair of graduate students, @AstRowland and James Mang!
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Caroline Morley retweeted
astrobites@astrobites
15 Aug 2023
From @EricaSawczynec: As astronomers, many of our lives have been touched by the islands of Hawaiʻi & now it’s our kuleana (responsibility) to show up for the Hawaiʻi community when they need us most. astrobites.org/2023/08/15/ma…

Mālama Maui

From Erica Sawczynec: As astronomers, many of our lives have been touched by the islands of Hawaiʻi & now it’s our kuleana (responsibility) to show up for the Hawaiʻi community when they need us most.

astrobites.org
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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
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It was *truly* awful. No idea how I got through it. I had "theoretical" respect for people functioning at a high level while dealing with medical things, but now I have true empathy.
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Anyway they should give me tenure. :)
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Huh not sure what is going on here (X?) but I have two invite codes for elsewhere. DM me. The astronomers are (sort of) moving over.
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Caroline Morley retweeted
gully@gully_
19 Jul 2023
Hey! Check out my brand new paper! We discover a huge leading tail of Helium in HAT-P-67 b, an inflated hot Saturn, with up to 10% transit depth, and actively undergoing *runaway inflation*. arxiv.org/abs/2307.08959

A Large and Variable Leading Tail of Helium in a Hot Saturn...

Atmospheric escape shapes the fate of exoplanets, with statistical evidence for transformative mass loss imprinted across the mass-radius-insolation distribution. Here we present transit...

arxiv.org
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Me too!
Peter Gao@PlanetaryGao
2 Jul 2023
ok I think I’m finally ready for b-sky anyone have a spare invite
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Always book a 3-hour layover when you're flying into the US from abroad, kids. Today in the Houston airport I took 1.5 hours to get through the connection -- with *global entry* and *only a carry-on*
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I did *not* book a 3-hour layover (and my flight from London was delayed) so I got bonus time in the Houston airport, which is very, very full of people.
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