@lsuresearch.bsky.social
A perfect single layer of nanoparticles can improve sensors and solar cell coatings. But such layers have been very difficult to make... until now.
Research Bite: Acoustic Vibrations Solve a Long-Standing Challenge in Nanoparticle Assembly www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... w/ @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Research Bite: Acoustic Vibrations Solve a Long-Standing Challenge in Nanoparticle Assembly www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... w/ @lsuengineering.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A perfect single layer of nanoparticles can improve sensors and solar cell coatings. But such layers have been very difficult to make... until now.
Research Bite: Acoustic Vibrations Solve a Long-Standing Challenge in Nanoparticle Assembly www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... w/ @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Research Bite: Acoustic Vibrations Solve a Long-Standing Challenge in Nanoparticle Assembly www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... w/ @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Astronauts Could Live in Structures Made from Moon Rocks - featuring LSU researchers presenting at #AGU25! eos.org/articles/ast...
Astronauts Could Live in Structures Made from Moon Rocks - Eos
Scientists are testing “mooncrete,” a concrete analogue made from lunar regolith, as a potential material to build structures on the Moon.
eos.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Astronauts Could Live in Structures Made from Moon Rocks - featuring LSU researchers presenting at #AGU25! eos.org/articles/ast...
Cool weather means it's time to enjoy oysters! 🦪 Months with an "R" are safer for enjoying oysters without a risk of bacterial contamination. But why is that, and how can we better predict exactly when oysters are safe to eat? 🧑🍳
LSU researchers answer this Q: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
LSU researchers answer this Q: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Cool weather means it's time to enjoy oysters! 🦪 Months with an "R" are safer for enjoying oysters without a risk of bacterial contamination. But why is that, and how can we better predict exactly when oysters are safe to eat? 🧑🍳
LSU researchers answer this Q: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
LSU researchers answer this Q: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Through an LSU x Our Lady of the Lake "Collab in Action" funding round in 2024-2025, seven research teams received $1.6 million for projects ranging from studying #athlete healthspan to building #digitaltwins to better understand brain injuries.
See their progress! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
See their progress! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Early Research Impacts: Catching Up with the Inaugural Collaboration in Action Teams
lsu.edu
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Through an LSU x Our Lady of the Lake "Collab in Action" funding round in 2024-2025, seven research teams received $1.6 million for projects ranging from studying #athlete healthspan to building #digitaltwins to better understand brain injuries.
See their progress! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
See their progress! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
What will the future of monitoring our coastlines for hazards, and forecasting flooding and other storm impacts, look like? What will 2026 bring in terms of #AI and #digitaltwin technologies that we can apply?
Read a Q&A with LSU expert George Xue: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Catch Xue at #AGU25!
Read a Q&A with LSU expert George Xue: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Catch Xue at #AGU25!
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What will the future of monitoring our coastlines for hazards, and forecasting flooding and other storm impacts, look like? What will 2026 bring in terms of #AI and #digitaltwin technologies that we can apply?
Read a Q&A with LSU expert George Xue: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Catch Xue at #AGU25!
Read a Q&A with LSU expert George Xue: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Catch Xue at #AGU25!
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Big CONGRATS to grad student Katie Thomas for successfully defending her master’s thesis project, The Impact of Dyadic #Coping on #Alcohol Use and Related Problems among College Students in Romantic Relationships! Way to GEAUX! @lsupsychology.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Big CONGRATS to grad student Katie Thomas for successfully defending her master’s thesis project, The Impact of Dyadic #Coping on #Alcohol Use and Related Problems among College Students in Romantic Relationships! Way to GEAUX! @lsupsychology.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social
How much #Methane comes from #SugarCane waste? When bagasse byproduct is left to rot in fields, a lot. But there are better options.
Learn more from @lsu.bsky.social researchers at #AGU25! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Learn more from @lsu.bsky.social researchers at #AGU25! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
How much #Methane comes from #SugarCane waste? When bagasse byproduct is left to rot in fields, a lot. But there are better options.
Learn more from @lsu.bsky.social researchers at #AGU25! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Learn more from @lsu.bsky.social researchers at #AGU25! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
A water sampler so easy to deploy to collect data about microbes present in local streams or wastewater systems, anyone can use it! #microbiology
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A water sampler so easy to deploy to collect data about microbes present in local streams or wastewater systems, anyone can use it! #microbiology
Pathogens are MOST problematic in areas where we have the LEAST amount of data. In a low-resource setting, using a $10,000 gold-standard #wastewater sampler to test surface waters for #viruses and bacteria just doesn't work.
LSU engineers created a $4 alternative. www.youtube.com/shorts/MzXAK...
LSU engineers created a $4 alternative. www.youtube.com/shorts/MzXAK...
💧Innovating Wastewater Monitoring #LSUResearchBite
YouTube video by LSU
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Pathogens are MOST problematic in areas where we have the LEAST amount of data. In a low-resource setting, using a $10,000 gold-standard #wastewater sampler to test surface waters for #viruses and bacteria just doesn't work.
LSU engineers created a $4 alternative. www.youtube.com/shorts/MzXAK...
LSU engineers created a $4 alternative. www.youtube.com/shorts/MzXAK...
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New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
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Evolution is happening all around us, including in the biochemistry research lab. Check out this highly collaborative work about cyanobacteria, #photosynthesis, quinones, and Vitamin E. It was so much fun to work on this project! @lsuscience.bsky.social
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
A Variant of the MenB Strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Disrupts a Stress Response Pathway Allowing DMPBQ to Occupy the A1 Sites of Photosystem I
Phylloquinone (PhQ) plays a unique role in photosynthesis as the A1A and A1B intermediates
in light-driven electron transfer in Photosystem I (PSI). When PhQ biosynthesis is
inhibited by deletion of t...
www.jbc.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Evolution is happening all around us, including in the biochemistry research lab. Check out this highly collaborative work about cyanobacteria, #photosynthesis, quinones, and Vitamin E. It was so much fun to work on this project! @lsuscience.bsky.social
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
www.jbc.org/article/S002...
#LSU on #neuroscience and #sleep: Why is sleep so important to #memory consolidation? What impact does sleep loss have on your brain and your memories? Dr. Juhee Haam in the LSU College of Science answers these questions and more in our latest Research Insight!
Read: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
Read: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#LSU on #neuroscience and #sleep: Why is sleep so important to #memory consolidation? What impact does sleep loss have on your brain and your memories? Dr. Juhee Haam in the LSU College of Science answers these questions and more in our latest Research Insight!
Read: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
Read: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU on #Nanoscience: Need to coat metal oxide nanoparticles with graphitic carbon for applications in water treatment, catalysis, and energy storage... without high temperature? Researchers at Brown and @lsu.bsky.social have found a way to do it! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Graphene-Coated Metal Oxide Nanocrystals (MxOy@C) Form during the Liquid-Phase Thermal Decomposition of Metal Oleates
Materials combining graphitic carbon with metal oxide nanoparticles are critical for applications in water treatment, catalysis, and energy storage. These composites leverage carbon’s electrical condu...
pubs.acs.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#LSU on #Nanoscience: Need to coat metal oxide nanoparticles with graphitic carbon for applications in water treatment, catalysis, and energy storage... without high temperature? Researchers at Brown and @lsu.bsky.social have found a way to do it! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Latest publication co-authored w/grad student Luke Vargo & undergrad @lsu-honors.bsky.social student Amelia Knox. 1st study of imposter syndrome's relation to cannabis problems. Link to paper below @lsu.bsky.social @lsupsychology.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social @LSU #impostersyndrome #cannabis
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Latest publication co-authored w/grad student Luke Vargo & undergrad @lsu-honors.bsky.social student Amelia Knox. 1st study of imposter syndrome's relation to cannabis problems. Link to paper below @lsu.bsky.social @lsupsychology.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social @LSU #impostersyndrome #cannabis
This is your brain on... fiber! 🍎
Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans are studying how dietary #fibers can promote healthy gut microbes that lower brain #inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and restore healthy functioning of microglia (brain cells).
What would YOUR #microglia look like?
Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans are studying how dietary #fibers can promote healthy gut microbes that lower brain #inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and restore healthy functioning of microglia (brain cells).
What would YOUR #microglia look like?
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is your brain on... fiber! 🍎
Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans are studying how dietary #fibers can promote healthy gut microbes that lower brain #inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and restore healthy functioning of microglia (brain cells).
What would YOUR #microglia look like?
Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans are studying how dietary #fibers can promote healthy gut microbes that lower brain #inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and restore healthy functioning of microglia (brain cells).
What would YOUR #microglia look like?
From Marie Curie to the discovery of fission, nuclear submarines, and small modular reactors for chemical manufacturing and AI data centers, nuclear science and technology has advanced for more than a century: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
From Marie Curie to the discovery of fission, nuclear submarines, and small modular reactors for chemical manufacturing and AI data centers, nuclear science and technology has advanced for more than a century: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
It’s as big as a poppy seed and makes “new nuclear” significantly safer than nuclear technology used to be—meet the TRISO particle, developed by American and British researchers.
lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It’s as big as a poppy seed and makes “new nuclear” significantly safer than nuclear technology used to be—meet the TRISO particle, developed by American and British researchers.
lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Nuclear energy can be used as a source of both power and heat, highly useful for industrial operations and to efficiently make hydrogen, used to make ammonia and fertilizer for crops. So, more nuclear, more food? It's possible: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Nuclear energy can be used as a source of both power and heat, highly useful for industrial operations and to efficiently make hydrogen, used to make ammonia and fertilizer for crops. So, more nuclear, more food? It's possible: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Whether your priority is more energy and a strong economy or less emissions and a sustainable planet, nuclear energy tends to enter the conversation.
Learn more about LSU’s approach: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Learn more about LSU’s approach: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Whether your priority is more energy and a strong economy or less emissions and a sustainable planet, nuclear energy tends to enter the conversation.
Learn more about LSU’s approach: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Learn more about LSU’s approach: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Tomorrow night at #LSU Science Café with researchers Madoka Kishi and Pallavi Rastogi, learn how Asians have changed Louisiana culturally, politically, and gastronomically as much as Louisiana has changed them: www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc...
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Tomorrow night at #LSU Science Café with researchers Madoka Kishi and Pallavi Rastogi, learn how Asians have changed Louisiana culturally, politically, and gastronomically as much as Louisiana has changed them: www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc...
“This paper is high-impact because it examines an existential risk, projecting the billions who’d starve under nuclear winter scenarios...” Learn from #LSU researchers how to become highly cited: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
@lsu-cce.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social
@lsu-cce.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“This paper is high-impact because it examines an existential risk, projecting the billions who’d starve under nuclear winter scenarios...” Learn from #LSU researchers how to become highly cited: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
@lsu-cce.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social
@lsu-cce.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social
The #LSU Energy Institute has named Tyler Gray as its inaugural director of energy innovation, a key leadership role within LSU’s expanding energy research and policy enterprise.
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The #LSU Energy Institute has named Tyler Gray as its inaugural director of energy innovation, a key leadership role within LSU’s expanding energy research and policy enterprise.
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW
Last night at #LSU Science Café, Prof. Mark Mitchell
@lsuvetmed.bsky.social discussed reproductive assistance strategies for reptiles, asking: On a warming planet, what happens when all crocodilians are born male while turtles are born female (because of temperature-dependent sex determination)?
@lsuvetmed.bsky.social discussed reproductive assistance strategies for reptiles, asking: On a warming planet, what happens when all crocodilians are born male while turtles are born female (because of temperature-dependent sex determination)?
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Last night at #LSU Science Café, Prof. Mark Mitchell
@lsuvetmed.bsky.social discussed reproductive assistance strategies for reptiles, asking: On a warming planet, what happens when all crocodilians are born male while turtles are born female (because of temperature-dependent sex determination)?
@lsuvetmed.bsky.social discussed reproductive assistance strategies for reptiles, asking: On a warming planet, what happens when all crocodilians are born male while turtles are born female (because of temperature-dependent sex determination)?
If you're curious about #LSU's new scanning transmission electron microscope, the most advanced microscope in Louisiana, you're not alone. It's a BIG deal (almost 13' tall).
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10...
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social @lsu-cce.bsky.social
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10...
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social @lsu-cce.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you're curious about #LSU's new scanning transmission electron microscope, the most advanced microscope in Louisiana, you're not alone. It's a BIG deal (almost 13' tall).
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10...
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social @lsu-cce.bsky.social
www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10...
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social @lsu-cce.bsky.social
“With the #LSU Cyber Clinic, we built defenses against [our] biggest threat: social engineering attacks.”—Luke Dwinell-Janopaul, Permanent Coatings: cybersecurityclinics.org/blog/growth-...
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“With the #LSU Cyber Clinic, we built defenses against [our] biggest threat: social engineering attacks.”—Luke Dwinell-Janopaul, Permanent Coatings: cybersecurityclinics.org/blog/growth-...
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth