Presentations, Videos, and Popular Press

I have written a couple of popular press articles:

Kimberly Cartier and I wrote an article for Nautilus about the Late Heavy Bombardment
Kimberly Cartier and I wrote an article for the Atlantic about Tabby’s Star
Kimberly Cartier and I wrote an article for the May 2017 issue of Scientific American about Tabby’s Star.
I wrote a piece about exoplanets for the Centre Daily Times
I wrote an entry in the Always Never Yesterday magazine “Future Proof” about the extreme future of humanity that I think came out very well.
I wrote an Op-Ed for Scientific American about why NASA should fund SETI.
I wrote a piece for The Conversation about the Voyager golden records.
I wrote a piece for Ask the Ethicist about the ethics of METI
Nautilus edited and published one of my blog posts about the Fermi Paradox.
I wrote an article for Slate Future Tense on how SETI differs from UFOlogy.
Macy Huston and I wrote an article for The Conversation about SETI.
I wrote a piece with Sean Raymond and Steve Desch about Oumuamua here on Medium.

I spoke with Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham(!) on Explain the Universe here:

I spoke with RadioWest about ‘Oumuamua here:

I spoke with Jim Green, Chief Scientist of NASA, for his podcast Gravity Assist:

I spoke with Wyat Gibbs at Scientific American about the Fermi Paradox here:

I had a nice interview on Take Note for WPSU with Anne Danahy about SETI:

I spoke with Gill Eapan about SETI, Schelling points, the Planck Frequency Comb, the Fermi Paradox, and Dyson Spheres on the Scientific Sense Podcast here:

I was on Space Radio here:

(audio here:

I gave a webinar for NExSS about technosignatures here:

I was interviewed for Event Horizon here:

and here:

I spoke about the PSETI Center at an Eberly College Science Exchange here:

and to Penn State alumni here:

“Hey! I Got a Question About That?” interviewed me here:

I did three short videos for Breakthrough Listen about astrobiology here:

and I was on Ask the Astrobiologist here:

Seth Shostak and Chuck Nice interviewed me for Star Talk All Stars (full audio here):

I appeared on Weekly Space Hangout at Universe Today:

and again with Frasier Cain on Open Space here:

Frasier also interviewed me at the AAS meeting here about what it would take to know we’ve found aliens:

Here is a Google Hangout about our WISE Search for Kardashev civilizations with Franck Marchis and Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute, collaborator Matt Povich, and Freeman Dyson:

Here is a full-length description of the project I gave at the SETI Institute itself:

and a later science colloquium for the SETI Institute here:

I did an episode of Cool Worlds for David Kipping here:

and I’m in part two of the video here (at the 6:25 mark)

Here is a panel I was on featuring Adam Frank, Ira Flatow, Lousia Preston, and Stephen Gardiner on whether we are alone:

Here is a live chat from our Green Bank Observatory live chat prior to our radio observations

And a later talk I did during Tabby’s Star’s 20 May 2017 dip:

I gave the Friedman Lecture on astronomy about Tabby’s Star, which is recorded here:

Friedman Lecture Slide

I gave a public lecture on Exoplanets with General Relativity here:

I presented our work on SETI at Discovery U here on Penn State campus. It’s a “TED-style” talk:

Here is a talk I gave at the University of Nebraska Lincoln a while back for a science teacher conference about exoplanet detection:

direct link to the mp4 file (217 MB)

and here is my Carnegie DTM talk about precise radial velocities:

My talk on imposter syndrome:

Here is a public talk I gave at Caltech for the Keck Institute for Space Sciences, as part of a 4 part lecture featuring lots of Kepler tidbits and an intro by Bill Nye the Science Guy. :

The entire session can be viewed here:
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Here is a promotional video about my research:

Here is my summary of the 20 years of exoplanets at Lick and Keck observatory (with bonus McDonald Observatory science):

Talk at OHP

I did a “Profs and Pints” episode about finding life in the universe here.

Penn Live did an interview with me about life in the universe here:

I have also appeared on:

Science Friday on NPR
A segment on NPR’s To the Point
An episode of Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
the podcast “Behind the Science”, episode 146.
a podcast of a radio interview I did about Ruprecht 147 for Voice of Russia, based in Washington, DC.
I’ve appeared on “Kingkade & Breakenridge” News Talk radio in Calgary a couple of times to discuss Tabby’s Star. Here’s a clip of me with Bradley Shaeffer.
A podcast at McGill University, wherein I talk about mostly exoplanets, with a bit of SETI at the end: http://www.astro.physics.mcgill.ca/Podcasts/AstroMcGillPodcast64.mp3
I’m interviewed on this segment from RT about NEID. My bit is about 3:00 in.

I was interviewed on Podward State. Teaser here at 37:00.
I appear in this documentary (around 47:00) about Astronomy & Astrophysics and academia’s “publish or perish” culture: