From ProtoSigns Lab in The Conversation this week – 'Could life exist on Mars today?'
Devyani Jambhule took the lead here – excellent from an early stage PhD student 👏
@protosignslab.bsky.social @theconversation.com @dcu-lsi.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie
06.10.2025 08:49 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Dr Seán Jordan
Dr Seán Jordan @seanfj.bsky.social: Was there ancient life on Mars? My DCU team are doing our bit to assess Nasa’s latest discovery. Read more in @independent.ie: launch.dcu.ie/4nxR17w #DCUResearch
15.09.2025 11:59 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On the show today: Phil Jupitus; Shrekking; @seanfj.bsky.social on possible life on Mars; The world jigsaw championships; Showbiz news; velvet red wines; @toxicolly.bsky.social reviews 'Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues' &
'The Wrong Paris'...
12.09.2025 11:51 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland
Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...
Interested in moving/establishing your research group in Ireland?
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
I'd love to see more #originoflife #astrobiology researchers join us here!
Feel free to contact me directly to discuss!
@abgradcon.bsky.social @oolen.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social
18.07.2025 14:02 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Big thanks to @louisedechal.bsky.social for help on the day!
28.05.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Documentary Special: “Is There Anybody Out There?” | Newstalk
Are we alone in the universe? Could there be other civilisations out there that we could possibly...
I had lots of fun recording this Documentary Special from @newstalkfm.bsky.social @jonathanmccrea.bsky.social:
'Is There Anybody Out There'
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/fut...
@protosignslab.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie
28.05.2025 12:59 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A block of Prototaxites fossil on a mossy surface, resembling the landscape of the early Devonian
🎊We are very pleased to announce that our paper investigating what we think Prototaxites, the mysterious giant of the Devonian landscape, actually was is now available as a pre-print on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
18.03.2025 17:23 — 👍 42 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 5
What a team!
02.03.2025 06:54 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet our team! This is PI @seanfj.bsky.social 👨🔬🤿🏃
02.01.2025 13:45 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@oolen.bsky.social @dcu-lsi.bsky.social
20.12.2024 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🌍🔬
Join the ProtoSigns Lab to explore novel biosignatures for microfossil interpretation! Fully-funded 4-year PhD with fieldwork, cutting-edge facilities & interdisciplinary training.
🔗 Apply by 31 Jan 2025
Full details:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/302167
20.12.2024 10:30 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
18.12.2024 14:21 — 👍 14 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
Come and join our team here at the ProtoSigns Lab in DCU as part of our ERC funded project!
We're making some really exciting discoveries around protocell membrane formation with implications for the origin of life and the search for life elsewhere in our solar system!
#originoflife #modeling
16.12.2024 17:33 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Mathematics Sorceror (sensory alchemist) at the Arctangent Transpetroglyphics Algra Laboratory (ATAL), I transflarnx mathematics into living rainbows. http://owen.maresh.info https://github.com/graveolensa
Psoeppe-Tlaxtlal, (an undreamt splendour?)
PhD Student, ProtoSigns Lab @ DCU! they/them
I 💖🔬🪐🪨🌱🧫🔭 Astrobiology :)
Assistant Prof | Environmental Biology & Sustainability @maynoothuni.bsky.social
Ecologist | lab website: https://dirilgenecology.com/
Affiliate @UCDEarth | Exec Group @aicbrn.bsky.social | Alumnus @IrishResearch @UCDSBES
Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
Professor of Palaeontology at University College Cork. Likes fossils, the lab, fieldwork. Passionate about public engagement. Runs and climbs.
🔧💻🧬: @istaresearch.bsky.social - Prebiotic chemistry & now protein design!
Also, went to industry, now back in academia! 👨💻
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zkgwkugAAAAJ&hl=en
⛏Palaeontologist |🔬Fossil Pigments | 🎙️TEDxBolca‘22 speaker |🤸🏻♀️Gymnast | 📍Cork
#scicomm Instragram @she_paleo
Astrophysicist, Assistant Professor @IITKanpur
Previously @University of Vienna, Leiden Observatory and Trinity College Dublin
Working on atmospheric escape, exoplanetary magnetic field, star-planet interaction & Sun
Web: https://gopalhazra.github.io/
Group leader at MEDEA Lab (Microbial Ecology, Diversity, Evolution, and Astrobiology), Kiel University .
Wildlife, micro-, macro-, astrophotography. Vandal of stringed instruments.
Opinions are my own. (he/him)
Precambrian geology, sedimentology, planetary sciences. Following politics, geopolitics. Personal account: @jaakkojlaitala.bsky.social 🇪🇺🇫🇮
☄️🪨🏴
PhD student at DCU in precambrian micropalaeontology and astrobiology
Ikerbasque Research Professor, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) @dipcehu.bsky.social #ikerbasque
#nanoscience #nanoelectronics
Science Broadcaster (Newstalk/RTE), Founder Whipsmart Media, Get Started With AI (getstartedai.com)
CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS
Listen to Newstalk at newstalk.com/listen-live
Working on (Exo-) Planetary Atmosphere chemistry-dynamics-climate interactions with NASA GISS’ ROCKE-3D
MSc student Environmental Physics @UBremen & Student Assistant @AWI
Before MSc Space Sciences @ULiège
Computational / Theoretical Physicist at DCU.
Condensed Matter / 2D Materials / Spintronics / Machine Learning
Dublin, and before that Barcelona, and before that Copenhagen, and before that Dublin!
PhD student working on the emergence of life in hydrothermal environments on Earth and Enceladus - LMU Munich // Landscape photographer // Firefighter
Newly moved in 📦🪴
Postdoc at ESSI, Leeds
Studying plants and biogeochem cycles over the Phanerozoic. 🌌Trying to venture into space.
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