Great news! 🎉The Johns Hopkins film and media programs are ranked No. 20 in the U.S. by TheWrap’s 2025 Top 50 Film Schools list, recognizing decades of creativity, collaboration, and real-world filmmaking experience. hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/03/j...

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute has partnered with nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum to publish one new work of literary translation each year. This collaboration also includes a translator residency, campus events, and graduate student workshops. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/deep...

We tend to assume that we will see things right in front of us. "But if there is some big object casting light into our eyes, and we wouldn't see it because our attention is elsewhere—that's really fascinating!" says @chazfirestone.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

The Race, Aesthetics, Speculation Conference brings together leading scholars to examine how the representation of race and ethnicity intersects with theories of aesthetics, literary form, and speculative thought. 📅11/10 krieger.jhu.edu/modern-langu...

A strange gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center could point to dark matter or a cluster of pulsars. 🌌https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/16/mysterious-glow-in-milky-way-dark-matter/

“Trying x Trying” fits right into this moment. In her @baltfishbowl.bsky.social interview, professor @doramalech.bsky.social talks about language, grief, motherhood, and writing through these trying times. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/what...

Congratulations to @hahrie.bsky.social, recipient of a @macfound.org genius grant for her research on political organizing, social movements, collective action, civic engagement, and democracy. 🎉https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/hahrie-han-macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant/

Congratulations to JHU chemist @tomkempa.bsky.social, who has received a $1.3M @moorefound.bsky.social award to advance his “lattice embossing” research, which aims to control quantum states in 2D materials. hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/t...

The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum reopens on October 13 after three years of updates, renewing a 140-year legacy as a hands-on space for students and scholars to connect with ancient cultures. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/home...

On October 15, the Fifth Annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival will bring together civic leaders, students, scholars, and Baltimore community members for an afternoon of dialogue and ideas. snfagora.jhu.edu/event/fifth-...

Johns Hopkins has launched a new Department of Neuroscience, bringing together researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Arts & Sciences. With faculty across Hopkins, the department includes 1,000+ brain researchers, 450 neuroscience majors, and 121 PhD students. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/15/j...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how today’s political battles could destabilize the Federal Reserve and reshape the global economy. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/16/t...

First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.

Hopkins researchers are using phone-camera style sensors to hunt for ultra-light dark matter, opening a new window in particle physics. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/27/n...

When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind? In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...

Rabbits and elephants aren’t so different...🐇🐘 Check out this cool research from @talboger.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social

Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/19/s...

Johns Hopkins welcomed the Class of 2029 on Sunday. Approximately 1,300 first-year students arrived from 49 states, 28 countries, as well as Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and American Samoa. Roughly one in five is a first‑generation college student. hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...

Baltimore folks, I’m really looking forward to talking this week at the Ivy Bookshop about my new book, Something Between Us. How can we rebuild a collective life beyond forces of division and suspicion? Please join us this Thursday, August 21st at 6pm. www.theivybookshop.com/event/anand-...

Bats are helping scientists map how the brain tracks moving objects without sight. Echolocation is giving us a new view of the hippocampus in action. 🦇 Read the study here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Susan Choi, a professor in the Writing Seminars, recently released her sixth novel, Flashlight. The book follows Louisa as she revisits the night her father vanished, exploring themes of captivity, identity, and intuition across 1970s Japan and beyond. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202... #BookerPrize2025

Pioneering algebraic topologist and beloved mentor Jack Morava, passed away at age 80. Considered a "mathematician's mathematician," he was often described as being ahead of his time. He was known for warmth, curiosity, and his legendary gorilla‑suit Halloween story. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/08/j...

JHU anthropologist @anandian.bsky.social’s latest op-ed in the @baltimoresun.bsky.social explores the decline of neighborliness in America. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/t...

Congratulations to four Hopkins mathematicians, Jacob Bernstein, Chikako Mese, Emily Riehl, and Ziquan Zhuang, who have been invited to speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). 🎉 #ICM2026 #math hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/30/j...

Folks in Baltimore and Maryland, catch me live on WYPR’s Midday with Tom Hall this Tuesday 7/29 from 12-1, talking about my new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down. Tune in to 88.1 FM and join the conversation. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Johns Hopkins scientists found over 200 misfolded proteins linked to Alzheimer's and dementia. This could change how we detect and treat the disease. 🧠 hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/11/m...

With dual appointments in the Economics department within @jhuartssciences.bsky.social and @johnshopkinsams.bsky.social within @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social, Giannone develops models grounded in rigorous statistical and economic theory that monitor macroeconomic risks in real time.

Folks in DC, please join me on Thursday 7/10 at Creative Grounds café for a book event sponsored by worker-owned bookstore cooperative Bol. We'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

What keeps Jane Austen's work alive 250 years later? Scholars from Johns Hopkins and beyond break it down, from her sharp wit to her social insight. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

Chemist Stephen Fried studies how proteins fold and what happens when they don’t. His research could explain aging, memory loss, and brain health. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

What happens when scientists and philosophers tackle questions about time, life, and consciousness? Here are five key takeaways from the Natural Philosophy Forum at Johns Hopkins. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/06/five...

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Cyanobacteria from desert rocks might help humans survive in space. JHU students in Jocelyne DiRuggiero’s lab are exploring how these microbes extract minerals in extreme conditions. 🧫https://magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/05/flourishing-in-extremes/

Writers in Baltimore Schools brings together Johns Hopkins undergrads and Baltimore City students for creative writing workshops. The weekly sessions offer high schoolers a taste of college life, mentorship, and a supportive environment to develop their voice. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/12/w...

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The Fool in Shakespeare’s plays serves a crucial role in speaking truth to power. In Peking opera, there is a similar role known as the chou 丑. Author Nan Z. Da, a prof @jhuartssciences.bsky.social in a new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, explores: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Congratulations to professor @allisonpugh.bsky.social!

Nobel laureate Adam Riess says the mismatch between local and early-universe expansion rates isn’t a fluke. The "Hubble tension" keeps growing. If new data confirms it, the standard model of cosmology might need a serious update. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

"Microwave signals from the cosmic dawn are famously difficult to measure ... Overcoming those obstacles makes this measurement a significant achievement," said JHU professor and project leader @tamarriage.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/t...

A class on the absence of color goes viral. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/spring-2025-...

Archaeologist Glenn Schwartz might have found the world’s oldest alphabet. Four clay cylinders from a 2004 dig in Syria could push the timeline back 500 years. If true, this changes what we know about how writing began. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/spring-2025-...

The Spring 2025 issue of the Arts & Sciences magazine has arrived! Take a look inside for stories on groundbreaking research, standout students, and alumni making an impact. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu

I had the enormous privilege of addressing graduating Masters students from @jhuartssciences.bsky.social on a beautiful Baltimore evening yesterday. Go Blue Jays!

CONGRATULATIONS to all graduating this season at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social and beyond, especially to so many members of our great editorial team of MFA and BA Writing Sems students (now MFA and BA ⭐️ graduates ⭐️), including Alejandro Lucero, Alexander Pham, Kat Scott, Vanessa Singh, pictured!

You might miss the gorilla, but your brain didn’t. New research shows that people who say they didn’t see something during inattentional blindness tests can still guess its color, shape, or location.

Baltimore folks! We'll be launching my new book, Something Between Us, at Red Emma's Bookstore in Baltimore next Tuesday, May 27th. I'll be talking about the book with investigative journalist Sonia Shah, author most recently of The Next Great Migration. Please join us!

Welcome to JHU, and Baltimore! 🦀

Congratulations to JHU student Sean Lee and alum Yuncong Toby Mao on being selected to join the 8th cohort of Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. hub.jhu.edu/2025/05/13/k...

I am more than a little excited to have David Scott giving the first Macksey Lecture under my Directorship of our Humanities Institute next year. If you are in or near Baltimore, hold this date NOW! @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @feinsod.bsky.social @cgrobe.bsky.social @doramalech.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE, BMORE! A fall AGHI programming preview, because we’re excited. “Aesthetic Education Four Ways” - a cross-disciplinary roundtable featuring Mia Liu (Art History) * Mohsin Rao (History) * Michaela Bronstein (English) * Dean Moyar (Philosophy). Don’t miss it, and more details to come.