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▶️ IOoL2026 — Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting for Early Career Researchers
📍 Tokyo, Japan
🗓️ September 9–11, 2026
Indication of Interest form below! #IOoL26 #Japan #OriginOfLife #Astrobiology
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🎂 Happy #DarwinDay! Darwin showed us how life changes over time, but how did life start? That's the focus of OoLEN members' research! From simple chemistry to living systems, the origin of life connects to everything that came after. 🦠🐪

February is #BlackHistoryMonth 🌍

Let’s celebrate Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan & Mary Jackson — mathematicians and engineers at NASA who broke barriers in space science.

Their legacy reminds us: scientific progress depends on diverse voices and equitable access to discovery.

📸 NASA

Curious about how life began? OoLEN is a global community for early-career researchers in origins of life and prebiotic chemistry. 🧬🌍 Connect with others across disciplines, find opportunities, and grow together. Join: oolen.org/join Tell us in the replies—what do you work on? #OriginOfLife

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🧪 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

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

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

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

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! 🌋🐑🏔️🌊

#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.

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! 👏

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!

#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!

Update on OoLEN’s Social Media Presence

🌟 Attention OoLEN members! 🌟 Join us right now for our exciting conference on Zoom! 🎉 Dive into insightful discussions and connect with fellow members. See you there! #OoLEN #OriginOfLIfe