One of the best titles I’ve seen in a while

Marburg, Germany is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever visited 🏰🇩🇪✨

Tempe mornings 🌅🌴

Excited to share that I’m also co-convening a second session at AbSciCon26 on Assembly Theory — from molecular complexity to planetary-scale biosignatures!

⏳ Abstract deadline: January 14, 2026
🌎 Details: bit.ly/4ie83pH
#AbSciCon26 #Astrobiology #AssemblyTheory #OriginsOfLife #Complexity

Thrilled to share that I’m co-convening a session at AbSciCon26 in Madison WI focused on how self-assembly and self-organization drive chemistry toward the emergence of life! ✨

⏳Abstract deadline: January 14, 2026
🌎Details here: bit.ly/4oalWqi
#AbSciCon26 #Astrobiology #OriginsOfLife #Complexity

Happy to share some amazing news… 🎉

I successfully defended my PhD last month! It’s been a wonderful 17-year journey through four degrees across two very different fields. I’m grateful for everyone who helped along the way — and excited for what’s next.

Which brings me to update #2…

Santa Fe, NM 🌵🏜️🌄

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Iceland 🇮🇸🌋✈️

Revenu samedi soir des É-U: même histoire..

Keynote on the habitability of ocean worlds 🌊 @ #BEACON2025 #Astrobiology

Hey @oolen.bsky.social people, who’s going to BEACON? 👏

Good bye Arizona!

🔔 #OriginOfLife digest — Nov 25
17 new papers, 3 from @oolen.bsky.social members
— complexity & alife
— hydrothermal activity on Mars
— nucleoside phosphorylation (Tagawa)
— threshold for life (@colemathis.bsky.social and reply (@miquai.bsky.social)
— snowball Earth
buttondown.com/ooldigest/ar...

🚀🔬 Pretty cool day in the lab at ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration analyzing samples from the Murchison meteorite! 🌌✨ #cosmochemistry #astrobiology

🔔#OriginOfLife digest — Nov 18
12 new papers
— Europa
— habitable zone
— soil sample analysis
— protocells
— Snowball Earth
— aqueous activity on Mars
🔗https://buttondown.com/ooldigest/archive/ool-digest-november-18-edition/

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