“Soak beans overnight” I am sorry but I am not yet the person this recipe thinks I am.

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

And then we went to play with the flume in Dr Kate Leary’s Kate Potter Leary lab (we just wanted to play with dinosaurs) yay for bank erosion and lithification! Zoë Havlena NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences

“Hey R, I’m good at plotting—right?”

We heard a great talk just now by Dan Jones on cave wall biofilms 😍 featuring the omics-enabled work of Mac Best American Chemical Society #ACSSpring2022 with co-presiders @ironterrace Clara Chan @geobiorox

Dan Jones preaching the good word about cave geomicrobiology at the NMGS Ft Stanton Cave Conference NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences

Acidophiles and their mineral habitats. Dan Jones #AbSciCon2022

Jones Lab PhD candidate and magnetic mineral fan Kathryn Hobart presented her work on microbial pyrrhotite dissolution #AbSciCon22 🧲Dan Jones University of Minnesota

Getting to spend my birthday amongst awesome scientists at #AbSciCon22 was a wonderful treat!

Acidic gypsum! What’s in it?! After 3 years I still don’t have answers so it’s a good thing I still have 2 more years to find out 🙃

Today is a milestone event: For the first time ever, I have completely filled up a lab notebook. It only took 3.5 years and several months of global pandemic induced lab shutdown… Here’s to hoping the next 2ish years of my PhD can be even more productive.

The gangs (almost) all here! Zoë Havlena Dr. Erica Barlow Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @Elisa_Merz @not_rollergirl Dan Jones NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences NMTBiology just missing shavonne 💖💜💙 and @heidi_aronson

Cave science sampling antics NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences NMTBiology NCKRI: National Cave and Karst Research Institute Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Zoë Havlena @not_rollergirl Scott Wankel Dan Jones

Mole people or cavers? You decide! Dan Jones @not_rollergirl Zoë Havlena NCKRI: National Cave and Karst Research Institute NMTBiology NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences

Another fantastic field season on the books! NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences NMTBiology NCKRI: National Cave and Karst Research Institute Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Zoë Havlena

It's the first day of #GSA2022! Be sure to stop by these GBGM sponsored sessions today, including our New Advances in Geobiology session!

Big trip for the Jones Lab! Kathryn presented her work, Zoë Havlena had her poster and received an award with New Mexico Tech President Dr Wells, and I had my talk this morning. #GSA2022 NMT Earth & Environmental Sciences Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Scott Wankel Jennifer Macalady @jmacalad.bsky.social @not_rollergirl Dan Jones NMTBiology NCKRI: National Cave and Karst Research Institute

Jones Lab Dan Jones great friend and collaborator @heidi_aronson just nailed it with her PhD defense! Huge Congrats Dr. Aronson!!

When presenting research at a Rocky Mountain Geobiology Symposium 2024 conference in Colorado…best to design your poster color scheme after one of your favorite New Mexico beers (Ex Novo Brewing Co.) (See bottom left corner of poster. Shoutout to Dan Jones for supporting creativity and good beer).

Watched a recording of myself giving a talk hoping to make notes on how to improve my presentation skills… Main takeaway: my Midwestern accent runs strong 🐄🧀🤦‍♀️(ope)