Five year old girl on BBC News in item on Artemis II hopes we can find life on other planets so "we can be family with them.." Wish politicians would share her attitude to those who are different.

Congrats Mike Laub and Emily Mahoney! Lots more in the manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 7/n

Nature research paper: A membrane-bound nuclease directly cleaves phage DNA during genome injection go.nature.com/3P2jKFh

Looking for a cutting-edge and fun conference in 2026? How about: GRC Geobiology in Ventura, CA - January 11-16, 2026 www.grc.org/geobiology-c... AbSciCon in Madison, WI - May 17-22, 2026 www.agu.org/abscicon 🤩The Ruff Lab will be there with sessions and presentations on Dark Oxygen Production 🥳

Thrilled to share our new paper: Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. 🧪 @melroselane.bsky.social, @drbradbrad.bsky.social , @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @emilruff.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An Asgard Archaeon (Lokiarchaeum ossiferum) growing and retracting its arms

Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.

Deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria form intracellular carbonates enriched in trace metals journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!

Possible biosignature on Mars? astrobiology.com/2025/09/nasa...

Putting my "Hands Off" protest sign in the front yard.