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Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
Bats are more than just Halloween icons — HHMI scientists are studying them to explore fundamental questions about the brain & behavior. Their discoveries could have important implications for other species, including humans. Read more: bit.ly/434gm18
4 HHMI Investigators have been elected to the @nam.edu!
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Learn how these investigators are advancing our understanding of biology and human health: hhmi.news/4oxodfS #NAMmtg
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Learn how these investigators are advancing our understanding of biology and human health: hhmi.news/4oxodfS #NAMmtg
October 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
4 HHMI Investigators have been elected to the @nam.edu!
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Learn how these investigators are advancing our understanding of biology and human health: hhmi.news/4oxodfS #NAMmtg
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Learn how these investigators are advancing our understanding of biology and human health: hhmi.news/4oxodfS #NAMmtg
🎉Congrats to Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award! His research will explore how sense of touch contributes to communal behaviors.
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🎉Congrats to Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award! His research will explore how sense of touch contributes to communal behaviors.
🎉 Congratulations to HHMI Investigators Clifford Brangwynne and Akiko Iwasaki, the two winners of the 30th annual Keio Medical Science Prize. This international prize, awarded by Keio University in Tokyo, honors scientists who have made major contributions to the fields of medical or life sciences.
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🎉 Congratulations to HHMI Investigators Clifford Brangwynne and Akiko Iwasaki, the two winners of the 30th annual Keio Medical Science Prize. This international prize, awarded by Keio University in Tokyo, honors scientists who have made major contributions to the fields of medical or life sciences.
🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org
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September 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🎉Congratulations to @maribyndloss.bsky.social @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and Kim Orth—three HHMI scientists recently honored by The American Society for Microbiology @asm.org
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asm.org/press-releas...
🎉Congratulations to David Baker, winner of the @royalsociety.org's Croonian Medal and Lecture for pioneering the design of completely new proteins and playing key roles in the development of protein structure prediction and protein engineering tools.
🔗 royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
🔗 royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
August 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🎉Congratulations to David Baker, winner of the @royalsociety.org's Croonian Medal and Lecture for pioneering the design of completely new proteins and playing key roles in the development of protein structure prediction and protein engineering tools.
🔗 royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
🔗 royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
Please join us in congratulating HHMI Investigators Jennifer Doudna (@jenniferdoudna.bsky.social) and David R. Liu, recipients of national awards from the American Chemical Society (@acs.org) for 2026.
🔗 cen.acs.org/people/award...
🔗 cen.acs.org/people/award...
August 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Please join us in congratulating HHMI Investigators Jennifer Doudna (@jenniferdoudna.bsky.social) and David R. Liu, recipients of national awards from the American Chemical Society (@acs.org) for 2026.
🔗 cen.acs.org/people/award...
🔗 cen.acs.org/people/award...
Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
August 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
🚨 Attention early-career scientists! 🚨
Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia and use computation & theory to tackle biological problems.
✅ Three-year appointment
✅ Collaboration across scientific disciplines
✅ Dynamic research environment
Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia and use computation & theory to tackle biological problems.
✅ Three-year appointment
✅ Collaboration across scientific disciplines
✅ Dynamic research environment
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🚨 Attention early-career scientists! 🚨
Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia and use computation & theory to tackle biological problems.
✅ Three-year appointment
✅ Collaboration across scientific disciplines
✅ Dynamic research environment
Become a Theory Fellow at Janelia and use computation & theory to tackle biological problems.
✅ Three-year appointment
✅ Collaboration across scientific disciplines
✅ Dynamic research environment
🌿 How do plants defend themselves against microbial invaders?
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social is working to uncover the cellular-level interactions that shape plant immunity.
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social is working to uncover the cellular-level interactions that shape plant immunity.
July 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🌿 How do plants defend themselves against microbial invaders?
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social is working to uncover the cellular-level interactions that shape plant immunity.
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social is working to uncover the cellular-level interactions that shape plant immunity.
Igor Siwanowicz created these images of the underside of the front foot of a male diving beetle. You can see suction cups that are used during mating, as well as a broad plate and exterior spines that aid in swimming.
July 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Igor Siwanowicz created these images of the underside of the front foot of a male diving beetle. You can see suction cups that are used during mating, as well as a broad plate and exterior spines that aid in swimming.
Meet Kyndall Nicholas, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu). She studies how our everyday diet can build resilience against traumatic brain injury, asking what we can eat daily to help protect our brains.
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Meet Kyndall Nicholas, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu). She studies how our everyday diet can build resilience against traumatic brain injury, asking what we can eat daily to help protect our brains.
Andy Moore at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social created this image to visualize the organization of microtubules in several adjacent cells. Like a spider web, cells use a network of molecular “highways” called microtubules to move cellular and molecular components around.
July 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Andy Moore at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social created this image to visualize the organization of microtubules in several adjacent cells. Like a spider web, cells use a network of molecular “highways” called microtubules to move cellular and molecular components around.
A new class of simplified computational models developed by @hhmijanelia.bsky.social researchers could help shed light on how we see.
Read more: hhmi.news/3Gs5aDa 👀
Read more: hhmi.news/3Gs5aDa 👀
July 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A new class of simplified computational models developed by @hhmijanelia.bsky.social researchers could help shed light on how we see.
Read more: hhmi.news/3Gs5aDa 👀
Read more: hhmi.news/3Gs5aDa 👀
🧠 How does your brain mature over time?
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar HaoSheng Sun is exploring the genetic timing mechanisms that guide the maturation of the nervous system.
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar HaoSheng Sun is exploring the genetic timing mechanisms that guide the maturation of the nervous system.
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🧠 How does your brain mature over time?
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar HaoSheng Sun is exploring the genetic timing mechanisms that guide the maturation of the nervous system.
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar HaoSheng Sun is exploring the genetic timing mechanisms that guide the maturation of the nervous system.
ATTN: students & postdocs in #theoreticalneuroscience!
Applications are now open for @hhmijanelia.bsky.social's "by the students, for the students" #neurotheory workshop, which will take place Nov. 9 - 14, 2025.
Applications are now open for @hhmijanelia.bsky.social's "by the students, for the students" #neurotheory workshop, which will take place Nov. 9 - 14, 2025.
June 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ATTN: students & postdocs in #theoreticalneuroscience!
Applications are now open for @hhmijanelia.bsky.social's "by the students, for the students" #neurotheory workshop, which will take place Nov. 9 - 14, 2025.
Applications are now open for @hhmijanelia.bsky.social's "by the students, for the students" #neurotheory workshop, which will take place Nov. 9 - 14, 2025.
In this video you can see a visual map of some of the neurons within a fruit fly’s ventral nerve cord (VNC), like that of a human’s spinal cord. Neurons progressively stack on top of each other and at the end of the video, you can see a rough neuronal map of the VNC.
June 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In this video you can see a visual map of some of the neurons within a fruit fly’s ventral nerve cord (VNC), like that of a human’s spinal cord. Neurons progressively stack on top of each other and at the end of the video, you can see a rough neuronal map of the VNC.
“Basic scientific research is so appealing to me because, despite it being very frustrating and a lot of work, the payout is so amazing,” explains @fsantoriello.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher in HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler’s lab at Princeton.
June 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Basic scientific research is so appealing to me because, despite it being very frustrating and a lot of work, the payout is so amazing,” explains @fsantoriello.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher in HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler’s lab at Princeton.
Congrats to HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars @channyskye.bsky.social , Josefina del Mármol (@delmarmollab.bsky.social), @yvetteefisher.bsky.social and Theanne Griffith (@doctheagrif.bsky.social), named 2025 McKnight Scholars for their demonstrated commitment to neuroscience & mentoring others! 🌟
June 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congrats to HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars @channyskye.bsky.social , Josefina del Mármol (@delmarmollab.bsky.social), @yvetteefisher.bsky.social and Theanne Griffith (@doctheagrif.bsky.social), named 2025 McKnight Scholars for their demonstrated commitment to neuroscience & mentoring others! 🌟
This fiery mixture of red and green neurons in the brain of a mouse shows how interconnected different types of neurons can be. Shown in green are the excitatory pyramidal neurons, and in red are inhibitory interneurons.
Credit: Nelson Spruston and Erik Bloss, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
Credit: Nelson Spruston and Erik Bloss, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This fiery mixture of red and green neurons in the brain of a mouse shows how interconnected different types of neurons can be. Shown in green are the excitatory pyramidal neurons, and in red are inhibitory interneurons.
Credit: Nelson Spruston and Erik Bloss, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
Credit: Nelson Spruston and Erik Bloss, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
A new method developed by researchers at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social enables scientists to surpass the resolution limit of fluorescence microscopy.
Read more: hhmi.news/444HufZ
Read more: hhmi.news/444HufZ
June 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A new method developed by researchers at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social enables scientists to surpass the resolution limit of fluorescence microscopy.
Read more: hhmi.news/444HufZ
Read more: hhmi.news/444HufZ
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios brings science to life through powerful, visually stunning storytelling.✨
For over a decade, @tangledbankhhmi.bsky.social has delivered award-winning films that engage audiences with the wonder, complexity, and importance of science.
For over a decade, @tangledbankhhmi.bsky.social has delivered award-winning films that engage audiences with the wonder, complexity, and importance of science.
June 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios brings science to life through powerful, visually stunning storytelling.✨
For over a decade, @tangledbankhhmi.bsky.social has delivered award-winning films that engage audiences with the wonder, complexity, and importance of science.
For over a decade, @tangledbankhhmi.bsky.social has delivered award-winning films that engage audiences with the wonder, complexity, and importance of science.
Researchers at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social are decoding how neurons carry out computations carefully calibrated to an animal’s movement and environment to precisely regulate the release of neuromodulators—chemicals that fine-tune brain activity and enable us to adapt to new situations.
June 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Researchers at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social are decoding how neurons carry out computations carefully calibrated to an animal’s movement and environment to precisely regulate the release of neuromodulators—chemicals that fine-tune brain activity and enable us to adapt to new situations.
How does basic science explain bacteria’s big impact?
At Princeton, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler and her lab are leading research in quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another to carry out collective tasks. Watch and find out more about their work.
At Princeton, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler and her lab are leading research in quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another to carry out collective tasks. Watch and find out more about their work.
June 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
How does basic science explain bacteria’s big impact?
At Princeton, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler and her lab are leading research in quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another to carry out collective tasks. Watch and find out more about their work.
At Princeton, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler and her lab are leading research in quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another to carry out collective tasks. Watch and find out more about their work.
How do immune cells sense pathogen-triggered changes in fatty acid synthesis—and use that info to limit inflammation?
At @uwmedicine.bsky.social, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Autumn York is uncovering the molecular links between metabolism and immune response. #HannaGrayFellows
At @uwmedicine.bsky.social, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Autumn York is uncovering the molecular links between metabolism and immune response. #HannaGrayFellows
June 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
How do immune cells sense pathogen-triggered changes in fatty acid synthesis—and use that info to limit inflammation?
At @uwmedicine.bsky.social, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Autumn York is uncovering the molecular links between metabolism and immune response. #HannaGrayFellows
At @uwmedicine.bsky.social, HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Autumn York is uncovering the molecular links between metabolism and immune response. #HannaGrayFellows