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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — A message of support has been circulating online for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes, who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week.

A few signatures were noticeably missing: 13, to be specific.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

thetriibe.com

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 7d

Presented at and chaired an excellent SETI & Society session at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney

Chelsea Haramia standing at a *lectern* on a small stage speaking in front of an audience with presentation slide and captioning projected onto the wall behind

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 8d

Presenting at the SETI & Society session today at the IAC. The weather here in Sydney is absolutely beautiful

A view of big buildings, blue sky, white clouds, water, and pavement leading up to the harbor

Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 10d

conversational implicature of humor

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 11d

Guys I am freaking out. The subway design is mine!!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

It's time to vote...for an "I Registered" sticker!

Two days ago, we put out the call for new designs and *hundreds* of you came through. We picked our top 10 and now it's time for you to make the final call.

Polls are open until Sunday at 10am at zohranfornyc.com/stickittothe...

A graphic of 10 different sticker designs. On the bottom right, it sayhs "Vote now at zohranfornyc.com/stickittotheman"

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 11d

Great meetings with the people of @fogos-space.bsky.social in lovely Vienna this week, hosted by the European Space Policy Institute

Walkway leading up to a large stone facade of the building that houses ESPI

Classic cartoon alien face with 'WOMEN' below on the bathroom door at ESPI

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 13d

She basically talked her way into grad school at Harvard.

She got the first PhD in astronomy from Harvard.

She was the first woman at Harvard to be granted tenure as a sitting professor.

She was the first woman to serve as department chair at Harvard.

Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 14d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 14d

Lol

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 14d

Oh pshaw 😊

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · 14d

The team from @iwe-bonn.bsky.social Sustainable AI lab put on an amazing conference last week, and I was very happy to present on terrestrial and extraterrestrial sustainability problems

Dr. Haramia presenting at the podium in front of a screen with a slide on the Sustainability Solution to the Fermi Paradox

The Sustainable AI team of the IWE sitting in a row on stage for a conference panel

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 19d

I don’t always read the physical copy of Nature, but when I do, I prefer to read about astrobioethics 👍🏼 @chelseaharamia.bsky.social

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · Sep 8

the Coco Chanel quote, but it's looking at the email and removing one exclamation point before sending

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Sep 8

lmao

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Sep 2

this is the snuff of life

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Academy of International Affairs NRW @aia-nrw.bsky.social · Sep 2

👽 Contact with extraterrestrial life raises complex ethical questions: Who speaks for Earth? What risks do we accept? @chelseaharamia.bsky.social explains why global post-detection planning matters—and how the Dear E.T. Project connects science, art & culture.

🔗 www.aia-nrw.org/de/publikati...

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · Sep 1

I miss my friend, Helen. It would have been her birthday today. Please consider donating to the fundraiser for her kids: www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

Donate to Support Helen's Children After Her Passing, organized by Marcus Arvan

Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing

www.gofundme.com

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm afraid I have to report to you that in Lower Alabama the phenomenon is captured with the idiom "the devil's beatin' his wife"

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Aug 22

But when else are you gonna have a chance to do a jury nullification?

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks, Tessa!

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · Aug 20

You may have heard people say things like, "Mars is a failed Earth." What if, instead, we took the view that Mars didn’t fail at becoming Earth, but succeeded at becoming Mars?

How to chart a moral future for space exploration

Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used.

www.nature.com

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Aug 20

Photo credit @space-bitch.bsky.social

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Aug 20

Presented remotely at #PSETI2025 today on sustainability puzzles and the extraterrestrial turn. Am envious of all my wonderful colleagues attending this reliably excellent conference in-person!

PowerPoint title slide in presenter view with the next slide queued up because I couldn't figure out how to turn presenter view off, as well as me smiling into the camera

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · Aug 19

“A peaceful place, or so it looks from space…”
New image of the home world and our companion moon, captured last month from 180 million miles out by our Psyche spacecraft on its way toward the first rendezvous with a metallic asteroid in 2029.
🧪

www.nasa.gov/missions/psy...

Earth and moon appearing as lonely dots in a vast darkness.

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Aug 18

Same and agreed

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Chelsea Haramia @chelseaharamia.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you add an egg it's called a "Compliment Madame"

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