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Emil Ruff
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Microbial ecology and ecophysiology. Associate Scientist at The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. https://rufflab.org/ Science, music, art, graphics, comics.
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Job opening:

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

www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
February 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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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!
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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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.
Two fully funded PhD candidate positions in Electromicrobiology (3 years)
Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
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February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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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
Zintellect - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - ICAR - OxyMoRon: Understanding dioxygen production and consumption in apparently anoxic environments - 0042-NPP-MAR26-ABProg-Astrobi...
About the NASA Postdoctoral Program The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ong
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February 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Buzzards Bay is frozen! ❄️✨ View from MBLs Stoney Beach.
February 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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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

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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...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Frozen spume in Woods Hole! ❄️✨
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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🌏 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/...
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...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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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...
2026 Astrobiology Science Conference
Molecular oxygen (O₂) is often regarded as a strong biosignature in the search for life. Traditionally the production of O2 has been linked to photosynthesis, yet non-photosynthetic (“dark”) pathways ...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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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/...
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...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.
beatekraft.bsky.social Beate Kraft @beatekraft.bsky.social · Oct 22
📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣

Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!

Please share widely!

Deadline: 17 November

More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones
Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
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November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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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 🥳
2026 Geobiology Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Geobiology will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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🤩 BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria 😍
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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...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Finally! This idea deserved to be broadly discussed for decades.
October 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Spend the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own
original research. Applications open now.

grassfoundation.org/application-...

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Apply for the Grass Fellowship – The Grass Foundation
Priority Deadline: October 15, 2025 Applicants who apply by this date will have the opportunity to receive technical feedback and update their proposal accordingly prior to the final deadline. Letters of reference must be received by December 15, 2025.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged.

More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/

Please share. Thank you!
Join the Lab | Monir lab
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August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The White House budget proposal includes an $18B cut to NIH research funding in FY26. Explore the anticipated economic impacts in communities nationwide & click on any district to learn more and get a shareable scorecard.

New from our #SCIMaP team: scienceimpacts.org/fy26
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH
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August 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Great publication from Maggie Wagner (KU) and Manuel Kleiner (NCS) on how to design microbiome (+ other Omic) projects with downstream statistics in mind!

A must read for trainees!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How thoughtful experimental design can empower biologists in the omics era - Nature Communications
Here, the authors discuss principles of experimental design that are relevant for all biology research, along with special considerations for projects using -omics approaches, highlighting common expe...
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August 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This generous gift will have positive ripple effects throughout the entire community in and around Woods Hole. 🥂🧪🎊🔬🥳
www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...
MBL Announces Largest Ever Gift for Its Renowned Biological Education and Research Programs | Marine Biological Laboratory
Cell Biology Researcher Mark Terasaki’s $25 Million Unrestricted Gift Will Support Operations and Infrastructure Contact: Samantha Cummis scummis@mbl.edu; 973.800.4119
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July 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Excited to present our DODGE project (#Safer2028) results on dark oxygen in the deep continental biosphere today at the #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague. It's session 9e in the Small Hall - see you there if you are around!
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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For ANME enthusiasts & for those who wonder how a methanogen turns into a methanotroph

👇New work by Orphanlab

Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Identification of key steps in the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in Candidatus Methanovorans (ANME-3) archaea
Modification of core carbon and energy metabolism aided a recent evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in archaea.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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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
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June 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM