The IAA SETI Committee announced today updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The revised Declaration of Principles marks the first major update to the protocols in more than 15 years and reflects a media landscape transformed by social media, artificial intelligence and the 24-hour news cycle.

“The release of these updated rules and protocols marks an important step in acknowledging both the radically different media landscape that science functions within today, and the vastly expanded efforts in terms of technology and resources being deployed in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth” said Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute and IAA SETI Committee member. 

“Japanese Migration to Canada, 1877–1988,” a new reference essay by Masumi Izumi, was published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies in April 2026. As part of the expanding Oxford Research Encyclopedia series, the article offers a sweeping and deeply researched account of Japanese migration to Canada from the arrival of the first documented migrant in 1877 through the Canadian government’s formal redress settlement of 1988. Drawing on decades of scholarship in migration studies, Asian American/Asian Canadian history, and trans-Pacific studies, Izumi’s essay situates Japanese Canadian history not as an isolated ethnic narrative, but as a central chapter in the broader history of settler colonialism, labour migration, citizenship, and civil rights in North America.