Really pleased to find out that our paper "Rethinking the practice and rhetoric of planetary 'colonization' from an astrobioethics pespective" was the number 1 most-read article in September 2026 in the journal Earth Science, Systems and Society (and continually grateful that I get to work with such amazing co-authors!)
Check it out here (open-access!)

Presented on the Discovery & Futures Lab as well as on safety for scientists engaged in biosignature and technosignature research at the 2026 International Astronautical Congress in Antalya

An excellent conference in beautiful, colorful Colorado organized by the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary world.

Check it out! Lucian Walkowicz and I, in our roles as Discovery & Futures Lab co-Directors, were on NPR's Science Friday talking about discovery, disclosure, aliens, humans, and more.

Discovery & Futures Lab directors, Lucian Walkowicz and yours truly, as guests on the SETI Institute's SETI LIVE event last week titled Who Speaks for Earth? 
It's a great question!

A wonderful Data Care Festival organized by the Inclusive AI Lab, complete with an Ubuntu Ethics Workshop in Utrecht led by Wakanyi Hoffman, a Markets, Meals, & Meaning field trip in Amsterdam, and good conversation all around.

A really great and diverse conference hosted by our own Desirable AI project here at the University of Bonn. Lots of great speakers and artists sharing their work. I spoke on Technosignatures as Pollution: Dominance, Irrationality, and Unsustainable Technology.

A really great trip to the SETI Institute and surrounding area to serve on the Science Advisory Board, attend the Drake Awards, and hang out with friends, Fellows, and my fellow leader of the Discovery & Futures Lab. Big congrats to Lori Marino for her well-earned award and vital research here on Earth!

It's official! The press release has gone live, and the Discovery & Futures Lab at the SETI Institute has launched! I am honored to serve alongside Dr. Lucian Walkowicz as co-Director of this exciting new initiative that bridges the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities to address the questions that attend the entire process of discoveries of life beyond Earth

The 2nd Earth-Space Sustainability Conference in Leiden was fantastic. I presented on Sustainability Puzzles and the Extraterrestrial Turn, and I also served on a panel for Starlight as Nature