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

What scientific methods can approach questions of future discovery?

Hub member and risk-communication scholar Andreas Schwarz and students at Ilmenau University of Technology are analyzing YouTube content about post-detection claims with data scientist Anamaria Berea (George Mason University) and the Hub at St Andrews.

Learn more about the work of the International Risk, Crisis & Science Communication Research Group:

https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/en/universitaet/fakultaeten/fakultaet-wirtschaftswissenschaften-und-medien/profil/institute-und-fachgebiete/institut-fuer-medien-und-kommunikationswissenschaft/forschung/international-risk-crisis-and-science-communication-research-group #SETI #Risk #Communication #PostDetection #Discovery

International Risk, Crisis, and Science Communication Research Group | Technische Universität Ilmenau

Technische Universität Ilmenau

🌍 How do you think the world would react if there was a confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence?

Would it spark global unity, scientific renaissance, or fear and skepticism? Would the impact last or slowly fade away? Would it change anything if the discovery was within our own Solar System?

👇 Reply and let us know your thoughts!

#seti #postdetection

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.

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

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

When We Find Life: Science, Society, and Survival

YouTube

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:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-are-planning-for-life-after-finding-aliens/ar-AA1J8E54

#PostDetection #FutureStudies #LifeBeyondEarth

MSN

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

A Sign in Space - https://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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQq36IR-Lk

SETI Institute's Press Release: https://www.seti.org/press-release/first-contact-global-team-simulates-message-extraterrestrial-intelligence-earth

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

A Sign in Space - A Sign in Space

A Sign in Space is an interdisciplinary project by media artist Daniela de Paulis, in collaboration with the SETI Institute, the European Space Agency, the Green Bank Observatory and INAF, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.The project consists in transmitting a simulated extraterrestrial message as part of a live performance, using an ESA spacecraft as celestial source. The objective of the project is to involve the world-wide Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence community, professionals from different fields and the broader public, in the reception, decoding and interpretation of the message. This process will require global cooperation, bridging a conversation around the topics of SETI, space research and society, across multiple cultures and fields of expertise. Website by Irene Fabbri

A Sign in Space

Really happy with Thursday's piece on the #SETI post-detection hub in the #Guardian. Thanks to John Elliott.

Here's to exciting inclusive creative collaborations in 2023. Good wishes everybody & take care out there 🌍 🌌

#HappyNewYear #AstroDon #PostDetection #ET #SpaceStudies

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/29/if-aliens-contact-humanity-who-decides-what-we-do-next

If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’

The Guardian
If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’

The Guardian

Our new #SETI research hub at the University of St Andrews in #Scotland is receiving some really nice press.

"Will we ever get a message from E.T.? We don’t know...” Have a read for John Elliott’s thoughts on #PostDetection, #readiness & #research across disciplines:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/we-cannot-afford-to-be-ill-prepared-research-hub-wants-to-prepare-humanity-for-potential-proof-of-alien-life-1.6142956

#UniversityOfStAndrews #xenolinguistics #speculativeethics #spacegovernance #outerspacestudies

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

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

CTVNews

Some nice press on the newly opened SETI Post-Detection Hub in St. Andrews, Scotland:
https://www.livescience.com/alien-contact-protocol.html

Written by Isobel Whitcomb for #LiveScience #SETI #ukseti #univofstandrews #setijon #PostDetection #outerspacestudies #ET #speculativeethics #xenolinguistics #scotland #research

Scientists are working on an official 'alien contact protocol' for when ET phones Earth

We're unprepared for when E.T. reaches out to us. A team of experts is determined to change that with the first new alien "contact" protocol in 35 years.

Live Science