New PNAS study shows that life’s signature lingers in rocks long after the original biomolecules are gone. Hazen, Wong (@miquai.bsky.social) & Prabhu (@anirudhprabhu.bsky.social) found chemical traces of ancient life in 3.3 BYO rocks. Let’s get into it. (1/6) 👉 carnegiescience.edu/chemical-evi...

New podcast episode! 🪨🧪🤖🎙🖖 Dr. @anirudhprabhu.bsky.social joins me to discuss how we use machine learning trained on organic chemical data to detect the "whispers" of life—specifically photosynthetic life—in ancient rocks.

Our paper "Predicting Exoplanet Occurrence Using Association Analysis" is out! This was an idea that @anirudhprabhu.bsky.social and I developed about 3 years ago and was brought to fruition by our fantastic @carnegiescience.bsky.social summer intern, Vasu Gatne! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Machine learning 🤖 + spectrometry 🧪 = astrobiology? 🌱🪐☄️🔭 Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social & Anirudh Prabhu @anirudhprabhu.bsky.social of Carnegie EPL will discuss new biosignature detection methods at the next #RockyWorldsDiscussion Thu 5 June @ 13:00 UTC! More: www.rockyworlds.org/event-detail...

Nominations for the M. Lee Allison Award for excellence in Geoinformatics are open. This award is granted annually by GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science Division. Review of nominations will begin on March 1st, 2025. Please spread the word! Here is the nomination form: forms.office.com/r/CEBjb4kWZk

If you have an interest in having the division sponsor/endorse your session, please reach out to me at [email protected] Thank you!

New podcast episode! 👽🎙🖖 Dr. @anirudhprabhu.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss the 2024 Nobel Prizes involving AI. Then, he and I use the #StarTrekLowerDecks episode "The Stars at Night" as a launchpad to talk about how we're using AI to help search for signs of life in the universe.