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SETI Post-Detection Wiki
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Content of this wiki
- 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 SETI Primer
- Glossary – Terminology related to SETI and post-detection
- Workshops – Past and future workshops with a particular emphasis on SETI post-detection themes
- Teaching - Collection on teaching materials and educational resources about SETI post-detection
- Multimedia Archive – videos, press, interviews, and various media on SETI post-detection
- Imaginarium – creative archive, including various forms of art, films, books, and creative scenarios exploring SETI post-detection, also available in gallery view
- Acknowledgements — Dedication, honouring contributions, thanks and a growing list of researchers and groups engaged in SETI post-detection research
As SETI (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. SETI post-detection research 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.
Community Wiki
This wiki connects research across disciplines, not limited to science alone, it includes anthropology, governance and law, ethics, technology, futures studies, disaster studies, Indigenous research, creative practice, and art-science. We welcome contributions on SETI post-detection, including reading materials, creative projects, links to research groups and networks.
This wiki is a community resource for exploring, learning about, and sharing evidence-based post-detection research. The intention is to celebrate foundational post-detection efforts and open up plural approaches to post-detection in the present. The shared bibliography, drawing on collective work with the aim of growing a rich section on SETI Post-Detection for Oman-Reagan et al's SETI Primer.
This wiki is also a living archive, and intended to widen access. The wiki is open, growing, and in process: reflecting the collaborative spirit of a wiki itself. The SETI Post-Detection Hub is based in Scotland, yet this wiki is intended as a planetary resource, committed to including research, networks and perspectives from regions often underrepresented in the Academy, such as the Global South.
It is as a collaborative resource, not a fixed or definitive resource. Missing something? You are warmly invited to add it: please share your references with the community and help this wiki grow.
References can be added directly in individual bibliography pages, or added as references with their own unique pages (plus BibTeX) by following Step 2 in the contribution guide.
Getting started
- How to contribute to this wiki on SETI post-detection
- The work begins in English, with the aim of translating into other languages as translators become available, to support a multilingual and international resource.
- Credit and list of contributors to this wiki over time
- Consult for general information on using wiki software
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