Beth Johnson
@planetarypan.bsky.social
Planetary scientist, podcast host, cat wrangler. Communication specialist for the SETI Institute. planetarypan.medium.com #WomeninSTEM
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Hi, y'all! I'm finally ready to announce... my new podcast, Planetary Pandemonium, is coming soon. We'll meet at the intersection of space science and science fiction. There will be cats. Check out my Patreon for more info! 🧪 👩🔬 🐈⬛
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Tagging all my space peeps, new theme song for y'all!
@astrokatie.com @roguenasa.altgov.info @longhairnasaguy.bsky.social @spacejammie.bsky.social
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@planetarypan.bsky.social
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February 8, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Tagging all my space peeps, new theme song for y'all!
@astrokatie.com @roguenasa.altgov.info @longhairnasaguy.bsky.social @spacejammie.bsky.social
@planetarypan.bsky.social
youtu.be/mNLzeeTiYd8?...
@astrokatie.com @roguenasa.altgov.info @longhairnasaguy.bsky.social @spacejammie.bsky.social
@planetarypan.bsky.social
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💯on all counts.
Yeah, the new Muppet Show is cute, and Sabrina Carpenter was basically the perfect first guest for it. If they make more they should do Chappel Roan next. The Muppet version of "Pink Pony Club" would be wild.
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
💯on all counts.
I cannot work like this… 🐈
January 28, 2026 at 9:23 PM
I cannot work like this… 🐈
Hi, y'all! I'm finally ready to announce... my new podcast, Planetary Pandemonium, is coming soon. We'll meet at the intersection of space science and science fiction. There will be cats. Check out my Patreon for more info! 🧪 👩🔬 🐈⬛
www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...
www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...
Welcome to the Pandemonium! | Planetary Pandemoniumn
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January 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Hi, y'all! I'm finally ready to announce... my new podcast, Planetary Pandemonium, is coming soon. We'll meet at the intersection of space science and science fiction. There will be cats. Check out my Patreon for more info! 🧪 👩🔬 🐈⬛
www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...
www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...
Oh, hey, that's me!
People keep asking me about SETI@home, and today, I will have some answers. But #notaliens. Yet. Come watch and bring your questions!
People keep asking me about SETI@home, and today, I will have some answers. But #notaliens. Yet. Come watch and bring your questions!
SETI@home turned millions of home computers into a scientific instrument. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Years later, that data is still being explored.
In this SETI Live, we talk with Eric Korpela (UC Berkeley) about a new analysis highlighting ~100 signals worth closer attention.
🔗 youtube.com/live/eFOm9rD...
#SETI
Years later, that data is still being explored.
In this SETI Live, we talk with Eric Korpela (UC Berkeley) about a new analysis highlighting ~100 signals worth closer attention.
🔗 youtube.com/live/eFOm9rD...
#SETI
January 22, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Oh, hey, that's me!
People keep asking me about SETI@home, and today, I will have some answers. But #notaliens. Yet. Come watch and bring your questions!
People keep asking me about SETI@home, and today, I will have some answers. But #notaliens. Yet. Come watch and bring your questions!
Proud to be the 24th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Felis Celestis! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
Seriously. Cats. Space. @chopshopstore.bsky.social were you in my brain???
Seriously. Cats. Space. @chopshopstore.bsky.social were you in my brain???
Felis Celestis
The planets reimagined as feline counterparts: blue-green Earth, sunny Venus, red Mars, hefty Jupiter, and ringed Saturn. A planetary enamel pin series blending design, cats, and the character of each...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Proud to be the 24th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Felis Celestis! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
Seriously. Cats. Space. @chopshopstore.bsky.social were you in my brain???
Seriously. Cats. Space. @chopshopstore.bsky.social were you in my brain???
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Next #SETILive: TODAY, 8 January, 2:30 PST
2026 brings a dense lineup of space science milestones: crewed lunar missions, new observatories, planetary exploration, and data releases that will shape the next decade.
Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and @allplanets.bsky.social to connect the dots! 🧪 🔭
2026 brings a dense lineup of space science milestones: crewed lunar missions, new observatories, planetary exploration, and data releases that will shape the next decade.
Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and @allplanets.bsky.social to connect the dots! 🧪 🔭
January 8, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Next #SETILive: TODAY, 8 January, 2:30 PST
2026 brings a dense lineup of space science milestones: crewed lunar missions, new observatories, planetary exploration, and data releases that will shape the next decade.
Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and @allplanets.bsky.social to connect the dots! 🧪 🔭
2026 brings a dense lineup of space science milestones: crewed lunar missions, new observatories, planetary exploration, and data releases that will shape the next decade.
Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and @allplanets.bsky.social to connect the dots! 🧪 🔭
I always enjoy chatting with Cynthia, and this interview was no different. Amazing how scientists and engineers quickly repurposed existing spacecraft to observe comet 3I/ATLAS, including Europa Clipper!
In a recent #SETILive discussion, @planetarypan.bsky.social and @planetcynthia.bsky.social discussed how an instrument built for a very different target was rapidly repurposed to study one of the rarest objects ever detected in the solar system. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/3iatlas...
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/3iatlas...
January 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I always enjoy chatting with Cynthia, and this interview was no different. Amazing how scientists and engineers quickly repurposed existing spacecraft to observe comet 3I/ATLAS, including Europa Clipper!
This place may not be open to the public or even finished, but the building and location are both beautiful. I am excited for the tour! And dinner, of course. 🧪🔭👩🔬 #aas247
January 7, 2026 at 12:37 AM
This place may not be open to the public or even finished, but the building and location are both beautiful. I am excited for the tour! And dinner, of course. 🧪🔭👩🔬 #aas247
Hi, y’all. I won’t be at #aas247 today due to a severe asthma attack. I’m fine but shaky from the treatment.
I’ll be at the Dark Sky Discovery Center tour tonight tho. If you’re coming, let me know so I can say hello! 🧪🔭👩🔬
I’ll be at the Dark Sky Discovery Center tour tonight tho. If you’re coming, let me know so I can say hello! 🧪🔭👩🔬
January 6, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Hi, y’all. I won’t be at #aas247 today due to a severe asthma attack. I’m fine but shaky from the treatment.
I’ll be at the Dark Sky Discovery Center tour tonight tho. If you’re coming, let me know so I can say hello! 🧪🔭👩🔬
I’ll be at the Dark Sky Discovery Center tour tonight tho. If you’re coming, let me know so I can say hello! 🧪🔭👩🔬
My cats are adorable.
January 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
My cats are adorable.
It’s that time of year, and for the first time in over a decade, I am in person at #AAS247! Excited to be here. Want me to check out your work? Let me know. I’m looking forward stories and podcast guests. 🧪🔭👩🔬
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM
It’s that time of year, and for the first time in over a decade, I am in person at #AAS247! Excited to be here. Want me to check out your work? Let me know. I’m looking forward stories and podcast guests. 🧪🔭👩🔬
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Tonight’s pointless debate between the men in my life…
Is the Flash’s ring suit compressed or shrunken?
@gailsimone.bsky.social got an opinion?
Is the Flash’s ring suit compressed or shrunken?
@gailsimone.bsky.social got an opinion?
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Tonight’s pointless debate between the men in my life…
Is the Flash’s ring suit compressed or shrunken?
@gailsimone.bsky.social got an opinion?
Is the Flash’s ring suit compressed or shrunken?
@gailsimone.bsky.social got an opinion?
It's always fun to chat with Franck, no matter the topic, but I am now incredibly excited for his latest project.
#ICYMI: During a special #SETILive last week, @allplanets.bsky.social introduced his latest project -- @skymapper.bsky.social. The company is setting out to decentralize astronomy through a network of connected, personal telescopes. Watch the full episode: youtube.com/live/zbDWsEF... 🧪 🔭
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's always fun to chat with Franck, no matter the topic, but I am now incredibly excited for his latest project.
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An excellent thread on structural bullshit in academia, how to avoid mental traps, and encouragement to people from marginalized backgrounds. The system isn’t fair, but it can be gamed and it’s designed to intimidate people into failing. Don’t let them fool you.
A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students:
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
An excellent thread on structural bullshit in academia, how to avoid mental traps, and encouragement to people from marginalized backgrounds. The system isn’t fair, but it can be gamed and it’s designed to intimidate people into failing. Don’t let them fool you.
I was wondering. Such an odd alert and then no actual quake shown on the map. Thanks for the clarification!
The warning for an M5.9 earthquake near Dayton, NV this morning was an incorrect alert issued by the USGS ShakeAlert program. None of the stations in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory network detected any large earthquakes in Nevada this morning.
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I was wondering. Such an odd alert and then no actual quake shown on the map. Thanks for the clarification!
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Samples of Bennu, a primitive asteroid orbiting near Earth, contain some surprising ingredients: natural sugars, gummy polymers, and specks of stardust that are even older than our solar system.
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Samples of Bennu, a primitive asteroid orbiting near Earth, contain some surprising ingredients: natural sugars, gummy polymers, and specks of stardust that are even older than our solar system.
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
In case anyone is wondering what to get me as a gift... (but not the hair stuff. I don't have enough hair anymore.)
Or, you know, you want to support a friend who makes gorgeous pieces of space art, both functional and for display.
Or, you know, you want to support a friend who makes gorgeous pieces of space art, both functional and for display.
My Etsy shop is now open, and I'm shipping twice a week. Just posted: these hair claw clips, wire-wrapped with high-quality gemstone beads for the 8 planets, including gorgeous brown rhodochrosite for Jupiter. elakdawalla.etsy.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In case anyone is wondering what to get me as a gift... (but not the hair stuff. I don't have enough hair anymore.)
Or, you know, you want to support a friend who makes gorgeous pieces of space art, both functional and for display.
Or, you know, you want to support a friend who makes gorgeous pieces of space art, both functional and for display.
Oh, look... the podcast topics are just piling up!
We are delighted to share the UK cover for the new book from award-winning author Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, coming in May next year. @chanda.blacksky.app
Pre-order yours now! buythebook.online/edge-of-spac...
Pre-order yours now! buythebook.online/edge-of-spac...
December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Oh, look... the podcast topics are just piling up!
What now? Oh, this is super cool.
What do you think, peeps? Podcast topic for my new show? I think so.
What do you think, peeps? Podcast topic for my new show? I think so.
NASA's Curiosity Rover found evidence of tides in the sediments of an ancient lake. Today's Martian moons aren't big enough to to do that.
Mars may once have had a much larger moon, which then shattered (perhaps repeatedly), creating the smaller moons of today. 🧪🔭
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Mars may once have had a much larger moon, which then shattered (perhaps repeatedly), creating the smaller moons of today. 🧪🔭
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What now? Oh, this is super cool.
What do you think, peeps? Podcast topic for my new show? I think so.
What do you think, peeps? Podcast topic for my new show? I think so.
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On our latest #SETILive #podcast, @planetarypan.bsky.social asked Dr. Eric Boyd to explain what it means when he says a microbe breathes in two ways. Listen to the full episode at feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 👩🔬
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
On our latest #SETILive #podcast, @planetarypan.bsky.social asked Dr. Eric Boyd to explain what it means when he says a microbe breathes in two ways. Listen to the full episode at feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 👩🔬
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In a recent SETI Live episode, @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral researcher Dr. Artem Aguichine about his work modeling the interiors and atmospheres of steam worlds, a class of water-rich exoplanets wrapped in thick, high-temperature water vapor. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In a recent SETI Live episode, @planetarypan.bsky.social spoke with UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral researcher Dr. Artem Aguichine about his work modeling the interiors and atmospheres of steam worlds, a class of water-rich exoplanets wrapped in thick, high-temperature water vapor. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬