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Silke Asche

@silkeasche.bsky.social
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Chemistry Research Fellow at NASA GSFC 🧪🧬🔬 Interested in Astrobiology, Mass Spectrometry and Laboratory Automation 🤖👽 Co-founder OoLEN.org 🔭

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
On my way to #AbSciCon, I'll be giving a poster on my NPP work on how to use EI-GC for agnostic life detection on Tueday afternoon board 47. If you're around, come say hi!
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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This week @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social sky.social published a two-part review by @oolen.bsky.social about cross-disciplinary collaboration and methods in the field. It took a few years to get this over the line - @colemathis.bsky.social did an amazing job coordinating so many authors.
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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Meet a member! Take a look at Silke Asche's bio card to know more about her research and interests ✨️ @silkeasche.bsky.social #OoL #biosignatures #massspectrometry #assemblytheory
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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🔬 Today we celebrate women and girls in science! Thank you to all the women working on origins of life research. At OoLEN, our code of conduct commits to gender diversity, because representation matters. You belong in this field. #WomenInScience
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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Reminder: OoLEN DEI Survey 2025 🧬🌍 If you’re an early-career origins-of-life researcher, we’d really value your (anonymous) input on the DEI climate in our field. Survey link: forms.gle/K7F6aM2prMgn... #DEI #OriginOfLife
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OoLEN Diversity and Inclusion Survey 2025
This survey is intended to be taken by anyone who considers themselves to be an early career researcher, working on topics related to OoL. It is a repeat of the OoLEN Diversity and Inclusion Survey…
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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Save the date 🇯🇵✨ IOoL2026 — Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting for Early Career Researchers 📍 Japan 🗓️ September 2026 More info soon! 🚀 #OriginOfLife #Astrobiology
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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Throwback to FALCON 2025 (OoLEN × AbGradE) in Reykjavík 🇮🇸 Huge thanks to all participants, poster presenters, speakers, and our OoLEN keynote speakers Sean Jordan & Silke Asche. More: www.oolen.org/news-and-eve... #Astrobiology #OriginOfLife
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FALCON2025 - Origin of Life Early-career Network
The Astrobiology Graduates in Europe (AbGradE) and the Origin of Life Early Career Network (OoLEN) proudly present their first jointly organized meeting "FALCON - Frontiers in Astrobiology and…
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I am co-convening a session at AbSciCon26, if you're interested in chemical self-assembly and what that could mean for the future exploration of ocean worlds, feel free to check out the link below! agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon...
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Exploring self-assembly and self-organization: from prebiotic molecules to the emergence of organic complexity and implications towards the future exploration of Ocean Worlds
A central challenge in astrobiology is to understand how chemical reactions made the transition from simple molecular building blocks to the first biological entities. This session invites contributio...
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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Excited to share that I’m also co-convening a second session at AbSciCon26 on Assembly Theory — from molecular complexity to planetary-scale biosignatures! ⏳ Abstract deadline: January 14, 2026 🌎 Details: bit.ly/4ie83pH #AbSciCon26 #Astrobiology #AssemblyTheory #OriginsOfLife #Complexity
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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Thrilled to share that I’m co-convening a session at AbSciCon26 in Madison WI focused on how self-assembly and self-organization drive chemistry toward the emergence of life! ✨ ⏳Abstract deadline: January 14, 2026 🌎Details here: bit.ly/4oalWqi #AbSciCon26 #Astrobiology #OriginsOfLife #Complexity
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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Another incredible talk by OoLEN member @silkeasche.bsky.social at #BEACON25 in Iceland 🚀🇮🇸
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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The origins of life session during #FALCON2025 featured an amazing keynote talk by our very own @silkeasche.bsky.social, intriguing roundtable discussions about the very definition of life and how to detect it, and, of course, many exciting contributed talks! Thanks to all the speakers! 👏
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hey #EGU, let's have a chat on how to detect life as we don't know it! 🛰🛸 Hall X4 poster 147 from 10:30!
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It was a pleasure to meet some members of @oolen.bsky.social yesterday in Vienna!
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Dr. Jasmina Wiemann @jwiemann.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Apply now for SVP’s Futures Award! 🦕 This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups! Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...
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SVP Futures Award – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Had to make a list of things I've done this year for a stupid admin thing, but this actually turned into me realizing that the feeling of "I haven't done enough" was completely unreasonable. Can recommend!
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Seán Jordan @seanfj.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Come and join our team here at the ProtoSigns Lab in DCU as part of our ERC funded project! We're making some really exciting discoveries around protocell membrane formation with implications for the origin of life and the search for life elsewhere in our solar system! #originoflife #modeling
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Es ist weiterhin komplett lächerlich und bevormundend, dass Schwangere sich vor einem Abbruch beraten lassen müssen - wie es auch der neue Gesetzentwurf vorsieht. Ein Recht auf Beratung: ja. Ein Zwang: nein. Das ist ein Zugeständnis an alle, die Frauen als nicht gänzlich mündig sehen. Illiberal.
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Also why are we assuming "life as we know it" on exoplanets? Tbh I would find that depressingly boring!
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Listened to some exoplanet talks today and since then a little voice in my head is screaming. Water is not a biosignature...and neither is oxygen. They both can have abiotic sources.
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
How robust are experimental Assembly Theory estimations regarding instrument settings, concentration and processing? If you're curious, our work lead by my brilliant colleague Dr Gabriella Weiss just came out! ✨️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/ast... #chemsky #massspec #assemblytheory #astrobiology
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Frontiers | Operational considerations for approximating Molecular Assembly by Fourier transform mass spectrometry
Some of the most common life detection techniques for planetary exploration focus on organic molecule characterization, but life on other planets may not che...
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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What It Takes To Solve The Origin(s) Of Life: An Integrated Review Of Techniques astrobiology.com/2023/09/what... #Astrobiology
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What It Takes To Solve The Origin(s) Of Life: An Integrated Review Of Techniques - Astrobiology
Understanding the origin(s) of life (OoL) is a fundamental challenge for science in the 21st century. Research on OoL spans many disciplines, including chemistry, physics, biology, planetary sciences,...
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Nick Riley @nmriley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Do you know outstanding undergraduate researchers who could use up to $750 in travel funding to present their work at the Spring @amerchemsociety.bsky.social Natl Meeting or Pittcon? Please encourage them to apply for a Kolthoff award! Deadline is Jan. 13, 2025. acsanalytical.org/kolthoff-tra...
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Awards for Undergraduate Students
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🦋 Gourdon Lab 🦠🔬 @delphe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yesterday marked the International Day Against Women Abuse, highlighting the long road ahead 😞 in our fight for our #safety and #equality. #WomenInStem #violenceagainstwomen #womensrights #genderequity #sexualviolence #stopviolence
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/
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Sarah E Hancock @sarahehancock.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The unofficial FeMS starter pack (until they join us on Bluesky :) anyway. If you're a woman working with a mass spectrometer please ask to be added! All women are welcome! go.bsky.app/PUwu7fr
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Silke Asche @silkeasche.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Heyy science friends, let's connect! Bluesky just became a lot more fun and this list helps to find amazing scientists ✨️
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