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

Mosquitos may seem like they’re swarming you all together in the summer. But actually, they’re each following their own cues. New insights from Georgia Tech mechanical engineers on mosquitos' flight behavior could improve how we control the pests: b.gatech.edu/4uC6esq

Language, Intelligence & Thought lab is looking for a lab manager! This is a 2-year postbac position that will allow you to gain experience in human neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research prior to applying to PhD programs. Express interest here: forms.gle/npXEGUjGUbp5...

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a breakthrough system to manufacture valuable amino acids. It’s the most efficient system of its kind — and removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits. cos.gatech.edu/news/turning...

Physics Professor Laura Cadonati has been elected to @apsphysics.bsky.social's Board of Directors. Cadonati serves as associate dean for Research at @gtsciences.bsky.social and is a member of Georgia Tech’s Center for Relativistic Astrophysics. Congrats, Professor Cadonati! 🎉

We 💛 STEAM, and so do the 4,000+ visitors who joined us on campus last weekend for Celebrate STEAM. As the Atlanta Science Festival’s kickoff event, it was the perfect opportunity for attendees to meet our researchers and discover the innovation happening right here at Georgia Tech.

The Computational Cognition (CoCo) Center of Excellence housed in @gtsciences.bsky.social uses computation to study the mind — and vice versa. We're hear today at the second annual CoCo Conference to hear field insights from researchers around Atlanta. coco.psych.gatech.edu/coco-confere...

We are thrilled to announce that Regents’ Professor David Sherrill has been named executive director of Georgia Tech's Institute for Data Engineering and Science. Founded in 2016, #IDEaS aims to leverage the power of data science and AI to accelerate our research and maximize our impact.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Freeman has been named a 2026 Research Fellow by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. Freeman studies birds worldwide, focusing on how species respond to a changing climate and how to facilitate their survival.  🎉Congrats, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social !

Georgia Tech's Flagship Energy Day 2026 is almost here. Join us on March 19 as we explore how to power an AI‑driven future. With leaders from industry, government & academia, the program covers policy, supply chains, data centers, the grid & more. Register today! research.gatech.edu/energyday

New research led by Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Itamar Kolvin shows how cracks occur and spread through materials — and how best to prevent them.

Congratulations to School of Physics Professor Chandra S. Raman and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Associate Professor Jason Azoulay, who have been recognized as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Class of 2026. cos.gatech.edu/news/two-col...

🎉Congrats to Professor @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social on being named an @iop.org Fellow. Kamerlin's research in computational biophysics is at the intersection of chemistry and biology. She investigates fundamental physical chemistry and uses computational tools to understand biomolecular problems.

💡 Physics Associate Professor Zeb Rocklin recently took a deep dive into the simulation hypothesis — the idea that the world is a computer simulation, akin to a giant video game in which we're the characters. 👀 Check out Rocklin's review:

Measles is not "just a rash." It's one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause long-term damage to the immune system and the brain. 💡Professor Peter Kasson explains the near-and long-term risks: theconversation.com/measles-can-...

🎉We congratulate Associate Professor Vinayak Agarwal on receiving the @rescorp.org Bridge Award, which provides continuity funding to support early-career researchers pursuing programs focused on training the next generation of scientists.

👁️ Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can lead to vision loss and blindness.  Georgia Tech is advancing the fight against this condition through a new Glaucoma Research Fund that aims to support cutting-edge work to understand and advance treatments. cos.gatech.edu/news/yellow-...

Please share. Registration is live! Come join us to talk spatial memory, navigation, computation, and design at the next Conference for Research and Education in Navigation. Wonderful speakers+panelists, and we hope to see your work there too! @gt-neuro.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Gong Chen, recipient of the 2026–2027 @amermathsoc.bsky.social Stefan Bergman Fellowship, a prestigious award recognizing exceptional early-career mathematicians. cos.gatech.edu/news/chen-na...

Congrats to incoming School of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Armita Manafzadeh for her Carl Gans Young Investigator Award from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Joining Georgia Tech in Aug. 2026, her lab will explore how joints work and how they evolved. bit.ly/3LG1jVV

🎉Congrats Physics Professor Flavio Fenton on being named an inaugural Bill Kent Family Foundation AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellow. This fellowship will support his project to develop AI-enabled instructional modules. cos.gatech.edu/news/college...