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Seven Machina Rasmussen

@toomanyspectra.bsky.social
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humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 SFF author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️‍🌈 instructor @ Columbia ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS now availabile wherever books are sold 👀 sevenrasmussen.com

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
✨ coming to Spotify/Apple/+ October 5! 🌎 open.spotify.com/show/5UdzJ90...
title card for shaping science with nick dirks
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ok now the M train has become a J train terminating at a non-J-train station
what the hell sure lady
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new publicity photos for a new era ⭐️ 📸 Gabi Coronel 📍 @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
me in a criterion closet type vibe bookstore cornerme holding my own booka full body shota wider shot
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the rabbit actually belongs to the man holding a macbook on his lap, who later exited the train holding both without a bag for the laptop
aforementioned rabbit
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
forgot my book AND my headphones this morning on my commute now it’s just me in my mind palace
spongebob at the bus stop in rock bottom
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
vietnam era jump boots for $12 at the thrift today 😎
worn black combat bootsbottom of boot with nails in the soleme wearing the boots
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
when you ask me to commute from bushwick to long island city to teach physics this is who you’re asking btw
sad sleepy cat in bed
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
for only $5.99 you can see the face of god in your local bodega
100 mg thc soda
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
enter choir of angels
a very sloppy a saucy burger
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
how it feels to wear loud heels:
achewood comic panel of philippe wearing shoes that says here comes a special boy with every step
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the 7th edition! and the FOURTH appearance of East of Eden on the train 🤯
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
Ulysses - James Joyce
Theo the Golden - Allen Levi
Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki
Murakami
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book — Denys
Watkins-Pitchford
The Deer Park - Norman Mailer
Trauma - Michael Palmer
A Dance with Dragons - George RR Martin
One Piece — Eiichiro Oda
Deep Cuts — Holly Brickley
Macbeth - Shakespeare
The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett Divide And Conquer - Carrie Ryan
A Court of Thorns and Roses — Sarah J Maas
Baby Love - Rebecca Walker
The House of Cross - James Patterson
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman
Salt - Mark Kurlansky
A Storm of Swords — George RR Martin
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
All Carry — Gene Wojciechowski
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
happy pon farr day to all who celebrate 🖖
my kirk spock tattoo
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
12 hours of blender-wrangling later… halo vs disk star kinematics 🥳✨🌌
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
no free feet pics but I just snagged some insanely cunty heels at the thrift today
black heels with a clear heel with a blunt inside
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
always a good day to not work ✨
me on a blanket in the park
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
my #DragonCon2026 video montage: feat Tasha Yar body pillow, squid dancing with Dr. Frank N Furter, and far too many Waluigis to count
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
love this @newscientist.com shout-out! ✨🪐🛸 www.newscientist.com/article/2587...
Cloudy with a Chance of Starships by Seven Rasmussen
It is billed as "an entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence", and the first part of the title certainly raises a laugh - Cloudy with a Chance of Starships: How the Drake equation reveals the odds of life in the cosmos.
The author Seven Rasmussen is an astrobiologist, so should know how to take the readers off on what is probably a rather irreverent trip round an equation that has become important to many within and around the scientific community: after all, who doesn't want to know how likely ET really is?
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
that’s all folks!! every copy sold! thank you dragoncon!
my author copy of my book with sticky notes that say sold out
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“there’s earth-like planets in the trappist-1 system”
elizabeth holmes from the nathan fields documentary
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
some other cosplays i have enjoyed
a woman posing in a painting link from zelda but he’s linkedin crash bandicoot spock superman
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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me and a seven of nine cosplayer
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
TRAGIC: jaunty seahorse DESTROYED by low doorframe
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“captain, I have observed a fascinating mechanical assemblage”
me dressed as Spock pointing a b b 8 droid from star wars
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I WILL ALWAYS PASS FUJO INSPECTION
tattoo of kirk and spock kissing
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
passed the fujOSHA check with flying colors
me with women in pink hard hats labeled Fuj OSHA
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
can’t believe no one recognizes my mid-tier meme cosplay
blonde woman sees book on ground 

woman picks it up off ground (she is brunette now)i pick my own book up off the ground i am looking at my own book like the second woman in the meme
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
hittin the classic poses at @barnesandnoble.com with @goastromo.bsky.social last night (yes we matched our outfits to each other’s book)
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
back to teaching this week
xkcd comic remake

the number 1 educator excuse for not having a lecture prepared 

discovery based learning 

hey! get back to work! 

discovery based learning 

oh. carry on
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
reporting LIVE to you from the Mamdani Look-alike Contest:
this mamdani is wearing a knicks jersey under his suit this guy actually looks like mamdani this one has a bike helmet this one is the cutest
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
[ citation needed ]
my new wikipedia citation needed tattoo on my forearm and my wikipedia hat
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
in addition to giving a fun talk at the Spongebob Rave - themed Liberty Science Center event, I also had the absolute delight of doing a walk-around interview earlier in the day with @georgemusser.com, who was cool enough to clamber around the child-sized Infinity Climber with me 😂
generic photo of the infinity climber installation at the liberty science center
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
highly recommend romanticizing your life
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
i’m at the spongebob rave, i’m at the astronomy lecture, i’m at the combination spongebob rave astronomy lecture
selfie with microphone in front of drake equation picture of me in the museum in front of the manhattan skyline
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✨ TONIGHT! I’ll be at the Liberty Science Center talking about astrobiology, the Drake Equation, and where we might find life in the solar system—as a jellyfish! 💕 get tickets here: lsc.org/explore/lsc-...
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
tim curry on the projector
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
when you send too many emails in one week
email signed cheers, sorry
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
took a trip to FiDi this morning to do the New York Academy of Sciences podcast! coming to all platforms October 5!
upwards shot of a church and some other buildings with a cool white cloud abovea shot of wall street
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I would blow you a kiss from the star where I sat / I would call out your name to echo through the vast
dolly parton in front of the earth
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
going to #DragonCon? want to learn about the science of Project Hail Mary? or the nuclear astrophysics of Kirby? want to get a signed and customized copy of CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS? ⬇️⬇️⬇️
my dragoncon schedule
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
oooh top shelf at Powell’s!! huge shout-out to @empireship.bsky.social for accepting my side quest to find it! 🪐✨
the exterior of powell’s books in Portland my book is on the top of a bookshelf face out labeled new and recommended science and technology
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
low-key i look like im about to tell ellen degeneres that’s not true here
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
forgot to get a selfie with @yonibrande.bsky.social but here is a recreation of us discussing whether a moon is a kind of planet before he made me get to my train platform an entire nine minutes before the train left
frog and toad
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I talked to NBC today about why Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, the science vs the politics, and what we still have to learn about it [starts at 38:00] 🪐 youtu.be/B3hOKreQZ7k?...
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
this too, is yuri
a t. rex fossil biting a triceratops fossil
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the ancient human artifacts exhibit always makes me a little emotional bc like. that’s just somebody’s stuff they lost 😭 they’re just like me fr
various human tools from tens of thousands of years ago
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
you’re 13 years old. this is best day of your life. you’re 23 years old. this is the best day of your life. you’re 33 years old. this is the best day of your life.
the gemstone exhibit at the smithsonian
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
near… far… whereEVER YOU AREEE
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
WHOAAAA
a classic flappy little guy fossil (dickinsonia)a piece of the burgess shale
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
CELEBRITY SIGHTINGGG
a famous devonian fish fossil
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