Jonathan Fortney
@jjfplanet
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@ucsc Astro Professor & Department Chair, Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) Director. Planetary Astrophysics: Exoplanets & Solar System. Father, Husband, Minnesotan
Santa Cruz, CA
Joined January 2012
For all the new grad students and postdocs out there:."Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.".--John Steinbeck.
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Dr. Artem Aguichine, having his French citizenship questioned by Dr. Nour Skaf, after slathering his croissant in peanut butter.
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Some additional visitors for the Other Worlds Laboratory, exoplanet summer program at UC Santa Cruz. This is our 7th year of creating and fostering collaborations in exoplanet science at UCSC.
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RT @JDLothringer: Abstracts close this Friday for the Fall 2025 STScI Science Workshop on Atmospheric Escape and Replenishment. We'd love….
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Day 1 underway at the Other Worlds Laboratory (OWL) 🦉 Exoplanet Summer Program at UC Santa Cruz. Building and fostering collaborations in exoplanet science!
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Am I the last to know about this multicolor watermelon thing?
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The Red Menace had laid low for nearly a year before returning this morning to the Firecracker 5K race! 21:16 time, a 6:51/mile, his 2nd best effort ever!.The only disappointment was that the classic pancake breakfast has now been converted into breakfast burrito distribution.
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A big Rubin Observatory party at @ucsc today. Important leadership from our Physics department for this transformational observatory.
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RT @NSF: Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total t….
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. meanwhile, in Chile. the 39-meter (128-feet) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) project is humming along. Note the white pickup truck in the upper left, for scale. Amazing.
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Yesterday the 1st-year Astrophysics majors in Astronomy 9 presented their 2-quarter-long group research projects. This class, started by Ruth Murray-Clay, has been a huge success in slowing the leaky pipeline that drives some out of STEM majors.
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When the room reservation gets made by someone outside of the sciences. 😜
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17% transit depth! A Saturn-size transiting exoplanet around a small 0.2 M_Sun star:.
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RT @NewsfromScience: Breaking news: Staff at the National Institutes of Health have issued a declaration calling on their director to depol….
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Congrats to Dr. Yao Tang (left) and Dr. Sagnick Mukherjee (right) for recently defending their PhDs with me at UC Santa Cruz. Both did impressive work to understand the physics of exoplanets.
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RT @david_kipping: The Harvard visa ban is shooting ourselves in the foot. Harvard is a magnet of global talent. I was a predoc at Harvard….
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RT @JonKrawczynski: The Timberwolves are 30-6 in the last 36 games in which Julius Randle has played.
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Yep, that's what it's been like rooting for Minnesota sports teams in my life! It's quite surreal to have "extended" (2 years, ha!) success!.
The Timberwolves are the first Minnesota-based MLB, NBA, NFL or NHL team to be among the final 4 teams remaining in the playoffs 2 years in a row since the North Stars did so in 1980 & 1981.
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