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Vanessa Orr
Wisconsin Center for Origins Research
5 months ago
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"! 🧪 🔭
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Vanessa Orr
Wisconsin Center for Origins Research
7 months ago
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
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Vanessa Orr
Wisconsin Center for Origins Research
7 months ago
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...
🧪🔭
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Vanessa Orr
Stand Up for Science!
9 months ago
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):
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Happy Earth Day! 🌳🌿🌻🌍🌎🌏
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If you are in the Madison area, join
#WiCOR
for this exciting talk!!
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Vanessa Orr
Wisconsin Center for Origins Research
10 months ago
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-...
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[email protected]
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Vanessa Orr
Hank Green
10 months ago
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
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White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!!
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
https://youtu.be/dv2XyqC-EQ4
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John Green
10 months ago
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...
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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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/john-green-tuberculosis.html
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John Green
11 months ago
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.
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@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/
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Vanessa Orr
Wisconsin Center for Origins Research
11 months ago
The WiCOR Website has launched! 🚀 Visit the site to learn all about WiCOR! 🧪🔭
wicor.wisc.edu
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Vanessa Orr
The New York Times
11 months ago
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.”
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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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Vanessa Orr
Wisconsin Center for Origins Research
11 months ago
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...
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Vanessa Orr
BioImaging North America
about 1 year ago
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...
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Vanessa Orr
John Green
about 1 year ago
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
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Vanessa Orr
eurobioimaging.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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. 💚🔬
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Vanessa Orr
BioImaging North America
about 1 year ago
Wishing the
#bioimaging
community a Happy New Year, Bonne Année, y Feliz Año Nuevo! 🧪🔬
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Anne Carpenter
about 1 year ago
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
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Sharing about
@bioimagingna.bsky.social
and
#MicroscopyDB
at
#CellBio2024
, come stop by the poster until 12:45 pm PT!
about 1 year ago
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Learn more about BINA's Prof. Development Program! Thanks to
@cziscience.bsky.social
for supporting this program!
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Vanessa Orr
BioImaging North America
about 1 year ago
Happy
#FluorescenceFriday
! 🔬🎉 Not a Fluorescence photo, but rather a photo of many people who use florescence, taken at our BINA 2024 Community Congress
#BINA2024CC
! If you missed it in our newsletter yesterday, the presentation recordings are now available on YouTube:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Vanessa Orr
BioImaging North America
about 1 year ago
Happy
#MicroscopyMonday
! The recordings of the
#Virtual
#I2K2024
workshops are available now
tinyurl.com/VirtualI2K20...
Thanks to all who presented! Please re-share! 2022 and 2023 content available too:
www.youtube.com/@I2KConference
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Vanessa Orr
BioImaging North America
about 1 year ago
Hello, Hola, Bonjour Bluesky
#Bioimaging
Community! 👋 Thank you for the warm welcome here! Learn more about BINA:
linktr.ee/bioimagingna
#bioimaging
#microscopy
🔬
#MicroscopyMonday
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