I am co-convening a session at AbSciCon26, if you're interested in chemical self-assembly and what that could mean for the future exploration of ocean worlds, feel free to check out the link below! agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon...

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Marburg, Germany is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever visited 🏰🇩🇪✨

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Excited to share that I’m also co-convening a second session at AbSciCon26 on Assembly Theory — from molecular complexity to planetary-scale biosignatures! ⏳ Abstract deadline: January 14, 2026 🌎 Details: bit.ly/4ie83pH #AbSciCon26 #Astrobiology #AssemblyTheory #OriginsOfLife #Complexity

Thrilled to share that I’m co-convening a session at AbSciCon26 in Madison WI focused on how self-assembly and self-organization drive chemistry toward the emergence of life! ✨ ⏳Abstract deadline: January 14, 2026 🌎Details here: bit.ly/4oalWqi #AbSciCon26 #Astrobiology #OriginsOfLife #Complexity

Happy to share some amazing news… 🎉 I successfully defended my PhD last month! It’s been a wonderful 17-year journey through four degrees across two very different fields. I’m grateful for everyone who helped along the way — and excited for what’s next. Which brings me to update #2…

The deadline is this Friday! You should apply to attend— it sounds like it’s going to be a blast!!! 💥

I'll be featured at the outreach event of the Science Café in Nijmegen 🇳🇱, talking about astrochemistry and the origins of life and its building blocks in space and on early Earth. Stop by if you're in the area on Thu, Oct. 23, 7.45 PM. Admission is FREE, and there will be jazz! 🎶🎷🌌🔭☄🦠

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

The University of Rochester has a faculty position opening in complexity science as well as other domains of theoretical physics. Please apply to join us in studying the “physics of life” and other subjects apply.interfolio.com/173432

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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...

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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...

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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...