Photo of WiCOR Director Prof. Susanna Widicus Weaver and WiCOR Admin Vanessa Orr in a red and white UW-Madison themed frame wearing WiCOR Tshirts. The red banner at the bottom reads "Celebrate the UW" with the Day of the Badger logo.

Thanks to all of our amazing donors we met our $4,000 match challenge, and exceeded our goal of $8,000 raised during our first Day of the Badger! 🦡

We are so thankful for your generous support of WiCOR!
Final results: dayofthebadger.org/wicor

On, WiCOR! On, Wisconsin!

📸Melinda Soares-Furtado

WiCOR pets looking dapper in their Day of the Badger bow ties 😍🎀

Fellow #UWMadison Alumni!

Day of the Badger is happening now!! 🦡❤️

Support your favorite department, college, center, and campus initiative! Most have matching funds which will double your impact!

Want to learn about "How to Build a Habitable Planet"? 🌎🪐

Join us this Friday at WiCOR's Science Expeditions presentation! 🧪

Details below 👇

@uwsciencealliance.bsky.social @uwmadisonls.bsky.social

This in-person event is free and open to the public - hope you'll attend!

Embark on a Science Adventure at UW–Madison’s Science Expeditions! - April 10-12, 2026

UW-Madison Science Expeditions is your chance to explore the unknown! Meet researchers, explore research facilities, marvel at Science Spectacular shows, and dive into hands-on experiences.

Really excited for this one!

Still time to register for the WiCOR STAR Bootcamp!

🚨Registration closes Wed. April 1

🔭🧪

Little red dots are clearly mitochondria

Flyer for the WiCOR STAR 2026 Bootcamp, which has a beach scene showing labels of the different topics covered during the bootcamp, and a group photo from 2025 along with a QR Code linking to the event webpage.

WiCOR will be holding the second annual Summer Training in Astrobiology Research (STAR) Bootcamp on June 1-5, 2026 at UW-Madison!

Registration is now open and will close April 1st

Visit our event webpage to learn more
go.wisc.edu/wicorstar2026

#astrobiology #uwmadison 🔭 🧪 #planetsci #chem #bio

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"!

🧪 🔭

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).

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

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...

🧪🔭

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.

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):

Happy Earth Day!
🌳🌿🌻🌍🌎🌏

If you are in the Madison area, join #WiCOR for this exciting talk!!

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.

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

White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!! YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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

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.

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...

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.

@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/

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.

The WiCOR Website has launched! 🚀

Visit the site to learn all about WiCOR! 🧪🔭

wicor.wisc.edu

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.

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.”

The Wisconsin Center for Origins Research Logo which depicts a spiral galaxy converging to form a strand of DNA.

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...

Image of Montreal sunset skyline with text Join Us at GBIxBINA2025 Oct 6-10

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...

yellow book cover reading Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection Signed Edition

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

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. 💚🔬

2025 Happy New Year! Bonne Année! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! with a background image of Armonic duets – Carla Maria Jaramillo Restrepo

Wishing the #bioimaging community a Happy New Year, Bonne Année, y Feliz Año Nuevo! 🧪🔬

Image of the job posting (see URL for full text instead)

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