Dr./Prof. Sarah Hörst
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Associate Prof of PlanetSci @JohnsHopkins and Titan evangelist. I'm planetdr some other places too. she/her
Baltimore, MD, USA
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If you are a prospective grad student in planetary science/astrobio/exoplanets here is a list of graduate advisors who are actively looking for students for Fall 2025. Please check the list throughout the fall
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This is what my face looks like when someone lets me hold a piece of the Moon and Mars at the same time
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Sometimes I think my only job as a planetary scientist is to remind us we live on that lonely mote of dust and we can only save ourselves
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I can't even get my students to read the syllabus
New: Betsy DeVos criticizes university professors at
#CPAC2017
, saying they tell students "what to think."
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Another FAQ: how do we have rocks from Mars when we’ve never had a sample return mission.
A: That’s a Martian meteorite. It came to Earth all by itself (with help from something smacking Mars)
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Dear Florida, voting for the candidate who doesn't believe in climate changes ends badly for you.
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Please be gentle and patient with your professor colleagues right now. Switching to online classes with basically no notice and no time to prepare in the middle of the term is a shitshow
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Bc FAQ the black one is the Martian one. The gray one is the Moon.
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I am absolutely over the moon (Saturn’s largest to be specific) that Dragonfly has been selected. We are going back to Titan!!! It is an absolute honor and the privilege of my career to be a part of this amazing team and mission. Go Dragonfly!!! 🚀🐲🚁😍
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It pleases me to no end that my car just emailed me to tell me it needs its oil changed and it got my out of office reply
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Hello it is me. The exhausted assistant professor who has been trying to build a better scientific community and keep the next generation from suffering from some of the shit we went through. But somehow none of that matters and I would like to go live in the woods by myself.
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Bc FAQ normally you would wear gloves with such samples. But these were contaminated many years ago by original owner. Luckily pristine samples of both meteorites also exist.
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Titan has a polar vortex that is home to a huge hydrogen cyanide ice cloud. So, you know, it could be worse.
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It’s cool how my university is requiring us to teach in person with no social distancing but also apparently isn’t going to tell us if anyone in our classes tests positive.
My life and the lives of the people I interact with are worth far more than my job.
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The two other most frequently asked questions are now
“Did you taste them?” No.
“Do you have superpowers now?” I’ve always had superpowers.
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Hear me out. Nailed It but for scientific experiments.
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One of these days I will be in the mood to reply “well you don’t look like an asshole but here we are” but today wasn’t that day.
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My institution literally pays humans to double check that every single receipt we submit for reimbursement using federal funds doesn't contain a single alcoholic beverage.
Just came across this (again) in FOIA files...White House staffers drank $1,000 worth of liquor at Mar-a-Lago,
@realdonaldtrump
’s club.
Reader, the taxpayers paid!
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Welp I made it zero minutes into the conference before an attendee told me I don’t look like a scientist.
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The present I bought myself for getting tenure arrived.
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In case you ever wondered how many unopened boxes of gloves there might be in a small earth and planetary sciences department, the answer is this many. Now on their way to Hopkins hospital. 💙💙💙
#HopkinsStrong
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I’ve changed Alexa to Computer and now I live on the Enterprise.
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One of the things I really like about twitter is watching science twitter help each other. Our colleagues who scoff at the idea of twitter really don’t know what they are missing
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Is anyone else drinking WAY more tea than normal during stay at home?
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It boggles my mind that there are places in the US with higher wastewater covid levels now than at the peak of omicron last January and everyone is just bopping around as if covid is over
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I’ve spoken to a lot of stressed out students and colleagues this week and I’ve told them all the same thing. You have one job right now- stay alive and keep others from getting sick. Literally anything else you do right now is a bonus.
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So Monday I had an “interview” for an award, but apparently the interview was a ruse.
Anyway, we are really excited about the science this will support. ❤️❤️❤️
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 President’s Frontier Awards: Alexis Battle and Sarah Hörst!
These remarkable scholars will each receive $250,000 to pursue new research, expand their laboratories, and support their lab members.
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Happy “Let’s Deal With This After Thanksgiving” tomorrow to all who celebrate.
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I’ve seen faculty posting advice about personal statements for grad apps recently. I appreciate the need for more transparency and teaching hidden curriculum but beg you to change you applications to actually ask the questions you want answered instead of forcing folks to guess
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Read more about Martian meteorites
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The best advice I can give about surviving academia is to find your people and support them fiercely.
That’s it. That’s the advice.
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I live in a very Biden/Harris neighborhood but a house down the street has had a huge Trump flag and Trump yard signs up for months.
This morning they were gone.
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Anywho a big hearty fuck you to everyone who thought I was overreacting in 2016.
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Dear fathers of science- one way to support mothers of science is to actually use your paternity leave as leave.
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In case you were wondering how grading is going, I ran 13 miles today to avoid grading
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If anyone is observing our planet rn they’ve just sent an email to their collaborators.
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I’m tempted to play a game where you have to guess if a name is a moon of Saturn or a piece of ikea furniture.
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Tweeps. I just sent in my tenure stuff. Bc I’m me I wrote an acknowledgements section. You are there. ❤️
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If you have 6 consecutive hours of zoom you get to be done for the day afterwards right?
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It appears to be time to set an email auto response that just says “what are the COVID precautions for the thing you are asking me to do”
Wanting a pandemic to be over does not make it so.
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I was a good assistant professor who finished a manuscript review and edited a grad student paper on the plane so now I get to have a cocktail and binge trash TV for the rest of the flight right?
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Stop following accounts that don’t credit images
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I know this is an unpopular opinion but one of the greatest gifts you can give the ppl you mentor is healthy boundaries.
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Paper that was submitted 2.5 years ago was just accepted so if you need me I'll be a puddle of emotion on the floor of my office.
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#WeAreBaltimore
figuring out how planets work and working to make science more diverse, equitable and inclusive
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TL;DR:
Wear masks anytime you might encounter other ppl except in your own home.
Don't eat inside (or probably outside) at restaurants and bars
Takeout, mail, masked grocery shopping are prob ok
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Please stop referring to 36 yr old women as girls.
Thank you.
-Management
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@AstroKatie
One of these days I'm actually going to reply to "you don't look like a scientist" with "you don't look like an asshole. But here we are"
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One of the greatest gifts senior scientists could give to junior scientists is to actually clean out and dispose of their %$&^ when they retire. I'm sure the Austin Powers VHS I found in one of our storage rooms today was super important.
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I feel like ”my battery is low and it’s getting dark” is the most 2019 mood.
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Hi hello if you are planning an event about trying to increase diversity and are assuming all of the participants will somehow be able to self fund their travel you have already utterly failed. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
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Pssssst hey you who has been staying at home except for essential activities and wearing a mask and social distancing and not seeing all the people in your life that you love.
I’m proud AF of you.
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Dear students, I didn't finish grading your homework because sometimes things fall apart. This is also why I have a very flexible deadline policy. We're in this learning thing together. Respectfully, your exhausted professor.
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Roundoff back handsprings week two. Now sufficiently good enough to be willing to share video.
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What if we just had fewer conferences this year? Like just bc we can make them virtual doesn’t mean we have to. Folks are juggling so many things right now.
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I keep getting uncontrollably angry bc they didn’t even fucking have to figure out what to do. They had a goddamn playbook put together by some of our best and brightest experts. All they had to do was not fire them and fucking follow it. PEOPLE ALREADY FIGURED IT OUT FOR THEM
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Astronomers everywhere cheering for a star to explode. We’re a weird lot tbh
It would be bittersweet to see Betelgeuse go supernova in our lifetime - on one hand, we would have an unprecedented opportunity to study and observe one up close. On the other hand, familiar Orion would never look the same again.
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hey that's me!
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In retrospect the thing I was least emotionally prepared for about being a professor was the 24/7/365 knowledge that I for sure failed someone today. The waking up at 3 AM remembering an email that I definitely meant to respond to 5 months ago.
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*tap tap tap* Is this thing on? A new
@booplefloof
will be joining me in a few months. He’s so so so so smol now but when he’s a little bigger he’s gonna need a name. Help.
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I don't know who needs to hear this (ok I need to hear it) but it's okay to be super distracted from work when everything is falling apart *waves hands around* everywhere. It is also okay to tune out the dumpster fires when you need to. This shitshow is a marathon not a sprint.
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Her PhD is from our dept at Johns Hopkins. She was required to sit behind a screen in class so the men wouldn't get distracted...
Happy B-Day 🎂 Florence Bascom, born
#OnThisDay
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@USGS
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#WomenInScience
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Every time you see a JunoCam image you should remember the plan was to fly that spacecraft without a camera and that the camera they did fly was meant only for outreach.
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One of my favorite life hacks, learned from a classmate in grad school, is to leave the "to" in an irate email blank until you decide you sure you want to send the email to prevent accidents.
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I've been thinking about recording one of the talks I usually give to the public and just like...putting it on YouTube or something. Would y'all be interested in that?
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Attention prospective grad students- see if your potential PhD advisors are on Twitter. Read their tweets. May be useful in decision making
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Almost ready for Planetary Prom at Adler After Dark!
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Fireworks are a nice demonstration of the difference between the speed of light and speed of sound. So at least there is that.
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I’ve been sitting next to this for the last 30 min and only just realized it is not about planetary science
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Shout out to my Friday class who have collectively decided via zoom backgrounds that class is occurring on the Enterprise today.
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I want to be an astronaut and I study the outer solar system. My hopes, dreams, and livelihood depend on big cheap reliable rockets.
I also want STEM to be diverse, equitable, inclusive, and healthy.
If forced to choose, I will pick the latter. Full stop.
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One of the things I find most exhausting about academia is that at some point very early on there comes a point where the people who would move heaven and earth for you are too far away to even buy you a drink when you’ve had a crap week.
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Dear astronomers- Calling it JWST works just fine.
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Hi Boulder- I love you please stay safe.
Hi everyone else- Colorado shouldn’t be on fire in December. We’re in a climate emergency and need to do big things about it quickly.
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My therapist has approved my request to just eat fried mozzarella sticks under a blanket until April in case anyone else wants that approval I am passing it on to you.
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In the early 1980s carbon monoxide was discovered in Titan’s atmosphere. From its discovery until 2008. Chemistry models couldn’t explain why
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Happy Tuesday to people still masking in public places (and especially airplanes) and to them only.
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