Thrilled to share that I have been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship! 🤩 I am really grateful to my colleagues at Cambridge Biochemistry for their support and to the UKRI for believing in me and funding this project! Stay tuned for Research Assistant and Associate positions available!

🧪 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

A new 5-year mission begins! I'm so grateful to everyone at NASA Astrobiology for this opportunity to advance our search for life in the universe with @calebscharf.bsky.social and our team of amazing colleagues at @carnegiescience.bsky.social, NASA Ames, and beyond!

Out now in @NAR_Open ! A #ribozyme can self-integrate into and hydrolyze ss- & dsDNA, offering a new avenue for the development of protein-free genome editing tools, and hinting at the possibility of a pre-translation origin of group II introns (G2Is). 🧬🧵 (1/7) #intron #RNAworld

🧪 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

#POSTDOC position avaiable at @ istecnico.bsky.social. Combining modelling chemical networks, goal-directedness, & OOL. Good conditions, but needs to be filled ASAP by a person who is already allowed to legaly live & work in Portugal. Check full details at: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/362411

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

Presented my work on calcium carbonate as potential template for origin of life and its prebiotic reactions. @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social at prague -2025 @oolen.bsky.social @astrobiology.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

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 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.

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!

#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

FALCON 2025 kicks off this evening in Reykjavík! Proud to co-host with AbGradE. Swing by the 19:00 icebreaker BBQ to meet fellow early-career origin-of-life researchers and set the tone for three days of wonderful science! 🇮🇸🌋 #FALCON2025

I'm convening a session at #AGU25 on the emergence of life as a planetary process ✨☄️🌋⛈️☀️❄️🌊🫧🦠 Get those abstracts ready! Submission deadline: July 30.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... pleased to share my latest article on how CaCo3 can act as potential template for orgin of life. @oolen.bsky.social @seanfj.bsky.social @astrobiology.bsky.social @euroastrobiology.bsky.social

Hey we are organizing a workshop about Goal Directedness Please share and think of submitting and/or participate ! sites.google.com/view/gdb-ali... > will be during @alife2025.bsky.social

Wow, what a great resource! Very useful for those of us visiting Congress for @agu.org’s Day of Action this week! Thanks, @caseydreier.bsky.social and @planetarysociety.bsky.social!

Please share. www.planetary.org/press-releas...

If you're a fan of science in general and space science in particular, now is the time to write to your congressional representatives and tell them not to pass this devastating budget request.

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e... Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

Job Alert 📢📢📢 Systems chemistry lab is hiring! We are looking for motivated candidates to do a PhD with us. It will be on the effect of (large) aggregation on chemical reaction networks, more details here: systemschemistry-lab.chimie.unistra.fr/vacancies/. Repost very much appreciated 🙏

I had lots of fun recording this Documentary Special from @newstalkfm.bsky.social @jonathanmccrea.bsky.social: 'Is There Anybody Out There' www.newstalk.com/podcasts/fut... @protosignslab.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie

Federal Budget Cuts Would Sabotage NASA’s Plans to Find Alien Life — by OoLEN member Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

New podcast episode! 🇺🇸🎙🖖 I speak with propulsion engineer Thomas White about our trip to Congress for the @planetarysociety.bsky.social's Day of Action.

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!

I just registered and booked my tickets for the Biennial European Astrobiology Conference #BEACON2025! I'll be speaking about some of my biosignatures research and doing a poster on some cool art–science stuff that's in the works. Hope to see you in Iceland this summer!

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...

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

Update on OoLEN’s Social Media Presence

Join the ProSE Seminar Series! A monthly discussion on the #Evolution of #ProteinStructure 🧪 Next up: Andrei Lupas “Highly repetitive genomic ORFs: a source of new fibrous proteins?” 11th February | 3 PM GMT 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar1

🔔 #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...

If you missed my public talk for @rascmontreal.bsky.social last weekend, you can watch the recording on YouTube!

Many interesting sessions at the International Clay Conference icc.aipea.org/sessions-list, incl. ours on the role of layered minerals in the origin of life. Plz share, apply and I look forward to seeing you in Dublin! @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @oolen.bsky.social @astrobiology.bsky.social

🔔 #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...

Tomorrow night in Montreal, I'll be giving a lecture to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada about how looking for life beyond Earth changes the way we perceive life right here at home. You can tune in over Zoom: rascmontreal.org/2024/12/even...

Field expedition to understand terrestrial analogue setup from extreme hyper saline site of Great Ran of Kuchh, India @oolen.bsky.social @astrobiology.bsky.social

Presenting my bio signature work on Puga hot-spring at vikram discussions at PRL, ISRO Laboratory @oolen.bsky.social

🔔 #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...

Glimpse of my latest work presented at life and space conference 2024 @oolen.bsky.social

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