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(Co-authored Publication) ExoClock Project. IV. A Homogeneous Catalog of 620 Updated Exoplanet Ephemerides
"ExoClock Project IV: A Homogeneous Catalog of 620 Updated Exoplanet Ephemerides" (Kokori et al. 2026, ApJS, 283, 5) has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. I am a co-author, having contributed 30 transit photometry ob...
Post · July 12, 2026
How I Characterised a Newly Discovered Potentially Hazardous Asteroid and Presented the Findings at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)
On March 17, 2026, I presented my research at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2026), held in The Woodlands, Texas. The Conference brought together thousands of researchers from space agencies, universities, and observatories ...
Post · July 12, 2026
Introducing Site Members: Share Private Content with Your Research Group
Not everything you create is meant for the whole Internet. Lab notes, draft papers, internal resources, meeting materials — some content is for your group only. Today, we're introducing Owlstown Site Members, a new way to manage who belongs to you...
Post · July 11, 2026
Presidential Campaign Promises
When teaching the 2nd half U.S. history survey, we come all the way to the present. This can prove troubling for students as we cover the good, the bad, and the ugly of politicians they either admire or disdain.
To try to help students evaluate p...
Post · July 09, 2026
Who Counts as a Victim? Not Men...
While preparing my notes for an upcoming workshop on disclosing sexual victmisation, I wrote a few notes about rape myths.
Rape myths, Burt (1980) defined as "prejudicial, stereotyped, or false beliefs about rape, rape victims, and rapists."
S...
Post · July 09, 2026
Revisiting a Decade Later: Asteroid (2977) Chivilikhin
The Minor Planet Bulletin (MPB) call list is a key resource for astronomers to identify asteroids that are due for observational campaigns. When (2977) Chivilikhin appeared on the list for its 2025 apparition, I decided to measure its lightcurve a...
Post · July 08, 2026
Precision Astrometry of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
The comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) was discovered on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile. Early astrometric measurements revealed that the object was moving on an unusual hyperbolic orbit, far too fast to be gravitationally bound to the...
Post · July 08, 2026
New paper published in PLOS Biology! 📄🎉
🎉 We are delighted to share the publication of our latest article in PLOS Biology:
"A developmental shift in glucocorticoid receptor expression preserves glucocorticoid sensitivity in the adult suprachiasmatic nucleus"
This publication repres...
Post · July 08, 2026
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