Kudos to Vernita Gordon of UT Physics on winning a 2025 Regents Outstanding Teaching Award! #TexasScience @utphysics.bsky.social physics.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

Giant Magellan Telescope: Taft Armandroff and Brian Schmidt Elected to Lead Giant Magellan Telescope Board of Directors giantmagellan.org/2025/11/04/t...

Meet new Stengl-Wyer Fellow: Tianyi Xu. Her research examines how reptile diversity responds to global change across space and time using tools from #paleobiology, #ecology, and evolutionary #biology. Blog here: tinyurl.com/eb85be2p #herpetology

It’s official, our panel "Revolutionizing Astronomy with Next Generation Big Data" has been accepted to @sxsw.com 2026! Thank you to everyone who supported our work! Panelists: Stella Offner, Paul Torrey, @stephajuneau.bsky.social, & @niall2.bsky.social Learn more schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

A new approach called “epimodulation” — developed by UT Austin researchers & collaborators — predicts epidemic peaks better than current models and could boost health care preparations in future outbreaks. #Epidemiology #PublicHealth @texas-ib.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

#CysticFibrosis is hard to treat with gene therapy because it can be caused by many different combinations of mutations. A new gene editing tech from The University of Texas at Austin, using genetic elements borrowed from bacteria, might change that. Full story: cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

UT Neuroscience Chair Robert Messing is 1 of 4 faculty to receive TRC4 grants for groundbreaking trauma research — for working on a way to treat chronic pain from nerve damage with a new, non-opioid medication strategy. #TexasScience #TraumaResearch research.utexas.edu/news/ut-facu...

New research from UT astronomers could change how we look at binary star formation. #BinaryStars @taccutexas.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social @mcdonaldobs.bsky.social oden.utexas.edu/news-and-eve...

UT mathematician Maggie Miller has been named a 2025 Packard Fellow for Science & Engineering! 🤘 Miller is a topologist who studies geometric properties in 3, 4 & 5 dimensions. #PackardFellows #Topology #GeometricTopology @packardfdn.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

Congratulations to LCID member Dr. Jason McLellan on receiving a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship for his groundbreaking work in structural biology and infectious disease interventions! cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

Join us October 21 to watch an award-winning film about what distant moths may be whispering to us, and enjoy activities & a conversation with UT scientists—part of our series with the Long Center & Sandbox Films. #Moths #MothsMatter Learn more, get PROMO code & buy tickets: txsci.net/nocturnes

UT Austin has a new “genius grant” recipient! Texas Science professor Jason McLellan has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — aka the “genius grant” — by The MacArthur Foundation. #TexasScience @mclellanlab.bsky.social #MacArthurGenius @utaustin.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

The Mexican honey wasp is a bit of an oddball: it makes and eats honey like a bee, but when it’s hankering for protein, instead of pollen, it eats other insects. A new study finds its gut microbiome is more like bees than wasps. Funded by USDA and NSF. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy! A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.

Biologists at UT Austin found a bird that’s the natural result of a green jay & a blue jay’s mating — it may be among the first examples of a hybrid that exists because of recent changing patterns in the climate. #TexasScience #GrueJay #BlueJay #GreenJay #ClimateChange cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

The Texas Science & History Museum is having free admission from 1 to 5 pm on Sunday, Sept. 21 during Austin Museum Day! Don't miss this great chance to see all the amazing things this museum has been up to! sciencemuseum.utexas.edu?gad_source=1...

🚨 Stephen Hawking was right: when two black holes collide, the resulting black hole has a bigger surface area than the originals. Amazing finding on the 10th anniversary of gravitational wave astronomy!

To kill bacteria, antibodies usually need helpers, but a new method yields antibodies that can kill bacteria directly by busting up their outer membranes. Read more: lcid.utexas.edu/news/researc...

Peter Stone of @utcompsci.bsky.social & @texasrobotics.bsky.social was part of a panel asking an intriguing question:

Introducing the 2025 Stengl-Wyer Scholars, Fellows, and Grant Awardees! Another talented group we are excited to have! Learn about their fascinating research in our first blog posting of the fall semester. biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/feature...

Congrats to Stella Offner on earning a Cottrell Scholar Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery (SEED) Award for 2025! #CottrellScholars #TexasScience @utaustin.bsky.social @texasastronomy.bsky.social @mcdonaldobs.bsky.social

Kudos to Edoardo Baldini, William Gilpin & Daehyeok Kim on earning Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation! #NSF #CAREERAwards #EarlyCareerDevelopment #TexasScience @wgilpin.bsky.social @utphysics.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

“Everyday acts of support — whether organized or personal — can have lasting cognitive impact.” — Sae Hwang Han, study lead & UT Austin asst. prof. of human development & family sciences #HelpingOthers #CognitiveDecline #CognitiveAging #TexasScience @umassboston.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social

Vote to bring our panel “Revolutionizing Astronomy + AI with Next Generation Big Data” to SXSW! Register for a SXSW account & vote by clicking the heart ❤️ - open now til Aug 24! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx... @stephajuneau.bsky.social @niall2.bsky.social

The most distant black hole ever observed has just been confirmed by astronomers at UT Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center! #BlackHole @utaustin.bsky.social @astrosteven.bsky.social news.utexas.edu/2025/08/06/m...

UT scientist Misha Matz talked with KXAN News about a radical strategy to help save our coral reefs — which help protect against damage from tsunamis & hurricanes. #CoralReef #CoralReefRestoration @heatshok.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social @texas-ib.bsky.social @kxan.com

A foundation of knowledge about AI has never mattered more. With the U.S. NSF, we are doubling down on research and initiatives to help meet demand for a highly skilled AI workforce.

🧬 A new AI tool from @utaustin.bsky.social & Sanofi could speed the development of mRNA-based therapies for viruses, cancers and genetic disorders. RiboNN predicts which mRNA sequences will be most efficiently translated into proteins. cns.utexas.edu/news/researc... @taccutexas.bsky.social

Congrats to our #TexasScience grads Allie Murphy, Thomas Wynn & Miriam Yampuler on earning Fulbright U.S. Student Awards! Learn how they’re using those awards in the link below. #Fulbright @utaustin.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

Meet Neha Donthineni, Niels Levy-Thiebaut & Franchesca Untalan, three Texas Science students who won 2025 President’s Leadership Awards! Learn why at txsci.net/StarStudents. Bonus: Niels Levy-Thiebaut was also featured in our Texas Scientist magazine! Read his Q&A at txsci.net/Niels.

This functional knee joint, with flexible ligaments & rigid bones, was 3D-printed via a precise new method seamlessly merging soft & hard properties into a single object by using different colors of light. Learn more at txsci.net/3DBreakthrough #TexasScience #UTAustin #3DPrinting

Check out our latest issue of the Texas Scientist magazine! Learn about futuristic fuels, AI in STEM education & healthcare and much more. Read it now at txsci.net/TexasScientist — or grab a print copy at UT’s Texas Science & Natural History Museum on campus. #TexasScience #TheTexasScientist

An international team of geneticists & archaeologists — including UT’s Vagheesh Narasimhan — used #AncientDNA to reconstruct the prehistoric origins of two major Eurasian language families: Uralic and Yeniseian. #TexasScience #Archaeogenetics @utaustin.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

A measles outbreak simulator developed at The University of Texas at Austin is helping protect communities across the U.S. by modeling how infections might spread, especially through schools. www.statesman.com/story/news/h... #epiEngage @taccutexas.bsky.social ‪@utaustin.bsky.social

A set of weapons bacteria use to fight each other, called microcins, are much more widespread and diverse than previously thought. They might inspire new ways to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria. Learn more in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eumkH

COSMOS-Web has released the data and images from over 250 hours of observations from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope — including work by UT Austin astronomers — to the public for their use. @mcdonaldobs.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/release...

New, from me in American Scientists: a mind-expanding new book by Afshordi & Halper asks one of the biggest questions out there: did the Universe have a beginning? 🧪☄️

Andy Ellington of @utaustin.bsky.social was a project participant in this new release, which also features research from the lab of UT marine scientist Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social

New research challenges the long-held belief that coral reefs are “oases” in marine deserts. While among the world’s most productive ecosystems, their existence in nutrient-deprived oceans is the exception rather than the rule. @gobyone.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

Ancient microbes thrive beneath a Swiss spa—unchanged by the seasons. New research with Dr. Mark Lever reveals deep underground life stays stable, even as Alpine waters shift above. utmsi.utexas.edu/deep-microbi... 📸 Lavey-les-Bains

As part of the Simons Foundation’s Open Interval award, @susanscafati.bsky.social describes her collaboration with Stella Offner & Bobby Garza of @longcenter.bsky.social as “mining light, matter, and meaning.” This collaboration is supported by the Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org

CosmicAI Director Stella Offner, artist @susanscafati.bsky.social, & Bobby Garza of the @longcenter.bsky.social, are recipients of the Simons Foundation’s Open Interval award, supporting interdisciplinary exploration across art and science! This collaboration is supported by @simonsfoundation.org

Dr Mavridou, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences, at the University of Texas Austin joins the quality quorum (in person!) @markowenmartin.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social

Episode 93 was recorded at the UT Austin! Dr. Despoina Mavridou, joins the #qualityquorum to talk about how her team is improving antibiotic effectiveness by disrupting protein folding—and why that matters in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. @markowenmartin.bsky.social

UT physicists Peter Onyisi & Tim Andeen are two of the scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) who shared the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. @cern.bsky.social @utphysics.bsky.social @peteronyisi.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social #LHC cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

There’s got to be an easier way to figure out how much carbon is stored by seagrass! Scientists have found "one weird trick" that involves listening to tiny bubbles. Hear our latest Point of Discovery podcast: cns.utexas.edu/news/podcast... @utaustin.bsky.social l‬ @cockrellschool.bsky.social

Can AI help us do a better job balancing the economy, environment and human wellbeing? Researchers at @utaustin.bsky.social are developing decision making tools to do just that. cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

⚛️ Fusion energy breakthrough: Physicists solved a 70-year-old problem, speeding up the design of “magnetic bottles” that are a key part of fusion reactors called stellarators. cns.utexas.edu/news/researc... @utaustin.bsky.social @type-one.energy

Commencement 2025 is in the books, & we couldn’t be prouder of our Texas Science graduates! These world-changers, trailblazers, discovery-makers & innovators made a difference on the Forty Acres. And they’re all set for what comes next: making a difference in our wider world. #CNSGrad25 #UTGrad25

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