The Macalady Lab

Exploring microbial planets since 2002 | We are @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU @CIDDPSU @huckinstitutes @AstrobiologyPSU @PSUMbiome @PSETI_Center @IEEPennState #DiverseSTEM

[The Macalady Lab @MacaladyL]

If you are a Macalady lab alum and want a https://t.co/4sYnc1nETP access code, pls DM me #DyingBird

[The Macalady Lab @MacaladyL]

Congratulations to @PSUGeoscience
#geobiology undergraduate researcher Emma Enos for receiving a Sinking Creek Grant from the Butler Cave Conservation Society. We can't wait to see what comes out of your project! 🦇🧪🌎

[Dr. Bess Koffman @BessKoffman]

Beautiful, fantastic #scicomm! I look forward to highlighting this in my #paleoceanography course @ColbyCollege

[Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @jmacalad]

⛏️The 2024 International #Geobiology Course, open to #PhD students, will take place June 16- July 21st @PSUGeoscience @AstrobiologyPsu📷Application deadline: Feb. 10 📷
Details at https://t.co/nv3Ooy7B5P

[Dr. Bess Koffman @BessKoffman]

I'm delighted to share the news that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Colby College. 😊 Thanks to all the students, collaborators, and mentors who have supported my academic journey over the years!

[NASA PA Space Grant @PASpaceGrant]

The application process for our 2024-2025 PA Statewide Scholars is open!
If you are going to be Junior or Senior next fall in a STEM related major, please check out this opportunity for a $4000 dollar scholarship!
For more info and to apply:
https://t.co/kgi4gDHT10

[Dr. Bess Koffman @BessKoffman]

How do we close gender gaps in science, particularly in historically male-dominated fields? In a Perspective paper published today in @NatureGeosci, we evaluated relationships among... https://t.co/hh3JdkiOjv 1/10

[The Macalady Lab @MacaladyL]

We are headed back to this amazing place soon! #GearingUp https://t.co/bVKcZEUhc0

[Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @jmacalad]

"American Indian or Alaska Native students...received fewer science and engineering degrees in 2021 than they did in 2012." 😭😠 #WrongDirection https://t.co/8kYXWOkXF4

[@MicroMaresca on 🟦 @CivilMicro]

Excited to announce that I’ll be moving to the chemistry department at ⁦@sunyesf⁩ in December. Recruiting 2 PhD students for work in freshwater biochemistry and built environment microbiology to start in summer/fall ‘24. Please pass it on!

[The Macalady Lab @MacaladyL]

Stickers are IN

[PSUAstrobiology @AstrobiologyPsu]

Are you a U.S. undergrad or grad student studying space science/engineering who wants to attend a conference to present your research? The Fall 2023 Soffen Memorial Fund Travel Grant application is open! Apply at https://t.co/0Xe0ovt1uu. Deadline is this Friday Nov 10!

[Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @jmacalad]

Thank you to all the Venusians who attended my talk at the Friends of DAVINCI Seminar Series today @NASAGoddard - you were a great audience and I look forward to talking with you more someday soon

[PSUAstrobiology @AstrobiologyPsu]

JOB ALERT @NYUPhysics @NYU_Courant are hiring entry level faculty in geosciences, geophysics, geobiology, planetary and/or exoplanetary science, with a focus on computational techniques https://t.co/9pIdbaR14x

[Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @jmacalad]

Emerging Technologies in Chemistry https://t.co/VT0DZlJwra A great list, and biologists could also claim a majority of entries - evidence of the fundamentally cross-disciplinary character of cutting-edge scientific research. @PSUresearch @PSUScience @huckinstitutes #IUPACTop2023

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

I’ll be the field TA again this year! Come hang out with me in Italy!

[Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @jmacalad]

Dates are posted for the 5-week International Geobiology Course 2024 @AstrobiologyPsu, open to Ph.D. students. Details are at https://t.co/nv3Ooy88Vn

[PSUAstrobiology @AstrobiologyPsu]

PSU astrobiologists @Gloeomargarita and Raul Roman of the Couradeau Lab @AgSciResearch are presenting their work on terrestrial biocrusts anchored by cyanobacteria on Friday, Oct. 27 https://t.co/CNZxUpgihw

[Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @jmacalad]

Mourning the death of my friend and colleague Dr. Elizabeth White. She was a pioneer and a light in the passage. #WomeninSTEM #karst #NittanyGrotto @NSScaves

[Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @jmacalad]

Gah. Of all the stupid shameless places to make this kind of unprofessional mistake
Ms. Goldin is the third woman to be awarded the economics Nobel, and was the first woman to be offered tenure in Harvard’s economics department, in 1989.

[Geomicrobiology Group @Extreme_GeoBio]

Do you want to study microbial methane cycling in the Ross Sea sediments? Well, I have the #nsffunded project for you! Spread the word that I’m looking for a #postdoc (and they can compliment it with an #nsfprf of their own). https://t.co/o7uTY1GKpY