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ASU SESE PhD student 🪐 || Exoplanets, Triton, SETI, Art 👽 || Trekkie 🖖🏻 || all opinions are my own 🤠
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I would guess that 75% of the graduate students in my department are funded entirely by federal grants. Virtually all of the postdoctoral researchers, too. If a funding pause were to come, it would be catastrophic for them (and there is no clear path to finding alternate employment quickly)

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

Every professor/academic on here needs to call their elected officials tomorrow re OBM federal funding pause. Be polite and professional and express your concern. I will be doing this.

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I’d just like to take a moment to acknowledge the best tik tok video of all time youtu.be/7ZWaWrvJ7nA?...

submitted 59 days ago • 104 comments

Played hooky and visited the Air & Space Museum!

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

I have a poster on Neptune’s moon Triton at #AGU24 on Thursday morning! Come say hi, or let me know if you’re around this week!

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IDIC sun-catcher! 🖖

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At Connecticut College, I was an “Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology” scholar. Here’s what I did for my senior thesis project! I learned to create stained glass windows and decided to depict some of the technology, people, and science of SETI. 👽 Each panel is ~2ft tall.

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Last weekend, Earth’s most famous technosignature — known as the Arecibo message — celebrated its 50th birthday. In a story for SciAm, I had the chance to explore the transmission's significance, both then and now. I couldn't have done it on my own, so here's a bit of how it came to be...🧵

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