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[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

Great job everyone!

[Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium 2024 @RMGeoBio]

That’s a wrap! Thank you so much to everyone who attended and presented yesterday! A great day of presentations and posters and socializing! Thank you to all of our sponsors incl. the Agouron Institute @NSF NM Consortium @newmexicotech & NM Bureau of Geology See you next year!

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

We’ve extended the deadline to Monday March 11! With support for student travel, there’s no reason not to submit an abstract 👩🏻‍🔬

[Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium 2024 @RMGeoBio]

Registration is now open for the 6th annual RMGS! Join us at @newmexicotech this year on April 20!

[Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium 2024 @RMGeoBio]

Registration is now open for the 6th annual RMGS! Join us at @newmexicotech this year on April 20!

[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

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

The @NMT_EES brackets for this year’s @MineralCup after round 1! RIP to Mitchell’s bracket which was the first one to kick it

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

@FalcoDRN @MineralCup

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

If you don’t vote for ammineite today then it means you hate bats and that is a 🚩🚩

[Mineral Cup #MinCup @MineralCup]

#MinCup23 Round 1 Match 10 is a pair of A+ minerals associated with alterations: guano-born sky-blue #Ammineite vs pale arsenic-rich #Adamite lurking near weathered zinc deposits.

Vote: https://t.co/mS8F7685Eb

Results: https://t.co/fBNuc1gt6E

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

It’s our last day! Students of the International Geobiology Course #IGC23 are making their final presentations. It’s been an absolute whirlwind and they have lots to show for it! @penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU

[itsD3lay🐧 @itsD3lay]

quien para hacer empanasaurios ???

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

@DrJenBiddle Lol very possible! 😂

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

@DrJenBiddle @UDelaware @penn_state @GeoscPSU @PSUEMS @rpi Our final speaker for the day is @bio_geo_chem to tell us more about @NASA astrobiology goals and programming (and did I mention she’s an International Geobiology Course alumna)? 🚀
@penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU #IGC23

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

@trinity_lh is up next talking about extremophiles and the work that she and the HAM lab is up to at @UMNews
@penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU #IGC23 International Geobiology Course 2023

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

Continuing on with the Ruler of the Ribosome @loren_williams1 and his Early Earth origin of life research @GeorgiaTech
@penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU #IGC23 at the International Geobiology Course 2023

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

@DrJenBiddle @UDelaware @penn_state @GeoscPSU @PSUEMS Sticking with the subsurface, we’re hearing from Dr Karyn Rogers from @rpi about planet habitability and the challenges with working in high-pressure environments
@penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU #IGC23 International Geobiology Course 2023

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

Continuing on with the Ruler of the Ribosome @loren_williams1 and his Early Earth origin of life research @GeorgiaTech
@penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU #IGC23 at the International Geobiology Course 2023

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

Going into our last week with International Geobiology Course #IGC23 and our Life on the Edge Symposium is in full swing with our first speaker @KeatingGroupPSU presenting about her group’s work towards self-assembling protocells
@penn_state @GeoscPSU @AstrobiologyPsu @PSUEMS

[Kate Freeman @kh_freeman]

Attention fans of Geobiology and Astrobiology! Join us July 18 for Life on the Edge, featuring the amazing @DrJenBiddle @trinity_lh @bio_geo_chem @KeatingGroupPSU Karyn Rogers, and @loren_williams1 Hosted by IGC 2023, @jmacalad, and me. Check it out: https://t.co/Ey3bpTyNfN

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

@penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU @kh_freeman @jmacalad @NMT_EES @newmexicotech #IGC2023 drove up to Fayetteville Green Lake to investigate the thrombolites and unique microbial communities of this meromictic lake with guests Dr. @benuveges and Dr. Mike McCormick from @HamiltonCollege
@penn_state @NMT_EES @newmexicotech @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

International Geobiology Course #IGC2023 has arrived at @penn_state ! Lab rotations kicked off yesterday with petrography, RAMAN, and EPMA @NMT_EES @NMTBiology @newmexicotech @jmacalad @kh_freeman

[Mac Best @mackattack1009]

And continued today with total lipid extractions for biomarkers! @penn_state @PSUEMS @GeoscPSU @kh_freeman @jmacalad @NMT_EES @newmexicotech