Julia Kubanek always knew she wanted to ask her own research questions. www.youtube.com/shorts/pE3l6...

Congratulations to School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Gong Chen on receiving a prestigious NSF CAREER Award. He will use the $450,000 award to study the long-term behavior of solitons — coherent, particle-like waves observed across physics and mathematics. sciences.gatech.edu/news/advance...

New article with @yirenr.bsky.social ! Memory for pairs of visual stimuli can be strengthened by music as a contextual backdrop. Critically, this influence extends to indirect relational associations more---v @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...

One year of discovery, collaboration, and community. Thank you to everyone who has helped make INNS a hub for neuroscience and neurotechnology research at Georgia Tech and beyond. 🧠 Here's to what comes next! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtiZ...

Helping people. Saving gorillas. As president and CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Georgia Tech alumna Tara Stoinski, Ph.D., Psychology 2000, is leading global efforts to protect mountain gorillas — with only about 1,000 left in the wild. sciences.gatech.edu/news/alumni-...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have found that a common pesticide disrupts reproduction and gene expression in bumblebees. b.gatech.edu/4vqw6Y6

🔬Assistant Professor Nick Housley is developing a drug delivery system that sends cancer treatment directly to tumors — minimizing damage to healthy tissue. 🔗: research.gatech.edu/feature/nano...

🌳 Georgia Tech’s arboretum – which spans the entire campus and includes 15,000+ trees and 130+ species – has been recertified as a Level II Arboretum by ArbNet.

The moon may look unchanged from afar, but its surface is constantly reshaped by microscopic impacts and a steady stream of particles from the sun, a process known as space weathering. Now, GT researchers have recreated one of those weathering sources, solar wind, in the lab. 🌖 b.gatech.edu/4aRR0XQ

We are pleased to announce the renaming of the School of Psychology as the School of Psychological & Brain Sciences. The new name better reflects the scope of the School’s research and training mission at the intersection of mind, brain, behavior, and technology. sciences.gatech.edu/news/introdu...

🎉 @armanafzadeh.bsky.social has been named to @sciam.bsky.social’s inaugural class of Young American Scientists for her innovative research. Manafzadeh will join Georgia Tech this fall as an assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences. Learn more: biosciences.gatech.edu/news/fossils...

A team of students helped develop a tool to improve workers' responses to chemical spills and open containers as part of Georgia Tech’s Vertically Integrated Projects program. This program embeds students in LT research teams that span disciplines and semesters. 👉 sciences.gatech.edu/news/georgia...

Researchers have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein’s DNA repair process. The research could reveal ways to inhibit the effects of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations that heighten the risk for breast, ovarian, and other cancers. b.gatech.edu/4fuNJBe

🎉 We congratulate the following @gtsciences.bsky.social faculty on being honored by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia: -Rafael L. Bras -Randall Engle -Thomas Orlando -Jeffrey Skolnick -Santosh Vempala 🔗Learn more: sciences.gatech.edu/news/science...

Assistant Professor Saumya Jain has been named a 2026 Searle Scholar and awarded a $450,000 research grant. He is one of only 15 scientists selected nationwide this year. 🔗Learn about his research: sciences.gatech.edu/news/biology...

@Joel Kostka will lead a new Georgia Sea Grant–funded project to improve coastal marsh restoration in Georgia. His team will study how Spartina and beneficial microbes can boost growth and resilience, offering practical strategies for stronger coastal ecosystems. sciences.gatech.edu/news/joel-ko...

Why do mosquitoes swarm your head? sciences.gatech.edu/news/why-mos...

A quieter-than-usual severe weather season in Georgia came down to one missing ingredient. Zachary Handlos explains how persistent high-pressure systems suppressed storm development. sciences.gatech.edu/news/why-geo...

And we're off! The Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics School 2026 starts at @gtsciences.bsky.social. Melissa Quinnan introduces foundational concepts to a room full of eager learners

🎉 We congratulate these @gtsciences.bsky.social faculty members who were recently awarded tenure: -Hannah Choi, Math -Winnie Chu, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) -Itamar Kimchi, Physics -Pengfei Liu, EAS -Cheng Mao, Math -Samer Naif, EAS 🔗: sciences.gatech.edu/news/celebra...

New paper! We examined how affective experience+drive to explore spaces can shape memory, emphasizing that "complexity" is a moderator and only part of the story for configural learning @crane-navsci.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A research project led by Professor @joelkostka.bsky.social has been awarded a Climate Resilience Grant by Revive & Restore. 🌱 The project will help restore coastal salt marshes through AI-enabled micropropagation and developing probiotics for plants.

Lew Lefton knew he wanted to be a researcher after a conversation with his sixth-grade teacher. www.youtube.com/shorts/A9_AU...

ICYMI | Last semester, Professor @drdavidhu.bsky.social and his students tested out a new composting method on campus, which featured a closed-loop system and black soldier fly larvae.

🧭 In a new @us.theconversation.com article, Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Paulina Maxim discusses the interplay of memory and spatial navigation.

Congratulations to School of Biological Sciences assistant professors Nathan McDonald and Farzaneh Najafi on earning Curci Foundation grants supporting early-stage research with the potential to advance a healthy, sustainable future. cos.gatech.edu/news/nathan-...

🎉Congrats Emily Weigel on being awarded the Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. This honor recognizes her extraordinary teaching, outreach, and mentoring activities. @choosyfemale.bsky.social

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close. @gtsciences.bsky.social is now helping explain why this happens, having uncovered the physics that drive neural tube closure in a pregnancy’s earliest stages. b.gatech.edu/421VdDG

Congratulation to @jameststroud.bsky.social on winning our Bicentenary Award 2026! An exceptional evolutionary ecologist with 61 papers and 3,000+ citations, his 2025 paper in Nature caps a decade of landmark lizard evolution work. His outreach programme Lizards on the Loose has engaged thousands!

What does it mean for cognition to be Bayesian? The view that cognition is Bayesian inference is often intended at Marr's computational level. In a new paper in Nat Rev Psych, @kaixue98.bsky.social and I formulate the "explicit-Bayes" hypothesis that lives at the algorithmic level. rdcu.be/ff1XA

✨Afroditi Papadopoulou will join the School of Physics as an assistant professor this fall. But first, she’ll meet with Nobel Laureates during a global meeting on how science can help societies navigate an increasingly complex world.

🌟Our Spring Sciences Celebration is a time to recognize exceptional members of the @gtsciences.bsky.social community. This year, we honored 19 faculty and staff members, including four recent retirees.

North Carolina's Bald Head Island Conservancy and Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow (GT²) are starting a formal research fund and partnership between BHIC’s Johnston Center for Coastal Sustainability and GT². b.gatech.edu/3P04SYs

Researchers at @gt-neuro.bsky.social are using math, data, and AI to turn the brain’s raw electrical “noise” into real insights about how people think, move, and perceive the world. Discover their research:

GT students got a unique assignment: Feed food waste to fly larvae, collect the organic byproduct, and analyze the results. What they’ve found is a composting method that could dramatically reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions while producing a nutrient-dense fertilizer. b.gatech.edu/4ti1NSx

How did the earliest life on Earth build complex biological machinery with so few tools? A new study explores how the simplest building blocks of proteins formed the sophisticated structures life depends on.

Associate Professor Chris Reinhard calls for “radical transparency” in carbon removal. In a new co-authored article, Reinhard says that the practice should be quantifiable, economically viable, and pursued in ways that create benefits for local communities.

🐦‍⬛ April is peak bird season in Georgia, so expect to see and hear plenty of species the next time you’re on Georgia Tech's campus.

[email protected]'s Stefan France knew he was a researcher when he went from an internship that wasn't right to one that lit the spark. youtube.com/shorts/FbeRJ...

Protein is everywhere these days. But are we overdoing it? Lesley Baradel, a registered dietitian, nutritionist, and lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences, gives her take on the growing focus on this macronutrient and how it connects to broader health, wellness, and marketing trends.

My review on the "Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making" is now published. I think that this will be useful to both experts and newcomers to the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧠The Center of Excellence in Computational Cognition is a hub for research, education, and community. House in our School of Psychology, the Center is home to research at the intersection of the mind and advanced computing.

A chemical signature hidden in a 3.8‑billion‑year‑old lunar rock is offering new insights into the availability of oxygen within the young Moon. cos.gatech.edu/news/38-bill...

🚀One day after the historic Artemis II launch, @gtsciences.bsky.social welcomed +150 researchers, students, and community members to its signature Frontiers in Science conference. The full day of talks centered on the latest developments in space research, discovery, and innovation.

Graduate programs across @gtsciences.bsky.social are again ranked among the nation’s best, according to the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School Rankings. This reflects Georgia Tech’s continued leadership in science and research. Discover the rankings: cos.gatech.edu/news/us-news...

A Georgia Tech researcher introduced a drug delivery system that releases only when it encounters those tumor-specific conditions. Rather than being tailored to a specific tumor type or genetic marker, the system is “cancer agnostic.” b.gatech.edu/3Nsbkqk

2 weeks left to apply to this postdoc here at @gtsciences.bsky.social! Full details here: www.mcguire.gatech.edu/opportunitie... Deadline: 13th April 🦎🐦🦴⛰️

What started as a small collection of plants in a Clough Commons lab has grown into a weekly gathering that brings Georgia Tech students together. Held Fridays from 3:30–4:30 p.m., the Plant Library invites students to explore sustainability in a hands-on way. cos.gatech.edu/news/plant-l...

Day 1 of our spring break field trip with our “Sea Level Rise and Coastal Engineering” class with stops in Tybee Island, Savannah and Charleston to learn about adaptation, engineering and community engagement in coastal resilience @gtsciences.bsky.social

Humans are about to circle the moon for the first time in 50+ years aboard Artemis II. Georgia Tech engineers reflect on why we go to the moon … and why it matters. b.gatech.edu/3NOclcH