#PPOD: This image shows satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile over just one hour. It is a stack of a time-lapse video taken on 15 October 2025, about two hours after sunset. 🧪 🔭

the only worthwhile contribution to AC discourse is the question of why god did not simply fix Alvin Plantinga's AC unit youtu.be/4nDOxLh6AbQ?...

Soaking up the last bits of beautiful weather here on the North Sea before heading back to the hot hot heat

Many thanks to the St. Andrews @setihub.bsky.social for the opportunity not only to trade the heat wave in Germany for a beautiful day in Scotland, but also to enjoy chips that are flavored with something other than paprika

at the supermarket getting groced out

reviewers hate this one weird trick

New international SETI protocols are redefining how scientists would verify and announce evidence of alien technology. At the same time, the SETI Institute's Discovery and Futures Lab is asking an even bigger question: How will humanity respond? 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Join Dr. Lauren Sgro, @notnotrocketscience.com, and @chelseaharamia.bsky.social for a conversation about science, ethics, communication, and our future among the stars. 📅 June 16 🕚️ 11:00 am PDT youtube.com/live/38gom_7...

Utrecht tunnels

New episode dropped ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The Sound! Out now! @rachelahandley.com

As always, music by our friend @hane.bsky.social 🎻

The Sound!

This is what a philosopher looks like? Good times at the Desirable AI conference here at the University of Bonn www.desirableai.com/events/irrat...

Discovery & Futures Lab Directors in attendance @setiinstitute.bsky.social's Drake Awards honoring the venerable Lori Marino! @notnotrocketscience.com provided a wonderful introduction to Marino and her valuable contributions to SETI science, cetacean research, and interspecies ethics

DeutscheBahn selfie on my way to speak at the Hidden Futures event at Pact Zollverein www.pact-zollverein.de/kalender/hid...

“While our ignorance of the cosmos is vast, it is not untreatable,” Haramia says. “Mitigating ignorance in meaningful ways requires good science, good philosophy, and good understandings of the contexts in which searching and research are taking place."

Our recent philosophy of science paper argues that astrobiology epitomizes the principles of epistemic pluralism. Astrobiology embraces multiple legitimate sources of knowledge, and astrobiologists are always developing and pursuing many parallel and competing theories about life in the universe.

I am really excited to see this press release go live! Happy to report that the amazing @notnotrocketscience.com and I are now co-Directors of the new Discovery & Futures Lab at @setiinstitute.bsky.social www.seti.org/news/seti-in...

Passed by some baby birds on my ride to the office today. Was passed by a herd of sheep on the way back. Today was a good day

2nd Earth Space Sustainability conference in Leiden was great. Here I am serving on a panel for Starlight as Nature (photo credit: © Barbra Verbij) + I presented on Sustainability Puzzles and the Extraterrestrial Turn. Our @fogos-space.bsky.social leaders were fantastic organizers and co-chairs!

As tech companies propose to launch up to a million new satellites into Earth orbit, my colleague Emilie Lafleche and I explore the multifarious value of preserving Earth's dark skies in an essay for @sequencermag.bsky.social.

There may someday be a German documentary in which I get to talk about space ethics and SETI. Here's pictorial proof of the possibility (Photo credit: Bernd Siering)

Just putting this on folks' radar: Carol Cleland and I have a chapter about anomalies and astrobiology in this forthcoming book, available July 16, 2026!

In January 2026, we had over 88,000 views and over 46,000 visitors. Our goal is helping people better learn about & think about important issues that are both timely & timeless! You can help by sharing our essays! Thanks! #philosophy #ethics #logic #teaching #education

Catherine O'Hara was one of a kind. She had this immense ability to breathe life into a script. Ah, this is so sad. 🎵My sweet, my dear, my darling, you're so far away from me Though an ocean of tears divides us Let the bridge of our love span the sea🎵 youtu.be/3eflj2EWZzg

@storyphi.bsky.social had the pleasure of chatting about philosophy and fiction with @rachelahandley.com (episode out soon??) and let me tell you: this workshop would be a dream.

"African American Existentialism: DuBois, Locke, Thurman, and King" by Anthony Sean Neal #MLK #MLKDay 1000wordphilosophy.com/2021/02/16/a...

I strongly recommend checking this out if you're at all interested in SETI

We see many examples of misogyny, but what exactly is it? #misogyny #misogynist #feminist #women #girls 1000wordphilosophy.com/2022/07/06/w...

A tale of two minutes apart #caturday

🎵🎶none of us [is] out here on our own🎶

Incredibly cute crosswalk, Sweden. A++/A+

Why did the male feminist walk into a bar? Because it was set extremely low.

If you need something to chop, cook, or clean to, I recommend E03. Eva's story isn't available anywhere but Story Phi. ✌️ video: youtu.be/w89IiPkNeHM audio: storyphi.buzzsprout.com

world philosophy day is exclusionary against philosophers from other possible worlds

I'm very excited to be giving a special colloquium talk today at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy on the Ethics of Post-Detection Scenarios and Pre-Detection Messaging colloquia.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

Story Phi is storming back! Check out "Playing God" with Eva Dadlez

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Aww I just received this pic from what was probably my favorite conference this year, an intergenerational space ethics workshop at UW full of great people that took place during a couple of days of beautiful May weather in Seattle

I wrote a textbook! I hope you like it. store.ioppublishing.org/page/detail/...

Wondering where @storyphi.bsky.social has been? We've been busy recording, working, parenting, procrastinating, taking naps, and getting ready for a late fall comeback. Look for episode 03 with Eva Dadlez, coming in November. —with @chelseaharamia.bsky.social

Perfect pic of a spiderweb, taken by @space-bitch.bsky.social

This tree is a fall icon 😍

It's my birthday! If you feel like making my day, you can preorder my new book, Time's Second Arrow! Or just help me spread the word about it! Thank you 💛

tfw your new tattoo makes an appearance on the tattoo artist's Instagram account

moment of zen at a Buddhist temple

touristing it up in Chiang Mai