Kate Genevieve

In a functioning society, this would have been front page news everywhere.

In our society, this didn't make the fine print.

As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social pointed out once, it's quite depressing to check the headlines when you know what the real headline should be...

Yes, SETI@home was a beacon. Different times for science, tech & learning! Big fan of recent works carrying on the spirit, like the nice zooniverse project 'Are We Alone in the Universe?' from Megan Li & Jean-Luc Margot that invites folk to sort radio signal images: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/fin...

Up on the Sunshine Coast tomorrow there's a great example of creative approaches to whale communication. A deep listening journey with Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis, live streaming Humpback Whale song from underwater hydrophones for ANAT SPECTRA::Reciprocity at UniSC: www.anat.org.au/reciprocity-...

Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730
The constellation Orion

Interesting to see our white paper on post-detection futures for SETI/technosignatures picked up across the media.

This article in the Oklahoman brings out the emphasis on learning from animal communication & emerging research methods for studying whale language.
www.oklahoman.com/story/lifest...

SETI in 2021 In this second installment of SETI in 20xx, we very briefly and subjectively review developments in SETI in 2021. Our primary focus is 98 papers and books published or made public in 2021, which we so...

Jason Wright, Macy Huston & colleagues at Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center (PSETI) put together something like this. Excellent yearly reviews of developments in SETI- arxiv.org/abs/2203.11172

What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life

on a brown dwarf dozens of light years from us, astronomers have detected trace amounts of a molecule that, on this planet, is made by living things.

this discovery is not life. but it will help astronomers on their quest to find it elsewhere in the galaxy:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...

Partial Solar Eclipse
Taken by Taichi Nakamura on September 22, 2025 @ Dunedin, New Zealand

Canon R6 Borg71F+x2converter
1/8000s ISO 100

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Hubble image of the nebula N44, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It shows a "superbubble", a dark, starry void 250 light-years across at the upper centre, surrounded by clouds of bright red hydrogen gas, black lanes of dust and bright spots of massive stars. The deep blue area at about 5 o’clock around the superbubble stands out as the hottest and most active in star formation.

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This marvelous Hubble image shows the N44 superbubble complex, a turbulent emission nebula dominated by a vast bubble some 250 ly across: the dark, starry area visible in the upper central region.

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NASA, ESA, V. Ksoll & D. Gouliermis, et al.; Proc: G. Kober

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Brand new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shows it's becoming more active and getting longer as it approaches the Sun | BBC Sky at Night Magazine Comet 3I/ATLAS images by Gemini South telescope show its tail is growing and it's becoming more active as it moves through the Solar System.

The story goes on...

"..the dust & ice that make up 3I/ATLAS are similar to those of the comets that formed within our Solar System. That suggests comets from within our Solar System & those from interstellar space share similar formation processes..”
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/3i-atla...

Sensing the ice: field science, models, and expert intimacy with knowledge This paper analyses relationships that Antarctic glaciologists (including field scientists, modellers, and those working with remote satellite data) have formed with the Antarctic glacial environment...

Loved Jessica O'Reilly’s panels at #4s Seattle.

Carrying with me an expanded sense of ice as a great ecological storyteller - telling of the deep time & ecological futures of Earth, & a wider universe of bodies transforming through the same processes…

rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Day-by-day diary open to "Monday, January 6" and "Tuesday, January 7." Handwritten entries by Burroughs on both pages; the January 7th entry has text at the top that then becomes automatic writing / scribbles.

Pages from the 1975 dream diary of William S. Burroughs, from the William S. Burroughs Papers (SPEC.CMS.40).

YouTube video by Cosmoimaginaries Earthly & extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia | Gabriela Radulescu

For folk interested in international perspectives on SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence): a presentation from @gabriela-radulescu.bsky.social on Armenia & the former Czechoslovakia combining science, politics & ancient cultural–astronomical traditions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=059T...

Resonate strongly. Grateful to my senses for keeping at it. A 5AM start in Seattle this morning began with an epic “eugh” & then noticing some graphics constructed past midnight did not hit.

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Creative appreciation structured by the limits of the body... Taking care not to max the body out so hard that appreciation of the pinkness of pink is lost… That’s a nice measure.

What day is this? I’d like to make it.

Principles of Biological Autonomy Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...

Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Dreams of Biogenesis: Visualizing the Origins of Life

To celebrate the groundbreaking research of 2025 Drake Award recipients Dr. David Deamer and Dr. John Baross, the SETI Institute commissioned bioartist Dr. Jennifer Willet to create a unique artwork that brings biogenesis, the origin of life, to visual form. Read more: buff.ly/xV1Oj1L 🧪 👩‍🔬 🐡 #sciart

Decoding Ladakh's Hot Springs Could Help Trace The Origins Of Life On Early Earth And Mars - Astrobiology In the icy high-altitude valleys of Ladakh, India, a natural hot spring in Puga valley may be holding secrets from the very dawn of life on Earth.

Decoding Ladakh’s Hot Springs Could Help Trace The Origins Of Life On Early Earth And Mars
astrobiology.com/2025/07/deco... #astrobiology @ISRO @IndiaDST @BSIP_official #India #Ladakh

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

The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin  Pre-order: publishing October 2025 When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of t...

The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com

When Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which for the first time

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How to chart a moral future for space exploration Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used.

For the past two years, I've been working with a truly fantastic group of philosophers and scientists on pondering ethical issues in astrobiology and space exploration.

Our first publication is now out in @nature.com! I'd be so honored if you gave it a read!

This is my wee little asteroid linocut (on paper 4” x 4” with 2” x 2” printed area) in silver and black ink.

June 30 is Asteroid Day to raise awareness of opportunities and risks posed by asteroids, their role in the formation of our solar system, their impact in space resources and importance of protecting Earth from impact. 🧪🐡🔭⚒️June 30, 1908 an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the 🧵

Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...

This looks fascinating!
Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships, by Barry Taylor
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Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery

New paper day! In 'Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery', we show that scaling up use of launch vehicles 🚀 has a point where the healing of the ozone layer is affected 🧪🛰️
Open access, free to read & share

Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible Universal Design (UD), an approach to accessibility that was first conceptualized in architecture to make buildings physically accessible, has since been applied to curriculum design to make classroom...

New paper! Amanda Quirk and I just released this article: "Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible" on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23498

Venus at dawn over Chartres - yellow blue sky, dark trees in silhouette

sunlight streaming through the blue 12th century stained glass window known as “Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière" on the south side of the Cathedral. Window scene shows Mary with baby on her lap and is rendered in reds and a luminous aquamarine blue.

Morning light in Chartres, France.

Venus blazing before dawn, and sunlight streaming through the “Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière" window on the south side of the Cathedral.

Company directors who cause nature damage in Scotland could face jail New ecocide bill in Scottish parliament aims to criminalise environmental destruction in line with EU directive

Company directors who cause severe or reckless damage to nature could face jail terms or hefty fines under a bill that aims to criminalise environmental destruction in Scotland. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care? Tracing its Roots in Systems Thinking, Neurodivergence, and Marxist Theory

What is Participatory Sensemaking and Why Should We Care?

Interview by Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social

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