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- Sept. 19, 2024: WOW! signal, superradiance, Nathan Myhrvold, looking under the lamppost.
- May 28, 2024: Ninth edition of UCLA SETI course, observing sequence, Andrew Siemion.
- Dec. 7, 2023: Graduate applications, one million classifications, oxygen, outreach award.
- Oct. 9, 2023: New article, Drake Figure of Merit, transmitter prevalence, partial eclipse.
- May 30, 2023: 1000 additional stars, school outreach, reobservation process.
- Mar. 17, 2023: 40th newsletter, 10,000 volunteers, 300,000 classifications.
- Feb. 3, 2023: Gearing up for launch, machine learning in SETI, turnover at NASA.
- Nov. 23, 2022: The thrill of citizen science, Active SETI, Giving Tuesday.
- Sept. 7, 2022: Frank Drake (1930-2022), beta-testing the SETI citizen science platform.
- May 19, 2022: NASA citizen science seed funding, GitHub, GBT scheduling, Dan Werthimer.
- Mar. 18, 2022: The Planetary Society, Megan Li, NASA adds a new restriction to solicitation.
- Oct. 25, 2021: Paul Pinchuk earns PhD in SETI, Machine Learning application for RFI detection.
- Jun. 30, 2021: Spring 2021 final presentations, Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, Venus missions.
- May 2, 2021: Dan Werthimer and Paul Horowitz, pair programming, Venus interior and atmosphere.
- Apr. 2, 2021: Sixth edition of the SETI course, Drake Equation estimates, wager, collapse of Arecibo.
- Jan. 17, 2021: AAS meeting, tantalizing signals, graduate student applications.
- Nov. 16, 2020: NASA funds our search for technosignatures, doubts about phosphine at Venus.
- Aug. 22, 2020: Spring 2020 SETI course student contributions, presentations, and evaluations.
- May 5, 2020: Suspenseful observations at the GBT, a small victory over COVID-19.
- Apr. 13, 2020: Fifth edition of SETI course taught remotely during COVID-19 pandemic.
- Feb. 25, 2020: Workshop to honor Frank Drake, AAS meeting, advocacy for federal funding.
- Nov. 9, 2019: NASA Authorization Act of 2019, Nobel Prize in Physics.
- May 26, 2019: Spring 2019 SETI course, GBT observations, quantization efficiency, ATC exam.
- Mar. 14, 2019: AAS meeting, Astro 2020 decadal survey, crowdfunding campaign, new server.
- Nov. 26, 2018: Manuscript with 2017 results and improved algorithms, existence limits.
- Oct. 12, 2018: NASA technosignatures workshop, NAS report on search for life in the universe.
- July 31, 2018: Venus, Europa, COSPAR meeting, student presentations, NASA and technosignatures.
- May 14, 2018: GBT observations, group photo, Gaia data release, practice with Voyager 1 signal.
- Apr. 8, 2018: Spring 2018 SETI course, letter to astrobiology committee, article in press.
- Feb. 21, 2018: A search for technosignatures, NASA’s exobiology program, dust obscuring Tabby’s star.
- Dec. 26, 2017: Ross 128 b, interstellar asteroid, UFO funding, Paul Pinchuk.
- Sept. 17, 2017: Kevin Lu’s SETI video, Max, total solar eclipse, Drake equation.
- June 19, 2017: Final projects, software to quantify signal properties, course feedback, TA position.
- May 7, 2017: Apparent motion of stars in the sky, TRAPPIST-1, Fourier transforms, Voyager 1 challenge.
- Apr. 9, 2017: Spring 2017 SETI course, Adam Greenberg, funding, Jupyter, William Borucki.
- Dec. 23, 2016: Michael Thacher, Arnie Boyarsky, poster at AAS meeting, IAC67, pipeline improvements.
- Sept. 25, 2016: EPSS 3 Astrobiology, IAC67 preparations, RATAN-600 false alarm, post-detection protocol.
- June 26, 2016: Data processing pipeline, erratic signal, final student presentations, summer plans.
- May 29, 2016: Guest lecturers, sofware development with git, candidate signal, Arecibo observations.
- May 2, 2016: Fourier transform, dynamic spectra, Voyager 1 detection.
- Apr. 19, 2016: Travelling salesman problem, Green Bank Telescope observations.
- Apr. 9, 2016: Larry Lesyna, celestial coordinates, design of observational program.
- Mar. 29, 2016: Demographics of Spring 2016 SETI course, telescope backends, FPGAs.
- Jan. 24, 2016: Janet Marott, data rate, storage server.
- Dec. 20, 2015: How it all started, UCLA SETI course approval process.