#notjustaliens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #notjustaliens, aggregated by home.social.
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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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Dr. Mia Mace’s scientific research interests lie in numerical modeling of planetary ring systems, and her doctoral work focused on developing code to simulate and analyze the dynamics of charged dust grains in Saturn’s rings in response to questions about ring rain and spokes.
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Emilie Simpson is an early-career scientist with a research background in exoplanetary science and planetary habitability. Her master’s work primarily involved using TESS data products to study the behavior of variable host stars and how that behavior could affect their exoplanets.
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Dr. Pablo Sobron is a Research Scientist at the SETI Institute, the Founder and CEO of Impossible Sensing, and a world expert in spectroscopy. He has invented sensors to explore the solar system and the deep sea, and has commercialized spin-off solutions in the energy, agriculture, and critical minerals markets.
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Dr. Kai Yang is a solar physics researcher focused on the Sun's dynamic activity. His work investigates the mechanisms of coronal heating, the complex magnetic topology that structures the corona, and the instabilities that trigger solar and stellar flares.
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Dr. Isabel Angelo earned her doctorate in 2025 from UCLA where she worked at the intersection of machine learning, physical models, and statistical methods to search for planets, binary stars, and anomalies in datasets including Kepler and Gaia.
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Coral Clark has over 30 years of experience in education, including 10 years of classroom science instruction and 25 years in teacher professional development. She has contributed to science curricula at the SETI Institute, including the integrated science curriculum, Voyages Through Time.
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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.
Currently, Dr. Bott is investigating the observability of terrestrial exoplanets in polarized light with contemporary and near-future telescopes and how the method might be used to map those worlds.
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Dr. Ross Beyer studies planetary surfaces, working on ways to quantitatively analyze the meter-scale topography and surface roughness via remote sensing. This work has been used to help plan landing sites on Mars and the Moon.
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Dr. Kayla Iacovino 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.
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Dr. Andrew Lincowski works with Dr. Victoria Meadows on simulating and characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. He is the current developer of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory 1D climate model (initially developed by Dr. David Crisp and Prof. Tyler Robinson).
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Dr. Kai Yang is a solar physics researcher focused on the Sun's dynamic activity. His work investigates the mechanisms of coronal heating, the complex magnetic topology that structures the corona, and the instabilities that trigger solar and stellar flares.
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Dr. Lauren Sgro is a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on exoplanet research, working with citizen scientists to observe exoplanet transits through the Unistellar Network.
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Dr. Isabel Angelo earned her doctorate in 2025 from UCLA where she worked at the intersection of machine learning, physical models, and statistical methods to search for planets, binary stars, and anomalies in datasets including Kepler and Gaia.
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Dr. Victoria Meadows leads the massively interdisciplinary NASA Virtual Planetary Laboratory, which she started in 2001 with the goal of developing a scientific foundation for the search for habitability and life beyond the Solar System.
#Astrobiology #Exoplanets #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
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Dr. Ross Beyer studies planetary surfaces, working on ways to quantitatively analyze the meter-scale topography and surface roughness via remote sensing. This work has been used to help plan landing sites on Mars and the Moon.
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Dr. Karen I. Perez joined the Berkeley SETI Research Center REU program in 2019 under the mentorship of Dr. Vishal Gajjar, where she helped test pulsar search pipelines and develop the observing strategy for the Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey to search for both astrophysical signals and technosignatures. This work earned her the 2020 SETI Forward Award.
#Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens
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Dr. Souvik Bose focuses on unravelling the dynamics of the solar atmosphere with coordinated high-resolution ground- and space-based observations, using instruments on NASA’s IRIS, SDO and NASA-JAXA’s Hinode missions, among others.
Dr. Bose also works on computing synthetic observations from high-resolution MHD simulation snapshots using a variety of radiative transfer codes. He is involved in the data modeling and development of the upcoming MUSE mission.
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Dr. Andrew Lincowski works with Dr. Victoria Meadows on simulating and characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. He is the current developer of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory 1D climate model (initially developed by Dr. David Crisp and Prof. Tyler Robinson).
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Dr. Navdeep Panesar received her Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen,
Germany. She is currently a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and
Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) and the SETI Institute.Dr. Panesar’s research focuses on using multi-instrument solar observations to
investigate the formation and eruption mechanisms of different types of solar
coronal jets and minifilaments. She also studies the magnetic field evolution at
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Dr. Lauren Sgro is a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on exoplanet research, working with citizen scientists to observe exoplanet transits through the Unistellar Network.
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Dr. Marziye Jafariyazani is a Data Scientist for NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) Mission at the SETI Institute, where she is part of the Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) for the TESS mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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Dr. Victoria Meadows leads the massively interdisciplinary NASA Virtual Planetary Laboratory, which she started in 2001 with the goal of developing a scientific foundation for the search for habitability and life beyond the Solar System.
#Astrobiology #Exoplanets #Space #Science #SETI #NotJustAliens
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Dr. Rachel Morgan is an Optical Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. She completed her undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering and Physics at MIT. She then continued her studies at MIT for graduate school as a NASA Space Technology and Research Fellow and an Amelia Earhart Fellow.
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Dr. Karen I. Perez joined the Berkeley SETI Research Center REU program in 2019 under the mentorship of Dr. Vishal Gajjar, where she helped test pulsar search pipelines and develop the observing strategy for the Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey to search for both astrophysical signals and technosignatures. This work earned her the 2020 SETI Forward Award.
#Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens
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Dr. Souvik Bose focuses on unravelling the dynamics of the solar atmosphere with coordinated high-resolution ground- and space-based observations, using instruments on NASA’s IRIS, SDO and NASA-JAXA’s Hinode missions, among others.
Dr. Bose also works on computing synthetic observations from high-resolution MHD simulation snapshots using a variety of radiative transfer codes. He is involved in the data modeling and development of the upcoming MUSE mission.
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Dr. Shania Nichols is a physicist with a background in gravitational wave detector characterization and astronomy. She graduated with her PhD in Physics from Louisiana State University in 2024 and is currently a NANOGrav Physics Frontier Center Postdoctoral Researcher.
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Dr. Navdeep Panesar received her Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, Germany. She is currently a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) and the SETI Institute.
Dr. Panesar’s research focuses on using multi-instrument solar observations to investigate the formation and eruption mechanisms of different types of solar coronal jets and minifilaments. She also studies the magnetic field evolution at the base of these features.
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Dr. Agata Zupanska brings a biologist’s perspective to the quest for understanding life. She tests the limits of terrestrial plant life and works on preparing plants for deep space human missions, all with a goal to advance deep space exploration.
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Dr. Marziye Jafariyazani is a Data Scientist for NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) Mission at the SETI Institute, where she is part of the Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) for the TESS mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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Dr. Chenoa Tremblay is a project scientist at the SETI Institute with joint appointments at Breakthrough Initiatives, the University of New Mexico, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
#Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens
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Dr. Chenoa Tremblay is a project scientist at the SETI Institute with joint appointments at Breakthrough Initiatives, the University of New Mexico, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
#Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens
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Dr. Steve Croft is a radio astronomer working on the Breakthrough Listen technosignature search project with UC Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC), where he leads Listen's observational program on the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope.
#Astrobiology #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens #SometimesAliens
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Dr. Steve Croft is a radio astronomer working on the Breakthrough Listen technosignature search project with UC Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC), where he leads Listen's observational program on the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope.
At the SETI Institute, Dr. Croft is involved in SETI research with the Allen Telescope Array, making the array accessible to outside experts as part of the open-source GNU Radio project.
Yes, we do research #sometimesaliens, too.
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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. She now works with the Ring-Moon Systems (RMS) Node of the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS), helping manage data from NASA's planetary missions to the outer solar system.
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As we close out this second round of #notjustaliens, we acknowledge that the work we do is #sometimesaliens. To that end, meet Dr. Ann Marie Cody, who searches for theoretical megastructures by analyzing data from NASA’s TESS space-based telescope.
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We've introduced several of our #notjustaliens scientists in the last few weeks, but of course, we would be remiss to leave out the people who DO participate in SETI research.
Dr. Wael Farah is a radio astronomer interested in studying the universe on short timescales. Wael is also interested in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, where he searches for signals that defy natural origins, such as narrowband emissions.