Next #SETILive: TODAY, 8 January, 2:30 PST 2026 brings a dense lineup of space science milestones: crewed lunar missions, new observatories, planetary exploration, and data releases that will shape the next decade. Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and @allplanets.bsky.social to connect the dots! 🧪 🔭

I always enjoy chatting with Cynthia, and this interview was no different. Amazing how scientists and engineers quickly repurposed existing spacecraft to observe comet 3I/ATLAS, including Europa Clipper!

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This place may not be open to the public or even finished, but the building and location are both beautiful. I am excited for the tour! And dinner, of course. 🧪🔭👩‍🔬 #aas247

Hi, y’all. I won’t be at #aas247 today due to a severe asthma attack. I’m fine but shaky from the treatment. I’ll be at the Dark Sky Discovery Center tour tonight tho. If you’re coming, let me know so I can say hello! 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

My cats are adorable.

It’s that time of year, and for the first time in over a decade, I am in person at #AAS247! Excited to be here. Want me to check out your work? Let me know. I’m looking forward stories and podcast guests. 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

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Tonight’s pointless debate between the men in my life… Is the Flash’s ring suit compressed or shrunken? @gailsimone.bsky.social got an opinion?

It's always fun to chat with Franck, no matter the topic, but I am now incredibly excited for his latest project.

An excellent thread on structural bullshit in academia, how to avoid mental traps, and encouragement to people from marginalized backgrounds. The system isn’t fair, but it can be gamed and it’s designed to intimidate people into failing. Don’t let them fool you.

I was wondering. Such an odd alert and then no actual quake shown on the map. Thanks for the clarification!

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Samples of Bennu, a primitive asteroid orbiting near Earth, contain some surprising ingredients: natural sugars, gummy polymers, and specks of stardust that are even older than our solar system. There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...

In case anyone is wondering what to get me as a gift... (but not the hair stuff. I don't have enough hair anymore.) Or, you know, you want to support a friend who makes gorgeous pieces of space art, both functional and for display.

Oh, look... the podcast topics are just piling up!

What now? Oh, this is super cool. What do you think, peeps? Podcast topic for my new show? I think so.

On our latest #SETILive #podcast, @planetarypan.bsky.social asked Dr. Eric Boyd to explain what it means when he says a microbe breathes in two ways. Listen to the full episode at feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 👩‍🔬

In a recent SETI Live episode, @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral researcher Dr. Artem Aguichine about his work modeling the interiors and atmospheres of steam worlds, a class of water-rich exoplanets wrapped in thick, high-temperature water vapor. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Wow. The Universe is definitely nudging me to change things up... first with stuff at work, and now with @philplait.bsky.social giving advice in today's BAN. So have a teaser: New projects are coming soon. Want to support me in the process? Buy my cats food at my KoFi: ko-fi.com/planetarypan 🧪👩‍🔬

#ICYMI: On #SETILive, @planetarypan.bsky.social chatted with Dr. Georgina Miles and Dr. Carly Howett about the discovery that the subsurface ocean beneath the surface of Saturn's icy moon #Enceladus has been stable... but what does that mean for the possibility of life? It's all about time! 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Oh, hey, that's me! And I do so love talking about Enceladus, so please come join the fun!

#ICYMI: On our latest #SETILive, @planetarypan.bsky.social discovered that steam worlds transitioned from theoretical to confirmed in an interview with Dr. Artem Aguichine (UCSC). Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/nBpyGdX... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Next #SETILive: Where Water Boils the Sky TODAY, 13 November, 2:30 pm PST Today, @planetarypan.bsky.social talks with Artem Aguichine (UCSC) about his new research modeling the interiors and atmospheres of steam worlds—a class of water-rich sub-Neptunes that could dominate our galaxy. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

SETI Institute communications specialist @planetarypan.bsky.social welcomed @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, released October 28, 2025. 🧪 👩‍🔬 📖

This post is not my usual science post. I have waited 11 years to share this poem. My sister, Lori, passed away on 11/11/14. Eleven was her favorite number, so it seemed appropriate to share today what I wrote following her death. medium.com/p/dear-siste...

I am not a microbiologist, nor do I play one online, so this should be educational for everyone!

More moons with oceans! Super excited for this chat...

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In a recent episode of SETI Live, host @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with Dr. Sam Courville, postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University and lead author of a new Science Advances paper on the potential past habitability of Ceres.

Dear EVERYONE... A-ha is NOT a one-hit wonder by any measurement. This is a hill I will die on. It's a pointless hill, but I will die on it. FFS, go listen to "The Sun Always Shines on TV". It reached #20 in the US.

Next #SETILive: Hidden Habitability on Ceres Thursday, 2 October 2025, 2:30 pm PDT Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and Dr. Sam Courville as they dive into the possibility that the dwarf planet Ceres could have been more habitable than ever imagined. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/meM0tnH

What is even UP with this NFL weekend? This has been the wildest witching hour I've seen in a long time.

HOT. MOLTEN. EXOPLANETS. Next #SETILive: Worlds of Fire TODAY, 11 September, 2:30 pm PDT Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré (York University) as they dive into new research on molten rocky exoplanets—worlds so hot that their surfaces are oceans of magma. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

This is why I had to shift my walk to feed all the cats about a half hour earlier. Stupid axial tilt.

On a recent episode of SETI Live, @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with astrobiologist Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Their conversation examined a central question in astrobiology: how can researchers distinguish true biosignatures from abiotic processes that only appear lifelike? 🧪 👩‍🔬

Who needs sleep when you have Ali Hazelwood’s latest? Certainly not this woman ⬅️⬅️⬅️ 📖 #booksky

Hey, y'all. I don't usually post these kinds of things, but my friend suddenly lost her mom yesterday. She's at a loss for handling things and could use some financial support to cover costs. If you can, will you please throw a couple of bucks her way? Thank you! gofund.me/d3e954fa

I freaking LOVE these videos. Thank you, Wendy!

Crescent City having a forecast of 3-6 ft while further up/down the coast having a < 1 ft forecast is also one of these places where focusing makes a bigger local tsunami

⚒️🧪 Aftershocks happen when nearby sections of fault react to an earthquake. The biggest ones can get to about a magnitude unit smaller than the main quake. Kamchatka could have a M7.5 aftershock and that would be completely within the realm of expectation for a huge event like this.

Full video of the tsunami in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russia, following the 8.7 earthquake. Wave seems incoming and a few meters at least.

If you were in the vicinity of the #earthquake and are currently safe, please take a moment to report your experience for science. You can also report later once your world isn't (literally) upside down. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

PEOPLE. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE HAPPENS? STOP. DROP. HOLD ON. Don't go outside. Don't film everything falling around you. Get under a table or desk and hang on. Cover your neck and head as best you can. Put on shoes if there is broken stuff around.

Hawaii's situation has been updated. Full text: www.tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/... "A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY." Expected arrival time: 0717 PM HST TUE 29 JUL

Tsunami watch (lowest rating) now in effect for BC coast and other areas. Higher ratings in Alaska. Don’t play by the water, friends in BC, WA, OR, CA, or AK! www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Normally, I share the earthquake itself, but since the region nearest the epicenter is "lightly populated", I want everyone to be aware of the tsunami possibilities. So if you are in a coastal area around the Pacific or Indian Oceans, please follow local instructions. 🧪

People find things and they speak to me... I'm kind of a crow like that. Enjoy!

Next #SETILive: A Vaporizing Planet TODAY, Jul 17, 2025 | 3:30 PM PDT Join @planetarypan.bsky.social for a live interview with @mtyhon.bsky.social, lead author of a new study revealing a small, rocky world that's literally disintegrating as it orbits its star. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/j1VqmMV