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'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. <br />
<br />
= Contributions welcome =<br />
<br />
The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows through participant engagement and welcomes plural scenarios and narratives beyond UK, USA and European contexts.<br />
<br />
Anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. We are grateful for all contributions that can enrich the variety of the post-detection situations. To use the Toolkit elements, they need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. This process is done in groups: communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. The improvisatory process is human work that can't be done alone or automated.<br />
</div><br />
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== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki after it is formally released at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from 5 to 9 October 2026.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. <br />
<br />
= Contributions welcome =<br />
<br />
The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows through participant engagement and welcomes plural scenarios and narratives beyond UK, USA and European contexts.<br />
<br />
Anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] to aid with adding your work. <br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. We are grateful for all contributions that can enrich the variety of the post-detection situations. To use the Toolkit elements, they need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. This process is done in groups: communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. The improvisatory process is human work that can't be done alone or automated.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki after it is formally released at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from 5 to 9 October 2026.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. <br />
<br />
= Contributions welcome =<br />
<br />
The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. We are grateful for all contributions that can enrich the variety of the post-detection situations. To use the Toolkit elements, they need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. This process is done in groups: communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. The improvisatory process is human work that can't be done alone or automated.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki after it is formally released at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from 5 to 9 October 2026.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
</div></div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=316Post-Detection Toolkit2026-04-17T09:20:13Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. <br />
<br />
= Contributions welcome! =<br />
<br />
The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. We are grateful for all contributions that can enrich the variety of the post-detection situations. To use the Toolkit elements, they need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. This process is done in groups: communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. The improvisatory process is human work that can't be done alone or automated.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki after it is formally released at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from 5 to 9 October 2026.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
</div></div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=315Post-Detection Toolkit2026-04-17T09:19:13Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. We are grateful for all contributions that can enrich the variety of the post-detection situations. To use the Toolkit elements, they need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. This process is done in groups: communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. The improvisatory process is human work that can't be done alone or automated.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki after it is formally released at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from 5 to 9 October 2026.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The Toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit .PDF will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. We are grateful for all contributions that can enrich the variety of the post-detection situations. To use the Toolkit elements, they need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. This process is done in groups: communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. The improvisatory process is human work that can't be done alone or automated.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''The Post-detection Imaginations Toolkit guide is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions to the wiki. If you would like to contribute, you can message us for more guidance about how to take part in the process, or receive a notification when the toolkit guide is released. Please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. ''Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.''<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Imaginations Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
A fully developed toolkit .PDF will be released at the 77th IAC International Astronautical Congress (IAC Türkiye 2026). It will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. <br />
<br />
The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''Important note:''' The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. The Toolkit elements need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. Communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of a technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. This is human work that can't be done alone.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''The pre-detection scenarios will be published in the Toolkit PDF, to be released at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), to be held in Antalya, Türkiye, from 5 to 9 October 2026.<br />
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Following the official release we will feature the pre-detection scenarios on this page.<br />
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To join the mailing list and for updates on the Toolkit relief please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
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'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
= A Recipe Book for SETI Futures =<br />
<br />
The Toolkit is designed as a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, role-play and collaborative exercises.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit .PDF will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''. The 4 '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' have been designed across the last years, but the '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' are open to continuous contribution and strive for a diverse collection as possible.<br />
<br />
Important note: The resource lists ingredients, but to come to life it needs and relies on the improvisation of facilitators and participants. The Toolkit elements need to be adapted and combined with specific contexts through group work. Communities bring their own contexts to the exploration of varied futures of a technosignature detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations. This is human work that can't be done alone.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''The Toolkit guide .pdf is in its final edit stage.''' This resource will help guide contributions. If you would like more guidance about how to take part in the process at this point, or receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. <br />
<br />
The work has involved extensive collaborative development across two phases to develop through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagines various alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The first phase used Miro for horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, and constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios. The second phase combined asynchronous work with activities during the inaugural [https://sites.google.com/view/pd-futures/home Post-Detection Futures] meeting (St Andrews, 2025), working to generate a set of detection situations that could be randomly combined for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The fully developed toolkit .PDF will provide practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]'''.<br />
<br />
The Toolkit is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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|-<br />
| YEAR <br />
| "Scenario Title"<br />
| [[User:YourName]]<br />
| A#-B#-C#-D#-E#-F#-G#-H#-I#-J#-K#-L#-M#-N#<br />
| [Detection round text]<br />
| [Interpretation round text]<br />
| [Understanding round text]<br />
| [Meta tags / notes]<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Year !! Scenario Title !! Author !! Permutation Type (A–N) !! Detection Round (≤150 words) !! Interpretation Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Understanding Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Meta Tags / Notes<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 <br />
| "Venus Anomaly Helix"<br />
| [[User:ExampleContributor]]<br />
| A3-B2-C3-D2-E2-F1-G5-H1-I2-J2-K2-L3-M1-N1<br />
| During a data-mining contest held by an educational nonprofit, a student's AI assistant flagged an anomaly in archived telemetry data from a decades-old orbiter mission to Venus. The anomaly structurally resembled a stylized helix embedded physically as an energy oscillation pattern within the waveform of the orbiter’s original communication signal.<br />
| The pattern contained minimal decipherable content from a human perspective and no contextual clues, was of very short duration, and was later judged to be probably unintentionally emitted.<br />
| Later investigation of the pattern’s characteristics suggested a synthetic, non-biological source: possibly a byproduct of a passing technological artifact. The apparent absence of any harmful interference or neutrally disruptive effects led to a probably benign assessment.<br />
| AI anomaly, Venus, benign contact<br />
|}</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-detection_Situations&diff=307Post-detection Situations2025-10-30T20:02:42Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* Post-Detection Scenarios */</p>
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=== Post-Detection Scenarios ===<br />
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|-<br />
| YEAR <br />
| "Scenario Title"<br />
| [[User:YourName]]<br />
| A#-B#-C#-D#-E#-F#-G#-H#-I#-J#-K#-L#-M#-N#<br />
| [Detection round text]<br />
| [Interpretation round text]<br />
| [Understanding round text]<br />
| [Meta tags / notes]<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Year !! Scenario Title !! Author !! Permutation Type (A–N) !! Detection Round (≤150 words) !! Interpretation Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Understanding Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Meta Tags / Notes<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 <br />
| "Venus Anomaly Helix"<br />
| [[User:ExampleContributor]]<br />
| A3-B2-C3-D2-E2-F1-G5-H1-I2-J2-K2-L3-M1-N1<br />
| During a data-mining contest held by an educational nonprofit, a student's AI assistant flagged an anomaly in archived telemetry data from a decades-old orbiter mission to Venus. The anomaly structurally resembled a stylized helix embedded physically as an energy oscillation pattern within the waveform of the orbiter’s original communication signal.<br />
| The pattern contained minimal decipherable content from a human perspective and no contextual clues, was of very short duration, and was later judged to be probably unintentionally emitted.<br />
| Later investigation of the pattern’s characteristics suggested a synthetic, non-biological source: possibly a byproduct of a passing technological artifact. The apparent absence of any harmful interference or neutrally disruptive effects led to a probably benign assessment.<br />
| AI anomaly, Venus, benign contact<br />
|}</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-detection_Situations&diff=306Post-detection Situations2025-10-30T20:00:50Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* Post-Detection Scenarios */</p>
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=== Post-Detection Scenarios ===<br />
=== Post-Detection Scenarios ===<br />
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|-<br />
| YEAR <br />
| "Scenario Title"<br />
| [[User:YourName]]<br />
| A#-B#-C#-D#-E#-F#-G#-H#-I#-J#-K#-L#-M#-N#<br />
| [Detection round text]<br />
| [Interpretation round text]<br />
| [Understanding round text]<br />
| [Meta tags / notes]<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Year !! Scenario Title !! Author !! Permutation Type (A–N) !! Detection Round (≤150 words) !! Interpretation Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Understanding Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Meta Tags / Notes<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 <br />
| "Venus Anomaly Helix"<br />
| [[User:ExampleContributor]]<br />
| A3-B2-C3-D2-E2-F1-G5-H1-I2-J2-K2-L3-M1-N1<br />
| During a data-mining contest held by an educational nonprofit, a student's AI assistant flagged an anomaly in archived telemetry data from a decades-old orbiter mission to Venus. The anomaly structurally resembled a stylized helix embedded physically as an energy oscillation pattern within the waveform of the orbiter’s original communication signal.<br />
| The pattern contained minimal decipherable content from a human perspective and no contextual clues, was of very short duration, and was later judged to be probably unintentionally emitted.<br />
| Later investigation of the pattern’s characteristics suggested a synthetic, non-biological source: possibly a byproduct of a passing technological artifact. The apparent absence of any harmful interference or neutrally disruptive effects led to a probably benign assessment.<br />
| AI anomaly, Venus, benign contact<br />
|}</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-detection_Situations&diff=305Post-detection Situations2025-10-30T20:00:09Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* Post-Detection Scenarios */</p>
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=== Post-Detection Scenarios ===<br />
=== Post-Detection Scenarios ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Year !! Scenario Title !! Author !! Permutation Type (A–N) !! Detection Round (≤150 words) !! Interpretation Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Understanding Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Meta Tags / Notes<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 <br />
| "Venus Anomaly Helix"<br />
| [[User:ExampleContributor]]<br />
| A3-B2-C3-D2-E2-F1-G5-H1-I2-J2-K2-L3-M1-N1<br />
| During a data-mining contest held by an educational nonprofit, a student's AI assistant flagged an anomaly in archived telemetry data from a decades-old orbiter mission to Venus. The anomaly structurally resembled a stylized helix embedded physically as an energy oscillation pattern within the waveform of the orbiter’s original communication signal.<br />
| The pattern contained minimal decipherable content from a human perspective and no contextual clues, was of very short duration, and was later judged to be probably unintentionally emitted.<br />
| Later investigation of the pattern’s characteristics suggested a synthetic, non-biological source: possibly a byproduct of a passing technological artifact. The apparent absence of any harmful interference or neutrally disruptive effects led to a probably benign assessment.<br />
| AI anomaly, Venus, benign contact<br />
|}<br />
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|-<br />
| YEAR <br />
| "Scenario Title"<br />
| [[User:YourName]]<br />
| A#-B#-C#-D#-E#-F#-G#-H#-I#-J#-K#-L#-M#-N#<br />
| [Detection round text here — up to 150 words]<br />
| [Interpretation round text here — up to 150 words]<br />
| [Understanding round text here — up to 150 words]<br />
| [Meta tags / notes here]</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-detection_Situations&diff=304Post-detection Situations2025-10-30T19:55:12Z<p>Wikiadmin: Created page with "=== Post-Detection Scenarios === {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! Scenario Title !! Author !! Permutation Type (A–N) !! Detection Round (≤150 words) !! Interpretation Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Understanding Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Meta Tags / Notes |- | 2025 || "Venus Anomaly Helix" || User:ExampleContributor || A3-B2-C3-D2-E2-F1-G5-H1-I2-J2-K2-L3-M1-N1 || '''Detection:''' During a data-mining contest held by an educational nonpr..."</p>
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<div>=== Post-Detection Scenarios ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Year !! Scenario Title !! Author !! Permutation Type (A–N) !! Detection Round (≤150 words) !! Interpretation Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Understanding Round (≤150 words, facilitator only) !! Meta Tags / Notes<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 || "Venus Anomaly Helix" || [[User:ExampleContributor]] || A3-B2-C3-D2-E2-F1-G5-H1-I2-J2-K2-L3-M1-N1 || <br />
'''Detection:''' During a data-mining contest held by an educational nonprofit, a student's AI assistant flagged an anomaly in archived telemetry data from a decades-old orbiter mission to Venus. The anomaly structurally resembled a stylized helix embedded physically as an energy oscillation pattern within the waveform of the orbiter’s original communication signal. ||<br />
'''Interpretation:''' The pattern contained minimal decipherable content from a human perspective and no contextual clues, was of very short duration, and was later judged to be probably unintentionally emitted. ||<br />
'''Understanding:''' Later investigation of the pattern’s characteristics suggested a synthetic, non-biological source: possibly a byproduct of a passing technological artifact. The apparent absence of any harmful interference or neutrally disruptive effects led to a probably benign assessment. ||<br />
AI anomaly, Venus, benign contact<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 || "Infrared Glyph Shadows" || [[User:ExampleContributor]] || A4-B4-C3-D2-E1-F1-G7-H6-I1-J2-K2-L2-M1-N2 || <br />
'''Detection:''' A nationwide consortium of news networks thriving on yellow journalism spotted a pattern of angular shadows within a star-forming region of the Milky Way... ||<br />
'''Interpretation:''' The configuration implied both physical presence and symbolic intent... ||<br />
'''Understanding:''' Later modeling of the occlusions indicated a synthetic, non-biological source... ||<br />
Media analysis, Milky Way, neutral<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 || "Network Hijack" || [[User:ExampleContributor]] || A1-B3-C1-D2-E2-F2-G8-H2-I2-J1-K1-L2-M3-N3 || <br />
'''Detection:''' A space agency's commercial operations division detected systematic interference patterns in key deep-space communication satellites... ||<br />
'''Interpretation:''' The received signals contained rich data structures with apparent intentional design... ||<br />
'''Understanding:''' Later analysis of the signals indicated a biological-synthetic origin... ||<br />
Hijacked network, biological-synthetic, malevolent<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 || "Lunar Embryo Formation" || [[User:ExampleContributor]] || A5-B8-C2-D1-E2-F1-G3-H4-I1-J1-K2-L1-M2-N2 || <br />
'''Detection:''' A multinational lunar governance consortium discovered a small rock assemblage in a crater basin forming two figures... ||<br />
'''Interpretation:''' The formation's depictions, along with the electric field disturbance reacting to the rover, yielded little interpretable content... ||<br />
'''Understanding:''' Later trace organic analysis of the rocks suggested prolonged exposure to foreign biological matter... ||<br />
Lunar anomaly, ancient contact, neutral<br />
|-<br />
| 2025 || "Low-Orbit Ring Artifact" || [[User:ExampleContributor]] || A3-B6-C2-D1-E1-F3-G2-H5-I1-J2-K2-L2-M3-N2 || <br />
'''Detection:''' An ex-military engineer conducting an independent CubeSat experiment in LEO used an AI to test electromagnetic transmissions... ||<br />
'''Interpretation:''' The planet-like figure and prominently etched glyph motifs did not yield deeper message information... ||<br />
'''Understanding:''' Later material analysis revealed a payload made of protein-silicate composites fused with metal nanostructures... ||<br />
Orbiting artifact, synthetic-biological, neutral<br />
|}</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=303Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T14:21:35Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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'''This page is temporarily locked as we are in a process of final edits.''' <br />
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'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.''' <br />
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ SETI Post-Detection Hub] at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
</div></div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=302Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T14:20:35Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.''' <br />
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''[[Pre-detection Scenarios|pre-detection scenarios]]''' and a growing archive of '''[[Post-detection Situations|post-detection situations]]''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection situations''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''This page is temporarily locked as we are in a process of final edits.''' <br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.''' <br />
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection situations''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''This page is temporarily locked as we are in a process of final edits.''' <br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.''' <br />
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection situations''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' pre-detection scenarios and post-detection situations, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new detection situations to grow the archive and introduce greater variety.<br />
* '''Remix''' the Toolkit through digital or analogue means, adapting scenarios into games, tools, or experiences that enable communities to explore post-detection together.<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''This page is temporarily locked as we are in a process of final edits.''' <br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.''' <br />
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection situations''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a commons resource, the Toolkit is an evolving effort that grows with participant engagement and input from diverse perspectives. Collective input makes it possible to grow an archive that welcomes plural narratives, fictions, and histories reaching well beyond UK, USA, and European contexts.<br />
<br />
The strength of the archive lies in plurality. The post-detection situations archive is a living, open-ended resource, and contributors are invited to add to it, drawing on science fiction, notable SETI false alarms, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is to support ongoing dialogue and that the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues, for futures shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Transform to Engage:''' The work is offered to the research community for adaptation. Members of the Hub are working on translating the Toolkit into different formats, including an AI tool in a "choose your own adventure" type of narrative game, and a more analogue collective role-play workshop. The Toolkit has been used in workshops, public events, and community activities in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, with upcoming sessions in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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'''This page is temporarily locked as we are in a process of final edits.''' <br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.''' <br />
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection scenarios''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="border:2px solid #336699; background:#eef6fb; padding:1em; margin:1.5em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''Note:''' The first edition of the ''Post-Detection Toolkit'' was trialled in summer workshops. <br />
An updated version will be published here on the Wiki later in the year.<br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
<br />
'''For Reference:''' <br />
<br />
* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
<br />
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<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#eef9ee; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
'''The Toolkit is in its final edit stage.''' <br />
To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection scenarios''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
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'''For Reference:''' <br />
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* Elliott et al. (2023). ''The SETI Post-Detection Hub: Preparing for Discovery.'' IAC-23,A4,2,2,x79324. <br />
* Genevieve et al. (2024). ''Plurality in Post Detection Scenarios.'' 53rd International Astronautical Congress, Italy. <br />
* Profitiliotis et al. (2025). ''SETI Post-Detection Toolkit 2050.'' (Upcoming). <br />
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
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The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacities for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
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The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The work has involved extensive collaborative development: horizon scanning, identifying trends and uncertainties, constructing four contrasting pre-detection scenarios, and generating a set of randomly combined detection situations for use in workshops or simulations.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The structured resource combines '''pre-detection scenarios''' and a growing archive of '''post-detection scenarios''' developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2025) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
It is designed like a recipe book that makes futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. The resource lists ingredients, and to come to life it relies on facilitators and participants. By adapting and combining the Toolkit elements in context, communities can explore varied futures after a SETI detection, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=294Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T12:38:52Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? */</p>
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
<div style="border:1px solid #aaa; background:#f9f9f9; padding:1em; margin:1em 0;"><br />
The Post-Detection Scenario Toolkit is a flexible framework for exploring future discoveries, designed to handle uncertainty and highlight the significance of context, governance, and international collaboration. The toolkit uses a four-scenario method (from Dator's futures methods) to intentionally maximise difference between plausible futures. By enabling work with divergent possibilities, including those beyond current expectations, it helps build collective capacity for response across varied publics and disciplines.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
The Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The structured resource combines pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. It is designed to make futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises, helping groups consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=293Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T12:07:45Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? */</p>
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To take part in the process and receive a notification when the Post-Detection Toolkit is open to edit, please send an email to: [mailto:postdetectionhub@gmail.com postdetectionhub@gmail.com]. Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The structured resource combines pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources, including scenarios, templates, and interactive methods, as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. It is designed to make futures thinking accessible through storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises, helping groups consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=292Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T12:06:08Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the collective research efforts of the Scenarios Working Group at the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr. George Profitiliotis. The structured resource combines pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagined alternatives for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explored discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=291Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T11:56:02Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=290Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T11:55:32Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=289Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T11:54:49Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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Addresses are kept private and are not added to any other lists.<br />
</div><br />
<br />
= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Post-Detection_Toolkit&diff=288Post-Detection Toolkit2025-09-18T11:41:09Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
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The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
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As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
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For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
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* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
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== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
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* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is approachable and used in workshops, public events, and community activities to invite broad participation in futures thinking about post-detection. It can be creatively adapted to different contexts, and the resource grows through participant engagement and input from transcultural contexts. So far, workshops have been held in Scotland, the USA, New Zealand, and Georgia, and are planned in Australia.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
<br />
The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
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As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is structured to be approachable and is used in workshops, public events, and community activities, to invite people from all backgrounds to participate in futures thinking about post-detection. Creators and researchers are encouraged to adapt the exercises and scenarios to formats that fit community contexts.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
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== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
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* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
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The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is structured to be approachable and is used in workshops, public events, and community activities, to invite people from all backgrounds to participate in futures thinking about post-detection. Creators and researchers are encouraged to adapt the exercises and scenarios to formats that fit community contexts.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
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== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
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* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
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= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
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The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
<br />
As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
<br />
== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is structured to be approachable and is used in workshops, public events, and community activities, to invite people from all backgrounds to participate in futures thinking about post-detection. Creators and researchers are encouraged to adapt the exercises and scenarios to formats that fit community contexts.<br />
<br />
* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
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== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
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* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
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<div>= What is the Post-Detection Toolkit? =<br />
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The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
<br />
The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to adapt and use them. The Toolkit is a creative, participatory resource that makes futures thinking accessible: it uses storytelling, roleplay, and collaborative exercises. These activities help groups think comparatively, imaginatively, and consider how they might feel, act, and respond in unfamiliar or unprecedented situations.<br />
<br />
== A Commons Resource ==<br />
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As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts. Not all pages are editable, but anyone can contribute to the open sections, critique, or adapt the materials. This is in the support of ongoing dialogue and ensures the resource remains robust and relevant across different communities.<br />
<br />
The post-detection scenarios archive is a living, open-ended resource. The strength of the archive lies in plurality and contributors are invited to add new scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination. <br />
<br />
Please see the [[Contributing Guidelines]] before adding your work. <br />
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== Public Outreach ==<br />
<br />
For the wider public, the Toolkit serves as an accessible and creative way to understand possible futures in the context of scenarios of discovery in 2050.<br />
<br />
* '''Designed to Engage:''' The Toolkit is structured to be approachable and is used in workshops, public events, and community activities, to invite people from all backgrounds to participate in futures thinking about post-detection. Creators and researchers are encouraged to adapt the exercises and scenarios to formats that fit community contexts.<br />
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* '''A Tool for Dialogue and Participation:''' Participants consider the ethical, social, and emotional dimensions of possible futures together, and discuss what values and actions might matter most in those contexts. The goal is to include communities in policy questions and issues so that futures are shaped by diverse perspectives, not just experts.<br />
<br />
== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
<br />
* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
* '''Remix''' the toolkit through art projects, games, Live Action Role Play (LARP), or performance: adapting and repurposing scenarios so communities can explore post-detection.<br />
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The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
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The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance as guidance on how to adapt and use them. It includes invitations for participants to generate or simplify their own scenarios, drawing on science fiction, history, or imagination.<br />
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As a living commons, the toolkit welcomes contributions from multiple contexts, encouraging imaginative breadth to conceive of many different futures of 2050 underpinned by diverse values and cultural priorities.<br />
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== How to Use The Post-Detection Toolkit ==<br />
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* '''Explore''' existing pre- and post-detection scenarios, resources, and methods. <br />
* '''Contribute''' new scenarios, tools, or reflections to expand the commons archive and strengthen collective readiness for discovery.<br />
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<div>= Post-Detection Toolkit=<br />
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The Post-Detection Toolkit grows out of the work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. It brings together both pre-detection scenarios and a growing archive of post-detection scenarios developed through a 15-month participatory futures process (2023–2024) that imagines alternative futures for the SETI ecosystem in 2050 and explores discovery and its aftermath.<br />
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The toolkit provides practical resources - scenarios, templates, checklists, and interactive methods - as well as guidance on how to use the resource.<br />
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'''''Please note:''''' Wiki under construction — join the edit-a-thon on '''Weekend 29th/30th March 2025''' to help transfer work from [https://seti-hub.notion.site seti-hub.notion.site], add new work and references, and define [[Contribute|contribution workflows]].<br />
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'''Content of this wiki'''<br />
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* [[Bibliography]] – Builds on the collective work of the SETI Post-Detection Hub, inviting collaborative contributions to grow a rich interdisciplinary collection on SETI Post-Detection, to develop a Post-Detection section for Oman-Reagan et al's [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vd5llZrXOjKZSKZi9-_LWRERvKO4fQh59zPiRcXkJ3s/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.iijse61diydu SETI Primer]<br />
* [[Post-Detection Toolkit and Tools]] - Shared tools and resources for post-detection research and readiness<br />
* [[Glossary]] – Terminology related to SETI and post-detection<br />
* [[Workshops]] – Past and future workshops with a particular emphasis on SETI post-detection themes<br />
* Teaching - Collection on teaching materials and educational resources about SETI post-detection<br />
* [[Multimedia Archive]] – videos, press, interviews, and various media on SETI post-detection<br />
* Imaginarium – creative archive, including various forms of art, films, books, and creative scenarios exploring SETI post-detection, also available in gallery view<br />
* [[Acknowledgements]] — Dedication, honouring contributions, thanks and a growing list of researchers and groups engaged in SETI post-detection research<br />
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<p>As <b>SETI</b> (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and technosignature detection rapidly advance in the 2020s, fresh efforts are underway to explore what events and processes may unfold during and after a confirmed detection. <b>SETI post-detection research</b> is vital for engaging with the societal, ethical, and philosophical dimensions of a discovery of extraterrestrial life. Transdisciplinary, evidence-based research approaches can take up the task of preparing for the speculative societal, legal, ecological, and scientific challenges that may arise, while developing protocol, emergent strategies and imaginative frameworks to meet the unknown.</p><br />
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'''SETI post-detection community wiki'''<br />
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This wiki is a collectively edited resource for research communities working on, learning about, and sharing evidence-based post-detection research. We welcome contributions on SETI post-detection, links to research groups and networks, and reading materials across disciplines, including the natural and social sciences, governance and law, philosophy and ethics, futures studies, anthropology and communication, disaster studies, technology and art-science. '''<br />
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The purpose of the resource is to celebrate foundational post-detection efforts, along with new approaches to uncertain questions and outer space studies in the present day, connecting dots and aiding more joined up responsive thinking on post-detection.<br />
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The [[Bibliography|shared bibliography]] is a collective reading list that aims to grow a rich section on SETI Post-Detection for Oman-Reagan et al's [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vd5llZrXOjKZSKZi9-_LWRERvKO4fQh59zPiRcXkJ3s/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.iijse61diydu SETI Primer]. It is is also a living archive intended to widen access. The wiki is open and in process, reflecting the collaborative spirit of a wiki itself. Though the SETI Post-Detection Hub is based in Scotland, this wiki is a planetary resource, committed to including research, networks and perspectives from regions often underrepresented in the Academy, such as the Global South.<br />
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As the wiki is emerging, and not meant to be fixed or definitive, there are gaps and many potentials. '''Missing something?''' You are warmly invited to add to it: please share your references with the community. You can '''help this wiki grow''' by adding references directly in individual [[Bibliography|bibliography]] pages, or adding new pages or adding references with their own BibTeX by following Step 2 in the [[HowToAddReferences|contribution guide]].<br />
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== Getting started ==<br />
'''[[Contribute|Contribute]]'''<br />
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* How to contribute to this wiki on SETI post-detection<br />
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'''[[Contribute/Translate|Translate]]'''<br />
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* The work begins in English, with the aim of translating into other languages as translators become available, to support a multilingual and international resource.<br />
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'''[[Contributors|Contributors]]'''<br />
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* Credit and list of contributors to this wiki over time<br />
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<div>== Code of Conduct ==<br />
This page draws on the SETI Post-Detection Hub's code of conduct and collaboration expectations, with thanks to Hub members who collaboratively shaped this document. The full and latest version can be found on the [https://seti.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk Hub website].<br />
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=== Conduct Expectation for Collaborative Working ===<br />
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The '''SETI Post-Detection Hub''' is a professional network designed to further the field of '''post-detection research'''. It is committed to broadening the scope of SETI inquiry by bringing together a diverse mix of researchers across disciplines, geographies, and backgrounds to work together on evidence-based approaches to post-detection. We support an '''open and collaborative environment''' to enrich research culture and ensure that a wide range of voices help shape this field.<br />
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'''Transdisciplinary research''' is central to the Hub, and international collaboration requires curiosity and generosity. When working together on documents, just as we would in person, we commit to respectful dialogue. No one is an expert in everything, and listening and mutual respect creates valuable opportunities for learning and collaboration.<br />
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=== Best Practices ===<br />
* '''Respectful Interactions''' – Value inclusion and avoid adversarial or belittling comments in the editing environment.<br />
* '''Care''' – Create an environment where people feel safe to contribute.<br />
* '''Mutual Responsibility''' – everyone contributes to creating an encouraging and responsible culture.<br />
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==== Care ====<br />
* '''Patience''' – Mistakes can happen when editing : warmth and patience helps in a diverse and interdisciplinary community of editors. Rudeness and belittling language are not okay.<br />
* ‘’’Invite Improvement’’’ – If you notice something missing or unclear, please add supportively. Don’t expect other editors to have the same knowledge base as you do, or the same experience of Wiki software.<br />
* '''Zero Tolerance for Harassment''' – Aggressive, harassing, or abusive behaviour will not be tolerated.<br />
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=== Specific Harassment Guidelines ===<br />
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Harassment is defined by its '''impact on the person affected''', not the intent behind it.<br />
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'''Harassment includes:'''<br />
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If you experience or witness harassment, please contact the admin to take appropriate action, including removing editing privileges and asking individuals to leave the group. A collective resolution process involving additional volunteers will be used when necessary.<br />
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==== Culture of Responsible Learning ====<br />
* '''Recognise Uneven Knowledge''' – Listen to those with lived experience, and do seek to welcome evidence-based perspectives from groups not within the canon.<br />
* '''Continuous Learning''' – Editors are responsible for educating themselves around issues of discrimination. Support learning around systemic issues in science and society.<br />
* '''Share Learning Resources''' – Editors are encouraged to explore resources on systemic and epistemic injustice, cultural appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and intersectionality. As well as using the wiki to grow shared references to key works, we encourage people to seek out varied further resources. Examples include:<br />
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* Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s Decolonising Science Reading List<br />
* The SETI Indigenous Studies Working Group Statement<br />
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=== Acknowledgements ===<br />
This documentation and Code of Conduct aligns with the [https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct Universal Code of Conduct] and adheres to established guidelines used in official Wikimedia Commons policy. It draws directly from an extended Code of Conduct developed by members of the SETI Post-Detection Hub.<br />
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We acknowledge the influence of other codes of conduct and documentation in related fields, including:<br />
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[https://ras.ac.uk/membership/membership-fellows/code-conduct Royal Astronomical Society Code of Conduct]<br />
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[https://aas.org/policies/ethicsc AAS Code of Ethics]</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute/Add_References&diff=239Contribute/Add References2025-03-31T10:39:40Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* ➤ Option A: Simple contribution */</p>
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<div><div style="border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em; background-color: #f9f9f9;"><br />
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'''Contribute a Reference'''<br />
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You can add references in the [[Bibliography]] in two ways: one simple and one more advanced.<br />
<br />
Please choose the method that works best for you.<br />
<br />
====➤ Option A: Simple reference (without BibTeX)====<br />
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This workflow adds a reference directly in the theme page (without BibTeX)<br />
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Click and scroll in any of the Bibliography pages and:<br />
* Add your reference under the correct letter in the alphabetical list.<br />
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Please use this format:<br />
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<pre><br />
<nowiki><br />
AuthorLast, First. Year. "Title." ''Journal or Source''. Date. [Link]<br />
</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
====➤ Option B: Structured entry for more advanced users (includes BibTeX)====<br />
<br />
This workflow creates a unique reference page with the useful addition of BibTeX.<br />
<br />
1. Create a new unique page for the reference:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
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2. Use this template:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
== Title ==<br />
'''Author.''' Year. [Link] ''Journal or Source''. Date.<br />
<br />
''Themes:'' [[Category:YourTheme1]], [[Category:YourTheme2]]<br />
<br />
=== BibTeX ===<br />
<pre><br />
@article{LastnameYearTitle,<br />
author = {First Last},<br />
title = {Title},<br />
journal = {Journal},<br />
year = {Year},<br />
url = {Link}<br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
3. Do not write the reference into the Bibliography theme page directly. Please add the reference to the unique page instead using this format:<br />
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<pre><br />
<nowiki>{{:Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title}}</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
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</div><br />
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Many thanks ⚡️<br />
<br />
If you add references to the list, add your name to the [[Contributors]] page.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute/Add_References&diff=238Contribute/Add References2025-03-31T10:39:12Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* ➤ Option A: Simple Contribution */</p>
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<div><div style="border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em; background-color: #f9f9f9;"><br />
<br />
'''Contribute a Reference'''<br />
<br />
You can add references in the [[Bibliography]] in two ways: one simple and one more advanced.<br />
<br />
Please choose the method that works best for you.<br />
<br />
====➤ Option A: Simple contribution====<br />
<br />
This workflow adds a reference directly in the theme page (without BibTeX)<br />
<br />
Click and scroll in any of the Bibliography pages and:<br />
* Add your reference under the correct letter in the alphabetical list.<br />
<br />
Please use this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki><br />
AuthorLast, First. Year. "Title." ''Journal or Source''. Date. [Link]<br />
</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
====➤ Option B: Structured entry for more advanced users (includes BibTeX)====<br />
<br />
This workflow creates a unique reference page with the useful addition of BibTeX.<br />
<br />
1. Create a new unique page for the reference:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
2. Use this template:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
== Title ==<br />
'''Author.''' Year. [Link] ''Journal or Source''. Date.<br />
<br />
''Themes:'' [[Category:YourTheme1]], [[Category:YourTheme2]]<br />
<br />
=== BibTeX ===<br />
<pre><br />
@article{LastnameYearTitle,<br />
author = {First Last},<br />
title = {Title},<br />
journal = {Journal},<br />
year = {Year},<br />
url = {Link}<br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
3. Do not write the reference into the Bibliography theme page directly. Please add the reference to the unique page instead using this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>{{:Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title}}</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
Many thanks ⚡️<br />
<br />
If you add references to the list, add your name to the [[Contributors]] page.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute/Add_References&diff=237Contribute/Add References2025-03-31T10:38:50Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* ➤ Option B: Structured Entry for more advanced users (includes BibTeX) */</p>
<hr />
<div><div style="border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em; background-color: #f9f9f9;"><br />
<br />
'''Contribute a Reference'''<br />
<br />
You can add references in the [[Bibliography]] in two ways: one simple and one more advanced.<br />
<br />
Please choose the method that works best for you.<br />
<br />
====➤ Option A: Simple Contribution====<br />
<br />
This workflow adds a reference directly in the theme page (without BibTeX)<br />
<br />
Click and scroll in any of the Bibliography pages and:<br />
* Add your reference under the correct letter in the alphabetical list.<br />
<br />
Please use this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki><br />
AuthorLast, First. Year. "Title." ''Journal or Source''. Date. [Link]<br />
</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
====➤ Option B: Structured entry for more advanced users (includes BibTeX)====<br />
<br />
This workflow creates a unique reference page with the useful addition of BibTeX.<br />
<br />
1. Create a new unique page for the reference:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
2. Use this template:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
== Title ==<br />
'''Author.''' Year. [Link] ''Journal or Source''. Date.<br />
<br />
''Themes:'' [[Category:YourTheme1]], [[Category:YourTheme2]]<br />
<br />
=== BibTeX ===<br />
<pre><br />
@article{LastnameYearTitle,<br />
author = {First Last},<br />
title = {Title},<br />
journal = {Journal},<br />
year = {Year},<br />
url = {Link}<br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
3. Do not write the reference into the Bibliography theme page directly. Please add the reference to the unique page instead using this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>{{:Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title}}</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
Many thanks ⚡️<br />
<br />
If you add references to the list, add your name to the [[Contributors]] page.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute/Add_References&diff=236Contribute/Add References2025-03-31T10:38:22Z<p>Wikiadmin: /* ➤ Option B: Structured Entry (More advanced users (includes BibTeX) */</p>
<hr />
<div><div style="border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em; background-color: #f9f9f9;"><br />
<br />
'''Contribute a Reference'''<br />
<br />
You can add references in the [[Bibliography]] in two ways: one simple and one more advanced.<br />
<br />
Please choose the method that works best for you.<br />
<br />
====➤ Option A: Simple Contribution====<br />
<br />
This workflow adds a reference directly in the theme page (without BibTeX)<br />
<br />
Click and scroll in any of the Bibliography pages and:<br />
* Add your reference under the correct letter in the alphabetical list.<br />
<br />
Please use this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki><br />
AuthorLast, First. Year. "Title." ''Journal or Source''. Date. [Link]<br />
</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
====➤ Option B: Structured Entry for more advanced users (includes BibTeX)====<br />
<br />
This workflow creates a unique reference page with the useful addition of BibTeX.<br />
<br />
1. Create a new unique page for the reference:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
2. Use this template:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
== Title ==<br />
'''Author.''' Year. [Link] ''Journal or Source''. Date.<br />
<br />
''Themes:'' [[Category:YourTheme1]], [[Category:YourTheme2]]<br />
<br />
=== BibTeX ===<br />
<pre><br />
@article{LastnameYearTitle,<br />
author = {First Last},<br />
title = {Title},<br />
journal = {Journal},<br />
year = {Year},<br />
url = {Link}<br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
3. Do not write the reference into the Bibliography theme page directly. Please add the reference to the unique page instead using this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>{{:Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title}}</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
Many thanks ⚡️<br />
<br />
If you add references to the list, add your name to the [[Contributors]] page.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute/Add_References&diff=235Contribute/Add References2025-03-31T10:37:18Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
<hr />
<div><div style="border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em; background-color: #f9f9f9;"><br />
<br />
'''Contribute a Reference'''<br />
<br />
You can add references in the [[Bibliography]] in two ways: one simple and one more advanced.<br />
<br />
Please choose the method that works best for you.<br />
<br />
====➤ Option A: Simple Contribution====<br />
<br />
This workflow adds a reference directly in the theme page (without BibTeX)<br />
<br />
Click and scroll in any of the Bibliography pages and:<br />
* Add your reference under the correct letter in the alphabetical list.<br />
<br />
Please use this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki><br />
AuthorLast, First. Year. "Title." ''Journal or Source''. Date. [Link]<br />
</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
====➤ Option B: Structured Entry (More advanced users (includes BibTeX)====<br />
<br />
This workflow creates a unique reference page with the useful addition of BibTeX.<br />
<br />
1. Create a new unique page for the reference:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
2. Use this template:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
== Title ==<br />
'''Author.''' Year. [Link] ''Journal or Source''. Date.<br />
<br />
''Themes:'' [[Category:YourTheme1]], [[Category:YourTheme2]]<br />
<br />
=== BibTeX ===<br />
<pre><br />
@article{LastnameYearTitle,<br />
author = {First Last},<br />
title = {Title},<br />
journal = {Journal},<br />
year = {Year},<br />
url = {Link}<br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
3. Do not write the reference into the Bibliography theme page directly. Please add the reference to the unique page instead using this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>{{:Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title}}</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
Many thanks ⚡️<br />
<br />
If you add references to the list, add your name to the [[Contributors]] page.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute/Add_References&diff=234Contribute/Add References2025-03-31T10:36:33Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
<hr />
<div><div style="border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 1em; background-color: #f9f9f9;"><br />
<br />
'''Contribute a Reference'''<br />
<br />
You can add references in the [[Bibliography]] in two ways: one simple and one more advanced.<br />
<br />
Please choose the method that works best for you.<br />
<br />
===='''➤ Option A: Simple Contribution'''====<br />
<br />
This workflow adds a reference directly in the theme page (without BibTeX)<br />
<br />
Click and scroll in any of the Bibliography pages and:<br />
* Add your reference under the correct letter in the alphabetical list.<br />
<br />
Please use this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki><br />
AuthorLast, First. Year. "Title." ''Journal or Source''. Date. [Link]<br />
</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
===='''➤ Option B: Structured Entry (More advanced users (includes BibTeX)'''====<br />
<br />
This workflow creates a unique reference page with the useful addition of BibTeX.<br />
<br />
1. Create a new unique page for the reference:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
2. Use this template:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
== Title ==<br />
'''Author.''' Year. [Link] ''Journal or Source''. Date.<br />
<br />
''Themes:'' [[Category:YourTheme1]], [[Category:YourTheme2]]<br />
<br />
=== BibTeX ===<br />
<pre><br />
@article{LastnameYearTitle,<br />
author = {First Last},<br />
title = {Title},<br />
journal = {Journal},<br />
year = {Year},<br />
url = {Link}<br />
}<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
3. Do not write the reference into the Bibliography theme page directly. Please add the reference to the unique page instead using this format:<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
<nowiki>{{:Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title}}</nowiki><br />
</pre><br />
<br />
</div><br />
<br />
Many thanks ⚡️<br />
<br />
If you add references to the list, add your name to the [[Contributors]] page.</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute&diff=233Contribute2025-03-31T10:35:13Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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<div>== Contribute ==<br />
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This wiki is a collaborative space for references, material and information on evidence-based approaches to SETI post-detection, including outer space studies and futures work.<br />
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Help for contributors can be found below, or at the individual contribute pages:<br />
* [[Contribute/Start Editing|Start Editing]]<br />
* [[Contribute/Add References|Add references to the Bibliography]]<br />
* [[Contribute/Translate|Translate this wiki]]<br />
* [[Contribute/Style Guide|Style and formatting guide]]<br />
* [[Contribute/FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]]<br />
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==Contribute:Get Started==<br />
=== Start Editing ===<br />
{{:Contribute/Start_Editing}}<br />
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==Contribute:Bibliographic References==<br />
=== Add a Reference ===<br />
{{:Contribute/Add_References}}<br />
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==Contribute:Translate ==<br />
=== Translate This Wiki ===<br />
{{:Contribute/Translate}}<br />
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== Contribute:Frequently Asked Questions ==<br />
=== FAQ and Contributor Help ===<br />
{{:Contribute/FAQ}}</div>Wikiadminhttps://wiki.seti-hub.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute/Start_Editing&diff=232Contribute/Start Editing2025-03-31T10:32:41Z<p>Wikiadmin: </p>
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<div>You can contribute to the wiki either with or without an account.<br />
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=== Edit without an Account ===<br />
You can edit most pages without creating an account:<br />
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* Click on the '''Edit''' or '''Edit source''' tab at the top of a page.<br />
* Make your changes directly in the text area.<br />
* Click '''Show preview''' to review your edits.<br />
* When you're ready, click '''Publish changes'''.<br />
Be aware:<br />
* Your edits will be attributed to your IP address.<br />
* You won't have access to watchlists or advanced editing features.<br />
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=== Edit with an Account ===<br />
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Creating a user account lets you contribute with your edits linked to your username instead of your IP address.<br />
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==== How to create an Account ====<br />
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Click on '''Create account''' at the top-right corner of the page.<br />
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Choose a '''username''' (this will be publicly visible).<br />
Enter a '''secure password'''.<br />
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Optionally, add your '''email address''' to enable password recovery.<br />
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Solve the CAPTCHA and click '''Create your account'''.<br />
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Once registered:<br />
* Your '''username''' will appear at the top of the page when you are logged in.<br />
* You will have access to '''watchlists''', '''user preferences''', and other features for editing and tracking changes.<br />
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