Nicholas Wogan

Postdoc at NASA Ames. I study the evolution of planet’s atmospheres.

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@methanoJen @MaggieAstronomy Excited to see your paper!

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@methanoJen @MaggieAstronomy Oh nice! I suppose one slight caveat is the methane detection on K2-18b. Some might argue the planet is a water world with a habitable ocean. But, others think it is a gas-giant with no habitable surface. Regardless, the planet is 2.6 earth radii, so kinda different situation.

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@methanoJen @MaggieAstronomy That statement is correct! Where does that quote come from?

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@david_kipping @MaggieAstronomy wrote a great paper on the CO2-CH4 biosignature: https://t.co/4mpITHAOnq

Overall, a biological methane flux could stand out as unique compared to possible abiotic sources. Other gases, like CO, are relevant as well.

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Several coauthors and I wrote a paper about the recent JWST observations of the K2-18b exoplanet: https://t.co/d9TKpVufVZ .

Thesis: JWST observations of K2-18b can be explained by a gas-rich mini-Neptune with no habitable surface

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@cosmobiologist “Light on water zone” - Kevin Zahnle

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@pauldauenhauer This thread is confusing to most people outside academia.

This is the total $ needed from a granting agency (like NASA) to support a grad student a 1 year.

But, students can also be supported by teaching assignments. That money comes from the university (via undergrad tuition)

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@miquai I enjoyed this podcast episode, which argues we don’t have free will https://t.co/Zi5Y55Nush

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@cosmic_mar Both are good for different problems

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@miquai It’s annoying how this seems to be true for lots of topics

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@miquai You have accomplished the impossible!

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@miquai Looks really good!

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@OkayHughes @toomanyspectra Ha! I need to copy-paste this virtually everywhere.

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@Jmendezcarvajal @Blag @SpamYoghurt1JK @fortranlang Ya, gfortran works great on M1 in my experience.

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@HumanBott @jjfplanet Ya haha it won’t die. I’m ok still using fortran 77 libraries. There are lots of good ones (e.g. SMART). But I hope in the future new code can be Fortran 90 or more recent standards.

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@bariweiss It seems to early to write this kind of article. To get the full (honest) story, it might have been a good idea to wait until the dust settles in a few weeks.

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@thomaschattwill I’m a little tired of people trying to draw conclusions about our greater culture from anecdotes. Of course stuff like this happens. There are billions of people in the world.

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@OmicsOmicsBlog @toomanyspectra Another assumption is that all 4^-281 RNA strands are equally likely. This is also probably not the case. Certain environments may select for a small subset of these many possibilities.

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Real footage of a grad student trying connect her research to the existing literature.