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SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness - Astrobiology This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection.

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
astrobiology.com/2025/07/seti... #astrobiology #SETI #astronomy

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Scientists are planning for life after finding aliens Just imagine it, the news stories are all over your phone when you wake! The day will surely come that we will discover that we are not alone in the universe! What happens the day after though? A new ...

This is so cool! 🤓 phys.org/news/2025-07...

#scifi

Edge-on spiral galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right. It's glowing with a bright core that's cut with the dark veins of dust clouds. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A smooth, cigar-shaped galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right glowing with a bright core. Two bright stars beam just to the upper left and lower right of the galaxy. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A face-on spiral with a bright core and sweeping arms knotted with blue clusters of star-forming regions. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A face-on spiral with a bright core and a single thin arm wrapping all the way around, almost looking like a ring. Two bright blue stars beam above and to the lower left of the galaxy, with a third yellow star to the lower right. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

Happy birthday, Vera Rubin! 🥳✨

What better way to celebrate than with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of galaxies SHE studied?

NGC 4343, 4526, 4535, and 4378 are just a few gems from our Cosmic Treasure Chest. Explore them and more at skyviewer.app 🔭🧪

Good to cohere around the idea that readiness for discovery isn’t simply about practical coordination, but includes studying social and planetary dynamics, speculative approaches, and broadening how we understand communication, intelligence, and response in a more-than-human cosmos.

#PostDiscovery

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps to strengthen NASA's astrobi...

arXiv link here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.11587

Collectively imagining, across disciplines, how astrobiology might evolve over the next decade was a rich process.

Themes that came through included cultural perspectives, speculative tools, AI & tech transformations, & learning from animal communication.

Scientists are Planning for Life After Finding Aliens Just imagine it, the news stories are all over your phone when you wake! The day will surely come that we will discover that we are not alone in the Universe! What happens the day after though? A new ...

The SETI Post-Detection Hub’s NASA DARES White Paper is featured on @universetoday.com. Written by 14 members on behalf of the Hub, it outlines 6 key areas for growing readiness for the discovery of life beyond Earth.

www.universetoday.com/articles/sci...
#SETI #Readiness #Astrobiology #NASADARES

One of the best workshops I’ve ever attended!

Many thanks @daliahbibas.bsky.social for your contribution to the workshop. It was a real pleasure to have you with us.

Just back from an incredibly interesting and enjoyable weekend at St Andrews (Scotland), where we held our first Workshop for the SETI Post Detection Hub, at the University. Not one PowerPoint slide in evidence and all the better for it - we actually interacted and debated topics. More to come ..

The 2025 UK Space Conference is coming to Manchester on 16 - 17 July!🚀

This exciting event is a unique opportunity to take part in innovative panel sessions and connect with industry leaders. 🤝

Book your place 👉 spaceconference.co.uk/2025/home

Hear from ESA Reserve Astronaut, John McFall. 👇

Priority registration for the Summer Science Exhibition is now open! Book your free timeslot now and join us from 1-6 July for this mindblowing showcase of cutting-edge science from spider senses to quantum technologies.

Booking recommended but not required.

royalsociety.org/science-even...

NASA-DARES RFI Findings Workshop - A Community Workshop to Shape the Future of NASA’s Astrobiology Strategy - Astrobiology The NASA Astrobiology Program invites you to participate in a two-day hybrid workshop

NASA-DARES RFI Findings Workshop - A Community Workshop to Shape the Future of NASA’s Astrobiology Strategy
astrobiology.com/2025/05/nasa... #astrobiology

The third SETI Symposium, presented by the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, will be hosted at the Penn Stater Hotel and Convention Center on August 18–21, 2025.

We are excited to announce registration and abstract submission for talks, posters, and breakout sessions are now open for the 2025 SETI Symposium at Penn State, August 18-21, 2025!

sites.psu.edu/setisymposiu...

Please help us spread the word and we hope to see you in State College!

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The evidence for biosignatures on K2-18b is flimsy, at best A Cambridge-based team claims to find molecules on an exoplanet that are only produced by life on Earth. Don't fall for the unfounded hype.

The evidence for biosignatures on K2-18b is flimsy, at best

Last week, Cambridge scientists announced the discovery of DMS and DMDS on K2-18b: what they call a "surefire biosignature."

Now, cut through the hype and get to the truth.

bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astronomy #science

YouTube video by Green Bank Observatory 2025.03.12 - Daniela de Paulis (SETI Institute

My recent talk at the Green Bank Observatory is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWz...

Abstract submissions are open for NAM 2025!

Here's what sessions are on offer as part of our Facility strand!

Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst...

@royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Lights, camera, action!

The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩

The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭

🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed

black and white conference photo from the 1971 meting at Byurakan on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI) "The First International Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Problems of Contact with Them". Background photo of the dome of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) in Armenia and surrounding gorse and sky.

Excited to launch the next Cosmoimaginaries season with a talk from Gabriela Radulescu:

📡 Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI / SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)

Fri 21st March 9am NZDT
All welcome.

Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down – and the source is not what astronomers expected Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one of them.

A mysterious radio signal from space has been tracked down to an unexpected star!
Read The Conversation article by OzGrav postdoc Dr Iris de Ruiter here: theconversation.com/a-mysterious...
#OzGrav #Astronomy #NatureAstronomy #RadioPulses #SpaceScience #WhiteDwarf

Les métamorphoses de la Terre : de poussières d’étoiles à planète Extraits du livre de l'astrobiologiste Nathalie Cabrol auteure de Inséparables, Les destins croisés de la Terre et de la vie.

🔭🌏 Cette semaine dans Terrestres, on prend beaucoup (mais alors vraiment beaucoup) de recul sur l’époque : on parle matière primordiales et atmosphère naissante avec l’astrobiologiste Nathalie Cabrol ☄️💥💫
Extrait de son livre sur la Terre et la vie, à lire ici ⤵️
www.terrestres.org/2025/02/17/l...

It's REAL

Advocacy Action Center The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.

Help The Planetary Society take action by submitting your letter, it takes less than 1 minute to submit: planet.ly/nasacuts

Two-tone purple square graphic, titled “are you worried about the future of planetary science?” in big purple font. Below says “Join us for Office Hours. March 17th, 14:00 - 16:00 EDT. We’ll chat about our feelings, learn how to organize & mobilize, and practice envisioning a just future for science.” In the lower left is a QR code with link tiny.cc/LPSC-OfficeHours. In the lower right is a black circle under which says “ABOLISH PLANETS” in heavy bolded font.

If you're at #LPSC2025 and want to talk about doing more to push back against the ongoing attacks against planetary science, join us for our office hours next Monday, 1400-1600 EDT! You can sign up here: tiny.cc/LPSC-OfficeH...

NASA to eliminate chief scientist position Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA.
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Research Associate in Technosignatures:Manchester

2-year Research Associate position in Technosignatures is now advertised at Manchester. Joining the growing SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) research group there and collaborating with Breakthrough Listen.

Deadline April 1st. Apply here -
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Podcast: What would happen if we made contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence?

Emma Puranen (@spacesword.bsky.social) explores the question, ‘What would happen if we made contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence?’ in this 2022 podcast.
Listen here: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/con...

There Is Basically One Point to Space Exploration. Right Now, We’re Missing It. Efforts to scrub DEI from NASA's websites get it all wrong.

I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us.
slate.com/technology/2...

Great chat this morning on the #BBCBreakfast sofa with Nina Warhurst and Roger Johnson on the #UKSpaceIndustry and the importance of funding #Physics and #SpaceSciences.

Physics sector is an engine of our #economy, not a drain on it. Without it we'd have less money for schools, hospitals, etc. 🧪🔭

Here I am talking to Kensy Cooperrider of the @divintelligence.bsky.social podcast about animal communication and animal minds... 🧠 We take a detailed look at why animals make the sounds they make, and what that says about animal consciousness.