HHMI Investigator Stuart Orkin 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Celebrating #HHMIInvestigator Stuart Orkin, honored with the Breakthrough Prize for revolutionary research that's led to new treatments for sickle cell disease & other blood disorders, changing the lives of millions. He shares the prize with Swee Lay Thein of the NIH: hhmi.news/3Ql1LL1.
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences Gerry Rubin Senior Group Leader HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Celebrating HHMI giant Gerry Rubin today, winner of the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences! Along w/ colleagues, Rubin — founding Exec. Dir. of our Janelia Research Campus — is recognized for mapping connectomes, the wiring diagrams of neurons that underlie how the brain functions: bit.ly/4aXkrs4
Of all the fun things I get to do, working with teachers is one of my favorites! Thanks to all who attended my @biointeractive.bsky.social session today. We have another session tomorrow. Stop by our booth. You can’t miss us…just look for Howie. #scienceeducation #scienceteachersrock
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SciShow Field Trips with HHMI Investigator Beth Stevens
What if the answers to Alzheimer’s & schizophrenia lie in glia, not neurons? Join “SciShow Field Trips” & our own Tangled Bank Studios inside #HHMIInvestigator Beth Stevens' lab to see how these long-ignored brain cells may help us better understand neurological diseases: bit.ly/4kjqU3R.
2026 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science Karolin Luger HHMI Investigator University of Colorado
We're proud to join the Vilcek Foundation in recognizing HHMI Investigator Karolin Luger, whose dedication & groundbreaking nucleosome research has led to the development of innovative new drug treatments, including cancer medicines. hhmi.news/49VciEd @vilcekfoundation.bsky.social
SciShow Field Trips featuring HHMI Investigator Feng Zhang
"SciShow Field Trips" & our own Tangled Bank Studios take you inside the lab of HHMI Investigator Feng Zhang. Known for engineering CRISPR-Cas9 for use in human cells, his next breakthrough could reach hard-to-access cells associated with conditions like ALS & Huntington's: bit.ly/49JomIt
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Samuel Washington Jr. in his classroom
Samuel Washington Jr. instructing a student on a microscope
Samuel Washington Jr. giving a lesson to his students
Science teacher & HHMI BioInteractive Ambassador Samuel Washington Jr. draws students in with more than textbooks. “At first, kids love science—bugs, their bodies, the outdoors—but if you don’t tap into that natural curiosity, they lose it." Via @neatoday.bsky.social bit.ly/4pD1w9W 📸Shea Kastriner
What is science? And why do we need it? In this episode of Crash Course Scientific Thinking with host @hankgreen.bsky.social, we explore how cognitive bias shapes the way we think about the world, and how scientific thinking can help us overcome it. youtu.be/d2r7Bk1NlgU
Hank Green will be lending his passion for science to the Crash Course screen as host of Crash Course Scientific Thinking. @hankgreen.bsky.social will be joined by special correspondent Sage "The Bad Naturalist" to help us understand foundational principles of scientific thought youtu.be/Y45KrixWRNg
Some exciting news from our friends at @thecrashcourse.bsky.social! And don't worry — we'll have classroom resources to accompany this series sometime this year. 💚💚💚
NYE fireworks < neurons expressing iGluSnFR3!
Developed at our Janelia Research Campus, iGluSnFR3 is a fluorescent sensor designed to rapidly detect & image glutamate — our brains' main chemical messenger — allowing researchers to observe (dazzling) neural communication as it happens. 🎆
"Having this experience … allowed me to explore my interests, goals, & work towards what I want to do in the future.” — Ariana Rodriguez, Summer Undergraduate Research Program alum 🧪
Rising junior or senior? Apply by Dec. 22 — no lab experience required! bit.ly/CechFellows
A perfect model for coming together this season: mouse skeletal muscles undergoing fusion, obviously.
In this mesmerizing confocal microscopy video, nuclei are labeled in green & cell bodies are labeled in red. Credit: Yue Lu, Elizabeth Chen Lab, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
🔬Attention undergraduate educators! Please share this exciting research and mentorship opportunity with your students. 🔬 #AcademicSky
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The world’s “most dangerous animal” just got easier to study 🦟
HHMI’s @leslievosshall.bsky.social & #VosshallLab at @rockefeller.edu have built the 1st cellular atlas of Aedes aegypti, mapping everything from legs to antennae. Available now to all researchers, & the public: bit.ly/4oO4MzB
The first detailed look at how mosquitoes mate from @leslievosshall.bsky.social's lab reverses the assumption that male mosquitoes control the process, finding that a subtle female behavior dictates whether mating will take place or not. @currentbiology.bsky.social
More here: https://bit.ly/4huwEpL
Congratulations Election to the National Academy of Medicine Sun Hur, Joshua T. Mendell, Duojia Pan, Jay Shendure HHMI Investigators
4 HHMI Investigators have been elected to the @nam.edu!
Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Learn how these investigators are advancing our understanding of biology and human health: hhmi.news/4oxodfS #NAMmtg
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Igor Siwanowicz created these images of the underside of the front foot of a male diving beetle. You can see suction cups that are used during mating, as well as a broad plate and exterior spines that aid in swimming.
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This fiery mixture of red and green neurons in the brain of a mouse shows how interconnected different types of neurons can be. Shown in green are the excitatory pyramidal neurons, and in red are inhibitory interneurons.
Credit: Nelson Spruston and Erik Bloss, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
🖥️ STIM, a new tool developed at Janelia & @mdc-berlin.bsky.social, aligns sections of irregularly spaced 2D spatial transcriptomics data & renders them as images to reconstruct 3D volumes of gene expression, allowing researchers to see how all genes are expressed & organized in 3D tissue. 🧬
