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#postdetection — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #postdetection, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The project includes cases such as exoplanet #K218b, phosphine on #Venus, Tabby's Star, #Oumuamua, and #3IATLAS. Each video is currently being coded in terms of risk and benefit narratives, sources, science actors and evaluations, and frames of (un)certainty.

    The group is using computational methods to analyze thousands of user comments on public videos to investigate reactions to discovery in terms of sentiment and other aspects.

    #PostDetection #SETI #SocialScience #ScienceCommunication #STS

  2. What happens after we discover life beyond Earth?

    Today Martin Dominik is speaking with the SETI Institute’s Franck Marchis about our paper on post-detection futures.

    youtube.com/watch?v=cULB0k2Cb7s
    Live in 3 hours 30 mins

    #SETI #PostDetection #astronomy #astrobiology #technosignatures #space #science

  3. MSN is featuring the Hub’s white paper for the 2025 NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES).
    The paper focuses on planning for the discovery of life beyond Earth and post-detection futures:

    msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

    #PostDetection #FutureStudies #LifeBeyondEarth

  4. *TODAY* #ASignInSpace online reception with artist and researcher Daniela de Paulis and interdisciplinary team.

    A Sign in Space - asignin.space - is a bold and creative #PostDetection experiment that simulates an extraterrestrial message and invites responses from the public.

    Time: Wednesday 24th May 11:15 am PDT / 20:15 CEST

    LINK:
    youtube.com/watch?v=zgQq36IR-L

    SETI Institute's Press Release: seti.org/press-release/first-c

    #SETI #Contact #OuterSpaceStudies #ET #Xenolinguistics #CitizenScience

  5. CW: new research hub opens

    Wow, it’s really something to keep up with all the press about the opening of the Post-Detection Hub in #Scotland.

    Here’s a nice piece on space.com.

    "If extraterrestrial life sent us a message tomorrow, how would humanity respond? According to researchers, we don't know yet — and that's a problem."

    space.com/alien-contact-protoc

    #SETI #PostDetection #scenarios #UnivofStAndrews #contact #xenolinguistics #outerspacestudies #speculativeethics #ET #communication #outerspace