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Ben K. D. Pearce
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Ben K. D. Pearce
@AstroBio_Ben
Assistant Prof at Purdue EAPS. PI of the Lab for Origins and Astrobiology Research. Rock climber, power lifter, trail runner.
Baltimore, MD Katılım Mayıs 2015
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My advice to grad students: take really good care of yourself so that you can grind while you're in grad school. While you're young and still building your knowledge base, skills, and reputation, and carving out your research area - you need to grind a bit.
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I don’t agree. A PhD student should not prioritize work-life balance. Getting to do a PhD is a privilege. You are paid to think. There is no pressure for you to be economically useful. It is a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of human knowledge and produce something ground breaking. And nothing great ever happens without complete devotion. Look at everything that moved and shaped the world. Every single person who created anything meaningful, in science, in arts, in music, in movies, devoted their lives to their craft. Extraordinary outcomes require extraordinary inputs and some degree of sacrifice. Sure, have work-life balance during your PhD. But be content a mediocre outcome.
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Purdue University leads US colleges in Chipotle orders. And I couldn't be prouder. share.google/Q3LvemNd0F8TgW…
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Our new paper on nucleobase, ribose, and fatty acid production in Selk Crater on Titan was published today!
Congrats Ishaan on another incredible piece of science. I'm so proud of the work that you do.
doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ae…
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Also, a new undergrad in my group will be presenting some of the research that she did at LPI!
Valeria Guzman: Monday 3:45 PM (P)
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I'm sad to be missing #AbSciCon26 this year😢, but my incredible research group will be there! Please stop by and introduce yourself.
Mariana Aguilar - Monday 3:45 PM (P)
Ishaan Madan - Wednesday 2:26 PM (O)
Gretchen Minich - Thursday 3:45 PM (P)
Mia Trodden - Friday 10:34 AM (O)
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Ben K. D. Pearce retweetledi
There is one week left to apply for the 2026 Young Scientist Program at Blue Marble Space!
Among our projects for our interns to work on this year is one that I’m co-convening with Dr. Laura Rodriguez of LPI on the Astrobiology Spectral Database.
Check out all of the available projects and learn more about the undergraduate level online internship at bmsis.org/ysp/projects/
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Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields.
It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants.
Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…
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@cosmobiologist @Kekius_Sage I'm missing AbSciCon this year for my sister's wedding. Unfortunate timing. But, we shall catch up again in person soon!
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@AstroBio_Ben @Kekius_Sage That's honestly a very legit hypothesis on how we could explore Earth's earliest atmospheric chemistry 🤓
If you'll be at AbSciCon, let's get a coffee and chat about the absurd size of the telescope you'd need to make it happen!
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@cosmobiologist @Kekius_Sage I would like to go through a worm hole to a place ~4.4 Gly away, and do transmission spectroscopy with a massive telescope to determine our our early atmospheric composition. It wouldn't determine how life emerged on Earth, but it could at least better guide my experiments! 🙏🏻😄
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We may never know. However, two of the best ways, IMO are:
We find some old Earth rocks on the Moon that were blasted off the planet early in the process and can tell us something about it.
Or, if we're lucky, we have some friendly alien neighbors out there ho've been watching us all this time, and they can tell us how it happened.
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Ben K. D. Pearce retweetledi
We have officially launched the applications for the 2026 BMSIS Young Scientist Program!
Those who are eligible from around the world can apply to join our institute this June through August to take part in an internship that includes a research project, learning about ethics, studies in science communication , and more!
Learn more and view our available projects for this year here:
bmsis.org/ysp/projects/
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Purdue astrobiologist reacts to Trump plans to release files on aliens and UFOs starcitytv.com/news/purdue/pu… via @StarCityOnline
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Ben K. D. Pearce retweetledi
BREAKING: Google Gemini just launched a new feature called Guided Learning.
You can now use it to learn literally anything, step by step, like a personal tutor.
Here’s how to access it 👇
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Ben K. D. Pearce retweetledi
@silvirouskin I am Assistant to the Regional Professor.
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COMEDIC BIT “ So I started as an assistant professor at Harvard, which I thought was a pretty big deal.
My dad hears this and goes, “Assistant professor? So… you assist the professor?”
I’m like, “No, Dad, that’s the actual job. I am the professor.”
And he’s like, “Right, right, but who’s the real professor?”
I try to explain the whole academic ladder to him—assistant professor, associate professor, full professor—and he’s looking at me like I’m explaining Starbucks sizes [tall==small]
He’s just nodding: “So you’re like the intern of professors. Got it.”
It’s the job that finally upgraded me from ‘still studying’ to ‘sort of working’ in my dad’s’ eyes.”
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