A cross-section of innovation leaders from around Princeton and the state of New Jersey gathered on campus for Celebrate Princeton Innovation, an annual event to spotlight University innovators, showcase ideas and forge new connections.

Legends of the fall @princeton.edu.

Serendipitous meetings, scholarly collaborations, and an ethos of "encouraging junior faculty to think big" laid the groundwork for groundbreaking achievements in AI at Princeton. https://bit.ly/4qngfra

FLi is FLY! 👏 In recognition of #FirstGenWeek, FLi (first-generation, lower-income) students celebrated with various events to network, engage, and build community.

New Princeton research gives insight into human cognition and could help scientists build better AI models: https://bit.ly/3Lp6J74

Prospect House spaces at Princeton dedicated for "exemplary individuals" who helped to shape the University and the world: https://bit.ly/47qsxrA

Don't miss our 111th Annual Gold Medal Gala, honoring Christopher Eisgruber of @princeton.edu, Claudia Goldin, and Alison Gopnik — three extraordinary leaders shaping our world for the better. 📅 Tuesday, December 9, 2025 📍 The Metropolitan Club, New York City

At Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Public Service Day, alumni returned to campus to share advice with students on how to pursue public service through a variety of tracks, including the private sector, law, nonprofits, education, local and state government, sports, and finance.

New Princeton research has revealed that about 90% of marine aquarium fish sold by online retailers in the U.S. are sourced directly from wild populations, mostly in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean.

In a new article at @nature.com, Princeton professors Andrew Houck and Nathalie de Leon report that their new qubit lasts 3x longer than the best ever reported in a lab setting — the largest single advance in coherence time in more than a decade.

In what one student described as "a sublime experience," the Princeton University Art Museum opened its doors to the public on Friday for a 24-hour open house, bringing over 21,000 visitors to explore the new space.

Princeton’s new quantum chip built for scale engineering.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

“This is the next big jump forward.” In a major step toward practical quantum computing, Princeton engineers have built a superconducting qubit that lasts three times longer than today’s best versions: bit.ly/4oYN4tk

Un análisis multidimensional de los recursos hídricos💧 en la Axarquía (Málaga) -realizado por científicos de la UMA, Universidad de @princeton.edu e @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social- alerta de "sequía estructural" y de la necesidad de reformar profundamente la gestión del agua u.uma.es/g4P/

On Election Day we're reflecting on the remarkable legacy of Laura Wooten in the Princeton community and status as the longest-serving election poll worker in the United States.

Polls are now open in Princeton, NJ until 8pm. 🗳️ Get all the information you need to vote in person or by mail: https://bit.ly/4ojz51g

We've got a new record for the oldest air ever discovered. 💨 Scientists led by Princeton's @blueicedude.bsky.social and Sarah Shackleton uncovered air trapped in ice that is 6 million years old.

A monumental mosaic by Nick Cave (the American artist) called “Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton” (2025) in the entrance to the new Princeton Art Museum.

Princeton engineers have taken step toward making hydrogen a practical pathway to decarbonize industries that are difficult to electrify, such as steel and fertilizer production.

🎥 WATCH the full @cbsnews.com piece with President Eisgruber: cbsn.ws/47BuUGV

Princeton will present its top alumni awards to Kevin Gover '78, under secretary for museums & culture at the Smithsonian, and @teorth.bsky.social *96, professor of mathematics and the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California-Los Angeles.

Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber on addressing challenges facing higher education.

President Eisgruber will join Robert Costa this morning on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social to discuss the challenges facing higher education institutions in America.

"The new museum was designed to be a kind of town square for the arts and humanities, a place of coming together." The Princeton University Art Museum's doors are now open, beginning with a 24-hour Open House event featuring collections tours, movie screenings, artmaking and more.

🦇 EEB Associate Professor Gerald Carter is uncovering how vampire bats "learn, remember, and form social bonds." ⤵️

👻 By using ghost genes — genetic markers from ancient species that can be detected in the DNA of modern species — @bvon.bsky.social is hoping to help save the red wolf population.

As many celebrate Halloween with witches, ghouls, magic and the macabre — where did we get the term abracadabra? 🎩 Don Skemer, medieval historian, weighs in at National Geographic.

🦇 In two short months, staff from Princeton Facilities and Laboratory Animal Resources transformed an unused space into a bat cave, for use by Dr. Gerald Carter who studies vampire bats and their lifesaving food sharing relationships: https://bit.ly/4oh5CVJ

Congrats to Princeton senior Isam Mina who has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at @ox.ac.uk. He is among two recipients chosen by The Rhodes Scholarships (@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk) for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.

We see you, Ashleigh Johnson '17!

By utilizing their mobile lab called the "Princeton Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment" (aka PACE), scientists found that, collectively, sewer plants produced 1.9x the nitrous oxide gas and 2.4x the methane as estimated by the EPA.

Princeton's Yiyun Li (@appletwigli.bsky.social) has been named Princeton University’s Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, an appointment first held by Professor of Creative Writing, Emerita, Toni Morrison.

Our congratulations to @skinnider.bsky.social!

In an important step forward for the NJ AI Hub, founding partner Microsoft announced that it will bring to the Hub its new Microsoft Discovery platform, an advanced Agentic AI and cloud technology that promises to accelerate research and solve complex problems more efficiently.

New research from Princeton shows that wastewater can replace clean water as a source for hydrogen production, eliminating a major drawback to hydrogen fuel and reducing water treatment costs by up to 47%.

🥶 Led by Princeton's @blueicedude.bsky.social and Sarah Shackleton, a team of scientists has discovered the "oldest directly dated ice and air" on the entire planet in Antarctica.

A cross-section of New Jersey innovation leaders — faculty, researchers, students, inventors, entrepreneurs and investors — convened on campus for the annual Celebrate Princeton Innovation event, designed to spotlight University innovators, showcase ideas and forge new connections.

Had a wonderful visit from collaborator Tatsuya Hirasawa from the U of Tokyo! We’ve been awarded a joint Princeton-Tokyo grant to exchange exciting new techniques in vertebrate evo-devo. Our visit to Japan will happen in March!

Princeton remembers Russell Kulsrud, Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences, emeritus, who expanded scientists’ understanding of the universe’s plasma and was one of the last survivors of Project Matterhorn.

🐟 New research into fossils from the Cretaceous Period found 3️⃣ previously unknown fish species, including "the oldest salmonid in the fossil record."

Princeton researchers Joshua Rabinowitz and Won Dong Lee contributed to a "tumor-on-a-chip" at @upenn.edu, a transparent, microengineered device that's giving way to new insights about how immune cells interact with cancer.

The new museum was worth the wait! The collection looks fantastic, the "promised to museum" pieces in the Princeton Collects exhibit promise a great future collection, and the building itself is gorgeous. So happy to have this back in the neighborhood!

TMLR Publication: Getting Aligned on Representational Alignment. Congratulations to the author team and the representational alignment community. Link: openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq... #MLSky

Princeton researchers are demonstrating how membranes made from next-gen materials, a class of water-loving, single-layer materials with high electrical conductivity, show promise when separating ions and other compounds from complex solutions.

Alongside @stanford.edu's Nick McKeown, Princeton provost Jen Rexford pens a piece about the NSF's vital impact on software-defined networking, which "revolutionized how networks are built and operated today": https://bit.ly/4qtDIHm

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz has been a Bob Dylan fan since childhood, and he produced a new Bootleg Series box focused on the folk era.

How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities? Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation. 🧵(1/n) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

Princeton Professor of History Sean Wilentz talks with @rollingstone.com about growing up around the Greenwich folk scene and his keen insights on Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series. 🎶

Princeton dedicated a dozen Prospect House spaces in honor of faculty, alumni and others who “helped to shape the University and the world” through their achievements and perseverance in the face of adversity: https://bit.ly/3LaiCxB

How do LLMs think about thinking? 🤔 In the latest Kempner Seminar Series talk, @profsanjeevarora.bsky.social (Princeton University and Princeton PLI) explores how “metacognition” shapes problem-solving in large language models. Watch here: youtu.be/Tl48e0Euois #KempnerInstitute #AI #LLM #CS