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The SETI Institute's research is #notjustaliens. Meet Dr. Uma Gorti, who joined the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center in 2008 as a Principal Investigator and is mainly interested in star and planet formation. 🧪 👩‍🔬
February 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Dr. Janice Bishop is a chemist and planetary scientist who explores Mars and other planetary bodies using spectroscopy and geochemistry. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
March 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Planetary scientist Dr. Lori Fenton joined the SETI Institute in 2006 and was awarded NASA's Carl Sagan Fellowship for Early Career Researchers that same year. 🧪 👩‍🔬
March 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Jeffrey Smith began his academic passion in the field of Accelerator Physics, building a cyclotron - a small particle accelerator - as an undergraduate. 🧪 🔭
March 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Once again, we highlight the work of #scientists who are studying #notjustaliens in our quest to understand our universe, including the Moon!

Dr. Megan Seritan studied lunar paleomagnetism at UC Santa Cruz, focusing on lunar swirls. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
February 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We highlight the work of scientists studying #notjustaliens in our quest to understand life in the universe. Dr. Rosalba Bonaccorsi has expanded her work by developing analytical protocols for real-time in-situ life detection in planetary-like materials and extreme environments worldwide. 🧪 👩‍🔬
February 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Dr. Szilárd Gyalay creates geophysical models to deduce the history of planetary interiors and surfaces using spacecraft data. His work involves finding subsurface oceans on Saturn's icy moons and modeling the thermal evolution of porous Martian crust layers. 🧪 🔭
June 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Dr. Barbara Lafuente specializes in the architecture and management of scientific databases, focusing on mineralogy and astrobiology. 🧪 👩‍🔬
June 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Dr. Richard Freedman is an astrophysicist who works on astronomical and laboratory spectroscopy, including creating model spectra for brown dwarfs and exoplanets. 🧪
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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@dacmess.bsky.social is an expert on one of the most successful schemes for finding small worlds far beyond our solar system: looking for the slight dimming of a star caused when a planet crosses between it and us. 🧪 🔭
February 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University, where her research focused on the impacts of the last deglaciation on the Black and Marmara Seas. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
June 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Heliophysicist and science communicator Dr. Becca Robinson is a “curious and driven researcher” who has worked on projects worldwide, from drilling ice cores on Icelandic glaciers to analyzing solar magnetohydrodynamics simulations. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
May 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Dr. Pascal Lee’s research focuses on the history of water on Mars and on planning the future human exploration of Mars.

Dr. Lee has led over 30 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica to study Mars by comparison with the Earth. He also studies the Moon and the two moons of Mars. 🧪
July 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Dr. Alessandra Ricca is a computational chemist with over 25 years of experience in modeling organic compounds' formation, reactivity, spectroscopy, and optical properties in the gas phase and in ice. 🧪 👩‍🔬
July 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Data scientist Dr. Joe Twicken’s background is in signal processing, and his research interests lie in astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science. 🧪
May 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It is my turn this week.

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@michael-w-busch.bsky.social primarily studies near-Earth asteroids, using radio and radar techniques, with particular interests in the shapes, spin states, internal structures, and histories of individual objects - especially spacecraft mission targets and potential Earth impactors. 🧪 🔭
June 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Dr. Dale Andersen’s research interests are the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe. He has been involved with NASA’s Exobiology and Astrobiology programs since the mid-1980s. 🧪
June 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Dr. Kimberly Bott received her PhD from the University of New South Wales, working on exoplanet polarimetry (observation and computational modeling). Subsequently, she held postdoc positions at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory and UC Riverside. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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February 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Heliophysicist and science communicator Dr. Becca Robinson is a “curious and driven researcher” who has worked on projects worldwide, from drilling ice cores on Icelandic glaciers to analyzing solar MHD simulations. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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September 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Dr. Hannah Dawson earned her dual-title PhD in Oceanography and Astrobiology from the University of Washington. She studied the adaptations that allow life to survive in one of Earth's most extreme environments: sea ice. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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May 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Dr. Madelyne Willis is a microbial ecologist with extensive field experience, including multiple deployments to the Arctic and Antarctic. Her research has focused on identifying metabolic activity in bacterial cells in glacial ice and other cold environments. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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May 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Dr. @kaylaiacovino.com studies how life-essential elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur drive magmatic processes that help form atmospheres, maintain climate, and create chemical disequilibria that life can exploit. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#Volcanology #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Dr. @kaylaiacovino.com studies how life-essential elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur drive magmatic processes that help form atmospheres, maintain climate, and create chemical disequilibria that life can exploit. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

#Volcanology #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
May 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Dr. Kimberly Bott received her PhD from the University of New South Wales, working on exoplanet polarimetry (observation and computational modeling). Subsequently, she held postdoc positions at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory and UC Riverside. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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June 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Dr. Milan Gošić is a solar physicist who has been working on the spatio-temporal evolution of the solar magnetic fields using multi-instrument, multiwavelength observations. His field of expertise is space and ground solar observations, data processing, and data analysis. 🧪 🔭

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May 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM