Estelle Janin

Alien life detection through planetary atmospheres and communication signals 👽 PhD candidate @ASU working with @Sara_Imari. In love with mountains 🏔

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

Interested in how we can interpret exoplanet atmospheric data differently and theorize about alien life detection in a totally new way? Come find me at my poster in Area C 🤩 #ExoplanetsV

[OoLEN @oolen_org]

🌟 Capturing moments from our #AbSciCon24 meet-up at Trinity Brewhouse! 🚀🍻 Great discussions on the origins of life with fellow OoLEN enthusiasts. #OriginOfLife #OoLEN #ScienceMeetup

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

Hey #AbSciCon24 I am giving a talk tomorrow at 3 pm (session 214) 🚀 If you’re interested in how I apply tools from Complex Systems Science to planetary atmospheres and life detection efforts, come along!

[Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience]

🦎 Past participants share their favorite aspects of SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School. Transcend traditional academic departments and collaborate on big research questions with a diverse cohort. Jun 9 - Jul 5, 2024.

📣 App deadline Feb 1. Please RT! https://t.co/V50tHIxXcQ

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

Thank you @SocLitSciArts for hosting my talk on universal structures of Language and how to detect Extraterrestrial Communication 👽 It’s so fun to be in this community and get Humanities and Science to interact in a meaningful way 🤩

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution https://t.co/PkidBwfIRx

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

My lab is hiring for multiple postdoctoral positions and a lab coordinator. Areas of disciplinary expertise are open.

Our research is mostly focused on understanding what life is so we can solve how it emerges. This is such a deep and foundational question we end up working on lots of related areas including but not limited to artificial life, artificial intelligence, consciousness, fundamental physics, causation, time, agency, geochemistry, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, exoplanets, alien life detection, planetary science and our planetary future ...

If you or anyone you know is interested in joining a highly interdisciplinary, collaborative & creative team and in driving theory forward and producing new explanations to solve big open questions in science, please do check out the job ads (or forward to colleagues) and feel free to contact me with questions.

https://t.co/4fYq9wMYbC

https://t.co/byOzSeXtyw

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

Simulating the lifecycle of scientific theories, investigating the ermergence of Abstraction in LLMs, analyzing the rhythm of History, working on the modularity of metabolic networks… I had a fantastic research time at the Complex Systems Summer School @sfiscience 🤩

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

“Aliens” are causal chains that have a different route emerging from low assembly chemistry than we do, such that their lineages traverse a different path through chemical (possibility) space than us

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

Had a lot of fun visiting @stsci in Baltimore last week!! Great discussions and many reasons to be excited about JWST and upcoming telescopes (HWO 👀)! So happy to have a foot in both theory and observations for my research 🔭

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

So happy to share my work on exoplanets and complexity science at @abgradcon in California!! It was amazing meeting so many other people passionate about astrobiology and doing their best to understand the origins of life and how to detect it elsewhere 🤩

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

Solving the origin of life is hard & may require entirely new laws of physics, as we are doing in assembly theory. Our goal: merge theory with experiment to solve our origins & find aliens, excellent writing on the promise, open questions by @philipcball https://t.co/EqXKHqtRSM

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

Assembly theory is going to change things. Since Darwin, we have tried to understand how the countless forms of life can evolve in a universe with fixed laws. The laws of physics are connected to life, evolution, and human culture, but they can't predict their emergence. Assembly theory doesn't change the laws of physics, but it changes how we think about selection. In AT, objects aren't seen as single points but as a collection of possible formation histories. AT demonstrates that objects can show evidence of selection, whether part of an individual or not. This requires the new concept of Assembly, which measures the amount of causation needed to create a group of objects. AT reimagines matter in terms of assembly spaces, offering a way to unite physics and biology in a new field that starts playing a significant role at the chemical scale, where history and selection become important factors.

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

My PhD in one sentence 🤩 https://t.co/xDinh4NxST

[BigBiology @Big_Biology]

Can physics explain the shift from non-life to life? @Sara_Imari a theoretical physicist and return guest joins to discuss assembly theory, a method of calculating complexity. Is this theory a game changer in the study of life in the universe? 🌏✨

https://t.co/DoRoWXWaxo

[Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience]

"Art is a human-defined category. Science is a human-defined category. What we are doing as minds navigating the world is something else. We grow up learning to categorize ourselves & our work. When you are trying to do something new, those categories don't apply."
- @Sara_Imari

[Cole Mathis @colemathis__]

BUT THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AS WE KNOW THEM ARE TOTALLY DETERMINISTIC SO UNLESS THIS CONVERSATION WAS ENCODED IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND THEN PHYSICAL REDUCTIONISM CANT HOLD AND THERE MUST BE NEW PHYSICS THAT EXPLAINS THE ORIGIN OF NOVEL PROCESSES LIKE THOSE IN LIVING SYSTEMS

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

@colemathis__ Think and discuss about concepts, ideas and objects at the limits / beyond our knowledge. The best part: this being an actual job and career!

[Estelle Janin @Estelle_inspace]

Fantastic news for the UCL Exoplanet Group and a well-deserved reward for the PI of the mission, Prof. Giovanna Tinetti 🤩🤩 (who also happens to be the best supervisor one could hope for!)

[UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences @uclmaps]

Just announced! @UCL-led @ESA exoplanet mission Ariel will receive £30 million from the UK! Due to launch in 2029, Ariel will analyse and understand the links between a planet's chemistry & its environment: https://t.co/rHCGkKbQhm

#space #astronomy #planets