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Today we celebrate the brilliant women who are shaping the future of #LifeSciences! Hundreds of brilliant women supported by HFSP, leading #FrontierResearch across disciplines and borders. 🌍 To all of you: Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪

#HFSP #WomenInScience #sts
February 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
🧪 This #HFSPResearchGrant consortium has officially kicked off!
The project explores how chromatin’s physical properties shape genome organization, gene activity, and disease.
Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/4cfgpMM
A great start for this international collaboration 👏
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February 10, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Good news!🎉
The nomination deadline for the 2027 HFSP Nakasone Award has been extended.
📅 New deadline: 22 February 2026

There’s still time to nominate a peer whose research led to a life science breakthrough! 🧪
🔗 zurl.co/bazP8

#sts #HFSPNAkasoneAward
February 9, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart, mission specialists on the Space Shuttle Challenger during STS-41-B, used nitrogen-propelled maneuvering units to perform the first untethered spacewalks #OTD in 1984. 🧪 🔭 🚀
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Images: NASA
February 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Ending the week with a #CellBiology gem and a great science read for the weekend😉
🧪Cells don’t just respond to wounds, they read their shape: Endoplasmic reticulum senses wound curvature and helps cells choose the most efficient way to repair tissue.

#HFSPResearchGrants #sts
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February 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
It all starts with #BasicResearch!🧪
On #WorldCancerDay, we highlight how HFSP-supported science is uncovering the hidden complexity of cancer, from brain metastasis to the tumor microenvironment and stem cell niches.
Read more in our #HFSPScienceDigest ➡️ zurl.co/t8dz8

#sts #CancerResearch
February 4, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Attention scientists from all over the world 🙃🧪 Last week to submit nominations for the 2027 HFSP Nakasone Award.
Nominate a peer whose research led to a breakthrough in basic life science.

📅 Deadline: 8 February 2026
🔗 zurl.co/0UvbH
#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward
February 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Shrews don't hibernate, they shrink to survive winter! 🐾🐹
HFSP-supported researchers reveal that seasonal changes in body size in shrews are driven by FOXO, linking metabolism, size, and lifespan. It's nature's own model of reversible shrinkage! 🧪
📰zurl.co/d1FUk

#sts #HFSPResearch
February 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
👉 bringing outstanding science into the spotlight
👉recognising bold, curiosity-driven research
👉ensuring breakthroughs are seen worldwide
Nominations for the HFSP Nakasone Award matter! 🧪
Can we count on you?🫵
🔗Nominate a peer: bit.ly/4aStkU9
#HFSPNakasoneAward #sts
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 AM
40 years ago, STS-51L, Teacher in space.🍎
Watched in HS class with rest of country.

Place of honor on my patch jacket. Depicts Haley’s comet as intended mission’s research.

I’d read patches like this were payload on Challenger, recovered, framed and gifted to each state as commemoration. 🧪🐡⚒️
January 29, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Next stop: Geneva, Switzerland🤩
The 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting will take place at Campus Biotech Geneva
📅 8–10 July 2026
🧪 Registration is open: bit.ly/4qMPyMA
We look forward to welcoming the HFSP community again for three days of scientific exchange!
#HFSPmtg2026 #HFSP #sts
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Campus Biotech Geneva
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January 28, 2026 at 11:20 AM
🧪 “A very important part of the future is education, giving people the opportunity to make discoveries.” Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie at the #HFSP Japan Science Summit 2025.
On the #InternationalDayOfEducation, we’re reminded that discovery begins with opportunity!
🎥 zurl.co/wRSze
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✂️ The importance of Education to the future scientific discoveries. Martin Chalfie. 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
37 seconds · Clipped by HFSP · Original video "Closing Session - Life Sciences in the 21st Century: Where will you take us" by HFSP
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January 24, 2026 at 8:33 AM
🧪 Evolution may have more raw material than we thought.
HFSP-supported researchers found that random DNA can become new genes that help bacteria resist viruses.
Read the story 👉zurl.co/kk1Xw
#sts #HFSPFellowships #DNA
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
🧪 Behind every HFSP Nakasone Award is a nomination!
Peer nominations help recognise transformative discoveries in basic life science research. Your turn to take action!
🔗 Nomination details: zurl.co/9dBDi
#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward
January 22, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Presenting at the HFSP Awardees Meeting is more than a talk, it’s about exchanging ideas, cross-disciplinary feedback, and building new connections.

🧪 Call for Abstracts is open: zurl.co/AFFCZ
📍 Geneva, Switzerland
📅 8–10 July 2026
🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026

#sts #HFSPmtg2026
January 20, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Why do we sleep and what happens when we don’t?💤
In our latest Science Digest, HFSP-supported research uncovers how disrupted sleep rewires the brain, with lifelong effects.🧠
A feature by @richardastone.bsky.social
Read the story 👉 bit.ly/45kXADI
🧪 #sts #SleepScience #Neuroscience #HFSP
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Kenneth Boulding—philosopher, #complexity theorist, and mystic—was born OTD in 1910.

“The earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything … and in which, therefore, man must find his place in a cyclical ecological system.”

🌱🐋 #philsky #philsci 🧪🌎 #STS
January 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
How do bones bounce back from early growth issues?
New research supported by HFSP reveals a "back-up system" of long-lived cartilage progenitors that can step in when development goes off track.🦴
📰📎: bit.ly/4jPHqs8
🧪 #HFSPResearch #DevelopmentalBiology #sts
January 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
🧪 What makes an HFSP Research Grant project distinctive?

Bold questions
Real scientific risk
Ideas beyond incremental science

HFSP supports ambition with clear thinking about uncertainty and challenge. Go ahead, it's time to be audacious!💪

🔗 zurl.co/wTsUB
#HFSPResearchGrants #sts
January 15, 2026 at 9:12 AM
🧪 What makes a strong nomination for the HFSP Nakasone Award?
A clear focus on:
✅ Specific scientific breakthrough
✅ Why it matters
✅Its impact on the field

Clarity counts more than volume!
🔗 Nominations and guidelines: zurl.co/9Noy1
#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward
January 14, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Paul Feyerabend was born OTD in 1924.

Knowledge is not a body of consistent theories converging on truth. It is “an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible … alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth … forcing the others into greater articulation.”

🧪🦋🦫 #PhilSci #STS
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Attention #HFSP Community 🙃
Registration for the 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting is now open!
Join us for three days of HFSP-supported science, discussion, and collaboration. 🧪
📍 Geneva, Switzerland
📅 8–10 July 2026
👉 Registration zurl.co/Q6TJY
#HFSPmtg2026 #sts
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Attention researchers in Norway🙃
Join the upcoming webinar hosted by @forskningsradet to learn about insights for the HFSP Research Grants & Fellowships calls. 🧪
🎥Live streaming
📅 13 Jan 14:00–15:15
Register👉https://bit.ly/49hcYU1

#HFSP #Norway #LifeSciences #GlobalScience #sts
Webinar on Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Grants
In this webinar, you will receive information about the HFSP calls with deadlines in spring 2026, including Research Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships, and you will have the opportunity to ask quest...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM