WiCOR will be holding the second annual Summer Training in Astrobiology Research (STAR) Bootcamp on June 1-5, 2026 at UW-Madison! Registration is now open and will close April 1st Visit our event webpage to learn more go.wisc.edu/wicorstar2026 #astrobiology #uwmadison 🔭 🧪 #planetsci #chem #bio

🚨 Applications for the WiCOR #postdoctoral fellowship are due this Saturday, Nov 15! 🔭🧪

Interested in coming to UW-Madison and working with WiCOR on questions related to the origin of life? Apply for this new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity. Applications due November 15th!

WiCOR seeks a #postdoctoral fellow to participate in Center #research in any discipline related to our two main research questions: 1. How do habitable planets form? 🪐 2. How does life emerge on habitable planets? 🧬 Full information at: wicor.wisc.edu/postdoc/ Apply by Nov 15 🔭 🧪 #postdoc #hiring

Support #WiCOR during this “Flocktober”! 🦩 Look for WiCOR in the full list of funds at uwflamingos.com or visit our Give webpage wicor.wisc.edu/give/ #fillthehill #uwmadison @uwmadisonls.bsky.social

👏Congratulations to #WiCORMember Ángel F. Adames Corraliza for receiving a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship!

New paper from Eva Stafne and Juliette Becker (@jcbecker.bsky.social)! 📢 doi.org/10.48550/arX...

📢 We're so excited the #WiCORLecture is only one week away!! Attend in-person with colleagues, friends, and family on Wed. Oct 8 at 7:30 pm! go.wisc.edu/wicor-lectur...

Prof. Jim Cleaves will present "Understanding the Chemical Origins of Life" as the fall WiCOR Lecture on Oct 8 @ 7:30 PM! This event is open to the public! Full event details: go.wisc.edu/wicor-lectur... 🧪🔭 #Astrobiology #OriginsOfLife #PrebioticChemistry #chemsky @widofficial.bsky.social

#WiCOR research "studying the origins of life on earth and – perhaps – elsewhere in the galaxy" continues! Read the Welcome from Chancellor Mnookin to learn more about campus and the start to the academic year! On, Wisconsin! 👐

Check out this fascinating article from #WiCORMember Juliette Becker 📰👀 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets #WhiteDwarfs #astronomy

WiCOR is kicking off our first Summer Training in Astrobiology Research (STAR) 2025 Bootcamp! This week will be filled with content about #Astronomy, #AtmosphericScience, #Oceanography, #Geoscience, #Chemistry, #Biology, and #OriginsResearch! wicor.wisc.edu/star-2025-bo... #WiCORstar2025 ⭐ 🧪 🔭

Listen 🎧 to #WiCORMember Hannah Zanowski's interview on The Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio. She shares about her research on the #oceanography of #Earth 🌎and #exoplanets 🪐 -"why stop at one ocean"! 🧪 🔭

We’re days away from sending the first #WiCOR Newsletter! Sign up now to ensure you receive it! explore.wisc.edu/wicorlanding

Webinar recording available featuring #Research about #Plants 🌱 in #Space 🔭 - the first presentation is from Simon Gilroy, a professor at @uwmadison.bsky.social and a #WiCORMember 🧪

Exciting article from @uwmadisonls.bsky.social on Hannah Zanowski's #exoplanet #oceanography work with #WiCOR! 🔭 🧪 #astronomy

📢 Check out this new paper on #hycean planets from Joseph Livesey, @jcbecker.bsky.social, and Susanna Widicus Weaver! This work was supported by @wicor.bsky.social and the #Research Forward Program at @uwmadison.bsky.social with funding from @warfnews.bsky.social! #exoplanets #Astronomy 🔭 🧪

'Baby' stars are typically surrounded by disks loaded with gas, but it isn't long before that mass starts to drift away. #UWMadison astronomers say that might mean gas giants like Jupiter need to form earlier than rocky planets like ours. news.wisc.edu/measuring-ga...

Visiting #WisconsinStateParks this summer? Like star gazing? 🌟🌌🪐 Attend a #UniverseInThePark talk to learn from astronomers and gaze through telescopes 🔭 🧪 Find details from @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social at badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/ #Astronomy #StarGazing #StateParks

Congratulations to #WiCORMember Ke Zhang and the entire ALMA AGE-PRO team on this achievement! See the press releases from @thenrao.bsky.social and @uwmadison.bsky.social to learn more! go.wisc.edu/w50l31 🔭 🧪

Congratulations to the international AGE-PRO team, led by #WiCORMember Ke Zhang, for their 12 papers in the upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal! 🎉 Read the press releases to learn more about their groundbreaking work on #ProtoplanetaryDisks! public.nrao.edu/news/alma-pl... 🧪🔭

If you missed it live, the recording is now available online! Listen to learn about the challenge of detecting #exoplanets and the interdisciplinary research of #WiCOR Their interview begins at 50min, and the WiCOR portion begins at 1hr23min during the May 14th episode

Catch #WICORMember Prof. Thomas Beatty (@tgbeatty.bsky.social) and Jim Lattis on Wisconsin Public Radio's Larry Meiller Show tomorrow, May 14 from 12 - 1 pm. www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...

Join #WiCOR TONIGHT, May 1, at 7 pm for the #WiCORLecture from Nobel Laureate Jack W. Szostak! go.wisc.edu/d539v5

The next #WiCORLecture is in one week! Make plans to join us for this #OriginsOfLife seminar! 🗓️May 1, 7pm, Chem S429 @uwmadisonchem.bsky.social, @uwmadison.bsky.social

Prof. Thomas Beatty (@tgbeatty.bsky.social), a member of #WiCOR, will be presenting a Badger Talk on April 24th @ 6pm at the Middleton Public Library! Register to attend and learn more about "How Can We Find Other Life in the Universe?"

Today, April 22, we celebrate #EarthDay! At #WiCOR we know that studying our own #atmosphere, #ocean, #geochemistry, #biology and #chemistry here on #Earth can inform our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife both here on Earth and on habitable #exoplanets. 🔭🧪 ❤️🌍🌎🌏❤️

Did you miss #DayOfTheBadger? Want to support WiCOR? Visit the #WiCOR Give page to learn more: wicor.wisc.edu/give/

Join #WiCOR for the Spring 2025 #WiCORLecture on “The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?” from Prof. Jack W. Szostak on 📅May 1 @ 7 pm in the📍Chemistry Building S429, UW-Madison! This talk is open to the public - share with friends & family! wicor.wisc.edu/event/wicor-... Accessibility? [email protected]

📢Don't miss these talks today and tomorrow!!

The WiCOR Website has launched! 🚀 Visit the site to learn all about WiCOR! 🧪🔭 wicor.wisc.edu

Join WiCOR on March 3 & 4 for seminars from Dr. Jon Arenberg: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope March 3 @ 12 pm, 6515 Sterling Hall The Importance of Communication March 4 @ 10 am, 4421 Sterling Hall

Hello from the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research! 👋🧪🔭 WiCOR’s Mission is to advance our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife in the #Universe through interdisciplinary #research and #education. Follow us to stay updated on all things WiCOR! linktr.ee/wicenterforo...