From uncovering chronic disease risk factors, to training doctors and dentists to serve rural areas, to helping farmers supplement their income by growing microalgae 🧪... our researchers are working for Louisiana! Learn more in our latest newsletter: lsu-campaigns.omniupdate.com/t/d-e-ghygn-...

From @lsuresearch.bsky.social Instagram to BBC Wildlife.

Luck of the Lab 🍀: For #stpatricksday, LSU Research Glows Green, Spanning Brain Cells, Crops, Frogs, and Algae! lsu.edu/blog/2026/03... #green @lsuvetmed.bsky.social @lsuagcenter.bsky.social #lemurfrog #cyanobacteria #plants #biology #scicomm #sciart

LSU researchers helped critically endangered lemur frogs grow stronger bones... with high calcium crickets! Study published in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social mdpi.com/2076-2615/16... @lsuvetmed.bsky.social #lemurfrog #vetmed #green #scicomm @lsu.bsky.social

A molecular “Trojan horse” against colorectal cancer? LSU chemist Dr. Fatima Rivas is studying an oxidized cholesterol intermediate that cancer cells may take up naturally — disrupting critical processes once inside. 🔬 Story: www.lsu.edu/science/news... @lsuresearch.bsky.social

"When chance brought a lone crustacean to [an LSU] scientist’s car park in the USA, he had an unusual response: try to get an exceptionally detailed 3D scan of the animal." - BBC Wildlife Magazine discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... @lsu.bsky.social

Professor Brandon Shuck @lsugeology.bsky.social was recently interviewed by CBC about a recent geophysical discovery: a massive tear in the tectonic plate off the coast of Vancouver Island. 📹 youtu.be/fzo2WiWeVV4?... Learn more👉 www.lsu.edu/science/news... #GeauxScience @lsuresearch.bsky.social

Are you feeling a bit groggy after losing an hour last night? Yeah, us too! But our LSU experts have some #sleep tips based on science to help you get through #daylightsavingstime! Learn more: www.lsu.edu/blog/2026/03... @penningtonbiomed.bsky.social @lsucollegeofag.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social

What better reason to eat fruit?! 🥭🥑 Eating more fruit, particularly avocados and mangos, leads to positive changes in vascular health. @pbrcnews.bsky.social editorial featured in the Journal of the American Heart Association: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #nutrition #NationalNutritionMonth

Where did #Pluto get those clustered pits that look suspiciously like gas pockmarks? @lsu.bsky.social Planetary Science Lab researchers have some possible answers! 💨 www.youtube.com/shorts/m9JAM...

LSU researchers build exoskeleton to make construction safer | @nolanews.bsky.social Read: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/... #Education #engineering #design #robotics

We are celebrating #nationalengineersweek by sharing some exciting research and inventions by LSU engineers. Today: a metal-free battery! Learn more: lsu.edu/blog/2026/02... @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social #energy #battery #engineering

Breaking: Regeneration of fins and limbs relies on a shared cellular playbook! Covered in @sciencenews.bsky.social by the amazing Elizabeth Pennisi Fav quote: "The red blood cell thing blew my mind." @lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @ischneider.bsky.social

It’s National Day of the Mexican Axolotl! @ischneider.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @perezlouise.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social #axolotl

Freedom from addiction: LSU researchers are working to find a molecular intervention that would reduce drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviors. Learn more in this behind-the-scenes interview! #addiction #health #neuroscience @lsuvetmeddean.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social youtu.be/duTFnCs_BLU

LSU researchers have invented a dental imaging system that replaces X-rays and eliminates their associated health risks. It uses a special mouthwash and a near-infrared light camera! #dentist #innovation @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social Learn more: lsu.edu/blog/2026/02...

AMERICAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP! LSU has signed two new research agreements in Washington D.C. with Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to strengthen U.S. energy competitiveness and bring new soloutions to the Gulf Coast. 🔬 FULL STORY: https://bit.ly/4bmZgQV

Another win in D.C.! 🇺🇸 LSU and U.S. Army Cyber Command have entered into an education partnership agreement to advance research, prototype development and technology transfer, strengthening cyber capabilities for the Army and U.S. Cyber Command. FULL STORY: https://bit.ly/4amLQTU

LSU Research Bites: Move over, bees and ants! Termites are also highly adapted for colony life - they even resize their brains for their different roles: lsu.edu/blog/2026/01... 🐜 🧠 @lsu.bsky.social @lsuagcenter.bsky.social @royalsociety.org

Seeing the unseen just got clearer at LSU 🔬 New AZtec software now powers the SEM in LSU’s AMAC, enabling sharper imaging and large-area chemical mapping. Learn more✨: https://bit.ly/4jN9L1X @lsugeology.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social

Our research impact reaches all the way to Antarctica! 🌎 LSU researcher @icedoctord.bsky.social and team at @lsugeology.bsky.social have documented, in rare detail, a large brine discharge event at Blood Falls. The salty, blood-colored water flows out when pressure under Taylor Glacier rises.

A perfect single layer of nanoparticles can improve sensors and solar cell coatings. But such layers have been very difficult to make... until now. Research Bite: Acoustic Vibrations Solve a Long-Standing Challenge in Nanoparticle Assembly www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... w/ @lsuengineering.bsky.social

Astronauts Could Live in Structures Made from Moon Rocks - featuring LSU researchers presenting at #AGU25! eos.org/articles/ast...

Cool weather means it's time to enjoy oysters! 🦪 Months with an "R" are safer for enjoying oysters without a risk of bacterial contamination. But why is that, and how can we better predict exactly when oysters are safe to eat? 🧑‍🍳 LSU researchers answer this Q: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...

Through an LSU x Our Lady of the Lake "Collab in Action" funding round in 2024-2025, seven research teams received $1.6 million for projects ranging from studying #athlete healthspan to building #digitaltwins to better understand brain injuries. See their progress! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...

What will the future of monitoring our coastlines for hazards, and forecasting flooding and other storm impacts, look like? What will 2026 bring in terms of #AI and #digitaltwin technologies that we can apply? Read a Q&A with LSU expert George Xue: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... Catch Xue at #AGU25!

Big CONGRATS to grad student Katie Thomas for successfully defending her master’s thesis project, The Impact of Dyadic #Coping on #Alcohol Use and Related Problems among College Students in Romantic Relationships! Way to GEAUX! @lsupsychology.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social

How much #Methane comes from #SugarCane waste? When bagasse byproduct is left to rot in fields, a lot. But there are better options. Learn more from @lsu.bsky.social researchers at #AGU25! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...

A water sampler so easy to deploy to collect data about microbes present in local streams or wastewater systems, anyone can use it! #microbiology

Pathogens are MOST problematic in areas where we have the LEAST amount of data. In a low-resource setting, using a $10,000 gold-standard #wastewater sampler to test surface waters for #viruses and bacteria just doesn't work. LSU engineers created a $4 alternative. www.youtube.com/shorts/MzXAK...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

Evolution is happening all around us, including in the biochemistry research lab. Check out this highly collaborative work about cyanobacteria, #photosynthesis, quinones, and Vitamin E. It was so much fun to work on this project! @lsuscience.bsky.social www.jbc.org/article/S002...

#LSU on #neuroscience and #sleep: Why is sleep so important to #memory consolidation? What impact does sleep loss have on your brain and your memories? Dr. Juhee Haam in the LSU College of Science answers these questions and more in our latest Research Insight! Read: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...

#LSU on #Nanoscience: Need to coat metal oxide nanoparticles with graphitic carbon for applications in water treatment, catalysis, and energy storage... without high temperature? Researchers at Brown and @lsu.bsky.social have found a way to do it! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Latest publication co-authored w/grad student Luke Vargo & undergrad @lsu-honors.bsky.social student Amelia Knox. 1st study of imposter syndrome's relation to cannabis problems. Link to paper below @lsu.bsky.social @lsupsychology.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social @LSU #impostersyndrome #cannabis

This is your brain on... fiber! 🍎 Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans are studying how dietary #fibers can promote healthy gut microbes that lower brain #inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and restore healthy functioning of microglia (brain cells). What would YOUR #microglia look like?

From Marie Curie to the discovery of fission, nuclear submarines, and small modular reactors for chemical manufacturing and AI data centers, nuclear science and technology has advanced for more than a century: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11... #LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social

It’s as big as a poppy seed and makes “new nuclear” significantly safer than nuclear technology used to be—meet the TRISO particle, developed by American and British researchers. lsu.edu/blog/2025/11... #LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social

Nuclear energy can be used as a source of both power and heat, highly useful for industrial operations and to efficiently make hydrogen, used to make ammonia and fertilizer for crops. So, more nuclear, more food? It's possible: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11... #LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social

Whether your priority is more energy and a strong economy or less emissions and a sustainable planet, nuclear energy tends to enter the conversation. Learn more about LSU’s approach: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11... #LSU @entergy.com @lsuengineering.bsky.social

Tomorrow night at #LSU Science Café with researchers Madoka Kishi and Pallavi Rastogi, learn how Asians have changed Louisiana culturally, politically, and gastronomically as much as Louisiana has changed them: www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc...

“This paper is high-impact because it examines an existential risk, projecting the billions who’d starve under nuclear winter scenarios...” Learn from #LSU researchers how to become highly cited: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11... @lsu-cce.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social

The #LSU Energy Institute has named Tyler Gray as its inaugural director of energy innovation, a key leadership role within LSU’s expanding energy research and policy enterprise. www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/11... #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW

Last night at #LSU Science Café, Prof. Mark Mitchell @lsuvetmed.bsky.social discussed reproductive assistance strategies for reptiles, asking: On a warming planet, what happens when all crocodilians are born male while turtles are born female (because of temperature-dependent sex determination)?

If you're curious about #LSU's new scanning transmission electron microscope, the most advanced microscope in Louisiana, you're not alone. It's a BIG deal (almost 13' tall). www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10... @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social @lsu-cce.bsky.social

“With the #LSU Cyber Clinic, we built defenses against [our] biggest threat: social engineering attacks.”—Luke Dwinell-Janopaul, Permanent Coatings: cybersecurityclinics.org/blog/growth-... @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

Congratulations to everyone who passed the Louisiana Bar Exam in July! LSU Law graduates achieved the highest pass rate among all Louisiana law schools on the July 2025 exam for both first-time and all bar exam takers. #lsulaw #WBTTW #studentsuccess

Meet Arushi Ghildiyal who stacked research, service, internship, and leadership opportunities at LSU on top of highly technical courses, graduating at 20 and now at Chevron: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/10... @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

Tomorrow, join us for Science Café to dig into the research on the #LSU Campus Mounds that could radically change how the American Indian history of North America is understood: www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc... @lsuscience.bsky.social

🧠 The hippocampus gets all the memory credit—but what about the entorhinal cortex? With a new $1.8M NIH grant, LSU neuroscientist Juhee Haam is uncovering hidden brain rhythms that could reshape how we understand memory & Alzheimer’s. 👉 https://www.lsu.edu/science/news/2025/08/haam-nih.php