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Adam Robinson
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Microbiology, Astrobiology, Biodefense | martianmicrobes.org
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A postdoc position working on marine phage - please share widely!
viromegirl.bsky.social Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Aug 1
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them
August 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Here's the 3D, narrated movie version: youtu.be/_QvlRH-q0nw?... 🔭🧪
July 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Organisms that are buried alive for many thousands of years without enough energy to grow could be called "aeonophiles", so we can talk about them more easily. @drewsteen.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tzecaxn
Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles
Nature Microbiology - In environments like the deep subsurface, microorganisms with long doubling times can remain metabolically active for millions of years — we propose referring to this...
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June 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Instruments aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover found multiple long-chain alkanes on Mars. While the compounds could have been formed through abiotic processes, their detection suggests that true biosignatures could be preserved on the red planet. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cumberland drill hole in Yellowknife Bay, Mars, with superimposed molecules. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, Caroline Freissinet
March 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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meteordannyg.bsky.social
Organics from ancient life on Mars? It can't be ruled out! It is time to bring home samples from Mars and analyze them using the best lab instruments to know for sure. science.nasa.gov/missions/mar...
NASA's Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules on Mars
Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding,
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March 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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More postcards from the planets: a few views captured by NASA spacecraft across the solar system during the past week.

- Jupiter from Juno
- Mars from the Perseverance rover
- The Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Earth from NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft
One hemisphere of Jupiter seen against the darkness of space. The planet's atmosphere features colorful bands of swirling storms. Image processed from raw JunoCam data by Jackie Branc. The back half of the Perseverance rover seen against a landscape of rolling desert hills, and the Sun glowing low on the horizon. Image processed from raw NavCam data by Kevin M. Gill A full-disc view of Earth in space, with Australia and parts of Asia visible beather swirling white clouds.
March 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Research Experience for Undergraduates program applications are open! You can work with scientists at the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center. Research topics span the field of astrobiology, from microbiology to planetary geology to observational astronomy. 🧪 🔭

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Research Experience for Undergraduates
Life in the Universe –Astronomy, Astrobiology, and Planetary Science at the SETI Institute   Apply Now
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December 6, 2023 at 1:46 AM
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ENTER THE DE-JARGONIZER!

This free, online tool can help you to identify what words in an article or talk are less suitable for more general audiences and make corrections accordingly. Enjoy!

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De-Jargonizer
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November 4, 2023 at 12:40 PM
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stellerarts.com
Wake up nerds, new JWST image just dropped! 🔭🧪

The Crab Nebula 🦀, a supernova remnant, captured in stunning near and mid-infrared light. Dust is shown in light yellow & green. Sulfur dominates in reds & oranges. Iron is in blue.

📸: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim

read more: go.nasa.gov/46Qlaa6
The nebula looks more like a tangled web or perhaps two angry crabs engaged in combat. Tendrils of bright yellow-green whip around the center of the image, changing to deeper oranges as you traverse outward. A faint glow of blue and white covers most of the nebula. Several blue stars glow around the edges of the image.
October 30, 2023 at 10:05 PM
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Oh this is cool! "Smithsonian To Open First Public Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample Collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission" www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
Smithsonian To Open First Public Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will unveil the first public display of a sample of Bennu—a carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid—to museumgoers Friday, Nov. 3. The rocky fragmen...
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October 26, 2023 at 5:49 PM
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The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, Origins Worlds and Life, is now fully available WITH figures!

nap.nationalacademies.org/read/26522/c...
October 24, 2023 at 3:49 PM
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astrobonology.bsky.social
So excited to be this week's guest on NASA Astrobiology's "Ask an Astrobiologist" tune in for my episode, "Scouring the seafloofor hydrothermal systems and biosignatures" on Wednesday
Follow this link for more details www.youtube.com/live/JnWHOdn...
October 23, 2023 at 9:48 PM