All right. It's time. Coming Monday, April 6 - which is also my 51st birthday - I will be releasing the first episode of my new podcast, Planetary Pandemonium. It will be a short interview with myself! So go follow me on Patreon (for free) for the notification. 🧪👩‍🔬🐈‍⬛ Stay curious, everyone!

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Yeah, I’m awake now. That was wild. Biggest quake I’ve felt in years.

From all of us at the SETI Institute, we wish godspeed to Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy for the safe and successful completion of the #ArtemisII mission. This is a profound moment not only for NASA but for all of humanity, and our thoughts are with you. Congratulations on a successful launch!

Karman line reached!

"Humanity's next great voyage begins." Godspeed, Artemis II.

Oh. Oh. I am tearing up. I thought I was immune, but I was wrong. We are go for launch.

I didn't know I needed this... but I did, and now I have it.

My Yahoo email address is about 30 years old. I'm still friends with people I met on IRC in 1993. I have strong feelings about pine v elm and vi v emacs.

In a recent SETI Live conversation, @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Karen Perez, lead author of a new study reporting the possible discovery of a pulsar candidate near the Galactic Center. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/lost-pu...

Tagging all my space peeps, new theme song for y'all! @astrokatie.com @roguenasa.altgov.info @longhairnasaguy.bsky.social @spacejammie.bsky.social @planetarypan.bsky.social youtu.be/mNLzeeTiYd8?...

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I cannot work like this… 🐈

Hi, y'all! I'm finally ready to announce... my new podcast, Planetary Pandemonium, is coming soon. We'll meet at the intersection of space science and science fiction. There will be cats. Check out my Patreon for more info! 🧪 👩‍🔬 🐈‍⬛ www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...

Oh, hey, that's me! People keep asking me about SETI@home, and today, I will have some answers. But #notaliens. Yet. Come watch and bring your questions!

Proud to be the 24th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Felis Celestis! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... Seriously. Cats. Space. @chopshopstore.bsky.social were you in my brain???

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!

Relatable Corvid

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...

Oh, hey, that's me!

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. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬