Retro-futuristic poster "Join us on #Mars. Apply for Citizenship Today" by Canadian illustrator Jode Thompson created for Jacob Haqq-Misra's article "Liberate the Red Planet" published on Boston Globe.humanmars.net/2025/04/poster…

For those in #astronomy or #astrobiology who also have a Playdate, you can now use your yellow handheld gaming console to calculate the boundaries of the Habitable Zone! A must for conferences or for putting the latest exoplanet discoveries into context. github.com/haqqmisra/HabZ…

S4E10: Dr. Jacob Haqq Misra ~ Director and Senior Research Investigator at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science

We had a great time speaking with Jacob Haqq Misra about his fascinating career and the hunt for technosignatures. Check out our conversation here: youtu.be/qUeOhmpsFe8

I just published this short summary of my book #SovereignMars in the Space Education & Strategic Applications journal: sesa.scholasticahq.com/article/137157…

I'm quoted in this article about the use of indoor structures for simulating the outdoors

Our paper "Projections of Earth's technosphere: Scenario modeling, worldbuilding, and overview of remotely detectable technosignatures" has been accepted for publication by Technological Forecasting and Social Change! arxiv.org/abs/2409.00067

There's still time register for the next Space Settlement webinar, featuring Dr. Tony Milligan speaking on the topic "Why does skepticism about human activities in space persist?" zeffy.com/ticketing/spac…

Check out our new paper "Can a Referendum Solve Problems of Shared Sovereignty on Mars?" that was just accepted by Space Policy! arxiv.org/abs/2505.10434

Ever feel like a puppet? youtube.com/watch?v=FrnmeS…

Read the published version of our paper for free with this link! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCBCyUIs-lT0

I just finished this interview with #SETILive about our scenarios of Earth's 1000-year future youtube.com/watch?v=aOs7WU…

#ICYMI: On this week's #SETILive, @allplanets chatted with Jacob Haqq Misra about possible technosphere futures for Earth and how they would look to aliens. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/aOs7WU8Gd…

Have you listened to our most recent #SETILive #podcast and picked your favorite future Earth scenario? We kind of like number 5, transhumanism! Listen to the whole show: seti.org/seti-live/?pag… And check out the complete list: futures.bmsis.org Ft. host @allplanets and

The Habitable Zone Calculator for Playdate is now available on itch.io haqqmisra.itch.io/habzone

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has largely been predicated on a specific assumption: that advanced civilizations will inevitably grow, expanding their energy consumption and building colossal structures detectable across vast cosmic distances. This

Save the date for our IAU online symposium: IAUS 404: Advancing the Search for Technosignatures 2-6 March 2026 You can visit the website for the meeting now to sign up for updates: iaus404.bmsis.org

I just started the UF IFAS Solutions Master Beekeeper program!

New CHAMPs Collaboration paper concludes that JWST observations of K2-18b are noisy; some spectral features persist, but no statistically significant evidence of life arxiv.org/abs/2508.05961

Abstract submission is now open for our online International Astronomical Union (IAU) symposium "Advancing the Search for Technosignatures," 2-6 March 2026, hosted by Blue Marble Space Institute of Science iaus404.bmsis.org