Astronomer, Associate prof at UT Austin, mother of two small humanshttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3m25k6ffcgs2uUT Austin Astro is hiring! It's an open call, but definitely interested in getting another exoplanet person! Feel free to reach out with any questions about the department or living in Austin! https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/b545549301 Oct 2025 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25k6ffcgs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3lgizcfbyek2cLittle old Texas just *quietly* transitioning to our clean energy future shhhhhh don't tell anyone. Drill baby drill, uh, sir. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jan 2025 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgizcfbyek2chttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3laugzqu7yc26WHERE DID ALL YOU PEOPLE COME FROM? WE WERE ENJOYING TALKING AMONGST THE TWELVE OF US HERE! Just kidding hi AstroTwitter! I'm an associate professor on a blue island in a deep red state and therefore have only lukewarm takes on the world unless you meet me in person. We have the best tacos though.13 Nov 2024 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3laugzqu7yc26https://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3lahe4tqiy42tApropos of nothing... Taylor Swift has released collections of her songs divided into the 5 stages of grief. This one is anger. https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/you-dont-get-to-tell-me-about-sad-songs/pl.f3e34b9df6534f09b81560473317bec008 Nov 2024 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lahe4tqiy42thttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3kztpv55e3f2pNew email signature day! It’s been a wild ride for the past 6 years of Assistant Professor life at UT, growing a research group amidst a global pandemic and growing my family. Happy and proud to be leveling up today to Associate Professor with tenure. Here’s to the next 6 years!16 Aug 2024 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3kztpv55e3f2phttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3kjvy2eag6h25Hi Bluesky! I'm advertising a position to join our modeling efforts to bring GPUs and machine learning/AI into both self-consistent and retrieval models for exoplanets. If you have interest in either ML/AI or in modeling brown dwarfs/exoplanets, please apply! due 2/12 jobregister.aas.org/ad/0395a59526 Jan 2024 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3kjvy2eag6h25https://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3kgc5ybcsp52eMay have just handed a person sniffing and sneezing in my vicinity at the gate for my flight my spare N95 mask 😬 Too bold? He looked surprised but did put it on!11 Dec 2023 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgc5ybcsp52ehttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3kbnq6dj4rw2rUT Austin is hiring a new assistant professor this year! Come join us! We have a great group of faculty here, and awesome students/postdocs. And telescopes! And Austin is in the habitable zone for at least 8 months every year. jobregister.aas.org/ad/359bf302 https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/359bf30213 Oct 2023 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbnq6dj4rw2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3kawz6cdxue2qI am hoping to hire a postdoc to start in the summer or fall, to work on exoplanet or brown dwarf atmospheres! Details here: jobregister.aas.org/ad/c0d2c3a8 Join us here in beautiful Austin!04 Oct 2023 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3kawz6cdxue2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k6e345pypu2xSave the date for Cool Stars 22! It's been fun to be on the SOC of Cool Stars for the first time, and I'm excited for our all-star list of invited speakers! See you in San Diego, June 24-28 coolstars22.github.io/program.html01 Sep 2023 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6e345pypu2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k6bnl3tkbh2kI'll now be taking bets on whether 0, 1, 2, or all 3 of the rest of us test positive this evening 🫣 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2023 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6bnl3tkbh2khttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k6bjskclwt2v🚨OH NO THE HUSBAND HAS COVID🚨 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2023 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6bjskclwt2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k6bca3vl4t2i1.5 weeks into the semester and COVID has entered the preschool class at school. It's going to be a FUN semester y'all!31 Aug 2023 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6bca3vl4t2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k676rbbaf52vAnyone know what XRP funding percentages were this year? I feel like I'm hearing lots of good news from people, but maybe my friends are just awesome30 Aug 2023 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k676rbbaf52vhttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k66xb72eky2wThe universe could not have better timing, to give me my biggest funded proposal a week before my department votes on my tenure case! A big push for cold exoplanet and brown dwarf modeling on the way! 🪐30 Aug 2023 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k66xb72eky2whttps://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k5q3kyzqiz23So this is my 6th year of teaching at UT... older professors, will I ever *not* be super amped up for at least an hour after teaching my class?24 Aug 2023 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k5q3kyzqiz23https://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3k462ksx5zo27Putting together one's tenure packet is a fun trip down memory lane. So many papers! Grants! Students! Service! I can't tell this to the committee but I can tell it to you: There was no more herculean task than teaching 3 days a week with morning sickness during my 1st pregnancy04 Aug 2023 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3k462ksx5zo27https://bsky.app/profile/astrocaroline.bsky.social/post/3jzqhq4zm722aJumped off the sinking Twitter ship. Hi everyone! 👋05 Jul 2023 01:36 +0000at://did:plc:yhebcqcvhptffetbzcj6wttn/app.bsky.feed.post/3jzqhq4zm722a