Fatimagül Husain
@fatimagulhusain.bsky.social
characterizing ancient worlds with organic geochemistry and molecular phylogenomics | postdoc @eapsMIT #SummonsLab #FournierLab
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My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
(1/3)
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
(1/3)
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
(1/3)
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
(1/3)
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Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess.
metazooa.com
metazooa.com
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess.
metazooa.com
metazooa.com
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Dig 10 feet underground, anywhere on Earth, and the ground temperature will be a balmy 50 to 60° Fahrenheit (10-15° C). When you tap that ambient heat and hook it up to a heat pump, it becomes the world’s most efficient form of heating and cooling.
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Dig 10 feet underground, anywhere on Earth, and the ground temperature will be a balmy 50 to 60° Fahrenheit (10-15° C). When you tap that ambient heat and hook it up to a heat pump, it becomes the world’s most efficient form of heating and cooling.
Celebrate the achievements of your organic geochemistry colleagues by submitting your nominations for the upcoming Treibs and Hayes Awards! The deadline for these Organic Geochemistry Division Awards @geochemsoc.bsky.social
is October 30th, 2025. Learn more:
geochemsoc.org/honors/organ...
is October 30th, 2025. Learn more:
geochemsoc.org/honors/organ...
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Celebrate the achievements of your organic geochemistry colleagues by submitting your nominations for the upcoming Treibs and Hayes Awards! The deadline for these Organic Geochemistry Division Awards @geochemsoc.bsky.social
is October 30th, 2025. Learn more:
geochemsoc.org/honors/organ...
is October 30th, 2025. Learn more:
geochemsoc.org/honors/organ...
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🚨Reporters🚨
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
October 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
🚨Reporters🚨
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).
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Check out this great write up of our field campaign out on Seneca lake in the @nytimes.com ! With @erinhassett.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Why Is This Lake ‘Burping’?
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Check out this great write up of our field campaign out on Seneca lake in the @nytimes.com ! With @erinhassett.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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I'm looking for a driven PhD student to join us at @au.dk and to both generate new paleoclimate data in the lab and work on computational problems to understand climate relationships across timescales.
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.nat.au.dk
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I'm looking for a driven PhD student to join us at @au.dk and to both generate new paleoclimate data in the lab and work on computational problems to understand climate relationships across timescales.
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1!
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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I'd be delighted to sponsor a NASA Postdoc Fellowship focused on #biosignatures, #astrobiology, or the Origin of Life here at Hopkins! 🚀
August 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I'd be delighted to sponsor a NASA Postdoc Fellowship focused on #biosignatures, #astrobiology, or the Origin of Life here at Hopkins! 🚀
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✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...
Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ISSN 2977-1994 | CC BY 4.0
journals.uu.se
July 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...
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New published article entitled:
"Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies" from Inglis et al.
You will find the full article here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...
"Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies" from Inglis et al.
You will find the full article here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...
July 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
New published article entitled:
"Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies" from Inglis et al.
You will find the full article here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...
"Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies" from Inglis et al.
You will find the full article here: doi.org/10.33063/agc...
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New Science Advances paper on Plio-Pleistocene northern African hydroclimate! Tl;dr the wet summer monsoon = summer insolation & the dry winter monsoon = global ice volume
Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)
Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)
Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.
www.science.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New Science Advances paper on Plio-Pleistocene northern African hydroclimate! Tl;dr the wet summer monsoon = summer insolation & the dry winter monsoon = global ice volume
Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)
Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)
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Now published in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters!
What happens to marine archaea when they’re hungry? And what does that mean for the TEX₈₆ paleothermometer?
Full paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Thanks to my coauthors and mentors for their support — and stay tuned, more is coming!
What happens to marine archaea when they’re hungry? And what does that mean for the TEX₈₆ paleothermometer?
Full paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Thanks to my coauthors and mentors for their support — and stay tuned, more is coming!
A Nutrient Effect on the TEX86 Paleotemperature Proxy
Nutrient stress alters GDGT distributions in marine sediments, resulting in elevated TEX86 ${\text{TEX}}_{86}$ values beyond those related to thermal effects
Paleoclimate case studies from the Ar...
doi.org
June 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Now published in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters!
What happens to marine archaea when they’re hungry? And what does that mean for the TEX₈₆ paleothermometer?
Full paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Thanks to my coauthors and mentors for their support — and stay tuned, more is coming!
What happens to marine archaea when they’re hungry? And what does that mean for the TEX₈₆ paleothermometer?
Full paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Thanks to my coauthors and mentors for their support — and stay tuned, more is coming!
I am excited to share our latest work, out now in
@natcomms.nature.com.
We used eukaryotic biomarkers and 18S rRNA genes to examine the ephemeral meltwater ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, revealing pond-to-pond diversity and a biomarker signal for life below the shelf!
More at: rdcu.be/erMkt
@natcomms.nature.com.
We used eukaryotic biomarkers and 18S rRNA genes to examine the ephemeral meltwater ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, revealing pond-to-pond diversity and a biomarker signal for life below the shelf!
More at: rdcu.be/erMkt
Biosignatures of diverse eukaryotic life from a Snowball Earth analogue environment in Antarctica
Nature Communications - The supraglacial meltwater ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, analogues for proposed Cryogenian period eukaryotic refugia, are shown to host diverse and varied eukaryotic...
rdcu.be
June 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I am excited to share our latest work, out now in
@natcomms.nature.com.
We used eukaryotic biomarkers and 18S rRNA genes to examine the ephemeral meltwater ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, revealing pond-to-pond diversity and a biomarker signal for life below the shelf!
More at: rdcu.be/erMkt
@natcomms.nature.com.
We used eukaryotic biomarkers and 18S rRNA genes to examine the ephemeral meltwater ponds of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, revealing pond-to-pond diversity and a biomarker signal for life below the shelf!
More at: rdcu.be/erMkt
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Wonderful write-up by the amazing @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social on our recent PNAS paper:
eaps.mit.edu/news-impact/...
eaps.mit.edu/news-impact/...
3 Questions: Demystifying Earth’s Ancient Nitrogen Cycle
Today, oxygen is essential for much of life on Earth and is involved in many biological processes, including cellular respiration. But early Earth lacked an oxygen-rich surface until the Great […]
eaps.mit.edu
May 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Wonderful write-up by the amazing @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social on our recent PNAS paper:
eaps.mit.edu/news-impact/...
eaps.mit.edu/news-impact/...
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So, our study pushes that back by over 100 million years and adds to the growing body of evidence that the oxidation of the oceans and the atmosphere were at times decoupled, and likely played out in a tumultuous non-linear fashion after the onset of oxygenic photosynthesis. 6/7
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So, our study pushes that back by over 100 million years and adds to the growing body of evidence that the oxidation of the oceans and the atmosphere were at times decoupled, and likely played out in a tumultuous non-linear fashion after the onset of oxygenic photosynthesis. 6/7
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Out online today in @pnas.org our paper:
"Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation"
With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons.
1/7
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation"
With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons.
1/7
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Out online today in @pnas.org our paper:
"Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation"
With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons.
1/7
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation"
With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons.
1/7
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Are you an early career organic geochemist with exciting new science to share? If so, apply to the 2024 GRS & GRC in #OrganicGeochemistry! We hope to offset conf. fees for EC researchers pending available funding. Links: bit.ly/oggrs24 & bit.ly/oggrc24.
March 25, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Are you an early career organic geochemist with exciting new science to share? If so, apply to the 2024 GRS & GRC in #OrganicGeochemistry! We hope to offset conf. fees for EC researchers pending available funding. Links: bit.ly/oggrs24 & bit.ly/oggrc24.
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... even more examples of #WomenInSTEM:
@carolinelear.bsky.social
@aecpaleo.bsky.social
@astrobonology.bsky.social
@khfreeman.bsky.social
@chloelcjones.bsky.social
@chloerophylla.bsky.social
@carbonatefan.bsky.social
@geobiomaggie.bsky.social
@melissaberke.bsky.social
among many others!
@carolinelear.bsky.social
@aecpaleo.bsky.social
@astrobonology.bsky.social
@khfreeman.bsky.social
@chloelcjones.bsky.social
@chloerophylla.bsky.social
@carbonatefan.bsky.social
@geobiomaggie.bsky.social
@melissaberke.bsky.social
among many others!
March 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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... and these #WomenInSTEM:
@erinmcclimate.bsky.social
@anandpallavijha.bsky.social
@soniachaabane.bsky.social
@clarab.bsky.social
@antacl.bsky.social
@nmpalanox.bsky.social
@climatesmac.bsky.social
@clblanchet.bsky.social
@geochemman.bsky.social
@mevorrath.bsky.social
@ebwilkes.bsky.social
...
@erinmcclimate.bsky.social
@anandpallavijha.bsky.social
@soniachaabane.bsky.social
@clarab.bsky.social
@antacl.bsky.social
@nmpalanox.bsky.social
@climatesmac.bsky.social
@clblanchet.bsky.social
@geochemman.bsky.social
@mevorrath.bsky.social
@ebwilkes.bsky.social
...
March 9, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Also these #WomenInSTEM doing #paleoclimate and/or #biomarkers:
@ellenhopmans.bsky.social
@fatimagulhusain.bsky.social
@geochemem.bsky.social
@sfeakins.bsky.social
@triptychphrases.bsky.social
@jaquelineqf.bsky.social
@palaeoclimate.bsky.social
@islatope.bsky.social
@antarcticabella.bsky.social
...
@ellenhopmans.bsky.social
@fatimagulhusain.bsky.social
@geochemem.bsky.social
@sfeakins.bsky.social
@triptychphrases.bsky.social
@jaquelineqf.bsky.social
@palaeoclimate.bsky.social
@islatope.bsky.social
@antarcticabella.bsky.social
...
March 9, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Well, it looks like I need to tag a few other 👩🔬, including those doing #biomarkers such as #GDGTs, to further support the #WomenInSTEM tag:
@cindydejonge.bsky.social
@francien.bsky.social
@julielattaud.bsky.social
@sarah-coffinet.bsky.social
@docsabine.bsky.social
@villanueva-laura.bsky.social
@cindydejonge.bsky.social
@francien.bsky.social
@julielattaud.bsky.social
@sarah-coffinet.bsky.social
@docsabine.bsky.social
@villanueva-laura.bsky.social
Happy International Women’s Day 💃🏽 Let me share with you a few inspiring women I know here 💜 Go follow them 🥳
Not only are they badass amazing professionals AND humans, they also share insightful perspectives and great resources:
@emsaurios.bsky.social
@adriguatame.bsky.social
👇🏽+ in the replies
Not only are they badass amazing professionals AND humans, they also share insightful perspectives and great resources:
@emsaurios.bsky.social
@adriguatame.bsky.social
👇🏽+ in the replies
Same for the 🧪, ⚒️, and 👩🔬 emojis and the #WomenInSTEM tag you may have seen already, they have functional purposes on Bluesky.
🧪 for the Science feed:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
🧪 for the Science feed:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
March 9, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Well, it looks like I need to tag a few other 👩🔬, including those doing #biomarkers such as #GDGTs, to further support the #WomenInSTEM tag:
@cindydejonge.bsky.social
@francien.bsky.social
@julielattaud.bsky.social
@sarah-coffinet.bsky.social
@docsabine.bsky.social
@villanueva-laura.bsky.social
@cindydejonge.bsky.social
@francien.bsky.social
@julielattaud.bsky.social
@sarah-coffinet.bsky.social
@docsabine.bsky.social
@villanueva-laura.bsky.social
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📣 As part of my DFF-funded project, WARMEST, I'm hiring a biomarker-loving postdoc to join my group and examine terrestrial climate + environment of the western Sahel during the Eocene.
Applications are due Feb 15th - contact me with any questions!
RT plz :)
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Applications are due Feb 15th - contact me with any questions!
RT plz :)
international.au.dk/about/profil...
2 year Postdoc in Biomarker Paleoclimatology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
January 12, 2024 at 11:54 AM
📣 As part of my DFF-funded project, WARMEST, I'm hiring a biomarker-loving postdoc to join my group and examine terrestrial climate + environment of the western Sahel during the Eocene.
Applications are due Feb 15th - contact me with any questions!
RT plz :)
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Applications are due Feb 15th - contact me with any questions!
RT plz :)
international.au.dk/about/profil...