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Dr Alison Cribb @alisoncribb.bsky.social · 14d

New in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: 'Earth system engineers' and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time 🔓 #ecoevo #openaccess

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time

Understanding the role of humans as ‘ecosystem engineers’ requires a deep-time perspective rooted in evolutionary history and the fossil record. Howev…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · 15d

Was just thinking about this after watching the original The Thing from Another World for the first time. I was surprised that the alien wasn't a shape-shifter like in the remake or novella, but an "intellectual carrot" as one of the characters put it.

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · 20d

Mesmerizing!

Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · 22d

Show them Symbiotic Earth! hummingbirdfilms.com/symbioticear...

Symbiotic Earth - Hummingbird Films

The film, Symbiotic Earth, is about Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative.

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪

Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social
and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions

Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ....

doi.org

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

Andrea Halling, a grad student at University of Colorado Boulder, recently led experiments with living algae to test how the physical conditions of ancient seawater might have impacted ancient single-celled organisms. quantamagazine.org/the-physics-...

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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very happy to share this new paper we've recently published. Do biospheres use information in the same way organisms do? Can we think of biospheres as agents?

"Exo-Daisy World: Revisiting Gaia Theory through an Informational Architecture Perspective"

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sounds great -- excited to check it out!

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · Aug 19

In one week my book about carbon comes out, and here's some nice things some nice people have said about it. If you feel moved to do so, the link below provides a means of purchase. Thank you, that is all. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · Aug 13

I've been looking forward to this! Saw Nir present this at Goldschmidt back in 2023.

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides - Nature

A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back to the Pala...

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · Aug 13

Fantastic!!

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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · Aug 11

The proceedings volume from our Nov24 meeting on the evolution of biospheres is just in PhilTransB @royalsocietypublishing.org delivering insights into how our biosphere evolved - and how other biospheres may evolve

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1931

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · Aug 8

So pleased to be part of this special issue following a wonderful meeting at @royalsociety.org on Chance and Purpose in the Biosphere last year. Do check it out

Planetary system evolution and the extended biosphere: we humans are products of Earth’s biosphere; we have become its co-creators; can we be its regulators? | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The energy balance of a planet is set by the sunlight entering and the heat radiating back from it. Earth’s biosphere adds new complexity as energy flows through global marine and terrestrial ecosystems altering physical and chemical systems, including ...

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · Aug 7

Super cool! Congrats!

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · Jul 26

So cool!!

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jul 22

A red algal polysaccharide influences the multicellular development of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

in @currentbiology.bsky.social

www.cell.com/current-biol...

A red algal polysaccharide influences the multicellular development of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

Perotti et al. find that polysaccharides from algae promote multicellular development in the choanoflagellate S. rosetta. Because algal polysaccharides are abundant in the aquatic environments where S...

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · Jul 18

Beautiful!

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Jul 16

At @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social last week, scientists reported the first biomarkers from a Snowball Earth event(!!!!)

It’s a first glimpse of life under the ice at a time when glaciers blanketed the world from pole to equator.

New from me for @science.org 🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

Molecular fossils offer first glimpse of how life survived Snowball Earth

Overlooked rock samples from 640 million years ago record microbes hanging on beneath frozen oceans

www.science.org

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Beate Kraft @beatekraft.bsky.social · Jul 8

Please apply if you are interested in environmental microbiology topics such as microbial dark oxygen production and methane cycling under oxygen depletion.

Beate Kraft @beatekraft.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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

tinyurl.com

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Rogier Braakman @rogierbraakman.bsky.social · Jun 18

‼️I'm looking for a postdoc‼️ Come join effort in using metagenomes to quantify microbial catabolic potential and carbon substrate availability at the ecosystem level. We seek to understand evolutionary forces shaping the carbon cycle. Part of ccomp-stc.org

careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

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Beate Kraft @beatekraft.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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

tinyurl.com

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · May 21

Wrote a long book that comes out August. It covers from the origins of life at alkaline hydrothermal vents some 4 billion years ago through the Volcker Shock. I'm told pre-orders help, so if that sounds like your thing, buy one, won't you? www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything

How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance. Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by ...

www.harpercollins.com

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Daniel Brady Mills @danbmills.bsky.social · Apr 30

So proud of my lab mates!

"We demonstrate that H2 from iron-sulfide precipitation under simulated early Earth hydrothermal geochemistry fuels a H2-dependent primordial metabolism."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Simulated early Earth geochemistry fuels a hydrogen-dependent primordial metabolism - Nature Ecology & Evolution

In an iron-sulfide chemical garden experiment that mimics the kind of hydrothermal vents that might have occurred in the early Archaean, mackinawite and greigite are precipitated and abiotic H2 is pro...

www.nature.com

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 24

Next #SETILive: Is Intelligent Life Easy?
TODAY, Thursday, Apr 24, 11:00 AM PDT

Join @allplanets.bsky.social in an in-depth discussion with Dr. Dan Mills about why intelligent life may be common and how this could affect our search for life beyond Earth. 🧪

WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/hEQJfyW...

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