New blog post! 🚨 Reflections on my first year as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Denmark — the science, the challenges, and the journey toward independence. 🌱 nasmillelarkemejia.com/one-year-as-... #uArctic_project

Looking for something fun and interesting to do in the #weekend in #copenhagen? Come to the #fungi #festival and listen to @voltcenter.bsky.social's @kajsaroslund.bsky.social's talk together with @kbodawatta.bsky.social on cave microbes and explore unique-looking fungi @ our stall! shorturl.at/22mEG

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. “Dr Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionised science,” the statement read. “She was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.”

RIP Jane Goodall

We just received a "postcard" from #Barcelona! @voltcenter.bsky.social's postdoc Cecilia Costas Selas and PhD student Eve Galen are attending the #SAME18 #aquatic #microbes #conference. Enjoy the sunshine and the talks, posters and discussions!

Pitched at #FallingWallsLab last week 🌍✨ Didn’t win, but left inspired, with new connections, and excited to keep sharing the hidden world of microbes. Next step: #ArcticBear_game 🎲 — a board game to show how microbes help protect our planet. #uArctic_project

I’m excited to pitch my idea tomorrow at the #FallingWalls event #Denmark. I’ll be ‘Breaking the Wall of Tiny but Mighty Climate Allies’. science.ku.dk/kalender/202...

Blink blink blink… 👀 #yesterday

Made it to the #MSCA2025 Presidency Conference at DTU 🇩🇰 — great energy around research, mobility & collaboration in Europe!

And here they are.

Enjoyed presenting an update of my summer #Sphagnum #DNA-SIP experiment after a great sampling trip to #Abisko.✨ @voltcenter.bsky.social’s PhD student Annika also presented an update on her experiment with #Sphagnum and #isoprene emissions at different 🌡️! #moss #uArctic_project #highrisk⚠️

❗Job altert!❗ @voltcenter.bsky.social is #hiring a #LabManager /Lab specialist. Are you familiar with PTR-TOF-MS and GC-MS? You'll coordinate lab&field activities, QC&calibration, solve problems, assist with tech installations, and provide tech support to researchers employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

✨ Our second #HobbyTime session @voltcenter.bsky.social was a success! 🤩 It was wonderful to see some new faces join us today! We’ve doubled our attendance from 4 to 8 people! 🙌 Here’s what’s coming up next: 🎃 October – Halloween-themed fun 🍴🧁 November – Cooking & baking 🎄 December – Holiday décor

#DHLrace day! The @voltcenter.bsky.social team is ready and in high spirits. Bring on those 25k per team! 🏃‍♀️🏃💨💪

Today was the first step of something special for me: our debut #hobbytime session at @voltcenter.bsky.social ✨ So grateful for those who came along today. The turnout (3:1 men!). I value carving out time to create, share, and grow creatively together. Many more to come. 🤞🏽👏🏾🤩

Another late night in the lab… and between sampling points I made this inspired by my #Sphagnum #moss floating in my vials #uArctic_project #scienceart #midnightart @voltcenter.bsky.social

#Trashtalk time 🙃 I’ve filled a whole lab trash can today… #proud and that’s saying something. Between my moss SIP progress and endless sample measurements, I think I’ve earned it. Who knew productivity could be measured in crumpled paper roll and syringes? 🧪🗑️ #uArctic_project #cartoonAI #sciencebin

🏔️Thrilled to see these little peaks emerging… so rewarding after all the planning! My SIP enrichment started yesterday. #uArctic_project #stable #isotopes #isoprene #sneakpeak #VOCpeak 🫣

Go Lionesses! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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🫧 At the end of 2024, I submitted a photo to a competition organized by the BIO Postdoc Network group (@ucph.bsky.social). I’m happy to see it featured for 31 days—as the image for July! 😍 The photo is titled “Holding On to Its Breath”. It makes this month feel more special 🌿📸 #uArctic_project

So happy to see this paper out from my previous research group! 🤩 #isoprene #sphagnum enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just wrapped a whirlwind 5-day trip at Abisko! Amazing weather, smooth sampling at 🌿Stordalen, 🍂 Multe & 💧Vassijaure, and ended with a Tundra Talk 💬 Grateful for the dream team: Jing, Ida & esp. Jonathan from @voltcenter.bsky.social ! 📸🧪💚 #Fieldwork #ArcticVibes #uArctic_project 🇨🇴🇬🇧🇩🇪🇩🇰🇨🇳🇪🇸

Good morning! We have been so lucky with the weather… today is another beautiful morning from the Abisko Research Station! 🏔️ We will be visiting Vassijaure lake today! #uArctic_project

Here we are, just 2 postdocs searching for Arctic moss and shrub samples… 🍃 🌳 🌱 for the #uArctic_project! The sampling day has begun and it’s a great pleasure to have such an excellent sampling companion Jonathan Donhauser from @voltcenter.bsky.social!

Good morning from Abisko! ☀️

☀️ Just arrived at the Abisko Research Station, ready for another exciting sampling trip with @lundjing.bsky.social 🤩 #uArctic_project @voltcenter.bsky.social

Shocked by the news this morning! A 14-yr old boy has been confirmed as the shooter. My thoughts are with the Colombian people and Miguel Uribe’s family. 😞

Thank you @volt.bsky.social and @rikkarinnan.bsky.social for organizing the 1rst symposium on VOCs and interaction in Copenhagen. It was a great opportunity to present our findings on #VOC emissions of #Petrichor from the #Negevdesert. @ag-bonkowsky.bsky.social @jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social

Thank you for the invitation to give a lecture. I appreciate the hospitality and excellent organization, and enjoyed the VOLT symposium very much!

@voltcenter.bsky.social wrapped up the 1st International Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems in Copenhagen! Special moment for me presenting my work on #uArctic_project isoprene cycling, following the plenary talk & footsteps of my mentor Colin Murrell www.linkedin.com/posts/nasmil...

Thanks so much to @voltcenter.bsky.social, @riikkarinnan.bsky.social and everyone involved in organizing the PhD course on BVOCs and the Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems. Great to be part of the discussions in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰

@voltcenter.bsky.social joining the 1st VOC symposium arranged by @riikkarinnan.bsky.social and many more. It is in one of the most beautiful auditoriums at @ucph.bsky.social

New learning opportunities with nice people at the "1st International Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems" in Copenhagen🇩🇰 Thanks to @voltcenter.bsky.social @riikkarinnan.bsky.social

Great start of the last day of the 1st International #Symposium on #Volatile #Interactions in #Ecosystems with a keynote talk by Colin Murrell from the University of East Anglia. This may be his last scientific talk now that he will enjoy his retirement, so it is extra special to have him.

The first full day of talks and networking of @voltcenter.bsky.social's 1st International Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems is in full swing at beautiful festauditoriet in #Frederiksberg, with a fantastic #Aquatic #Ecosystems session in the morning! eventsignup.ku.dk/voltsymposiu...

After our registration and welcome talk by @riikkarinnan.bsky.social last night, we are at the first day of talks for the ‘1st International Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems’. 🤩 1st plenary speaker is Kimberly Halsey @oregonstate.edu ‘Investigations on the microbiology of VOCs’ 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

📣“3, 2, 1… VOC”📣 The best way to finish our PhD course is a wonderful group picture! 📸 Thank you to all the lecturers, students, fellow organisers and colleagues for making this event unforgettable! ⚙️We are now changing gears for the @voltcenter.bsky.social symposium! ⚙️

#students had a chance to explore the results from 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, published in 5 different #DNA-SIP studies using #13C-isoprene. #light #heavy #DNA #microbiome

☀️Day 3, and the final day of our #PhD #course has started today! Here is a picture of our first lecture @voltcenter.bsky.social by Rasmus Bro from @ucph.bsky.social talking to us about ‘Creating peak tables from #GC-MS in a much smarter way” 📈📉 #fullhouse #voc

Day 2 of the PhD course organized by @voltcenter.bsky.social and funded by the Faculty of Science @ucph.bsky.social is in full swing. Yesterday, there was a mix of introductions, lab tour and a scents tour at the botanical gardens. Today we delve into the scientific programme.

Visiting @voltcenter.bsky.social for the Symposium on Volatile Interactions and the related PhD course. It's going to be a fun week! 😊 @uef-eerg.bsky.social 🇫🇮🇩🇰 #AcademicChatter

We are hosting a PhD course on volatiles in ecosystems for 30 international PhD students. Today we heard flash talks by all participants, got an introduction to isotopes, a lab tour and a tour in the Botanical Garden of #SNM. We are thankful for Faculty of Science @ucph.bsky.social for funding.

Full house at our exciting PhD course on #BVOCs and #isotope techniques: advancing #ecosystem #research that will run for 3 days at @voltcenter.bsky.social

VOLT researchers played a pivotal role in a new Nature paper that examines how Arctic flora are responding to climate change. Read more about the findings and our contributions here👇: #NatureJournal #ArcticResearch

Meet Eve, a PhD candidate at @voltcenter.bsky.social working with marine microbial volatiles, bacteria and #phytoplankton. Her research combines large-scale marine environmental studies with lab experiments on bacterial cultures 🦠🌊

Cool #science alert! “In this paper, we have compiled our current understanding of MVOCs in extreme environments. I hope that this review can serve as a starting point for anyone interested in this topic.” - @masalgar.bsky.social #FEMSmicroBlog @dg.dk fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblo...