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We are the UK SETI Research Network: scientists, linguists, artists, thinkers. SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Patron:

@LordMartinRees

Planet EarthJoined June 2020

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Please come celebrate Papa D with us. His legacy of compassion, intellect, and curiosity is immense. There's so much more I could say, but maybe that'll have to wait 'til 11/18.

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The SETI Institute

@SETIInstitute

Nov 1, 2022

ONLINE EVENT: Friday, Nov 18, 2022 3:00 PM PDT / 6:00PM EDT Please join us to honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Frank Drake. The program will include remarks and remembrances by members of Frank’s family, close friends, and colleagues. REGISTER: buff.ly/3TVzFTt

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Joel @ Future Folklore (

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Nov 10, 2022

"the researchers behind the SETI Post-Detection Hub say humanity as a whole is unprepared for the wide-ranging implications if we actually detect something or are contacted."

@CTVNews

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'We cannot afford to be ill prepared': Research hub wants to prepare humanity for potential proof...

A new research hub at the University of St Andrews in Scotland is dedicated to preparing humanity for potential proof of extraterrestrial life.

No longer behind a paywall! For those wanting to see the journal I co-edited with ⁦

@KimTallBear

⁩ cited as possibly shaping the SETI conversation. The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting

nytimes.com

The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting

There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe, home to an unimaginable abundance of planets. And now there are new ways to spot signs of life on them.

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New SETI Post-Detection Hub launches at the University of St Andrews space.com/alien-contact-

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@setijon

seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

We are getting ready for aliens first contact Towels are packed just in case 👍 trib.al/2nlUuML

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If you were able to send a message to aliens, what would you say? 👽⬇️

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The Wow! Signal Revisited: Citizen Science Informs SETI Effort: As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to know if there are other forms of intelligent life out there in the galaxy …

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The Wow! Signal Revisited: Citizen Science Informs SETI Effort

As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to know if there are other forms of intelligent life out there in the gal…

Well, I've uh, I've made the Daily Mail?

Do you speak extra-terrestrial? – New SETI Post-Detection Hub at the

@univofstandrews

launched news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/do-you

St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science

@univofstandrews

is hiring a Research Fellow in digital Humanities for a new project 🚀Forecasting Reproduction in Space🚀 jobs.ac.uk/job/CUH313/res Please RT

100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA

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Nov 8, 2022

Will we ever make contact with extraterrestrial neighbors? If so we'll be more than ready!👽 🖖

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Scientists working on 'official alien protocol' for when extraterrestrials make contact

Will humans ever make contact with aliens? That’s a long-unanswered question. But if it happens, a group of scientists want to make sure we’re ready.

UKSETI

@ukseti

Nov 10, 2022

"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."

@LiveScience

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NASA Astrobiology: Exploring Life in the Universe

@NASAAstrobio

Nov 4, 2022

In 1961, Dr. Frank Drake created a conceptual way to estimate how many extraterrestrial civilizations capable of communication could exist within our galaxy. Known as the Drake Equation, this math formula forever changed the way scientists consider the question – are we alone?

$A view of deep space. The background is black and there are objects scattered all through it - these are galaxies, some looking like tiny spirals, others like discs. The galaxies range in color from blue to golden to orange. There are several bright white foreground stars with large diffraction spikes protruding from them. In the center is a golden galaxy cluster, and ringed around are some distorted, stretched out galaxies$

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Space as a Toolbox for Climate Action: Submit Your Abstract for #GLOC2023 and see you in Oslo! Participants wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract, not exceeding 400 words through iafastro.directory/iac/account/lo by 23 December 2022.

On Nov 10 at 7pm, SETI Pioneer Dr. Jill Tarter will present a free, virtual lecture about her continuing quest to find an answer to the age-old question, “Are We Alone?” For more info & to register:

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A Cosmic Perspective: Searching for Aliens. Finding Ourselves

Pioneering SETI researcher, Dr. Jill Tarter, will describe the quest to answer the age-old question: "Are We Alone?"

UKSETI

@ukseti

Nov 10, 2022

More press on the SETI Post-Detection Hub: seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk #SETI

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Prepare for alien encounter now before it's too late, warn scientists telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/0

The Declaration of the Rights of the Moon.

earthlaws.org.au

Declaration of the Rights of the Moon

Draft for circulation and discussion version: 11 February 2021 Click here to register your support for the Declaration! We the people of Earth - Acknowledging the unique, intact, …

I am reminded that

's history of early SETI is now freely available for everyone who wants to read it: "Mixed Signals: Communication With the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy" - aspace.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/hand

Born #OnThisDay in 1934 was astronomer, astrobiologist and science communicator Carl Sagan. He worked on the Viking and Mariner missions, and the Pioneer plaque and Voyager Golden Record, messages from humanity that could possible be understood by extraterrestrial intelligences.

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SETI Post-Detection Hub

Just another WordPress @ St Andrews site

Are we ready for #contact with life beyond earth? eurekalert.org/news-releases/

@setijon

interviewed about the launch of #SETI Post-Detection Hub at

@UnivofStAndrews

. An exciting new international research hub connecting critical and creative #PostDetection research across disciplines.

Doctor John and 8 others

On Carl Sagan's birthday, his poetic explanation of how stars are born, live, die, and give us life

themarginalian.org

Carl Sagan Explains How Stars Are Born, Live, Die, and Give Us Life

“We are made by the atoms and the stars… our matter and our form are determined by the cosmos of which we are a part.”

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Modern Languages at St Andrews

Our very own Dr

and PhD researcher

are part of a new international research hub that will coordinate global expertise to prepare humanity for the event that we discover we are not alone in the cosmos and how we should respond.👏

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University of St Andrews

@univofstandrews

Nov 2, 2022

Do you speak extra-terrestrial? Research hub considers response to life beyond Earth.

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It doesn't hurt to always be prepared 👽

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Scientists Are Forming ‘Alien Contact Protocol’ For When Humans Encounter ET - DesignTAXI.com

The SETI Post-Detection Hub will work as a permanent “home” for scientists to develop a comprehensive framework.

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Arik Kershenbaum #ZoologistsGuideToTheGalaxy

@arikkershenbaum

Oct 22, 2022

Doug Vakoch

@METIintl

opening the Cambridge Institute for Exo Linguistics (CIEL) symposium #seti #astrobiology #extraterrestrial

UKSETI

@ukseti

Nov 10, 2022

Are we ready for #contact with life beyond earth? eurekalert.org/news-releases/

@setijon

interviewed about the launch of #SETI Post-Detection Hub at

@UnivofStAndrews

. An exciting new international research hub connecting critical and creative #PostDetection research across disciplines.

Doctor John and 8 others

Strange Horizons - The Ethics of Extractivism in Science Fiction By Emma Johanna Puranen

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The Ethics of Extractivism in Science Fiction

Science fiction is a genre that continues to struggle with its own colonialist history, of which many of its portrayals of extractivism are a part. Science fiction is also a genre that has a histor…

“Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.” Carl Sagan, who would have been 88 today, on reading and democracy

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Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy

“Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.”

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PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/3FXKksO Announcing the 2022 recipients of our SETI Forward Award, recognizing outstanding undergraduate interns studying #astrobiology and #SETI research: Benjamin Fields (

), Ze-Wen Koh (

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Some really nice press for the official launch of the #SETI Post-Detection Hub hosted by the Centre for Exoplanet Science and the Centre for Global Law and Governance at the University of St Andrews.

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Humanity might not "speak extraterrestrial." The SETI Post-Detection Hub wants to coordinate how we respond to alien life. cnet.co/3Te6Ccz

Gli scienziati dell’Università di St Andrews hanno creato il centro “SETI Post-Detection Hub” per gestire in modo responsabile possibili contatti con gli alieni

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Scienziati affermano che dobbiamo prepararci al contatto con gli alieni: “Non siamo pronti”

Gli scienziati dell'Università di St Andrews hanno creato il centro 'SETI Post-Detection Hub' per gestire in modo responsabile possibili contatti con gli alieni.

Des chercheurs de l'Université de St. Andrews ont mis en place un plan pour tenter de communiquer efficacement avec les extraterrestres. Ils auraient créé un groupe international qui s'appelle officiellement SETI Post-Detection Hub.

the-sun.com

Inside 'first contact' plan when aliens land on Earth as scientists predict it

SOME scientists and experts believe that it is merely an inevitability that humans will discover they are not alone in the universe. This prompts the poignant question of what we will do to prepare…

Well, this is interesting, and ties in with an article I've been working on recently: news of a post-detection hub for #SETI that will work to prepare for how society and governments might respond to a successful SETI detection.

seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

SETI Post-Detection Hub

Just another WordPress @ St Andrews site

Exciting news from

✨ The #SETI Post-Detection Hub launched on the 2nd Nov 2022 at the

@univofstandrews

. Hosted by the Centre for Exoplanet Science and the Centre for Global Law and Governance: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/do-you

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Do you speak extra-terrestrial? – New SETI Post-Detection Hub at the @univofstandrews launched news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/do-you

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Arik Kershenbaum #ZoologistsGuideToTheGalaxy

@arikkershenbaum

Jun 9, 2022

The cao vit gibbon Nomascus nasutus gets its name from the characteristic male solo call: "caaao vit vit vit" that you can hear on this video clip. You can also hear a female "great call". Waking up to these eerie sounds in the morning is one of the humbling perks of the job

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Arik Kershenbaum #ZoologistsGuideToTheGalaxy

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has teamed up with

to use our passive acoustic tracking technology to study and conserve one of the rarest primates in the world: the recently rediscovered CAO VIT GIBBON fauna-flora.org/species/cao-vi, just 135 animals are left in the wild.

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:'A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source' by Niu et al., with an important caveat about using DM as a proxy for distance:

nature.com

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source

Nature - A repeating fast radio burst co-located with a persistent radio source and associated with a dwarf host galaxy of a high star-formation rate has been detected.