Discover Day today! Please join us in the Student Union to see the results of some fantastic undergraduate research. While you’re there, be sure to check out posters from rockstar Kelly lab students Deborah Shobamowo and Suzie Heneghan 🌊@lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social l
@lsuresearch.bsky.social Discover Day 2026: Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my research with the community!
Gait analysis for horses 🐎 to identify problematic movements and correct them before injuries occur? It's now a thing, thanks to a newly published digital 4D model by @lsuvetmed.bsky.social researchers!
#equineresearch #horse #gaitanalysis
Learn more! lsu.edu/blog/2026/04...
John Hughes is cataloging and archiving Artemis II photos.
NASA Artemis Film & Video Librarian by day, LSU graduate student studying library science by night?!
Meet John Hughes, working at NASA and going to @lsu.bsky.social! #Moon #artemisII
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Moon soil
Happy #WorldMicroscopeDay! 🔬
Today, we have 9 stunning materials science images for you, celebrating this day in 1625 when the term " #microscope " was first used!
For example, this image of modified #moon 🌑 soil!
See more: lsu.edu/blog/2026/04...
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Infrared thermometer
From the smartphones in our pockets to the tools we use in hospitals and homes, space exploration has quietly reshaped everyday life on Earth.
8 TECHNOLOGIES WE WOULDN’T HAVE WITHOUT SPACE EXPLORATION!
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Excited to share my first first-author publication!! HyPhy is a Python-based tool for studying fungal hyphal networks, opening new doors to connect fungal architecture with genetic and environmental factors.
Interested in learning more about how Botrytis cinerea overcomes host defenses? Check out our new preprint, where we expose a diverse population to linalool to uncover the genetic basis of resistance: doi.org/10.64898/202... ! 😎
Melanie Madrigal, a grad student in the @lsu.bsky.social Dept of Biological Sciences in Jordan A. Dowell's lab, has an odd lab “pet”: a #fungus known as gray mold or Botrytis cinerea. She’s working to characterize its growth under different conditions - with images!
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Update: the astronauts are reporting they did indeed see at least four impact flashes from meteors on the moon!!! ☄️🌑
Matthew Loocke looks at a moon meteorite under a cross-polarizing microscope.
A moon meteorite under a cross-polarizing microscope.
A moon meteorite under a microscope.
The #ArtemisII crew plans to observe and document any meteorites hitting the #moon from the far side later today!
Learn more about lunar meteorites and geology with
@lsu.bsky.social geologist Matthew Loocke: lsu.edu/blog/2026/04...
![Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreigksp6ynzr4oxga34viyko2fgg47c6262zz7rqj3khvz3y24pz4by)
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
We are so, so small. #Artemis
Víctor García-López points to light-tunable molecule that can control the permeability of a membrane to ions.
Víctor García-López describes how we can control the shape of a lipid vesicle via light-tunable molecules that control the membrane permeability.
Graduate student in Víctor García-López's lab at LSU holds up light-tunable molecule with applications in tunable membranes for computing.
Víctor García-López's lab at LSU.
The future of #computing might look a lot like... #chemistry.
LSU researchers have developed soft membranes that can be controlled with light ⚡ to work as resistors or capacitors with MEMORY 💽. They may be useful for neuromorphic 🧠 computing.
Learn more: lsu.edu/blog/2026/04...
From the shape of atomic nuclei to the future of quantum computing, LSU physicist Dr. Kristina Launey (@lsuphysastro.bsky.social) is advancing how we understand matter at its most fundamental level.
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Super excited to have this publication out!!!!!
Throwing back to this story as the #Artemis II launch approaches! LSU engineers are helping ensure future astronauts can easily build structures on the #moon!
Astronauts Could Live in Structures Made from Moon Rocks eos.org/articles/ast...
DNA staircase rising to a tree in the air
Mark your calendars! @LSUVetMed is hosting the 2026 #Epigenetic Inheritance Symposium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from July 15-17.
www.lsu.edu/vetmed/event...
HPX, developed at LSU, enables software developers to efficiently use available computing resources, from single nodes to large-scale distributed systems.
At LSU, HPX has been used to create complex models in astrophysics and to make faster storm surge and flood predictions! @lsu.bsky.social
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SkelPy is a Python-based graphical user interface that skeletonizes images of hyphal networks and extracts biologically relevant structural parameters. Now published! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #fungi @lsuscience.bsky.social
The shape of branching networks, like the roots of a tree or the filamentous growths of a fungus, can tell us about their function. How do growth conditions or genetics impact the network shape? LSU researchers have created a tool that “skeletonizes” #fungi to reveal the network!
Congratulations to Peter Doran, Lucio Miele, and Bret Elderd for being honored as 2025 @aaas.org Fellows!
Please join us in congratulating these amazing researchers and physicians. Hear from them: www.lsu.edu/blog/2026/03... #AAASFellows @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social
TIGER TALK podcast with @klsufm.bsky.social: Where Wildlife and Human Health Intersect, with Dr. Mark Mitchell at @lsuvetmed.bsky.social! Listen to learn more about wildlife epidemiology, bald eagles, zoonotic diseases, flooding, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l7t...
POV: you study #spiders as a grad student at @lsuscience.bsky.social, catching spiders above waterways to test them as bio-indicators of forever chemicals in our waterways.
Via Sarah Kerr’s camera roll! #worldwaterday
#water #publichealth #ecoli #druguse #opioids @lsu.bsky.social @lsushreveport.bsky.social @lsuhshv.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social
17.5% of Louisiana's surface area is covered by water. Water is one of our most valuable assets — but it can also pose a threat if not monitored and protected.
Learn how researchers across the LSU system are using #wastewater to protect public health: lsu.edu/blog/2026/03...
#worldwaterday
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From uncovering chronic disease risk factors, to training doctors and dentists to serve rural areas, to helping farmers supplement their income by growing microalgae 🧪... our researchers are working for Louisiana!
Learn more in our latest newsletter: lsu-campaigns.omniupdate.com/t/d-e-ghygn-...
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