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Daliah Bibas

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Doctoral Scholar Researching Extraterrestrial and Artificial Intelligence | MSc Astrobio | BSc Biology | Canadian 🇨🇦 studying in Belgium 🇧🇪 ✡️ 🔭 🐰 🎨 🏳️‍🌈 🧘🏼‍♀️ 🌱 🛸 ♑️ https://beacons.ai/daliahbibas

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 10d

🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐

On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.

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Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.

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Daliah Bibas @daliahbibas.bsky.social · 22d

Live in 2 hours!!

SETI Post-Detection Hub @setihub.bsky.social · 22d

What happens after we discover life beyond Earth?

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

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

When We Find Life: Science, Society, and Survival

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Daliah Bibas @daliahbibas.bsky.social · Sep 10

Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Sep 10

oh btw a new jwst image dropped today and it’s absolutely breathtaking

$Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ)$

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cows don't just give milk, they give good vibes! 😊

#bluesky #nature #animals

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pseticenter.bsky.social @pseticenter.bsky.social · Aug 22

Order of the Octopus photos

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Daliah Bibas @daliahbibas.bsky.social · Sep 3

Had such a great 4 days at the PSETI-2025 Symposium!
I really enjoyed learning alongside such an inspiring group of people and running my 2-hour workshop on "What is Intelligence?" 💡

pseticenter.bsky.social @pseticenter.bsky.social · Aug 22

Had a fantastic 4 days of SETI at the Third Penn State SETI Symposium!

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Prof. Abel Méndez @profabelmendez.bsky.social · Mar 3

This is a brief account of the day the Wow! Signal was detected, including some lesser-known details, with more to come. #RadioAstronomy #Astrobiology #SETI #WowSignal #AreciboWow phl.upr.edu/wow/story

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Daliah Bibas @daliahbibas.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to share this white paper I co-authored, submitted to NASA-DARES 2025, on the societal and scientific challenges of SETI post-detection 📡

Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · Jul 18

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
astrobiology.com/2025/07/seti... #astrobiology #SETI #astronomy

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness - Astrobiology

This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection.

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Daliah Bibas @daliahbibas.bsky.social · Sep 3

Proud moment!
The Hub was given a shout out by the Natural History Museum of London in their "Could Life Exist Beyond Earth" exhibition 👽

SETI Post-Detection Hub @setihub.bsky.social · Aug 18

We (The Hub) have made it as part of an exhibit at the Natural History Museum "Could Life Exist Beyond Earth" - exhibition display just seen by one of my colleagues at the SETI Post-Detection Hub . The word is spreading. 👽

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · Aug 13

Avi Loeb is still insisting 3I/ATLAS might have a large nucleus, and suggests that the aliens are *testing* humanity to see who is intelligent enough to notice that their comet-like spacecraft is actually technological.
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3I/ATLAS Does Not Have A Large Nucleus

Avi Loeb is still making objectively substantial errors about the science of 3I/ATLAS. He keeps bringing up this particular piece of “evidence” that 3I/ATALS is artificial, including in this morning’s...

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · Aug 1

The Role Of Tectonic Luck in Long-Term Habitability of Abiotic Earth-like Planets
astrobiology.com/2025/08/the-... #astrobiology #exoplanet #astronomy

The Role Of Tectonic Luck in Long-Term Habitability of Abiotic Earth-like Planets - Astrobiology

Carbonate-silicate weathering feedback is thought to stabilize Earth's climate on geologic timescales.

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · Jul 14

Is Earth Inside A Huge Void?
astrobiology.com/2025/07/is-e... #astrobiology #astronomy #interstellar

Is Earth Inside A Huge Void? - Astrobiology

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Jul 12

this is a galaxy cluster located almost 3 BILLION light years away.

we can even see the light curving from galaxies behind it!!! 🌌

A cluster of distant, mainly elliptical galaxies. They appear as brightly shining points radiating golden light that each take the shape of a smooth, featureless oval. They crowd around one that is extremely large and bright. A few spiral galaxies of comparable size appear too, bluer in color and with unique shapes. Of the other more small and distant galaxies covering the scene, a few are warped into long lines.

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Daliah Bibas @daliahbibas.bsky.social · Jul 11

One of the best workshops I’ve ever attended!

SETI Post-Detection Hub @setihub.bsky.social · Jul 11

Just back from an incredibly interesting and enjoyable weekend at St Andrews (Scotland), where we held our first Workshop for the SETI Post Detection Hub, at the University. Not one PowerPoint slide in evidence and all the better for it - we actually interacted and debated topics. More to come ..

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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · Jul 11

Episode 7 of The Blind Spot Podcast. @evanthompson.bsky.social and I do a deep dive into why science needs to rethink its approach to life.

And we also talk about Evan’s epic adolescence (seriously, it was epic).

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The Blind Spot Podcast - Episode 7, Life: Beyond the Machine Metaphor

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