How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

If you find yourself in the Malibu area this Wednesday (9/3), feel free to join me for an evening of talking about the strangest Intraterrestrials on Earth! The event is free, but an RSVP is requested. www.malibucity.org/722/Malibu-L...

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

Asgard archaea frozen in Siberia appear to have remained alive for more than 100,000 years based on DNA analysis. Genetic overlap with other Asgards suggests astonishingly long lifespans could be common trait among the closest living relatives of all eukaryotes. Per @karenlloyd.bsky.social etal.🧪

Great new article about the cool stuff we're finding (improbably) alive deep inside Earth's crust! Nice work, @laurapoppick.bsky.social at @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

International Seabed Authority to investigate The Metals Company oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...

Check this nice first first-author paper by Ning Hall—now out in Nature Geoscience! Our team had a blast supporting Ning on the isolation workflow, and a few of the standout Methanococcoides strains even trace back to our Danish waters. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Isolation of a new methanotroph belonging to Mycobacterium” is now out! Awesome work by my former postdoc Hiromi Kambara, who led this project all the way. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Thanks, @jamesdinneen.bsky.social, for the lovely review of my book. I hope y'all have as much fun reading it as I did writing it!

This is a nice explanation of how SAR11, a starvation expert, tries to curl up and die when you feed it. This is why the best approach to getting these uncultured organisms to grow is often a sneak attack - feed them but don't feed them too much! @jcamthrash.bsky.social @ahoiching.bsky.social

Organisms that are buried alive for many thousands of years without enough energy to grow could be called "aeonophiles", so we can talk about them more easily. @drewsteen.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tzecaxn

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

Lawmakers in Congress should not be buying, trading, and owning individual stocks. Period. It’s long past time to BAN Congressional stock trading.

Make sure to attend a No Kings March this Saturday near you!! You can find out where here (Stop this coup!) www.nokings.org

This sums up what is happening in LA beautifully. I'm in LA and everything he says "checks out" with my reality.

Deploying Marines to LA isn’t normal. It’s a gross abuse of power similar to what we see from dictators around the world, setting the stage for martial law or full-on authoritarianism.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

700 marines. For what? It's a beautiful sunny day in LA and we're just trying to live our lives and go to work and school as normal. This is an insane escalation.

Los Angeles is not a war zone. We are not descending into chaos and lawlessness. We’re a great city full of good people. We don’t need the National Guard.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

The @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social‬ welcomes @karenlloyd.bsky.social‬ for a special virtual event tomorrow (6 June) at 6 pm BST! She will be discussing her new book, Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth. Learn more about this free event:

Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action

Our paper on the cultivation of a putative sulfur comproportionator from the Frasassi caves is finally out! Jan would have been happy to see this paper published - it's got everything that he loved: thermodynamics, cultivation, weird metabolisms, and life underground. Cheers to Jan! rdcu.be/enlo3

This is the most efficient interview I've ever given in my whole life. Clocked in at 7 minutes. Chef's kiss! Thanks, Ed Cara at @gizmodo.com!

Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life book by @karenlloyd.bsky.social #usc_earth #usc_meb www.nature.com/articles/d41...

holy SHIT you need to watch this video notice what happens about 14 seconds in (trust me, you'll see it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

I was so happy to chat with @karenlloyd.bsky.social about her book on my #MattersMicrobial podcast! www.microbe.tv/mm/mm-086/

Thanks so much for having me on your podcast, @seancarroll.bsky.social! It was a lovely conversation!

For 3 years, I've been unable to read books for fun because I get jealous of these annoying authors who finished THEIR books (the nerve!). Now mine is done too and I'm released! I just devoured "I See You've Called in Dead" in a single flight. Highly recommend!

**BIG NEWS in the geology world!** For the first time, scientists spotted an active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge!! They visited the hydrothermal vent the day before, where a vibrant ecosystem thrived in the sweltering water. The next day, everything was gone. ⚒️🧪 My latest for @nytimes.com

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

I'm giving a Smithsonian Associates webinar about my book May 8 at 6:30pm EDT. Feel free to join us! smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...

Ultra-slow life. It's a thing!

I went to high school with Rhiannon Giddons. She is pure talent and goodness, through and through! I hope Bicsuits and Banjos becomes an annual thing. I'd love to go! www.biscuitsandbanjos.com

Awesome! John Baross had a massive influence on my career, and I never even worked for him. I'm so grateful for his and Dave Deamer's trailblazing. It's wonderful to see them recognized.

Walz: An hour by hour day by day basis, the President has chosen, chosen to throw our economy into turmoil. We are talking about a guy that slapped a 10% tariff on an island populated only by penguins. It would be funny as hell if it wasn't true and stupid.

There are strange organisms flourishing in the darkest depths of Earth’s crust, @karenlloyd.bsky.social reports. Their existence is challenging the very foundations of life & evolution as we know it. #microbes #intraterrestrials #microbiology

I just had a lovely conversation with @markowenmartin.bsky.social about some of the strangest life on Earth. He is *possibly* even more excited about teeny tiny lifeforms than I am! Thanks so much for the nice chat!

I just got my first physical copy of my book! This was a labor of love and I was helped by SO many people. It will be out in May from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

My podcast episode with Byrd Pinkerton @vox.com is out! It turned out SO COOL!!! Byrd digs into the weirder side of the strange life buried deep inside Earth's crust, and how it's changing how we think about the limits of life. Hope y'all like it! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social says Intraterrestrials will "change how readers think about life on Earth" in their ⭐ STARRED⭐ review of the new book from @karenlloyd.bsky.social Check out the review and be sure to preorder your copy:

It's a star! ⭐ Kirkus Reviews calls @karenlloyd.bsky.social, "one of those rare gifted writers who can be broadly profound as she is precise" in their STARRED review of Intraterrestrials. Check it out: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

My book got a starred review from Kirkus! They called it "A glorious gallop through one of the last, and possibly most important, frontiers of science." How cool is that??!!! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

It's a pleasure to join all the fine people at the Wrigley Institute at USC! Thanks for the kind article, @kathrynroyster.bsky.social! @dornsife.usc.edu dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

Shoutout to Kendrick for giving us some joy, art, and entertainment this Black history month. We really need it