Thayne Currie

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

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

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
https://t.co/Z9kKCYkcrc
@ScienceMagazine @esa @SubaruTelescope @SubaruTel_Eng 🧵

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@Hontas_Farmer @neerajjj6785 IDL

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@RpsAgainstTrump Hey, we still have Vanilla Ice

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@KathrynPaisner Yes. I remember my first ever F on an exam in physics after not studying hard enough. And first time I got torched on an essay in a philosophy class because I rawrrrd/phoned in the argument (the prof saying "this essay is passionate but not very intelligent"). Was transformative.

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@RichardHanania Talarico's superpower is that he found a way to run against Ken Paxton and that he's calm and genteel enough to let Paxton hang himself.

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@Wilbaeje So how would Talarico have to change on cultural issues - guns, abortion, LGBT, immigration -for you to consider him?

What is the "acceptable" line?

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

My contribution to the Star Trek create-an-episode-title meme going around ...

If you know, you know.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Yale fully reinstates its pre-pandemic SAT/ACT requirement in admissions.

“These test scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance, and there is evidence that they are less subject to bias than other elements of an application.”

[Maunakea Observatories @maunakeaobs]

Hawaiʻi sciences need your kōkua to protect federal funding! The president's budget yet again proposes major cuts to Hawaiʻi science and observatories. Call your representatives today and urge Congress to reject these cuts. Learn more at https://t.co/frxT3bXDjS

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

Absolutely need some form of standardized testing for admissions. Esp in a world with hyper grade inflation in HS and ChatGPT writing students' application essays.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The crusade against standardized testing failed so hard.

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:

“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”

“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”

[Christopher W. Jones @cwjones89]

New study of LLM hallucinations in citations using preprint articles from 2025:

What discipline has the most fake citations? The social sciences, judging by SSRN, where nearly 2% of citations in 2025 were of articles that don't exist.

https://t.co/hobp4OXcvt

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

less than 24 hrs after a mag 6.0 earthquake in Hawaii, Subaru is back on sky and doing great science on Maunakea.

See below our redetection of the HIP 71618 B brown dwarf (Roman CGI tech demo target) and HIP xxxx B (new unreported discovery), both in the raw quicklook data.

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@TSHamiltonAstro It was a better movie than Temple of Doom, which came out a year before, I think.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This will do a lot more to hold back AI progress than some data center protests!!

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@WKCosmo and they read all of the papers they cited

[Maunakea Observatories @maunakeaobs]

Join @StS_ShadowSci and @SubaruTel_Eng May 22 at 9p to shadow the SPIDERS team as they test a new instrument that could allow us to take images of planets on the scale of our solar system! Register for this session today: https://t.co/dTjcFOcEzc

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

@horizonSci LOL

[Thayne Currie @AstroThayne]

yeah, there are a lot of people telling on themselves with this whole @arxiv anti-AI slop action ...

[Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke]

“You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible.”

Holy cow — what an incredible statement. No, I don’t know that and I’ve never done it.