Out now: an exciting new study that highlights the potential of rigorous chemical assessments when trying to distinguish diagenetic from biological mineralization in deep time! ⚗️🧪🔬💎 Baumgartner et al.: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Today I learned that two of my favorite scientists, Dr. Nick Lane and Dr. Bruce Damer who have opposing views as to where life began (deep sea hydrothermal vents vs hot spring pools), met a few years back. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall. I would have loved to have heard that debate.

#IOoL2024 was a full success! Many new connections were established and new friends were made. A big thank you goes to our amazing co-organizers Omer Markovitch, Celia Blanko, and especially to local host Yannick Geiger | @yannickgeiger.bsky.social who lead us through these exciting three days! 🙏👏

This week’s plot depicts how organic carbon could be sequestered in early Mars’ crust. Hydrothermal alteration of ultramafic rocks into smectite clays creates methane, which is trapped in the subsurface, possibly accounting for a significant part of early Mars’ atmosphere. (1/2)

Excited to share my review on reconstructing early life, out Annual Reviews! It covers past and future prospects for reviving extinct biochemistry, and how integrating our 4-billion-year planetary history with biochemical evolution can advance biology. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Our new paper on the Hadean atmosphere (and potentially of that of rocky exoplanets) is now officially out in Astrobiology: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/as…

New IISER to be established in Gandhinagar . As ⁦Prof N Sathyamurthy⁩ said :"If they want to start more IISERs , let them as long as they want to fund them adequately " . We all know the perils of sub-critical funding !! timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad…

Comment: International collaboration in geoscience lags behind other scientific disciplines Shan Ye JiuyuanWang nature.com/articles/s4156…

Big article reviewing Earth-Life co-evolution in the Precambrian. "The interaction of life and Earth was and is reciprocal, hence the term biogeodynamics...." True. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🌍🔬 Join the ProtoSigns Lab to explore novel biosignatures for microfossil interpretation! Fully-funded 4-year PhD with fieldwork, cutting-edge facilities & interdisciplinary training. 🔗 Apply by 31 Jan 2025 Full details: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/302167

Microbial motility as an amazingly simple #biosignature to detect #life on #Mars and elsewhere (and dangerous #pathogenic #bacteria on Earth). Posted on BigThink with Link at searchforlifeintheuniverse.com/post/a-promisi…

Let’s talk Vesicles 🌋🪨 Vesicles form in basalt when the magma reaches the surface. It’s basically the wee holes and cavities that you can see in the rock in the pictures below (left - Iceland, right - Scotland). Magma contains volatiles and gases and that and when these

Happy birthday to our fantastic PI Seán F Jordan. Wishing you a great day and a fantstic year ahead 🎂🥳🎊

Paleobiology lab IISER Pune on #NationalScienceDay2025 had a fantastic event with exciting displays and fun games about fossilization and evolution. Thanks to purva Anushka Saqcena Nandana Manu Manasi and Rithuvarna, for your work!

Adaptation to Extreme Conditions: Thermal Water Biofilm Studies Could Help Understand Ancient Ecosystems astrobiology.com/2025/03/adapta… #Astrobiology #microbiology #paleontology

Richard Fortey, paleontologist, passed away early yesterday morning, in his sleep. Richard studied the evolution of arthropods and especially trilobites. Richard is also a well-known natural history television presenter and popular science author. A talented science communicator

🦴 The absence of a national institution for biological and fossil collections threatens conservation in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots 🔗 Find out more: go.nature.com/3DUhw5U #NatureIndia

The Astrobiology Spectral Database (ASD) needs your input! Consider filling out the survey and signing up for the workshops and the links below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… hou.usra.edu/meetings/asd20…

🚺 Women in academia don’t just need a seat at the table. They need the table redesigned. Many women still struggle in a system never built with them in mind. 🔗 Read more: go.nature.com/3DWsfN8 #NatureIndia

🟢 A new approach calls for Indigenous knowledge to take centre stage in environmental research 🔗 Read more: go.nature.com/42ramQ9 #NatureIndia