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

“We evolved from fishes. We do what we do, including breathing through lungs, having nostrils that fill those lungs, having arms and legs, and big brains, all of which came from our aquatic ancestors. So did kidneys, lungs, and being able to pee!”— @prosanta.bsky.social

Congrats to LSU Boyd Professor Susanne Brenner, awarded the 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal by the European Academy of Sciences! She’ll also speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians–the 1st LSU faculty invited since 1970. Read more https://www.lsu.edu/science/news/2025/09/brenner-2025.php

In just over a year, the LSU-built professor rating app Professor Index (PI) has grown to reach 20 universities, including @lsu.bsky.social @tulaneu.bsky.social @ullafayette.bsky.social @uncchapelhill.bsky.social www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/09... #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW @lsuengineering.bsky.social

#LSU VPR Robert Twilley talks about Louisiana's sinking coast and the protection lost by the disappearance of trees, which bring "tremendous extra benefit" in fighting flooding and wind. On Living Planet: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/m... #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW @lsu-cce.bsky.social

#LSU researchers in @lsucoad.bsky.social have partnered with @syngenta.bsky.social and FUEL to develop low-cost digital twins—virtual replicas of physical assets—to improve operations at chemical processing facilities. www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/09... #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW

September is National Rice Month, and LSU is leading innovation in one of the world’s most important crops. Through the LSU AgCenter, researchers are creating rice varieties that yield more while using less water, land, and energy.

#LSU Research Highlights celebrates growing research programs for student success and the discovery of how cysteine can trigger “a calorie-burning furnace”: lsu-campaigns.omniupdate.com/t/d-e-gojktt... #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @pbrcnews.bsky.social

LSU’s Elias Bou-Harb is leading a team that’s winning in cybersecurity. 🔹 $300K NSF grant for iVoyager, a new cyber threat intel platform 🔹 $126K Secret Service grant for IoT device forensics Protecting our digital future & training tomorrow’s experts. Read more 👉 www.lsu.edu/eng/news-sto...

The new #LSU Energy Institute will unify and expand the university’s leadership and resulting impact in energy research, innovation, policy, data, education, and service. www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/09... #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW @lsuenergy.bsky.social @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social @entergy.com

Proud to share #LSUVetMed Assoc Prof Rebecca Christofferson, PhD, is now on the board of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. Working to better understand mosquito-borne diseases, her leadership will help shape the future of tropical medicine & global health. #weprotect #wediscover

LSU’s COMET Lab is rethinking weather forecasting with Louisiana in mind. The lab provides science-backed support to help state leaders and residents make critical decisions. Led by Dr. Paul Miller, the team takes a Gulf-specific approach to forecasting.

On this day 20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Today, we remember and honor the lives lost during one of America's most devastating natural disasters. The Peggy Martin rose is our symbol of hope. It reminds us that even after the storm, we rise.

LSU Engineering + Architecture faculty, with BASF and LSU’s Institute of Energy Innovation, brought five solar-powered stations to campus. ☀️ Shade to study 🔋 Device charging 💡 Nighttime lighting A new way to experience campus—and explore the power of solar. Read more: www.lsu.edu/eng/news-sto...

Don't miss Dr. Crystal Johnson at tomorrow's LSU Science Cafe! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lsu-scienc...

Cyber Win! #LSU is 1 of only 6 U.S. schools to receive new NSF CyberCorps funding this year. The award, $2.4M, will give dozens of students generous scholarships to launch national security careers: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/08... #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsucse.bsky.social

Living near a thermal waste treatment facility changes your body, #LSU research shows. Learn more about the work with the community in Colfax, Louisiana, published in Experimental Biology and Medicine: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/08... @lsuscience.bsky.social @pbrcnews.bsky.social #WBTTW #ScholarshipFirst

#LSU VPR Robert Twilley speaks to @npr.org about the end of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project after two decades of planning, permitting, and investment following Hurricane Katrina. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n... #ScholarshipFirst @lsu-cce.bsky.social

Internships can become dream jobs—but it can take 4 days in a Honda Civic with 1 wife, 2 dogs, and 1 bunny to get there. Meet #LSU @lsucse.bsky.social @lsuengineering.bsky.social alumnus Brennen Calato at Idaho National Lab: lsu.edu/blog/2025/07... #NationalInternDay #ScholarshipFirst #WBTTW