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Vanessa Orr
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wicor.bsky.social
Listen 🎧 to #WiCORMember Hannah Zanowski's interview on The Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio. She shares about her research on the #oceanography of #Earth 🌎and #exoplanets 🪐 -"why stop at one ocean"!

🧪 🔭
August 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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wicor.bsky.social
Visiting #WisconsinStateParks this summer? Like star gazing? 🌟🌌🪐

Attend a #UniverseInThePark talk to learn from astronomers and gaze through telescopes 🔭 🧪

Find details from @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social at badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/

#Astronomy #StarGazing #StateParks
Flyer with the Universe in the Park logo, "“Universe in the Park (UitP) is a popular outreach program of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin– Madison in partnership with UW Space Place.” These presentations are happening at State Parks across Wisconsin this summer. See below to find locations near you!" and “Learn more at: https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/”, with the schedule for June and July (available on the website linked). Flyer with the Universe in the Park logo, "“Universe in the Park (UitP) is a popular outreach program of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin– Madison in partnership with UW Space Place.” These presentations are happening at State Parks across Wisconsin this summer. See below to find locations near you!" and “Learn more at: https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/”, with the schedule for August (available on the website linked).
June 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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wicor.bsky.social
Congratulations to the international AGE-PRO team, led by #WiCORMember Ke Zhang, for their 12 papers in the upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal! 🎉

Read the press releases to learn more about their groundbreaking work on #ProtoplanetaryDisks!

public.nrao.edu/news/alma-pl...

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June 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
vorrphd.bsky.social
Happy Earth Day!
🌳🌿🌻🌍🌎🌏
wicor.bsky.social Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · Apr 22
Today, April 22, we celebrate #EarthDay!

At #WiCOR we know that studying our own #atmosphere, #ocean, #geochemistry, #biology and #chemistry here on #Earth can inform our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife both here on Earth and on habitable #exoplanets. 🔭🧪

❤️🌍🌎🌏❤️
Image stating “Happy Earth Day! Learning about our own Earth informs WiCOR’s research on habitable exoplanets!” with a graphic of earth engulfed by two stems with leaves.
April 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
vorrphd.bsky.social
If you are in the Madison area, join #WiCOR for this exciting talk!!
wicor.bsky.social Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · Apr 3
Join #WiCOR for the Spring 2025 #WiCORLecture on “The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?” from Prof. Jack W. Szostak on 📅May 1 @ 7 pm in the📍Chemistry Building S429, UW-Madison!

This talk is open to the public - share with friends & family!

wicor.wisc.edu/event/wicor-...

Accessibility? wicor@wisc.edu
Flyer for the WiCOR Lecture for Spring 2025 "The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?" from Jack W. Szostak, on May 1, 7pm in Chemistry S429 (UW-Madison), Open to the Public. Abstract and event accommodation info on website linked in text.
April 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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wicor.bsky.social
Join #WiCOR for the Spring 2025 #WiCORLecture on “The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?” from Prof. Jack W. Szostak on 📅May 1 @ 7 pm in the📍Chemistry Building S429, UW-Madison!

This talk is open to the public - share with friends & family!

wicor.wisc.edu/event/wicor-...

Accessibility? wicor@wisc.edu
Flyer for the WiCOR Lecture for Spring 2025 "The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?" from Jack W. Szostak, on May 1, 7pm in Chemistry S429 (UW-Madison), Open to the Public. Abstract and event accommodation info on website linked in text.
April 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
If you’re looking for some sleepy time white noise tonight, I had an ~~idea~~ this week…

It’s a white noise video that donates all revenue to Partners in Health and you can watch it here:
youtu.be/dv2XyqC-EQ4
White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!!
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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March 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
We fell down the staircase: A conversation with @stephanienolen.bsky.social about tuberculosis and making our future more perilous. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
For John Green, It’s Tuberculosis All the Way Down
The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about tuberculosis. Listen to the conversation.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 10
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
propub.li
March 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
vorrphd.bsky.social
@wicor.bsky.social has extremely exciting main research questions: 1) how do habitable worlds form? and 2) how does life emerge on habitable planets?- check out the Research page to learn how WiCOR is tackling these 2 main questions:
wicor.wisc.edu/research/
February 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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wicor.bsky.social
The WiCOR Website has launched! 🚀

Visit the site to learn all about WiCOR! 🧪🔭

wicor.wisc.edu
Graphic of a computer showing the WiCOR website on the screen with the WiCOR logo and text "Visit the WiCOR website! wicor.wisc.edu" above.
February 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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nytimes.com
The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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wicor.bsky.social
Hello from the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research!
👋🧪🔭

WiCOR’s Mission is to advance our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife in the #Universe through interdisciplinary #research and #education.

Follow us to stay updated on all things WiCOR!
linktr.ee/wicenterforo...
The Wisconsin Center for Origins Research Logo which depicts a spiral galaxy converging to form a strand of DNA.
February 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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bioimagingna.bsky.social
Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

We're so excited to be co-hosting #GBIxBINA2025 with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, in beautiful Montreal on Oct 6-10, 2025! 🍁

Need Financial Assistance? 📅Apply by March 5, 2025!

Details & application links @ www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/gbixb...
Image of Montreal sunset skyline with text Join Us at GBIxBINA2025 Oct 6-10
January 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
My new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, explores the history of our deadliest infectious disease. It's also about our horrifying present: TB still kills kills over a million people per year, even though it's been curable since the 1950s.

Signed copies can be ordered at everythingistb.com
yellow book cover reading Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection Signed Edition
November 22, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social
As a new year begins, we want to take this opportunity to look back on 2024 together and thank you for your support & interest in Euro-BioImaging. We wish you all the best in 2025 🎉 and look forward to many opportunities to share our passion for imaging this year. 💚🔬
January 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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bioimagingna.bsky.social
Wishing the #bioimaging community a Happy New Year, Bonne Année, y Feliz Año Nuevo! 🧪🔬
2025 Happy New Year! Bonne Année! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! with a background image of Armonic duets – Carla Maria Jaramillo Restrepo
December 31, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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We've a postdoc opening for our lab at the Broad: Cambridge MA!

Must have experience in toxicology + data science

Work on the wonderful OASIS dataset we are producing... Cell Painting, transcriptomics, proteomics in various liver cell and tissue models!

broad.io/mlcbpostdoc
Image of the job posting (see URL for full text instead)
December 18, 2024 at 3:50 PM
vorrphd.bsky.social
Sharing about @bioimagingna.bsky.social and #MicroscopyDB at #CellBio2024, come stop by the poster until 12:45 pm PT!
Vanessa Orr in front of her BINA and MicroscopyDB poster at CellBio2024
December 15, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Learn more about BINA's Prof. Development Program!

Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social for supporting this program!
bioimagingna.bsky.social BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · Dec 2
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!

Curious to know about how to apply to BINA's #ProfessionalDevelopment Program?

Check out the video below, and follow this link to learn more and see 2025's Courses!
www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/professional...
December 3, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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bioimagingna.bsky.social
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🎉

Not a Fluorescence photo, but rather a photo of many people who use florescence, taken at our BINA 2024 Community Congress #BINA2024CC!

If you missed it in our newsletter yesterday, the presentation recordings are now available on YouTube:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Group Photo of participants at the BINA 2024 Community Congress in Madison, WI.
November 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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bioimagingna.bsky.social
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!

The recordings of the #Virtual #I2K2024 workshops are available now
tinyurl.com/VirtualI2K20...

Thanks to all who presented!

Please re-share! 2022 and 2023 content available too:
www.youtube.com/@I2KConference
Virtual I2K Flyer notifying that the Recordings are available on the I2K YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@I2KConference
November 25, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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bioimagingna.bsky.social
Hello, Hola, Bonjour Bluesky #Bioimaging Community! 👋

Thank you for the warm welcome here!

Learn more about BINA:
linktr.ee/bioimagingna

#bioimaging #microscopy 🔬 #MicroscopyMonday
BioImaging North America Logo, with Hello, Hola and Bonjour and a light-blue butterfly, with a border in prismatic colors.
November 11, 2024 at 10:30 PM