Day 1 of #PSETI2025 went really well. I gave a talk about a series of projects lead by @setiinstitute.bsky.social and Breakthrough Listen scientist and had a fun time exploring communication and hazard response. Looking forward to day 2. Image: @astrowright.bsky.social kicking us off.

Can someone tell me the logic of why the hotel has the towel rack inside the shower so the dry towels get wet when the water is turned on?

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts

Join me! I'm hiring a Post Doc to work with me and my team on the VLA telescope's commensal science computer cluster. If you or someone you know has a PhD in Astrophysics, Physics, or Engineering, please pass it along. Check out the advertisement for more info. unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I discovered this comic 11 years ago, and it is still one of my favorites about research.

It's true. The wisdom of Winnie the Pooh.

Quote for today: "Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it." ~Frederick Soddy

This sounds really interesting.

Good Morning.

Can you narrow it down to a topic or genre?

Now that I am working with the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, I think I will start incorporating this image Steve took in New Zealand into my presentations. Isn't he cute? The group scout. Also, my student in Taiwan made this image showing the placement of all the antennas, and I love it.

There was a beautiful sunrise over the mountains.

Happy Friday.

#miniature #painting in progress. This is from the Judges of the Underworld collection from Mythic Battles Pantheon. #boardgames

But we DO want to seriously know if it is aliens. This is real science. That’s why my colleagues at @setiinstitute.bsky.social have been using the Allen Telescope Array to observe I3/ATLAS, searching for narrow band radio emission. We talked about it last week www.youtube.com/live/hFsPTMV...

Is I3/ATLAS an alien spaceship? Right now we don’t have any evidence it is, but let’s talk about it a bit… 🧪🔭

I went out with some colleagues to the @thenrao.bsky.social #VLA last week to replace the storage on the @setiinstitute.bsky.social #COSMIC machine. We have a fresh 1.8PB of storage on the back end. Let the science begin!! #astronomy #SETI #technosignature

This is something I feel very strongly about. It is important to listen to others, even when we don't want to.

Starting Monday with a cup of tea and some swinging in the hammock.

Good evening. A beautiful sunset in New Mexico.

TGIF

Oh, and spending the rest of the day making a single plot for a paper.

Get a PhD in astronomy, they said. It will be fun, they said. However, no one tells you that in reality, you will spend an hour trying to remove an extra arrow from a diagram without ruining everything else. 😅

I have been enjoying the week in Germany to learn more about how the #SKA project is going. Today, I talked to people about our Technosignature work we do to prepare for the new telescope. #SETI #astrobiology #technosignatures #astronomy

Did anyone see the women with the hay? Local alpacas in NM.

I have been away recovering from minor surgery. However, now I am back enjoying the time at the telescopes and viewing the Sandia Mountains. I am heading to Germany on Saturday for the #SKA science meeting. I hope to see some of you there.

Big news! My new kids book THE UFO FILES comes out this summer. It's about aliens so of course I had to dress up: kathrynhulick.substack.com/p/cover-reve... The book reads like you've discovered an investigator's notebook, full of sketches, reports & more. Illustrated by @westonweiart.bsky.social‬

My daughter's lego interferometer. It contains low-frequency dipoles and high-frequency dishes. :) (She was 6 when she made this.) #astronomy

Yesterday I had a great day at the @thenrao.bsky.social #VLA telescope installing more storage on the @setiinstitute.bsky.social #COSMIC backend. It was also great to see the ngVLA prototype antenna.

I had a fun time being interviewed by Big Picture Science for their Spotlight on SETI series, Spotlight on SETI. www.seti.org/spotlight-se... #SETI #astrobiology #VLA #chemistry

PRESS RELEASE: https://buff.ly/3CEamlu The SETI Institute announced the Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Astronomy, inviting researchers to refine and expand ML-driven pipelines for exoplanet discovery. The application deadline is March 15, 2025. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

We are performing one of the largest surveys for technosignatures in the Galaxy. Our recent paper is available on Arxiv. arxiv.org/abs/2501.17997 This was work where a significant portion was led by undergraduate students. #SETI #astronomy #supercomputing

Next week I will be presenting at #AAS245 about the @setiinstitute.bsky.social Allen Telescope array and my current HII Survey. I will be speaking in the ISM session on Thursday afternoon. I look forward to chatting with everyone.

In case you could use the reminder.

Painting some miniatures for Unmatched. In progress is the Big Foot character. #miniature #painting #boardgames

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the SETI Institute, which was incorporated as a non-profit research institution in the state of California on this day in 1984! Congratulations and here’s to the next 40 years and the extraordinary knowledge and discoveries yet to come.. 🎉 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Today, I am hunting for astrophysical masers using AIPS. It is a nice change of pace to have a dataset that is small enough to run on a small cluster through normal astronomy software. #astronomy

This week I am reading this book. I am so far enjoying the content and the way it is presented.

I really didn't need another distraction, but this is so addicting.

Primed and ready for this week's adventure in #miniature painting.

I am so excited to announce that our first paper on the new @SETIInstitute COSMIC system is now published. COSMIC is a new, modern, real-time #astronomy backend on the @TheNRAO #VLA. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

We are #3D printing a bunch of stock for the holidays. These #boardgame trays and dice towers make great gifts. www.etsy.com/shop/Tactile...

Painting #miniatures is one of the ways I unplug my brain from work. Here are some recent projects I completed. #boardgames

I had a great week in Morelia Mexico talking about ngVLA science with the long baselines. #astronomy

All molecules have unique fingerprints of emitted light. Some molecules have different forms which can present as mirror images of themselves like our hands. These are important as life on Earth has a preference; potentially with a space origin. See our new work: arxiv.org/abs/2311.17844

I am so excited to announce that our first paper on the new @SETIInstitute COSMIC system is now published. COSMIC is a new, modern, real-time #astronomy backend on the @TheNRAO #VLA. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

PRESS RELEASE: www.seti.org/press-releas... A team of SETI Institute scientists have unveiled new insights into Fast Radio Bursts. The discovery and detailed observation of the repeating FRB 20220912A, made at the Allen Telescope Array, shed light on the nature of these space signals. 🧪 🛰️ 🔭 👩‍🔬