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:
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@mblscience.bsky.social #darkoxygen ⚒️🧪

Centers of Excellence in Ukraine Centers of Excellence in Ukraine on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/center...

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...

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

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

Was the nucleobase-derivative caffeine found as well? 😀 Did space contribute it to the chemical inventory of my life? ☕

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 🧪⚒️

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

@karenlloyd.bsky.social @jamesdinneen.bsky.social @emvidal.bsky.social

Day 1 NASA OxyMoRon team studying Moab Khotsong gold mine. Today we are at 1200 m depth. #NASA @mblscience.bsky.social ⚒️🧪

Job opening:

University of Bremen - Professorship for Molecular Botany - Deadline March 15

www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Thanks for the shout-out, Ken!

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!

Two fully funded PhD candidate positions in Electromicrobiology (3 years) Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

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.

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

Buzzards Bay is frozen! ❄️✨ View from MBLs Stoney Beach.

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

Thank you, Glen! ✨

Thanks Jim! ✨

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...

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...

Frozen spume in Woods Hole! ❄️✨

I am grateful for the support provided by NASA-ICAR, @hfspo.bsky.social , @simonsfoundation.org @mblscience.bsky.social

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...

🌏 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/...

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...

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...

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/...

Thanks for a very inspiring and fun collaboration @katharinasures.bsky.social and @probstlab.bsky.social ! 🤩

👇🥂🎊🥳

Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.

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 🥳

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...

🤩 BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria 😍
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