Malena Rice
Planetary astrophysicist • Assistant Professor, Yale Astronomy • exoplanets & solar system • Forbes Under 30 • astrosoundbites
- Join us for NASA's ExoPAG 32 Meeting on June 3rd! This free virtual meeting is open to all, but please register to receive the access link: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/... #exoplanets #astronomy
- Delighted that Yan Liang will be joining us at Yale this fall as our newest 51 Pegasi b Fellow, leveraging AI to disentangle planetary signals from stellar spectra! Our 51 Peg family grows 💜 news.yale.edu/2025/04/04/y...
- We are excited for a fantastic program that is coming together for NYAEM, which will take place on May 22nd at the CCA! We will be accepting additional poster abstracts on a first-come, first-serve basis up through the registration deadline (April 22nd). #exoplanets
- Abstract deadline for this year's New York Area Exoplanets Meeting (NYAEM II) is coming up in just under 2 weeks (March 10th)! It'll be a 1-day regional meeting at the CCA, bringing together astronomers in the greater New York area working on exoplanets + adjacent topics 🔭🪐 nyexoplanets.github.io
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- Nominations to the Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) Executive Committee, including nominations for the ExoPAG Chair, are due March 7. ExoPAG is a community-based forum coordinating input to NASA Astrophysics. Reach out with any questions! 🔭🪐 exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...
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- Abstract deadline for this year's New York Area Exoplanets Meeting (NYAEM II) is coming up in just under 2 weeks (March 10th)! It'll be a 1-day regional meeting at the CCA, bringing together astronomers in the greater New York area working on exoplanets + adjacent topics 🔭🪐 nyexoplanets.github.io
- Reposted by Malena RiceFrom Huei Sears @starlights.bsky.social and Jessie Thwaites @jthwaites.bsky.social: Today we highlight the “Picture an Astronomer” Symposium at UChicago, created primarily by grad student Ava Polzin, with lectures and events in February/March! Registration ends 2/15.✨🔭 astrobites.org/2025/02/11/t...
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- From Huei Sears @starlights.bsky.social and Jessie Thwaites @jthwaites.bsky.social: Today we highlight the “Picture an Astronomer” Symposium at UChicago, created primarily by grad student Ava Polzin, with lectures and events in February/March! Registration ends 2/15.✨🔭 astrobites.org/2025/02/11/t...
- Reposted by Malena RiceHere's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
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- Reposted by Malena RiceThe Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025. FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor... #WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...
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- Yesterday was the last day of Fall 2024 classes at Yale, and one of my students gifted me this custom-made lithophane of the HL Tau protoplanetary disk! Look how awesome it is?! 🤩
- Happy holidays from the Rice research group! ♡ 🪐
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- Applications are open for the 2025 Dorrit Hoffleit Research Fellowship program for current undergraduate students to conduct summer research in the Yale Department of Astronomy! Open to 2nd/3rd year undergrads of any nationality — due February 15th 🪐🧪🚀 astronomy.yale.edu/undergraduat...
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- It was an honor to speak as part of today’s Kavli Astrophysics Symposium, rounding out an incredible week in Oslo! Feeling so inspired from this remarkable week with remarkable people ♡
- Delighted to see this new paper out, led by Ben Cassese, describing squishyplanet — a jax-based Python package to model the signals of oblate planets! arxiv.org/abs/2409.00167 Check out the readthedocs page for more, including some awesome visualizations: squishyplanet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- A wonderful Kavli Prize Laureate Banquet at the Oslo City Hall, with the King in attendance and some phenomenal entertainment!
- The astrophysics laureates at this afternoon’s 2024 Kavli Prize Award Ceremony, together with King Harald V of Norway! 🇳🇴
- Outstanding lectures this morning by the 2024 Kavli Astrophysics Laureates! ⭐️
- Excited to be in Oslo, Norway for the 2024 Kavli Prize Week, as a speaker in the Astrophysics Symposium celebrating Dave Charbonneau’s and Sara Seager’s pioneering work in the field of exoplanets! What an honor and a privilege to join in on this historical moment ☺️
- Wonderful day at the Flatiron Institute for the inaugural New York Area Exoplanets Meeting! A truly excellent lineup of talks — such a joy to see this conference come to fruition (and so proud of these three group members for their outstanding talks!)
- A huge welcome to the 2024 class of 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellows!! 🔭🪐 www.hsfoundation.org/news-stories...
- Join us at Yale Astronomy on Friday, May 31st to contribute to building the AstroCodEx — a repository of pedagogical coding exercises designed to teach astro research methods! Registration is free, & some funding is available to support local travel. We'd love to see you there! 🔭🧪
- Delighted to announce that the inaugural New York Area Exoplanets Meeting (NYAEM) will take place at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) on May 30th, 2024! Abstract submission is open until April 5th, & registration until May 1st. Find more information here: nyexoplanets.github.io 🔭🪐🧪
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- The eve of Christmas Eve at Palomar Observatory ♡
- Closing out the last few days before the holidays with my first in-person observing run at Palomar Observatory! An utterly inspirational facility with the warmest community. (featuring some cloudy night tea by the fireplace ☕️)
- I was out of town for the Yale Astronomy department holiday party, so my research group took a photo together and sent me a holiday card 🥺❤️
- Had a spectacular time at the #opaga gas giant astrophysics conference in Patagonia this week — some highlights from Torres del Paine national park a couple days ago :)
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- Thanks Yale News for highlighting our recent results! 🔭🪐Even the most "pristine" planetary systems show evidence of being just a bit tilted — the full paper is now published at the link here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... news.yale.edu/2023/11/28/a...
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- Applications are now being accepted for Yale's Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct astronomy research at Yale during summer 2024! Applications are due February 15th, and more information can be found here: astronomy.yale.edu/undergraduat... 🔭🪐
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- Paper day! We show that the orbital tilts of near-resonant exoplanet systems are suggestive of low-level dynamical excitation, likely from formation in slightly tilted (<~20 degree) protoplanetary disks 🔭🪐 arxiv.org/abs/2311.02478
- It's official — I'm hiring a postdoc to join my research group at Yale Astro! Particular topics of interest include exoplanet dynamics, stellar spectroscopy, and outer solar system detection. Applications are due December 15th; please spread the word! :) jobregister.aas.org/ad/b02812dd
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- p.s. I brought home a new puppy 1.5 weeks ago and he is Extremely Good! Meet Kelvin! ♡
- Interested in coming to Yale for a PhD in Astronomy or Physics? We will be hosting a joint webinar for prospective students — with representatives from both departments — on Tuesday, November 7th at 11am ET. Learn more about our program and register here: astronomy.yale.edu/academics/gr...
- The ExoPAG 29 website is now live! Our meeting will be hybrid and joint with the winter AAS meeting, from Jan 6-7 in New Orleans, LA. Find more information and register at the link here: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...
- Hi all! I am part of the new TESS Users Committee (heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/TU...), and we are soliciting ideas from the community about topics that you would like to have discussed to maximize the scientific impact of the NASA TESS mission. Please reach out if you have ideas/suggestions!
- The NASA ExoExplorers program is accepting applications for its 4th cohort of ExoExplorers! This is an awesome, funded opportunity for exoplanet graduate students and postdocs to gain visibility and build community & networks. Learn more and apply here by Oct 12: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/...
- The ExoPAG 28 meeting is happening throughout today, with a great program of talks covering synergies between exoplanet and planetary science! You can virtually join in for free from anywhere in the world — find the link and schedule here: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/events/...
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