Emil Ruff

Job opening:

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

www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Thanks for the shout-out, Ken!

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!

Two fully funded PhD candidate positions in Electromicrobiology (3 years) Application deadline: 4 March 2026 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

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.

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

Buzzards Bay is frozen! ❄️✨ View from MBLs Stoney Beach.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Thank you, Glen! ✨

Thanks Jim! ✨

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...

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

www.mbl.edu/news/emil-ru...

Frozen spume in Woods Hole! ❄️✨

I am grateful for the support provided by NASA-ICAR, @hfspo.bsky.social , @simonsfoundation.org @mblscience.bsky.social

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...

🌏 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/...

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...

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...

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/...

Thanks for a very inspiring and fun collaboration @katharinasures.bsky.social and @probstlab.bsky.social ! 🤩

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Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.

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 🥳

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...

🤩 BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria 😍
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Finally! This idea deserved to be broadly discussed for decades.

Looks amazing! Can I take your course sometime?! 🗻

Spend the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, conducting your own
original research. Applications open now.

grassfoundation.org/application-...

@mblscience.bsky.social

Join the Lab | Monir lab

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!

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research View Projected Impact of the FY2026 Budget Cuts to the NIH

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

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...

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...

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

This generous gift will have positive ripple effects throughout the entire community in and around Woods Hole. 🥂🧪🎊🔬🥳
www.mbl.edu/news/mbl-ann...

Very exciting! ✨ would love to hear all about it. Maybe we can chat about #darkoxygen in the coming weeks.

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!