Steve Croft

UC Berkeley astronomy researcher, education advocate, political junkie, gumbo enthusiast

[Steve Croft @drcroft]

On Wednesday I'll be giving a free public talk at Standard Deviant Brewing in SF - all welcome!

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

Our new paper from @brkthroughprize Listen @OxfordPhysics graduate student Brian Rogers explores how guided latent flow matching can be used to uncover information buried in large datasets: https://t.co/DSeVCElAAA

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS just passed its closest approach to Earth. @brkthroughprize Listen has undertaken observations of this object with our suite of telescopes and we provide a summary, and public data and code, here (spoiler: no aliens): https://t.co/T3B2t6Kk2E

[Steve Croft @drcroft]

A video of a semi-technical talk I gave in the @GreenBankObserv community Zoom series today: https://t.co/UpaIcULX56

[Steve Croft @drcroft]

I'll be talking about the search for life beyond Earth on June 18 at @factionbrewing in Alameda. Tickets at https://t.co/NaIz2Z3zdZ

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

We're excited to partner with @ASTRON_NL @OfficialUoM and @brkthroughprize @OxfordPhysics on this exciting new sky monitor for transients and technosignatures: https://t.co/vZpuZkfPKs

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

Undergrads: paid internships available this summer! https://t.co/C73JgOZxow https://t.co/i9GIS8xWJk

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

Applications for summer 2025 undergraduate research internships to work on @brkthroughprize Listen at @UCBerkeley @uniofgalway @LOFARIreland and
@mediainaf Sardinia Radio Telescope are now open. https://t.co/i9GIS8xWJk

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

Inside the 'golden age' of alien hunting at the #GreenBankTelescope https://t.co/eId551C4ct

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

.@brkthroughprize Listen’s @drcroft reflects on what’s coming soon in technosignature research

[Steve Croft @drcroft]

Here's a video of a recent public talk I gave about how we're searching for life beyond Earth: https://t.co/qHIGqngp2W

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

Featuring work by Carmen Choza, an alum of the @brkthroughprize Listen internship program, now an assistant researcher at the @SETIInstitute

[Steve Croft @drcroft]

Somewhat surprised to find myself quoted in The Observer in an article about UFOs
https://t.co/UmhT0rL8wl

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

A new paper by @UofT / @brkthroughprize Listen undergraduate intern @peterma02 (with @drcroft @chrislintott & Andrew Siemion) presents a new technique for investigating candidate SETI signals akin to "reverse image search" algorithms used by search engines https://t.co/ag4D7NPy5V

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

Might megastructures or lasers modify signatures of planets passing between us and their stars? Anna Zuckerman, previously an undergraduate researcher with @brkthroughprize Listen (now a @CUBoulder grad student) looks for weird transits in her new paper: https://t.co/Oa5DnirXcP

[Steve Croft @drcroft]

Great work led by my students Carmen Choza and Daniel Bautista

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

Search of @GreenBankObserv data by @brkthroughprize Listen researcher Carmen Choza places strongest constraints to date on powerful intergalactic transmitters. See the press release from @OxfordPhysics https://t.co/ka3JJKMhZY

[Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin]

ET phone Dublin?

Scientists from @TCD_physics, Breakthrough Listen, and @OnsalaRymd are scanning the Universe for “technosignatures” from distant planets that would provide support for the existence of intelligent, #alien life.

Read more at: https://t.co/kmVakeAUPU

[The SETI Institute @SETIInstitute]

PRESS RELEASE: https://t.co/FIvEBYeRBc
In a new study published in the Astronomical Journal, researchers used the known population of exoplanets and extrapolated to the larger, unknown population of exoplanets to set better thresholds for planetary effects on signals from ETIs.

[UC Berkeley SETI @BerkeleySETI]

We're delighted about the next phase for Breakthrough Listen as we enter into a new partnership with @UniofOxford @OxfordPhysics https://t.co/tTkeVZ7tBq

[SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom]

Could AI find alien life faster than humans, and would it tell us? https://t.co/3glgrdSUpW