🌍✨ Reminder to all OoLEN members! Our September Public Seminar is on Sept. 24 at 16:00 UTC. Join us for updates from Klaus Paschek, Omer Markovitch & Yannick Geiger, plus a presentation by Sean McMahon on Fossil microbes. 🦠 Don’t miss it! 🔗youtube.com/live/kJ3yyUmrr…

The Fujishima Lab is seeking an international student interested in the intersection of astrobiology and synthetic biology, who is also willing to apply for the ELSI Integrated Doctoral Course starting in April 2025. If you're interested, please feel free to contact me😉

Please check out my latest publication in Nature Astronomy: "We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong place." Weblink to the paper: rdcu.be/dVhB5

"Surveys of the scientific community on the existence of extraterrestrial life" — New paper with UKCA co-director @SeanHMcMahon: nature.com/articles/s4155…

#ICYMI, ARCHIVED NASA Astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to complete maintenance and science tasks. Butch Wilmore collected samples near vents in search of microbes that may survive and reproduce on the exterior of the orbiting lab.

'Biological #mining, or #biomining, is the use of #microorganisms to extract economically or industrially useful elements from rocks. On Earth, it is used to extract #gold and #copper...' Read more about UK Centre for Astrobiology The University of Edinburgh #biomining in #Space at bit.ly/4277Azv

UKCA students explore new depths in Astrobiology! To ~literally~ deepen their knowledge, our students traveled over 1 km underground to Boulby mine... Read more about the adventure here: ph.ed.ac.uk/news/2025/stud… Read more about ICL Boulby here: boulby.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Overview…

Congratulations to Dr Corentin Loron! Who has received an RSE Award Grant from Royal Society of Edinburgh to look into "Constraining the source of Martian sedimentary organic matter". Read more about the RSE awardees here: rse.org.uk/scotlands-vibr…

The UKCA’s Dr. Valentina Erastova journeyed through space and time at the virtual Winter School, exploring Computational Chemistry as the ultimate tool in exploration! Watch the talk here: zenodo.org/records/149381… Learn more about the winter school here: winterschool.cc

Can methanogens fossilize? New research from the UKCA's Sean McMahon explores the preservation potential of Methanobacterium in carbonate, phosphate, and silicate solutions—offering insights into early Earth & Mars! 🔗 Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gb… #Astrobiology #Fossils

🚨 Job Alert! Join Naturalis as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the exciting PROTOS project exploring the evolution & preservation of biomolecules under early Earth conditions🧬🔬 📍Leiden and Utrecht 🕒 Fulltime 📅 Apply by May 19! 🔗 naturalis.nl/en/about-us/jo…

The UKCA is delighted to announce that the Harding Essay Competition 2025 is now open! This year's theme is: Ice, Ice, Maybe? Life in the Cold Universe. visit astrobiology.ac.uk/opportunities/… for more details or email [email protected]

Intrepid UKCA scientists head off in search of extremophiles in Iceland's most extreme locations.

After a fantastic week in Iceland with UK Centre for Astrobiology Charles Cockell Pamela Knoll Stewart Gault Nim Felton it is time to head home

🚨!New paper alert!🚨 From UKCA’s Planetary Paleobiology group: Troubles With Tubules: How Do Iron‐Mineral Chemical Gardens Differ From Iron‐Mineralized Sheaths of Iron Oxidizing Bacteria? 📃Access the published article here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.70…

✨Calling all UK students! ✨ The UKCA Harding Essay Competition is awaiting your essay! Submit your take on life in the cold and icy universe to: [email protected] ⏰Deadline for essays is the 31st of July 2025 #studentvoices #essaycompetition #astrobiology

⏳Less than 1 MONTH left to enter the UKCA Harding Essay Competition 2025! UK students — share your boldest ideas on science, engineering & society. 🏆A £500 Prize awaits the winner 📅Deadline: 31 July 2025 📩Send entries to: [email protected] #EssayCompetition #astrobiology

⏰ LAST CHANCE to submit your essay for this year's Harding Essay Competition! ⏰ Send entries to: [email protected] ✉️for your chance to win £500 🪙