Watching the @schmidtocean.bsky.social team launch a robot, ROV SuBastian — the #designingthefuture3 science team study the ocean’s midwater in international waters off Brazil. Accelerating species discovery & expanding our genetic library of life on Earth seems a good way to spend one’s time! 🌊
Southern Atlantic, off the coast of Brazil.
Starry nights. With @burnsajohn.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social
Manu Prakash looking at an acantharian on his custom confocal microscope
While we're preparing for our eventual ROV dives, @prakashlab.bsky.social and I found the expedition's #firstprotist, an acantharian, by filtering the ship's on board seawater stream 🤩. @schmidtocean.bsky.social #protistsonsky
here's an antidot against (almost) any kind of anti-intellectualism. no words required, just the video...
(1/n) What if you never had to make your bed? What if your laundry could fold itself? Folding is everywhere around us - but did you know that folding flat sheets are at the ❤️ of diversity of shapes in the animal world - since 500 million years ago. Our latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudC...
«Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning»
—W.A. Ward
Can you imagine a sweeter reward for a researcher than witnessing a Peruvian girl from Cusco looking at cochinilla and wool through a forldscope for the first time?
(on 𝕏 in 2023 by @teamfoldscope.bsky.social, @prakashlab.bsky.social)
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
“.global catastrophe since many incredible programs are not currently being funded. Parasites don’t carry passports. Diseases spread across countries, so being able to survey & address these pathogens in one part of the world benefits public health everywhere.”
www.the-scientist.com/a-low-cost-s...
And all the pizza we ate doing science? You forgot about that. ❤️ @dudinlab.bsky.social
🤩to see this behemoth of a story out !
Pushed by @nikobiota.bsky.social & the Amazing @embl.org AML Team (Tina, Michael, Paulina) and in Co. with the Best #science #family you can dream of!
This truck was #home, for weeks in a row & in my heart for a lifetime.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
That smile speaks volumes - as always. Congrats Felix Hol (a lab alum) to be selected for TEDFellows class of 2026. From the swamps at Stanford to villages in Madagascar - I have so many memories with Felix - but his joyful laugh is one that rings again and again. Let's go catch some mosquitoes.
How self-driving cars motivated us to build a universal diagnostics platform for malaria/Tb. The arc of technology is unpredictable at best.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeg...
How self-driving cars motivated us to build a universal diagnostics platform for malaria/Tb. The arc of technology is unpredictable at best.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeg...
🌎 @prakashlab.bsky.social has developed Octopi, a robotic device that diagnoses malaria in blood smears faster, more accurately & more accessibly. With an open software architecture and powered by AI & battery or solar energy, Octopi is 100x more efficient—and affordable.
#Malaria #AI #GlobalHealth
“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach them to fish and you feed them for a lifetime”
With ODION and Octopi, we’re building a platform that lets anyone create AI-powered diagnostics for the diseases that matter most locally.
Connect with us if interested at ODION.org
12 years in the making - we are finally scaling up our “universal diagnostics” platform. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeg...
Read about the global program here: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
If you are passionate about bringing cutting edge tools to work for “everyone” - reach out and engage.
Cellular Olympics - now in Knowable magazine! Enjoy this with your favorite Olympic sport!
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
For a deeper sense of frugal science philosphyband principles behind this Stanford class - see our past projects several of which have scaled to reach millions across the globe.
PrakashLab.stanford.edu
#frugalScience #Stanford
Please fill short application form to be considered as a “global cohort” student. No fees, no restrictions. We are looking for passionate individuals that like to work in teams with a “frugalist” philosophy to find scalable solutions to global challenges.
Deadline: 9th January
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If you are passionate about building scalable solutions to some of the hardest and challenging problems in global health, environmental solutions, science education and more - consider joining the 2026 cohort. This year we will also have a special set of mentors dedicated to ocean based solutions.
After all the anticipation - FrugalScience 2026 - a collaborative global collective is LIVE again for 2026 season.
www.frugalscience.org
Apply - deadline 9th January (midnight)
My first PhD paper with Prakash Lab is out in its final form! Here we uncover the many folded forms of Placozoa and how cilia unfold them. Enjoy the paper and our stop motion summary of this story!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
priceless comment from your kids! give them a hi-five ✋
Ok, so my 11 yo says he is going to work it out as well, but has informed me that he'll probably need a lot of machinery. He has to do some unfolding to get started, as apparently you can't do inventing in school uniform!
Aha - Helen - what a wonderful observation 🤣 I tested the video on my kids and the anticipation of self folding tech got them super excited to make it a reality.
Amazing research and such a fantastic scicomm video.
I'd like to show it to my kids, but I'm afraid that it'll backfire and they'll use it to explain why all the clothes in their cupboards are unfolded despite the fact they were folded when they went in....
