@AstroThayne

Astrophysicist @ Subaru/UTSA. Exoplanets, Direct Imaging. Pro-immigrant; anti-chud. Likes scientific rigor. Empiricist. The Enlightenment was a good thing.

 Texas/Hawaii
subarutelescope.org/staff/currie/
Joined May 2019
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Today, we are excited to report the publication of our paper in Science on the discovery of HIP 99770 b w/ Gaia/Hipparcos astrometry & direct imaging w/ the Subaru & Keck Telescopes on Maunakea science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… @ScienceMagazine @esa @SubaruTelescope @SubaruTel_Eng 🧵
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Ukraine will defeat Russia
Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNanceOct 20
Ukraine will defeat Russia
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Such people reside in paradise. I must find it someday ...
.@OmgemeralddddOct 19
There are people out there who don’t even know what Teams is. They’ve never used Outlook and have never had to log in 47 times a day through Microsoft Authenticator. They’re living the best life imaginable
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F. Andy Seidl
@faseidlOct 18
Ukraine is moving Russian data to the cloud.
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We will be introducing bipartisan legislation to block any and all purchases of Russian oil. It will be called the “Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act.” It will be forced to the Floor via discharge and it will pass overwhelmingly. #PeaceThroughStrength
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Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 10
The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
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You cannot be pro-life while being pro “firing squad on live TV.”
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San Antonio is indeed a great city with great people. I just wish we had mass transit.
Chase Daniel
@ChaseDanielOct 8
San Antonio might be one of the most underrated cities in America. In town to call UTSA vs. South Florida tonight on ESPN & been blown away. Heard these roadrunner fans are next level What an awesome city. The people, the food, the atmosphere…just incredibly impressed!
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Richard Hanania
@RichardHananiaOct 3
“Had a leftist suggested that American culture is defined by alcoholism and disdain for ambition, Rufo would surely decry the remark as a slander. But Keeperman and Rufo seemed to talk themselves into this bizarre version of American exceptionalism.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…

The Mainstreaming of Anti-Indian Bigotry

A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits.

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Cardinal Robert McElroy, less than a mile from the White House on World Day of Migrants: “We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” He told Catholics to fight every dimension of Trump’s war on immigrants. The cathedral applauded for half a minute.
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Barracuda Obama ™@st33lspikeOct 2
Schmitt: Did you, or did you not, in fact, nip at my nose last winter? Jack Smith: Sir, that is Jack Frost
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Your spouse's face when you tell them "hey, the JWST Cycle 6 deadline got extended, so I'm going to pull another all nighter and work through the day tomorrow"
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Lila Rose
@LilaGraceRoseOct 1
In a nation with maximum security prisons and the possibility of making mistakes with death penalty convictions, the death penalty is both unnecessary and inhumane.
NBC News
@NBCNewsOct 1
BREAKING: Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is still alive after two lethal injections, her lawyer says in a motion to again halt the execution. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ahe…

Christa Pike: What to know about the case of Tennessee death row inmate

Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered classmate Colleen Slemmer. She was due to be the first woman the state had executed in more than 200 years.

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The Maunakea summit tonight just after Tropical Storm Nolo has passed through the islands. Dry, almost no wind, and down to 0.2" seeing.
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LadiesWhoTrek@LadieswhotrekSep 28
On September 28, 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered, bringing a new crew, a new Enterprise, and a new era of exploration to the Star Trek universe. 🖖🚀 Happy anniversary, The Next Generation! 💙
A promotional poster for Star Trek: The Next Generation

ALT A promotional poster for Star Trek: The Next Generation

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The Harvard Crimson
@thecrimsonSep 24
4 principal investigators at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics won NASA funding to study data from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the agency’s newest flagship observatory, which launched in August. Francesco Palma reports. thecrimson.com/article/2026/…

Harvard Astronomers to Lead NASA-Funded Research on New Roman Space Telescope

Harvard Astronomers to Lead NASA-Funded Research on New Roman Space Telescope

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Excellent article.
Senator John Cornyn
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I’m a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less. wapo.st/4hlaoz4

Opinion | I’m a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less.

America should invest in NIH medical research, not retreat from it.

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Joseph Karpinski@jkarpin2Sep 23
Octofitter is a Julia package for performing Bayesian inference against exoplanet / binary star data. github.com/sefffal/Octofitte… sefffal.github.io/Octofitter… sefffal.github.io/Octofitter… iopscience.iop.org/article/1… #astronomy #astronomer #astronomers #Astrophysics #astrophysicist #Julia
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[this is from the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece] -- My relative-from-marriage in China learned *calculus* before turning 16. My son is going to learn it by 15 even if I have to teach it to him myself. The neglect of US public school education is unconscionable: a five-alarm fire.
Ali B@wtflanksteakSep 21
sorry i just got to the part where they realized her daughter was in high school and hadn't fully grasped long division or fractions.
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すばる望遠鏡建設の経緯を記した『宇宙の果てまで』の英訳版『Makaliʻi in Hawaiʻi』が出版されました。すばる望遠鏡の科学的・技術的成果のみならず、その背景にいる「人」に焦点を当てた本書が、英訳され、広く世界に届けられることに深い意義を感じます。
国立天文台
@prcnaojSep 1
#すばる望遠鏡 建設の物語『宇宙の果てまで』の英訳『Makaliʻi in Hawaiʻi』が、#SPIE と #国立天文台 から出版されました。すばる望遠鏡建設の裏話や人間ドラマを世界中の皆さまにお届けします。📖 spie.org/Kodaira
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This is an amazing essay. Education in the US -- especially among the socioeconomically disadvantaged schools -- is a five-alarm fire.
Coleman Hughes
@coldxmanSep 20
Most writers don't admit to mistakes, much less publicize them so that we can all benefit. Nikole Hannah-Jones (@nhannahjones) has done both of those things with this powerful essay. I do not agree with every word (or with some underlying assumptions), but she deserves nothing but praise for bringing her daughter's story to light. Read and share widely! nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz…

In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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