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Emil Ruff

@emilruff.bsky.social
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Microbial ecology and ecophysiology. Associate Scientist at The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. rufflab.org Science, music, art, graphics, comics.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Join us at the "2027 Applied and Environmental GRC: Mechanistic Microbiology for a Complex World" July 18-23, 2027 and GRS "Mechanistic Microbiology Beyond the Model Organism" July 17-18. Applications are open! @thuls.bsky.social and I put together an awesome schedule! www.grc.org/applied-and-...
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2027 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Manuel Kleiner @manuelkleiner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are looking to hire a microbiology laboratory research technician here at NC State in Raleigh, NC. If you have experience in microbiology and/or LC-MS/MS please consider applying. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/234...
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Microbiology Laboratory Research Technician
The Kleiner Lab at North Carolina State University is seeking a Research Technician to support research focused on complex microbial communities, microbial symbioses, and metaproteomics. Reporting to ...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This week was exciting! ...Part 2... My band "Fake Lights" released its first album "Fly Low". It can be streamed on Spotify, or downloaded and supported on Bandcamp. fakelights1.bandcamp.com/album/fly-low open.spotify.com/album/5rHAg9...
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Fly Low, by Fake Lights
11 track album
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This week was exciting! ...Part 1... The story of our expedition to study dark oxygen in the Moab Khotsong gold mine was published in The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/science/elem... Many thanks to @jamesdinneen.bsky.social, who joined us on our quest and wrote this nice piece.
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The Mystery of Dark Oxygen
Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground.
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This years ISSM is in Vienna from Aug 30 - Sept 4, the early bird deadline is 15 June. As a premier conference in subsurface microbiology, the ISSM features exciting sessions and excellent keynote speakers. Spread the word, see you there. issm2026.univie.ac.at #deeplife #microbiome #subsurface
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issm conference 2026 vienna 12th issm conference
12th ISSM COnference Vienna: Subsurface microbiology plays a critical role in shaping Earth's ecosystems, driving biogeochemical processes, and addressing critical environmental challenges. ISSM provi...
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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Lots of people have reached out asking how they can support us after the devastating fire in the MSL building, the heart of @cmarinescience.bsky.social Here’s one way, a GoFundMe organized by our graduate students - gofund.me/4373c6ff3. Please share widely, and thanks for helping our community!
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Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta
On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Job Alert!!! - We are hiring a Postdoc for the NASA ICAR OxyMoRon program Join my lab at Marine Biological Laboratory and an international team of geomicrobiologists and geochemists. Details here, please share widely: recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/J... @mblscience.bsky.social #darkoxygen ⚒️🧪
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Centers of Excellence in Ukraine
Centers of Excellence in Ukraine on Simons Foundation
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Epic study out (preprint): "Latitudinal diversity gradients and selective microbial exchange at the Atlantic ocean-air interface" First author @bellahda.bsky.social did a phenomenal job! Truly multidisciplinary work along 14.000 km transect. So proud to be a part. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology (ISSM) is in Vienna this year. Aug 30th - Sept 4th I am so excited! Early Bird deadline is April 30th. issmvienna2026.univie.ac.at #deeplife 🧪⚒️ #subsurface
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issm conference 2026, vienna
Subsurface microbiology plays a critical role in shaping Earth's ecosystems, driving biogeochemical processes, and addressing critical environmental challenges. ISSM provides a unique forum for researchers to explore the complex interactions between subsurface microorganisms and their environments.
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
All samples made it home, our trip to Moab Khotsong gold mine was a full success. Thanks to an amazing team, help from friends, collaborators and support from funding agencies. 🧪⚒️ @mblscience.bsky.social @ethz.ch @unlv.edu @whoi.edu @usc.edu @hfspo.bsky.social #NASA #OxyMoRon #darkoxygen #deeplife
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Day 3 at 2900 m depth is mainly for analyzing gas and isotope geochemistry. @davidbekaert.bsky.social brought a mass spec and colleagues from @whoi.edu and @ethz.ch are collecting ancient brines in pressure vessels. #darkoxygen @mblscience.bsky.social @hfspo.bsky.social #OxyMoRon #NASA #deeplife 🧪⚒️
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Day 2 #NASA #OxyMoRon team is going sampling 1 billion-year old brines at 2900 m depth below surface. Walking 4km in the heat and dusty tunnels to get to our site and back. #mblscience ⚒️🧪 #darkoxygen #deeplife #microbiome @karenlloyd.bsky.social @jamesdinneen.bsky.social @hfspo.bsky.social
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Day 1 NASA OxyMoRon team studying Moab Khotsong gold mine. Today we are at 1200 m depth. #NASA @mblscience.bsky.social ⚒️🧪
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Job opening: University of Bremen - Professorship for Molecular Botany - Deadline March 15 www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Very excited to announce *TWO* fully-funded PhD positions starting this summer focusing on greenhouse gases in the peatlands of the Congo Basin! Both positions are joint between my group in @eth-eaps.bsky.social and that of @johansix.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social. Come join us!
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Amelia Rotaru @ameliarotaru.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.
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Two fully funded PhD candidate positions in Electromicrobiology (3 years)
Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Come work with us on #darkoxygen as part of the NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. It is an amazing opportunity to get up to 3 years of funding. Deadlines are March 1. and November 1. Happy to discuss your ideas! Details here: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... @mblscience.bsky.social #astrobiology
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Zintellect - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - ICAR - OxyMoRon: Understanding dioxygen production and consumption in apparently anoxic environments - 0042-NPP-MAR26-ABProg-Astrobi...
About the NASA Postdoctoral Program The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ong
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Buzzards Bay is frozen! ❄️✨ View from MBLs Stoney Beach.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Meet "OxyMoRon" our 5-year NASA ICAR program to study dark oxygen production in Earth's hidden ecosystems. We have multiple positions and are happy about collabs. Co-PIs:@valdeanda.bsky.social @microbiaki.bsky.social @valiergaly.bsky.social Ranjani Murali, Scott Wankel www.mbl.edu/news/emil-ru...
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Emil Ruff Leads Team to Explore Dark Oxygen Through NASA Collaborative Award | Marine Biological Laboratory
For more than a century, textbooks asserted that molecular oxygen (O2) on Earth is produced almost entirely by photosynthesis, through plants and microbes. But discoveries over the past decade have ov...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Frozen spume in Woods Hole! ❄️✨
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🌏 Happy 🔭 New 🧪 Year 🦠 2026 ✨ If you feel like an easy read about subsurface microbiomes and astrobiology: Here is an opinion I wrote with @emvidal.bsky.social @geobiomaggie.bsky.social @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Melody Lindsay enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries
This paper discusses current research on subsurface microbiology. Exploring Earth's deep and extreme subsurface environments provides critical insights into life's limits and adaptability. Subsurface...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
If you work on Dark Oxygen --> come to #AbSciCon2026 this year. 17-22 May, Madison Join our session on ""Dark Oxygen" Production: where does it happen, how does it work, and what does it mean for astrobiology?" Submit your abstract until January 14 More info here: agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon...
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2026 Astrobiology Science Conference
Molecular oxygen (O₂) is often regarded as a strong biosignature in the search for life. Traditionally the production of O2 has been linked to photosynthesis, yet non-photosynthetic (“dark”) pathways ...
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Emeline Vidal @emvidal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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/...
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Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries
This paper discusses current research on subsurface microbiology. Exploring Earth's deep and extreme subsurface environments provides critical insights into life's limits and adaptability. Subsurface...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Beate Kraft @beatekraft.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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 🥳
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2026 Geobiology Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Geobiology will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🤩 BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria 😍 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria | mBio
Dynamic microbial activity transforms environments and impacts health and disease in associations with plants and animals, including humans. Identifying the contribution of individual microbes to thos...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Finally! This idea deserved to be broadly discussed for decades.
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Spend the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own original research. Applications open now. grassfoundation.org/application-... @mblscience.bsky.social
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Apply for the Grass Fellowship – The Grass Foundation
Priority Deadline: October 15, 2025 Applicants who apply by this date will have the opportunity to receive technical feedback and update their proposal accordingly prior to the final deadline. Letters of reference must be received by December 15, 2025.
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/ Please share. Thank you!
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Join the Lab | Monir lab
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The White House budget proposal includes an $18B cut to NIH research funding in FY26. Explore the anticipated economic impacts in communities nationwide & click on any district to learn more and get a shareable scorecard. New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
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Nichole Ginnan 🦠 @botanichole.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Great publication from Maggie Wagner (KU) and Manuel Kleiner (NCS) on how to design microbiome (+ other Omic) projects with downstream statistics in mind! A must read for trainees! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How thoughtful experimental design can empower biologists in the omics era - Nature Communications
Here, the authors discuss principles of experimental design that are relevant for all biology research, along with special considerations for projects using -omics approaches, highlighting common expe...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This generous gift will have positive ripple effects throughout the entire community in and around Woods Hole. 🥂🧪🎊🔬🥳 www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...
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MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119
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Riikka Kietäväinen @riikkakie.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Excited to present our DODGE project (#Safer2028) results on dark oxygen in the deep continental biosphere today at the #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague. It's session 9e in the Small Hall - see you there if you are around!
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
For ANME enthusiasts & for those who wonder how a methanogen turns into a methanotroph 👇New work by Orphanlab Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @caltech.edu @mblscience.bsky.social
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Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
Modification of core carbon and energy metabolism aided a recent evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in archaea.
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Beate Kraft @beatekraft.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Two Postdoc Opportunities in Environmental Microbiology! Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion. Please share widely! Deadline: 25 July More information can be found here: tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p
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Two postdoc positions on the ecology and physiology of microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion
Application deadline: 25 July 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Watch out for two new grad students at U of Amsterdam and U of Miami. We are so thankful, Eleanor and Jaden, for your fantastic work and all the wonderful times here at @mblscience.bsky.social @jadenhansen.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-g...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This week: Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine talking about “Staying True to the Indispensable Values of Science”. Don't miss MBL Friday evening lectures. Like every year the line-up is excellent. In person & virtual. www.mbl.edu/events/frida... @mblscience.bsky.social @science.org
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2025 Friday Evening Lectures | Marine Biological Laboratory
Join us for these venerable MBL events bringing our local and global communities together live.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025
"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change. Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
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PostDoc in ecology and evolution of plasmids in polar waters at HIFMB (f/d/m)
Layout AWI HIPP extern, englisch
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
👇 www.mpg.de/20566192/max...
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Max Planck-Weizmann Postdoctoral Programme
The Max Planck Society (MPG) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) jointly offer outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and earth...
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... Application Deadline July 31, 2025
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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Review of methane through space and time, coauthored with @planetdr.bsky.social, is out (OA) in @annualreviews.bsky.social. Hopefully a helpful resource for community and courses. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Schematics of atmospheric CH4 cycling on (a) modern Earth, (b) Archean Earth, and (c) Titan. (a) On modern Earth (20% O2), CH4 emissions originate primarily from wetlands, ruminants, and the fossil fuel industry. Methane is oxidized chemically in the troposphere by hydroxyl radicals (OH), with an average lifetime of 10 years. Hydroxyl radicals originate from reactions between ozone (O3), UV radiation (<320 nm), and H2O vapor. The O3 layer originates from reactions between UV radiation and O2. (b) On the Archean Earth (<0.0001% O2), in the absence of O3 and O2, CH4 would have had a much longer atmospheric lifetime (∼10,000 years), with eventual destruction by UV photolysis, leading to H escape and/or, when CH4/CO2 was greater than 0.1, polymerization to yield organic haze in the upper atmosphere. (c) On Titan, with temperatures near the CH4 triple point, there is a CH4 cycle of evaporation, photolysis to yield ethane (C2H6) and H2 (lost to space), and condensation of C2H6, whereupon it participates in surface processes.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...
Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900
Other Professionals 14,400  --> 4,100
Postdoctoral Associates 5,500  --> 1,000
Graduate Students 41,500  --> 12,400
Undergraduate Students 37,300  --> 8,000
PreK-12 Teachers 42,900  --> 8,200
PreK-12 Students 128,100  --> 39,400
Total Number of People 330,100  --> 90,000
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Yesterday’s lab retreat going whale watching in Boston. I feel so fortunate and happy! What a lovely group of inspiring and wonderful people! (We missed you Roo). Life is good, enjoy the weekend everyone.
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Growing and monitoring methanogens in the lab at 100 bar pressure! Next-level cultivation by @emvidal.bsky.social
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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Some good news ! New undergraduate astrobiology minor just launched at @gtresearchnews.bsky.social ! cos.gatech.edu/news/georgia...
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Georgia Tech Offers New Astrobiology Minor
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