Drew Weisserman
@drewweisserman.bsky.social
McMaster Astronomy MSc '25. send me pictures of your pets or I will steal them. he/him 🏳️🌈
check out my research: https://drewweis.github.io/
check out my research: https://drewweis.github.io/
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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John Schneider on his early mound visit to Max Scherzer:
“I’ve been waiting for that moment since our first zoom call in the offseason.”
“I thought he was going to kill me. It was great.” #BlueJays
“I’ve been waiting for that moment since our first zoom call in the offseason.”
“I thought he was going to kill me. It was great.” #BlueJays
October 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
John Schneider on his early mound visit to Max Scherzer:
“I’ve been waiting for that moment since our first zoom call in the offseason.”
“I thought he was going to kill me. It was great.” #BlueJays
“I’ve been waiting for that moment since our first zoom call in the offseason.”
“I thought he was going to kill me. It was great.” #BlueJays
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Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!
US Astronomy Graduate Admissions, AY 2025-2026
docs.google.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Are you someone who is interested in astronomy graduate school? This is a list of many/most departments and their expectations for admissions this year. Please feel free to spread it far and wide. If you are doing admissions and you'd like to update your entry, reach out as per the form!
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I say to my supervisor last night "I'm sick rn, can we postpone our research meeting?"
He goes "yeah no worries, but did you submit the telescope proposal due tomorrow?"
THE WHAT
He goes "yeah no worries, but did you submit the telescope proposal due tomorrow?"
THE WHAT
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I say to my supervisor last night "I'm sick rn, can we postpone our research meeting?"
He goes "yeah no worries, but did you submit the telescope proposal due tomorrow?"
THE WHAT
He goes "yeah no worries, but did you submit the telescope proposal due tomorrow?"
THE WHAT
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🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL
0:00 OT
This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.
0:00 OT
This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.
September 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL
0:00 OT
This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.
0:00 OT
This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.
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In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence
YouTube video by New York Daily News
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive
enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...
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FACT-CHECK: This is Eric Adams in his Purim costume as a Torah scroll
You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation
September 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
FACT-CHECK: This is Eric Adams in his Purim costume as a Torah scroll
MSc defense is tomorrow morning and I can't sleep. My coworkers like my stress baking habit, at least :))
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
MSc defense is tomorrow morning and I can't sleep. My coworkers like my stress baking habit, at least :))
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9. The promise of democracy is that it will fix mistakes. The threat of autocracy is that it sets those mistakes in stone. And we would all be better off with a SCOTUS that embraced the former rather than praising the latter. /fin
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
9. The promise of democracy is that it will fix mistakes. The threat of autocracy is that it sets those mistakes in stone. And we would all be better off with a SCOTUS that embraced the former rather than praising the latter. /fin
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MSc paper, MSc thesis, telescope proposal, and big yearly scholarship proposal all due within a week of each other 🙂 sigh
September 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
MSc paper, MSc thesis, telescope proposal, and big yearly scholarship proposal all due within a week of each other 🙂 sigh
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GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.
August 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE.
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If you live in the Houston area, the Holocaust Museum has free hours from 2-5p.m. on Thursdays. From 2-4p.m., one of many rotating Holocaust survivors are available to talk. You can ask them anything.
You need to do this ASAP. They and the curators have a lot to say about history repeating itself.
You need to do this ASAP. They and the curators have a lot to say about history repeating itself.
August 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If you live in the Houston area, the Holocaust Museum has free hours from 2-5p.m. on Thursdays. From 2-4p.m., one of many rotating Holocaust survivors are available to talk. You can ask them anything.
You need to do this ASAP. They and the curators have a lot to say about history repeating itself.
You need to do this ASAP. They and the curators have a lot to say about history repeating itself.
Paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2508.13145
We obtain the 2nd and 3rd ever Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of hot Jupiters around M dwarfs! ⬇️
#exoplanets #astro
We obtain the 2nd and 3rd ever Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of hot Jupiters around M dwarfs! ⬇️
#exoplanets #astro
Aligned Stellar Obliquities for Two Hot Jupiter-hosting M Dwarfs Revealed by MAROON-X: Implications for Hot Jupiter Formation
Hot Jupiters (HJs) are $2-3\times$ less common around early M dwarfs than around AFGK stars, suggesting that HJs may form and/or migrate via distinct pathways around different types of stars. One sour...
arxiv.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2508.13145
We obtain the 2nd and 3rd ever Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of hot Jupiters around M dwarfs! ⬇️
#exoplanets #astro
We obtain the 2nd and 3rd ever Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of hot Jupiters around M dwarfs! ⬇️
#exoplanets #astro
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Found out today that by using millisecond pulsars as your reference points, you can determine your position in the galaxy down to 7km or less, which is frankly a ridiculous degree of accuracy on the cosmic scale #PSETI2025
August 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Found out today that by using millisecond pulsars as your reference points, you can determine your position in the galaxy down to 7km or less, which is frankly a ridiculous degree of accuracy on the cosmic scale #PSETI2025
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Tips and resources for those who would be interested in pursuing an astro PhD outside this US and applying for programs this Fall, put together by Floor Broekgaarden, Ana Lam, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Deana Tanguay! 🔭 docs.google.com/document/u/0...
August 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Tips and resources for those who would be interested in pursuing an astro PhD outside this US and applying for programs this Fall, put together by Floor Broekgaarden, Ana Lam, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Deana Tanguay! 🔭 docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Kepler mission: smaller stars have more short-period, small #exoplanets.
Theory: the smallest stars won’t have enough disk material to make small planets so there must be a turnover.
Kepler+K2: We have found a turnover!
Check out our newest Scaling K2 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05734
🧵 1/9
🔭🧪☄️
Theory: the smallest stars won’t have enough disk material to make small planets so there must be a turnover.
Kepler+K2: We have found a turnover!
Check out our newest Scaling K2 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05734
🧵 1/9
🔭🧪☄️
Scaling K2 VIII: Short-Period Sub-Neptune Occurrence Rates Peak Around Early-Type M Dwarfs
We uniformly combined data from the NASA Kepler and K2 missions to compute planet occurrence rates across the entire FGK and M dwarf stellar range. The K2 mission, driven by targets selected by guest ...
arxiv.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Kepler mission: smaller stars have more short-period, small #exoplanets.
Theory: the smallest stars won’t have enough disk material to make small planets so there must be a turnover.
Kepler+K2: We have found a turnover!
Check out our newest Scaling K2 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05734
🧵 1/9
🔭🧪☄️
Theory: the smallest stars won’t have enough disk material to make small planets so there must be a turnover.
Kepler+K2: We have found a turnover!
Check out our newest Scaling K2 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05734
🧵 1/9
🔭🧪☄️
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In Avi's latest he finally figured out why spacecraft would have dusty comae!
It almost feels like he read @deschscoveries.bsky.social's complaint about how lazy his "it's aliens" claims have been lately and decided to up his game.
It almost feels like he read @deschscoveries.bsky.social's complaint about how lazy his "it's aliens" claims have been lately and decided to up his game.
Avi Loeb Figured Out Why Spacecraft Have Comae!
Avi Loeb has two new blog posts out about 3I/ATLAS, and they’re doozies! Steve Desch recently posted a snarky piece entitled “This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grow...
sites.psu.edu
August 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In Avi's latest he finally figured out why spacecraft would have dusty comae!
It almost feels like he read @deschscoveries.bsky.social's complaint about how lazy his "it's aliens" claims have been lately and decided to up his game.
It almost feels like he read @deschscoveries.bsky.social's complaint about how lazy his "it's aliens" claims have been lately and decided to up his game.
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I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.
medium.com/@steve.desch...
medium.com/@steve.desch...
This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed
Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…
medium.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.
medium.com/@steve.desch...
medium.com/@steve.desch...
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I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026
Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...
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August 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.
If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did
If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did
A defeat for conservatives in Alaska: the state legislature overrode the governor’s veto of education spending, restoring $50 million of funds for education. www.adn.com/politics/ala...
Alaska lawmakers override 2 Dunleavy vetoes, restoring $50M in education funding
Lawmakers adjourned a joint session without considering any of Dunleavy’s other recent vetoes, including of school maintenance and construction funding and other bills that passed with bipartisan supp...
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August 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.
If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did
If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did
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Texas House Dems response to Abbott mailchi.mp/texashousede...
August 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Texas House Dems response to Abbott mailchi.mp/texashousede...
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It's NIRPS day! Today we are publishing the first results of the new near infrared planet hunter. A high resolution spectrograph with YHJ coverage and capable of measuring radial velocities with a precision better than 1 m/s.
We debut it with the detection (in the NIR) of Proxima b. #exoplanets 🔭
We debut it with the detection (in the NIR) of Proxima b. #exoplanets 🔭
The IAC leads the first scientific results of NIRPS, the new infrared exoplanet hunter
The new infrared spectrograph NIRPS, built with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, has...
www.iac.es
July 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It's NIRPS day! Today we are publishing the first results of the new near infrared planet hunter. A high resolution spectrograph with YHJ coverage and capable of measuring radial velocities with a precision better than 1 m/s.
We debut it with the detection (in the NIR) of Proxima b. #exoplanets 🔭
We debut it with the detection (in the NIR) of Proxima b. #exoplanets 🔭
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If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!
ASAB Guest Info
ASAB is a podcast which brings on trans and non-binary guests in science (undergrad or grad students, technicians, professors, educators, researchers, science journalists, photographers, or even someo...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!