well that seems pretty big www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Here is our new paper that we're really excited about. What makes a cell different from a rock? The answer we argue is the USE of information. But information carries meaning and that changes everything if we want to understand the "physics of life". journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

🧪 Curious how chemistry becomes biology? Join OoLEN’s open seminar Thu Sep 12, 06:30 UTC (15:30 JST / 08:30 CEST) ! 📣 We’ll share a short yearly update, then Tony Z Jia dives into Primitive Polyester Microdroplets on Early Earth. 🫧🌍 ▶️ Live stream: youtube.com/@OoLEN_org

Interested in moving/establishing your research group in Ireland? www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... I'd love to see more #originoflife #astrobiology researchers join us here! Feel free to contact me directly to discuss! @abgradcon.bsky.social @oolen.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social

And now here’s another great talk by OoLEN member @miquai.bsky.social on agnostic life detection at #BEACON25 #OriginOfLife

Another incredible talk by OoLEN member @silkeasche.bsky.social at #BEACON25 in Iceland 🚀🇮🇸

Keynote on the habitability of ocean worlds 🌊 @ #BEACON2025 #Astrobiology

Awesome talk by @klauspaschek.bsky.social at the #BEACON conference in Reykjavik ! 🚀 #OriginOfLife #Astrobiology

Thank you to @oolen.bsky.social for inviting me to give a keynote on progressing from Postdoc to PI in Iceland! I met so many promising ECRs! Scouted some fieldwork locations while I was there too so can't wait to return for sampling! @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie @dcuresearch.bsky.social

#FALCON2025 was wrapped up by a career development workshop, featuring @seanfj.bsky.social and Filipa Sousa, giving us valuable and honest advice on how to progress in one's career to becoming a PI and how to write good proposals, as well as a lively poster session.

Thank you to everyone for coming! A special thanks to AbGradE and @euroastrobiology.bsky.social for joining forces to make this incredible event here in Iceland 🇮🇸 possible! It was a privilege to collaborate, and we truly owe you for making it all happen! Enjoy the conference excursion tomorrow! 🌋🐑🏔️🌊

The origins of life session during #FALCON2025 featured an amazing keynote talk by our very own @silkeasche.bsky.social, intriguing roundtable discussions about the very definition of life and how to detect it, and, of course, many exciting contributed talks! Thanks to all the speakers! 👏

On the first full day of #FALCON2025, we enjoyed an amazing lineup of astrobiology talks, a lovely tour of the botanical gardens, and a great conference dinner. We hope that many new connections will be made between the astrobiology and origins of life communities here in Iceland!

Had a great time presenting my work on Assembly Theory and molecular phylogenetics at the GRS and GRC on Molecular Mechanisms of Evolution in Boston, and the FALCON origin of life and astrobiology conference at Reykjavik. Feeling inspired!

#FALCON2025 is in full swing, uniting Astrobiology and the Origins of Life sciences in a fun, relaxed gathering surrounded by 🇮🇸 Iceland's picturesque volcanic early Earth analogue landscape. 🌋🧬🦠 Let's go!

Poster printed and ready for #BEACON2025! See you next week, @euroastrobiology.bsky.social!

I'm so excited to be on my way to #FALCON2025, our first jointly organized early-carrer conference of AbGradE and @oolen.bsky.social in Reykjavik 🇮🇸🌋! Can't wait to meet everyone and talk exciting science! 🤩 More info oolen.org/news-and-events/in-person-meetings/falcon2025 and abgrade.eu/falcon2025

Hey #EGU, let's have a chat on how to detect life as we don't know it! 🛰🛸 Hall X4 poster 147 from 10:30!

It was a pleasure to meet some members of @oolen.bsky.social yesterday in Vienna!

Training with the @planetarysociety.bsky.social to advocate for reviving NASA’s science funding! Tomorrow we visit Congress to remind them that #NASAWorks 🚀

Hey @oolen.bsky.social member I am giving a talk today www.oolen.org/news-and-eve...

Our universities are among our most important social institutions because they bring critical issues, like what we are allowed to say, into incisive focus. Universities are more important for defining the future of what societies want and should be more than ever.

Hey @oolen.bsky.social people, who’s going to BEACON? 👏

#OriginOfLife digest — Feb 10 - plumes of Enceladus - Mars 2020 rover samples - chemotactic behavior for life detection - non-canonical nucreotides - TRAPPIST-1d buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Feb 3 25 new papers — rocky planets in the HZ — Bennu sample: SOM & ancient brine — HZ and sulfur chemistry — Mars sample return — Hycean worlds — ACS in a protocell — transition to multicellularity buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Jan 27 15 new papers — habitability of Mars subsurface — habitable zone limits — galactic habitability — LUCA — transition to multicellularity buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Jan 20 28 new papers, 1 by @oolen.bsky.social members — PAH & technosignatures — Mars samples — Mars analogues — origins of metabolism — extremophiles — information & living systems (Bartlett, @artemyte.bsky.social) — autocatalytic networks buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Jan 13 17 new papers, 2 by @oolen.bsky.social members — network biosignatures — ocean worlds (Rodriguez) — homochirality — autocatalysis — protocells — microdroplet assembly (Sithamparam) — Mars analog environments buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Jan 6 7 papers — planets orbiting White Dwarfs — fluorine-containing compounds — icy worlds — Habitable Worlds Observatory — autocatalytic networks — Titan-like photochemistry buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Dec 30 4 papers — microbial habitability — history of water on Mars — historical habitability on Earth — nitrogenase evolution buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Dec 23 24 new papers, 2 by @oolen.bsky.social members — artificial life — agnostic biosignatures — rocky exoplanets (@timlichtenberg.bsky.social) — pyridoxamine (Schwander) — submarine vents — Turing patterns & autocatalysis — Assembly theory buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

Good bye Arizona!

Come and join our team here at the ProtoSigns Lab in DCU as part of our ERC funded project! We're making some really exciting discoveries around protocell membrane formation with implications for the origin of life and the search for life elsewhere in our solar system! #originoflife #modeling

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Dec 16 18 new papers, 2 by @oolen.bsky.social members — biosignature preservation — Earth-like habitats — rocky exoplanet atmospheres — carbon fixation (Nan) — amino acid recruitment (Wehbi) — chemical reaction systems buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Dec 9 30 new papers, 2 by @oolen.bsky.social members — hydrosphere of Europa — life near white dwarfs — alternative solvents — prebiotic nucleoside phosphorylation (Tagawa) — hybrid adaptation (Bautista) — polyextremophiles 🔗 buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Dec 2 20 new papers, 2 by @oolen.bsky.social members — Mars subsurface — Missions to Europa — translation as a biosignature — galactic habitability — diversification in chemistry (Eleveld) — prebiotic carbon fixation (Nan) — LUCA 🔗buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

How robust are experimental Assembly Theory estimations regarding instrument settings, concentration and processing? If you're curious, our work lead by my brilliant colleague Dr Gabriella Weiss just came out! ✨️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/ast... #chemsky #massspec #assemblytheory #astrobiology

🌟 Attention OoLEN members! 🌟 Join us right now for our exciting conference on Zoom! 🎉 Dive into insightful discussions and connect with fellow members. See you there! #OoLEN #OriginOfLIfe

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Nov 25 17 new papers, 3 from @oolen.bsky.social members — complexity & alife — hydrothermal activity on Mars — nucleoside phosphorylation (Tagawa) — threshold for life (@colemathis.bsky.social and reply (@miquai.bsky.social) — snowball Earth buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

A reminder for new folks. BlueSky does not have an algorithm to raise posts of interest. It is incumbent upon you to do so via reposting. Liking things only provides feedback to the poster but does not promote the post. The signal to noise ratio is taking a brief beating, so great to help curate.

Optimist: cup is half full Pessimist: cup is half empty Physicist: cup is a spherical cow yeah this one was rather obvious 🥁

@deck.blue the Clear button inside columns doesn’t seem to work, reloading the page reloads the same posts over again, this might be a bug I guess?

🚀🔬 Pretty cool day in the lab at ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration analyzing samples from the Murchison meteorite! 🌌✨ #cosmochemistry #astrobiology

Heyy science friends, let's connect! Bluesky just became a lot more fun and this list helps to find amazing scientists ✨️

🌟 Exciting news, we've just created a new list of OoLEN users that you can follow to stay connected with our vibrant network. 🎉 📢 OoLEN members: If you notice that you're not on the list, please reach out to us. 🤝 Let's keep building this awesome community together! 💙 #OoLEN bsky.app/profile/did:...

NICE, bluesky already has its version of TweetDeck! No more endless scrolling! Thanks @deck.blue for making this happen!

Followers count going up, time to share this again: go.bsky.app/LgoJN2N If you work in artificial life (in your day-to-day job or as your secret nighttime mission) and you're not on the list already, reply and I'll add you! Share this with your contacts and tell me who else should be on it. #ALife