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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 7h

two trekkies maximizing our joint slay 🖖 STRANGE NEW WORLDS pod out now 👇 @miquai.bsky.social youtu.be/eOmkhMlX9H0?...

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Episode 207: Cloudy with a Chance of Starships

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Our 70% Off Sale is live! 📚🎉 Save on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects until November 16. Explore the books on sale and refresh your shelves this autumn: buff.ly/v6OcCrc #ReadUP #Sale

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

glad I was able to talk about what I consider one of the most important parts of STARSHIPS with the New York Academy of Sciences: how the seventh chapter is a roadmap for anyone who wants to join the search for life youtube.com/shorts/vd_6V...

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Dr. Seven Rasmussen on how to become an astrobiologist

YouTube video by The New York Academy of Sciences

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

my astronomy conference is NOT a safe space for harassers (every woman has a gun)

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

as a writer you should always be reading one book for fun one book for craft and one book that makes you rend your clothes and weep at the divine audacity of prose

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

real banger from my 13 year old undergrad quantum notes

at some point you just have to accept that there isn’t a meaningful answer and eventually you just won’t care — dr bone steel

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Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

they're just trying to give everyone arrays 💵

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

ok that was pretty good i’ll give you that one

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

astronomy is a hoax perpetuated by Very Large Telescope to sell more telescopes

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

⬇️🛸‼️

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“science isn’t political” ok take a seat class today we’re going to learn the most important lesson in astrobiology: the fragility of our world and the urgency of wresting our future away from billionaires who spend our lives like currency

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

back in 2011 when I had just quit my music education major and started a degree in astrophysics three semesters behind i printed out this @smbccomics.bsky.social comic and put it in the front of my physics binder. thought about it again this week after my interview with NPR about my first book 🥲

the SMBC comic about how you can ignore this textbook but one day someone’s going to clone and ride a dinosaur and you’re just going to watch it from a monitor unless you put the work in

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the EIGHTH installation of Books I See People Reading on the Train!

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
House of Flame and Shadow — Sarah J Maas
White Girls - Hilton Als
The Elements - John Boyne
Das Capital - Karl Marx
The Living and the Rest - Jose Eduardo
Agualusa
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow —
Gabrielle Zevin
Drown - Junot Diaz
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled
Hosseini
Packaging Structures — Link Sendpoints
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang How to See Like a Machine: Images After Al
- Trevor Paglen
London Falling — Patrick Radden Keefe
Illicit Temptations — Kate Roberts
Babel - RF Kuang
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
Endymion - Dan Simmons
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matte Dinneman
Confesses of a Book Seller — Shawn Bythell
The Dutch House - Ann Pratchett
Fruit Fly - Josh Silver

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

had a BLAST talking astrobiology and the Drake Equation on @npr.org today! catch my segment on Short Wave in the next few weeks!

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the MTA subway sign sale is this week but no one will ever top my haul from last year

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what a kind review! thanks for the read and the rec! ✨🛸

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 07/10/2026

I just posted my review of Cloudy With a Chance of Starships, written by @toomanyspectra.bsky.social and published by @princetonupress.bsky.social, to Technology and Society Book Reviews. Dr. Rasmussen provides information required to evaluate the Drake Equation in full context. Highly recommended.

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Review of Cloudy with a Chance of Starships - Technology and Society, Incorporated

Landing page for Technology and Society, Incorporated. Owner Curtis Frye is an online trainer and conference keynote speaker.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

cat spilled soda on my macbook and now my broken lightning port works again 🤨

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TONIGHT! 5 Eastern! come hang & chat about astrobiology x society! 🌎🛸✨

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

buying the temu pointe platforms and breaking ankle bones previously unknown to medicine

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

just saw a dog painted like a jazz cup on the street please excuse the drawing i would rather eat paint than use generative AI

instagram drawing of dog with jazz cup pattern strategically placed

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🌎 friends near and far! now is your chance to catch a book talk—this one tailored toward the ways that the search for life in the cosmos reflects the world in which we live ✨ register for THE DRAKE EQUATION AND SOCIETY below!

title slide for talk featuring an orange earth with a volcano and a rocky sea

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

finally the STAR TREK x ASTROBIOLOGY treatment of STARSHIPS! 🤩🖖

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

finally the STAR TREK x ASTROBIOLOGY treatment of STARSHIPS! 🤩🖖

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

sorry i guess i didn’t realize doing a bunch of ketamine and emailing the pope was a valid avenue of research

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

friends of the internet and foes of the blogosphere ✨ the time has come 🛸 now YOU can register to learn the super duper secret answer* to the Drake Equation 👽 * subject to outlandish error bars

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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

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i’m ok! i’m just 45 minutes late for class now 💀 no exam today i guess

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

electric chair for whoever pulled the emergency stop on an L train halfway out of my station during rush hour

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HELLO WORLD 🌎🌍🌏 STARSHIPS IS NOW OUT ON 12.5% OF SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETS

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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 corner

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

like i think he was using his macbook as a tray for his boba tea and nothing else

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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

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i’m not mad a guy’s taking up a seat with his rabbit on the train at rush hour but i am mad he’s standing in front of it so i can’t see it bro let me see your rabbit LET ME SEE YOUR RABBIT

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

read the book that cats nationwide are calling “flat,” “highly sittable,” and “unlikely to be pushed into the litter box”: bookshop.org/p/books/clou...

a black cat sitting on a copy of my book looking VERY polite

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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 😎

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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“i drank a red bull and immediately fell asleep:” the neurodivergent story

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