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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 6d

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · 8d

The University of Rochester has a faculty position opening in complexity science as well as other domains of theoretical physics. Please apply to join us in
studying the “physics of life” and other subjects

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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · 12d

Santa Fe, NM 🌵🏜️🌄

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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · 15d

well that seems pretty big

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.

www.nature.com

Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · 16d

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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · 21d

Iceland 🇮🇸🌋✈️

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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Aug 15

🧪 Curious how chemistry becomes biology? Join OoLEN’s open seminar Thu Sep 12, 06:30 UTC (15:30 JST / 08:30 CEST) !

📣 We’ll share a short yearly update, then Tony Z Jia dives into Primitive Polyester Microdroplets on Early Earth. 🫧🌍

▶️ Live stream: youtube.com/@OoLEN_org

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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here is our new paper that we're really excited about. What makes a cell different from a rock? The answer we argue is the USE of information. But information carries meaning and that changes everything if we want to understand the "physics of life".

journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems

Living systems are defined by their active acquisition and use of information. This Roadmap surveys current research on life's information processes and their importance for the search for life beyond...

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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Looks super interesting. Can’t wait to dive into this!

Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congrats Mike !! Well done !

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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · Aug 25

Revenu samedi soir des É-U: même histoire..

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Aug 15

🧪 Curious how chemistry becomes biology? Join OoLEN’s open seminar Thu Sep 12, 06:30 UTC (15:30 JST / 08:30 CEST) !

📣 We’ll share a short yearly update, then Tony Z Jia dives into Primitive Polyester Microdroplets on Early Earth. 🫧🌍

▶️ Live stream: youtube.com/@OoLEN_org

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Seán Jordan @seanfj.bsky.social · Jul 18

Interested in moving/establishing your research group in Ireland?

www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

I'd love to see more #originoflife #astrobiology researchers join us here!

Feel free to contact me directly to discuss!

@abgradcon.bsky.social @oolen.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social

Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland

Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...

www.researchireland.ie

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jul 4

And now here’s another great talk by OoLEN member @miquai.bsky.social on agnostic life detection at #BEACON25 #OriginOfLife

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jul 4

Another incredible talk by OoLEN member @silkeasche.bsky.social at #BEACON25 in Iceland 🚀🇮🇸

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Alexandre Champagne-Ruel @alexchampagne.bsky.social · Jul 2

Keynote on the habitability of ocean worlds 🌊 @ #BEACON2025 #Astrobiology

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jul 2

Awesome talk by @klauspaschek.bsky.social at the #BEACON conference in Reykjavik ! 🚀 #OriginOfLife #Astrobiology

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Seán Jordan @seanfj.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you to @oolen.bsky.social for inviting me to give a keynote on progressing from Postdoc to PI in Iceland! I met so many promising ECRs!

Scouted some fieldwork locations while I was there too so can't wait to return for sampling!

@erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie @dcuresearch.bsky.social

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jun 28

#FALCON2025 was wrapped up by a career development workshop, featuring @seanfj.bsky.social and Filipa Sousa, giving us valuable and honest advice on how to progress in one's career to becoming a PI and how to write good proposals, as well as a lively poster session.

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thank you to everyone for coming! A special thanks to AbGradE and @euroastrobiology.bsky.social for joining forces to make this incredible event here in Iceland 🇮🇸 possible! It was a privilege to collaborate, and we truly owe you for making it all happen! Enjoy the conference excursion tomorrow! 🌋🐑🏔️🌊

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jun 28

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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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jun 28

On the first full day of #FALCON2025, we enjoyed an amazing lineup of astrobiology talks, a lovely tour of the botanical gardens, and a great conference dinner. We hope that many new connections will be made between the astrobiology and origins of life communities here in Iceland!

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Amit Kahana @amitkahana.bsky.social · Jun 28

Had a great time presenting my work on Assembly Theory and molecular phylogenetics at the GRS and GRC on Molecular Mechanisms of Evolution in Boston, and the FALCON origin of life and astrobiology conference at Reykjavik. Feeling inspired!

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Origin of Life Early-Career Network @oolen.bsky.social · Jun 26

#FALCON2025 is in full swing, uniting Astrobiology and the Origins of Life sciences in a fun, relaxed gathering surrounded by 🇮🇸 Iceland's picturesque volcanic early Earth analogue landscape. 🌋🧬🦠
Let's go!

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · Jun 24

Poster printed and ready for #BEACON2025! See you next week, @euroastrobiology.bsky.social!

A small teaser of my BEACON poster that shows a text chain between two scientists trying to decide how to make an artistic figure

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