@ltilke.bsky.social
ASU SESE PhD student 🪐 || Moons, Planets, SETI, Art 👽 || Trekkie 🖖🏻 || all opinions are my own 🤠
pov submitting an LPSC abstract this year
07.01.2026 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Their rule that no one asked them to make? The one that they made up out of nothing? That they could change with no negative consequences? How could they change it? 🙃
06.01.2026 22:56 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪
17.04.2025 03:24 — 👍 871 🔁 342 💬 27 📌 123I 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)
24.01.2025 22:27 — 👍 173 🔁 50 💬 4 📌 2Every 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.
28.01.2025 03:29 — 👍 295 🔁 69 💬 7 📌 6
I’d just like to take a moment to acknowledge the best tik tok video of all time youtu.be/7ZWaWrvJ7nA?...
19.01.2025 22:54 — 👍 2484 🔁 585 💬 101 📌 64
Played hooky and visited the Air & Space Museum!
13.12.2024 22:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Tomorrow morning!
12.12.2024 02:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
09.12.2024 16:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
IDIC sun-catcher! 🖖
21.11.2024 08:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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...🧵
