🔬 Today we celebrate women and girls in science! Thank you to all the women working on origins of life research. At OoLEN, our code of conduct commits to gender diversity, because representation matters. You belong in this field. #WomenInScience

New OoL digest! 🧬🪐 22 papers this week — virus-like particle self-assembly, self-replicating fuels via autocatalysis, Hadean mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics, habitability of exomoons around free-floating planets, and pre-genetic semantic information in protocells. #OriginsOfLife #Astrobiology

Currently hiring 1-2 postdocs to work on origins of life theory/experiment, assembly theory, life detection, with me and @leecronin.bsky.social, positions are mostly based at ASU but also some time could be spent at U. Glasgow, Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176391 Please help us spread the word!

Curious about how life began? OoLEN is a global community for early-career researchers in origins of life and prebiotic chemistry. 🧬🌍 Connect with others across disciplines, find opportunities, and grow together. Join: oolen.org/join Tell us in the replies—what do you work on? #OriginOfLife

📣 IOoL 2026 is coming to Tokyo! The next Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting will be September 9-11, 2026 at ELSI in Japan! Join early-career researchers from across disciplines to present work, exchange ideas, and build community. 👉 Indicate your interest below! #OriginsOfLife #Astrobiology

New OoL digest! 🔬🌌 25 papers this week — sulfur-bearing cyclic hydrocarbons in space, self-replicating catalysts, sugar enantiomers in Orgueil meteorite, Europa's ice structure, and peptide catalysts replacing enzymes. #OriginsOfLife #Astrobiology #Astrochemistry #Exoplanets

Want to get more involved with OoLEN? Join a workgroup: Outreach, Virtual Meetings, or IT (Python interest helpful). Email: [email protected] #Community #OoLEN

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OoL digest is out! 🧬🪐 21 new papers — astrobiology & biosignatures, interstellar peptide formation, metabolically active protocells, Proterozoic ocean oxygen, and Europa's icy shell.

Throwback to FALCON 2025 (OoLEN × AbGradE) in Reykjavík 🇮🇸 Huge thanks to all participants, poster presenters, speakers, and our OoLEN keynote speakers Sean Jordan & Silke Asche. More: www.oolen.org/news-and-eve... #Astrobiology #OriginOfLife

Want a community of early-career folks thinking about how life begins? 🧬✨ OoLEN is for students + postdocs + early faculty focused on origins-of-life research. We share: opportunities, events, resources, and member spotlights. Join: oolen.org/join #OriginOfLife #ECR

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OoL digest is out! 🔭⭐️ 26 new papers — HWO & exoplanets, astrochemistry, RNA evolution, eukaryogenesis/deep biosphere, and Mars climate.

OoLEN update: our Executive Board has expanded from 5 → 7 members. Welcome Selene Cannelli, Marina Fernández, and Anastasia Yanchilina! 🎉 And a huge thank-you to Loraine Schwander for her contributions over the past 2 years. #OriginOfLife #Community

Going to #AbSciCon26? Working on AI/ML for astrobiology? New ways to investigate life's emergence? The intersection of philosophy and astrobiology? Consider submitting to one of the sessions I'm convening!

Consider submitting a #AbSciCon2026 abstract to our session on transition metals! #abscicon26 #geobiology

If you work on the origins of life / prebiotic chemistry, consider joining OoLEN 🧬🌍 We’re an early-career community for connecting across disciplines, sharing opportunities, and building momentum together. Join: oolen.org/join (And feel free to reply with what you work on!) #OriginOfLife

New OoL digest is out! 🌍🧬 32 new papers, ft. Europa’s seafloor activity, Enceladus exploration roadmaps, prebiotic nickel catalysis, multicellularity switches in yeast, and liquid water scenarios on ancient Mars. #OriginOfLife #Astrobiology

#AbSciCon26 (Madison, WI • May 2026): OoLEN members are convening sessions—consider submitting! Abstract deadline: Jan 14, 2026. www.agu.org/abscicon Thread 🧵👇

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New OoL digest is out! 🪐 12 new papers, ft. the Viking missions, exoplanet habitability, and lava tubes on Mars. #OriginOfLife #Astrobiology

Deadline coming up soon!

Two weeks to apply! 💫

New OoL digest is out! 9 new papers to wrap up the year. 💫 #OriginOfLife #Astrobiology

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 🏰🇩🇪✨

Curious about the origins-of-life community? 🌱 Sign up for the OoLEN newsletter for research highlights, events & opportunities. Something new is landing very soon... 👀 🔗 bit.ly/48Bb7sJ

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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.