- Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert from Oxford has an excellent thread below about the viability of DMS as a biosignature and plausible atmospheric structures for K2-18b. 🔭 #exoplanets 🧵
- About that new paper on K2-18b, which headlines with "Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system," evidently prodded by a Cambridge U. press release. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.12267 . It's not actually any kind of evidence for life, and here I'll give my take on the paper.