For the 1st time in 4 billion years, life has escaped its home planet! Join NASA Ames astrobiologist @calebscharf.bsky.social as we venture into the void to see how space exploration is reshaping our next great leap. 🗓️ 11/6 | 6:30 PM EST 📍 Carnegie Science, NW DC & Online 🎟️ RSVP → bit.ly/4qxBBT7

Good morning America! Today is the paperback publication day of my #StarTrekSNW novel Asylum! It's such a belter they gave it an award. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #UnaByUna www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...

#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Well, to make a long story short—“ “—It’s too late for that.”

“The same principles that allow us to hunt for alien Earths also allow us to comprehend the biosphere as a planetary phenomenon.” An essay of epic proportions by @miquai.bsky.social for @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/what-searchi...

Potentially contentious idea: space exploration is less about ignoring Earthly problems and more about giving ourselves a chance to do better...

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“any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature.” My heart and mind leans absolutely to the same conclusions. A great article that I wish all Human Earthlings could have the opportunity to read and understand 💚 Thanks @miquai.bsky.social.

This tree is a fall icon 😍

“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.” — @miquai.bsky.social

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Today's talk from the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium is Nick Lane on Life as a Guide to Its Own Origins, with commentary by Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHL_...

#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I need to take a nap for, like, a year.”

Looking forward to it!

Thank you to the 500+ guests who joined us for a day of discovery at our first-ever #EPLOpenHouse. It was a blast—literally! 🌋 Your curiosity made the day shine, and we can’t wait to do it again next year! Until then, check out our upcoming events: 👉 https://bit.ly/43vMivk

Hey, DC area! Come hear NASA astrobiologist @calebscharf.bsky.social talk about his new book "The Giant Leap: Why Space is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life" at @carnegiescience.bsky.social on November 6! You might even take home your very own copy of the book!

Chemical gardens!

New podcast episode! 🌱🎙🖖 Prof. Jason Kaufman beams aboard to chat about a trio of papers he wrote exploring the themes of human space exploration, sustainable futures, and our relationships to nature.

#OverheardOnZoom: "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate, so try to avoid making them."

Live view of me writing my next faculty app, basically 🤣

@calebscharf.bsky.social’s last book, “The Ascent of Information,” literally changed my career trajectory. I can’t wait to find out where “The Giant Leap” will take me 🚀

My amazing sister edited this new memoir by Jenn M. Choi called "Enough to Rise: A Journey of Reclaiming Self-Worth & Breaking the Cycle of Generational Trauma." Check it out!

It's my birthday! If you feel like making my day, you can preorder my new book, Time's Second Arrow! Or just help me spread the word about it! Thank you 💛

Publication day!! 🎉🚀

#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I can't believe you're making me draw circles again."

Hey, DC area! Come journey across the solar system with us at the @carnegiescience.bsky.social Earth & Planets Laboratory Open House this Saturday from 1–4 pm! We've got fun science to share for all ages!

New podcast episode! 🚀🎙🖖 Star Trek actor @robertpicardo.bsky.social beams aboard to talk about his recent trip to D.C. to participate in the @planetarysociety.bsky.social's Day of Action.

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#NoKings in Washington, DC

To me, @carnegiescience.bsky.social has always represented opportunity: it gave me my first taste of research as an undergrad intern and new life as a postdoc trying to find his place in the field.

Excited to share our new paper on Foundation Models for Astrobiology - this was the result of an extraordinary team and workshop laying the groundwork for the future of the search for life #Astrobiology #AI arxiv.org/abs/2510.08636

“If we listen very hard, can we hear the soaring sunlit chords of photosynthesis, the countermelody of decay?” —Robin Wall Kimmerer

#OverheardOnZoom: "Turns out, I just interrupted a KPop Demon Hunters dance party."

#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Isotopes don't lie!!!"

Covid is not "over." People are still testing positive. Get your boosters if you can!

Guess which senator’s office 🧑🏻‍🚀

My third trip to congressional offices to advocate for federal science funding, and my first with a direct scientific colleague of mine: Dr. Ryan Felton! It was an honor to remind legislators why NASA is important to local districts, the country, and the world 💫

“Please state the nature of the government emergency.” So cool to be on the Hill today with @planetarysociety.bsky.social board member and Star Trek actor @robertpicardo.bsky.social sharing how NASA embodies our values of scientific curiosity, peaceful exploration, and international cooperation 🖖🏼

New podcast episode! 👽🎙🖖 I read my @noemamag.com essay "What Searching For Aliens Reveals About Ourselves" and share a little bit about its origins.

#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Life speculates to accumulate.”

“There is no longer a path for someone to come work at NASA when they grow up.” 😢

The winner will receive a $250 prize! 💸 The deadline to submit your digital creatures to the Virtual Creatures Competition at ALIFE 2025 is today, Oct 01, 2025! 📷 sites.google.com/view/vcc-202... Visit the homepage of VCC 2025!

#OverheardOnZoom: "If there is a shutdown, at least we'll get the whole day off to listen to Taylor Swift's new album."

Thanks to Jack Szostak, Andy Knoll, and Karen Lloyd for their kind words! 🥹

#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Someone could lose twenty pounds if they ran in my brain for an hour.”

Advance reading copies have arrived! 📚

High school me would have FREAKED OUT

New podcast episode! 💚🎙🖖 I beam aboard @dslovepod.bsky.social—a podcast that explores love, in all its forms, throughout the final frontier—to discuss the relationship between D'Vanna Tendi and Samanthan Rutherford on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

It’s spooky season again ☠️

Be part of history! On Oct. 5–6, join 250+ space enthusiasts and 12+ partner organizations in Washington, D.C. as we advocate for NASA Science directly to Congress. The Day of Action is your chance to stand up for the future of space. ⏳ Registration closes Sept. 30: www.planetary.org/advocacy/day...