Steve Croft
@drcroft
UC Berkeley astronomy researcher, education advocate, political junkie, gumbo enthusiast
Join BSRC's @drcroft in Berkeley on September 26!
September 26th in Berkeley! Details and tickets at profsandpints.ticketleap.com/outthere/
Searching for extraterrestrial life — by keeping an eye on exploding stars. Featuring work by @Yale undergrad / @brkthroughprize Listen intern Andy Nilipour, in collaboration with @UW 's @jradavenport (and art by @DanielleFuts ) news.yale.edu/2023/07/31/sea…
I'll be talking about the search for life beyond Earth on June 18 at @factionbrewing in Alameda. Tickets at ticketleap.events/tickets/profsa…
We're excited to partner with @ASTRON_NL @OfficialUoM and @brkthroughprize @OxfordPhysics on this exciting new sky monitor for transients and technosignatures: astron.nl/all-sky-all-th…
Undergrads: paid internships available this summer! youtu.be/lhor016cIiY seti.berkeley.edu/Internship.html
Applications for summer 2025 undergraduate research internships to work on @brkthroughprize Listen at @UCBerkeley @uniofgalway @LOFARIreland and @mediainaf Sardinia Radio Telescope are now open. seti.berkeley.edu/Internship.html
Inside the 'golden age' of alien hunting at the #GreenBankTelescope phys.org/news/2024-09-g…
.@brkthroughprize Listen’s @drcroft reflects on what’s coming soon in technosignature research
‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life theguardian.com/science/articl…
Here's a video of a recent public talk I gave about how we're searching for life beyond Earth: youtu.be/pP5wLPreleo
Featuring work by Carmen Choza, an alum of the @brkthroughprize Listen internship program, now an assistant researcher at the @SETIInstitute
The mathematically perfect exoplanet system — a perfect place to search for alien tech trib.al/0u9HDjQ
Somewhat surprised to find myself quoted in The Observer in an article about UFOs theguardian.com/science/2024/j…
A new paper by @UofT / @brkthroughprize Listen undergraduate intern @peterma02 (with @drcroft @chrislintott & Andrew Siemion) presents a new technique for investigating candidate SETI signals akin to "reverse image search" algorithms used by search engines academic.oup.com/rasti/article/…
Might megastructures or lasers modify signatures of planets passing between us and their stars? Anna Zuckerman, previously an undergraduate researcher with @brkthroughprize Listen (now a @CUBoulder grad student) looks for weird transits in her new paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…
Great work led by my students Carmen Choza and Daniel Bautista
Search of @GreenBankObserv data by @brkthroughprize Listen researcher Carmen Choza places strongest constraints to date on powerful intergalactic transmitters. See the press release from @OxfordPhysics physics.ox.ac.uk/news/most-sens…
ET phone Dublin? Scientists from @TCD_physics, Breakthrough Listen, and @OnsalaRymd are scanning the Universe for “technosignatures” from distant planets that would provide support for the existence of intelligent, #alien life. Read more at: tcd.ie/news_events/ar…
PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/45Gnsaf In a new study published in the Astronomical Journal, researchers used the known population of exoplanets and extrapolated to the larger, unknown population of exoplanets to set better thresholds for planetary effects on signals from ETIs.
We're delighted about the next phase for Breakthrough Listen as we enter into a new partnership with @UniofOxford @OxfordPhysics ox.ac.uk/news/2023-10-1…
Could AI find alien life faster than humans, and would it tell us? trib.al/DLSYeHt
BSRC's @drcroft, writing for @SuperclusterHQ, reports how @brkthroughprize Listen is carrying out the most comprehensive SETI search to date by building on the heritage of previous efforts supercluster.com/editorial/seti…
I'm excited to be a guest speaker on the epic @LindbladExp @NatGeo "Journey Across the Remote Pacific" in October. See the link for some special offers, and you can save an additional $1000 with code "telescope" 🔭 expeditions.com/en-US/expediti…
