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Fatimagül Husain

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characterizing ancient worlds with organic geochemistry and molecular phylogenomics | research scientist @eapsMIT #SummonsLab #FournierLab

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Possibly @askpossibly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
After a powerful heatwave swept across the northeast last week, Possibly turned to its archive, looking for lessons about how to better prepare for extreme heat. This week we're traveling to Ahmedabad, India in an episode from 2021 to see how health officials rethought extreme heat preparedness.
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How can we prepare for heat waves?
After a powerful heatwave swept across the northeast last week, Possibly turned to its archive, looking for lessons about how to better prepare for extreme heat. We travel to Ahmedabad, India to learn...
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Ben Uveges @benuveges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Now that it's official, I am so excited to share that starting July 2027 I will be joining @dartmouthears.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry/Geobiology! I still honestly can't fully believe it, and I can't wait to get started!
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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New essay out in @aeon.co in which I consider the deepest ways in which humans have changed the planet in the Anthropocene (hint: it’s not that super deep hole in Russia). 🧪⚒️🌍 aeon.co/essays/how-d...
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Lipids are kind of the ignored middle children of origins of life research. It's time they got a bit of attention, too! This week's post is a Q&A with geoscientist-turned-??? (interdisciplinary folks know the struggle) @jamessaenz.bsky.social about why there's no cutting the fat from origins. 🧪
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The origin of life wasn't fat-free
James Sáenz studies how fatty molecules might have helped life get started
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Danny Glavin @meteordannyg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out these exciting new results from asteroid Bennu samples published in PNAS today by Angel Mojarro, a member of the Astrobiology Analytical Lab at NASA Goddard! Prebiotic organic compounds in samples of asteroid Bennu indicate heterogeneous aqueous alteration www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Prebiotic organic compounds in samples of asteroid Bennu indicate heterogeneous aqueous alteration | PNAS
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission characterized the asteroid Bennu and delivered pristine samples of its regolith to Earth. Coordinated analyses of this pr...
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨‍🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2... Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs! @egu.eu 🧪 ⚒️ 🌊 #PaleoSky (1/3)
Nina Davtian (that's me!) at her work office, with the laptop screen showing the header of her co-authored review article by Bijl and Śliwińska et al. (2025) Biogeosciences (https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6465-2025), with her name highlighted in the author list. Nina is holding a mug on which the text reads « 2nd international GDGT workshop September 2023, Zürich ».
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess. metazooa.com
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Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Dig 10 feet underground, anywhere on Earth, and the ground temperature will be a balmy 50 to 60° Fahrenheit (10-15° C). When you tap that ambient heat and hook it up to a heat pump, it becomes the world’s most efficient form of heating and cooling.
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Fatimagül Husain @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Celebrate the achievements of your organic geochemistry colleagues by submitting your nominations for the upcoming Treibs and Hayes Awards! The deadline for these Organic Geochemistry Division Awards @geochemsoc.bsky.social is October 30th, 2025. Learn more: geochemsoc.org/honors/organ...
A small medal that has an imprint of leaves and a geoporphyrin. The periphery of the medal has an inscription that reads “Alfred Treibs Award” and “The Geochemical Society.”
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 16/10/2025
🚨Reporters🚨 I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
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Ben Uveges @benuveges.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Check out this great write up of our field campaign out on Seneca lake in the @nytimes.com ! With @erinhassett.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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Why Is This Lake ‘Burping’?
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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I'm looking for a driven PhD student to join us at @au.dk and to both generate new paleoclimate data in the lab and work on computational problems to understand climate relationships across timescales. Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1! phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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Dr. Jasmina Wiemann @jwiemann.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I'd be delighted to sponsor a NASA Postdoc Fellowship focused on #biosignatures, #astrobiology, or the Origin of Life here at Hopkins! 🚀
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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...
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Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ISSN 2977-1994 | CC BY 4.0
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Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry @weareagc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New published article entitled: "Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies" from Inglis et al. You will find the full article here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...
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Bryce Mitsunaga @bryceotopes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
New Science Advances paper on Plio-Pleistocene northern African hydroclimate! Tl;dr the wet summer monsoon = summer insolation & the dry winter monsoon = global ice volume Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)
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Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.
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Ronnie Rattanasriampaipong @paleolipidrr.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Now published in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters! What happens to marine archaea when they’re hungry? And what does that mean for the TEX₈₆ paleothermometer? Full paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2025... Thanks to my coauthors and mentors for their support — and stay tuned, more is coming!
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A Nutrient Effect on the TEX86 Paleotemperature Proxy
Nutrient stress alters GDGT distributions in marine sediments, resulting in elevated TEX86 ${\text{TEX}}_{86}$ values beyond those related to thermal effects Paleoclimate case studies from the Ar...
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Fatimagül Husain @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I am excited to share our latest work, out now in @natcomms.nature.com. We used eukaryotic biomarkers and 18S rRNA genes to examine the ephemeral meltwater ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, revealing pond-to-pond diversity and a biomarker signal for life below the shelf! More at: rdcu.be/erMkt
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Biosignatures of diverse eukaryotic life from a Snowball Earth analogue environment in Antarctica
Nature Communications - The supraglacial meltwater ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, analogues for proposed Cryogenian period eukaryotic refugia, are shown to host diverse and varied eukaryotic...
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Ben Uveges @benuveges.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wonderful write-up by the amazing @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social on our recent PNAS paper: eaps.mit.edu/news-impact/...
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3 Questions: Demystifying Earth’s Ancient Nitrogen Cycle
Today, oxygen is essential for much of life on Earth and is involved in many biological processes, including cellular respiration. But early Earth lacked an oxygen-rich surface until the Great […]
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Ben Uveges @benuveges.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
So, our study pushes that back by over 100 million years and adds to the growing body of evidence that the oxidation of the oceans and the atmosphere were at times decoupled, and likely played out in a tumultuous non-linear fashion after the onset of oxygenic photosynthesis. 6/7
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Ben Uveges @benuveges.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Out online today in @pnas.org our paper: "Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation" With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Fatimagül Husain @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
Are you an early career organic geochemist with exciting new science to share? If so, apply to the 2024 GRS & GRC in #OrganicGeochemistry! We hope to offset conf. fees for EC researchers pending available funding. Links: bit.ly/oggrs24 & bit.ly/oggrc24.
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
... even more examples of #WomenInSTEM: @carolinelear.bsky.social @aecpaleo.bsky.social @astrobonology.bsky.social @khfreeman.bsky.social @chloelcjones.bsky.social @chloerophylla.bsky.social @carbonatefan.bsky.social @geobiomaggie.bsky.social @melissaberke.bsky.social among many others!
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
... and these #WomenInSTEM: @erinmcclimate.bsky.social @anandpallavijha.bsky.social @soniachaabane.bsky.social @clarab.bsky.social @antacl.bsky.social @nmpalanox.bsky.social @climatesmac.bsky.social @clblanchet.bsky.social @geochemman.bsky.social @mevorrath.bsky.social @ebwilkes.bsky.social ...
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
Also these #WomenInSTEM doing #paleoclimate and/or #biomarkers: @ellenhopmans.bsky.social @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social @geochemem.bsky.social @sfeakins.bsky.social @triptychphrases.bsky.social @jaquelineqf.bsky.social @palaeoclimate.bsky.social @islatope.bsky.social @antarcticabella.bsky.social ...
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
Well, it looks like I need to tag a few other 👩‍🔬, including those doing #biomarkers such as #GDGTs, to further support the #WomenInSTEM tag: @cindydejonge.bsky.social @francien.bsky.social @julielattaud.bsky.social @sarah-coffinet.bsky.social @docsabine.bsky.social @villanueva-laura.bsky.social
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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
📣 As part of my DFF-funded project, WARMEST, I'm hiring a biomarker-loving postdoc to join my group and examine terrestrial climate + environment of the western Sahel during the Eocene. Applications are due Feb 15th - contact me with any questions! RT plz :) international.au.dk/about/profil...
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2 year Postdoc in Biomarker Paleoclimatology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University
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