NASA’s newest astronaut class includes Imelda Muller, College of Science '13. Selected from more than 8,000 applicants, the anesthesiologist with expertise in space medicine will now begin astronaut training. 🧪 Read more: https://bit.ly/44267Lg #COSConnects #NASA

Tiny neural signals can be hard to find among billions of molecules, which is why precision matters in brain imaging. Assistant Prof. Stephanie Noble’s NeuroPRISM Lab develops tools that make deep-brain neuroimaging more reliable and reproducible. 🧪 Read more: https://bit.ly/4pPzdWD #COSConnects

Want to learn ways to incorporate community-engaged research into your teaching? Join this free event next week hosted by the ESA Education Committee. Find solutions to making ecology real for your students, or share your own experiences! https://ow.ly/ibAL50XBUiM

Professor Mauricio Santillana and team can now predict dengue outbreaks with 80% accuracy using #MachineLearning — a major boost for public health planning as global cases continue to rise. 🧪 Read more: https://bit.ly/4ivDGen #COSConnects #Physics #NetworkScience

Working with The Emerald Tutu, Northeastern grads are turning invasive phragmites into coastal protectors.By twisting the culled grass into mats for native spartina to grow, they are fighting erosion and restoring shoreline habitats. 🧪 Read more: https://bit.ly/4akm4QD

Plants that show how they feel? Northeastern researchers designed color-changing sensors that reveal plant health in minutes — helping everyone from home gardeners to farmers grow smarter. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/3WsXrcD #COSConnects

Could anesthesia boost learning in babies? Research from assistant professor Laurel Gabard-Durnam found early exposure may accelerate how infants learn — revealing new clues about the developing brain and how timing shapes growth. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/43El71l #COSConnects #Psychology

⏰ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵! NetSci 2026 abstract submissions close Dec 19 — just around the corner. If you’re doing exciting work in network science (theory, computation, or applications), this is your chance to share it with a global community. 📅 Submit by Dec 19 🔗 www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs...

Connectome caricatures remove large-amplitude coactivation patterns in resting-state fMRI to emphasize individual differences www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if the key to restoring sight starts with people who see perfectly? Northeastern’s Aaron Seitz is simulating central vision loss in young adults to study how the brain adapts — and to design better rehab for macular degeneration. 🧪 Learn more: http://bit.ly/3WQCCrP #COSConnects #Psychology

Plants doing the impossible? Professor Jing-Ke Weng and team found that the Canadian moonseed can add chlorine to molecules — a reaction once thought beyond plants. The breakthrough could help create new lifesaving drugs. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/47eKGZi #COSConnects #Chemistry #ChemicalBiology

“Art and the language and the medium of art offer us a way to engage with this data in a way that is different from what we normally do.” Prof. Albert-László Barabási & students artistically visualize how COVID misinformation spread on social media @ Data|Art Symposium. 🧪 http://bit.ly/468QTp9

🚀 The Physics Dept. is bringing cosmic fun to the Cambridge Science Carnival this Sunday! Stop by for unique science experiences for all ages: 🕳️ Drop objects into a black hole 🌞 Observe the Sun with our Eclipsinator ⚡ See cosmic particles + plasma, and more! Learn more: http://bit.ly/4gqfzNf

How do Antarctic sea spiders survive in near-freezing waters? Professor Connie Phong and her students study the spiders’ guts to uncover how they breathe, reproduce, and digest—and how they’ll cope with warming oceans. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/4mXoQ20 #Biology #COSConnects #NUOakland

What if most of our DNA isn’t “junk”? In his upcoming book, associate professor Sudhakaran Prabakaran explores the mysterious non-coding DNA and the dark proteins it encodes—now coming into focus thanks to new tech and computation. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/4nfZ7Bk #DNA #Biotechnology

A Northeastern researcher is turning light into a cancer-fighting tool. Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe has found a way to target melanoma and triple negative breast cancer—resistant to chemo—without the toxic side effects. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/3HNgcno #COSConnects #Chemistry

A time-lapse of the universe? The new Rubin Observatory will image the Southern Hemisphere sky every few nights for 10 yrs—unlocking clues for astrophysicists like Jonathan Blazek about the Milky Way, dark matter & near-Earth objects. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/45Qr7FV #COSConnects #Astrophysics

Data from COVID outbreaks led to new disease progression models. New research from Alessandro Vespignani, director of the @nunetsi.bsky.social looks at how these models capture the interplay between disease transmission & behavior. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/46mWqIB #COSConnects #NetworkScience

How do you learn something new—flashcards, practice, trial and error? New research from psychology professor Aaron Seitz says it all comes down to incidental learning, when our brains slip into a state ready to absorb. 🧪 Read more: http://bit.ly/4mOgoBN #COSConnects #Psychology

Join us for the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) Collaborative Conference hosted by Northeastern University and MIT on June 26-28! 🧪 Learn more: cos.northeastern.edu/building-an-... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

Runnels, shallow man made channels, help keep salt marshes healthy according to Jennifer Bowen, professor of marine and environmental sciences, a task that is becoming harder as sea levels continue to rise. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/05/s... #LikeAHuksy #COSConnects

Jonathan Peelle, associate professor of psychology, worked with researchers on a study that shows that people’s ability to detect background sounds varies from person to person. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/05/h... #LikeAHuksy #COSConnects

Two Northeastern students, Elliot Tong and Noah Brown, are co-oping at the New England Aquarium. There they are learning about conservation and the daily caretaking of sea animals. 🧪🐙 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/05/n... #LikeAHuksy #COSConnects

Two Northeastern alumni, who graduated 13 years apart, are teaming up to help patients manage their mental health using their biometric data. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/30/m... #LikeAHuksy #COSConnects

The COSMOS2025, an ongoing survey that makes use of NASA’s ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope, was released recently with work from two Northeastern researchers. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/06/c... #LikeAHuksy #COSConnects

New research by James Monaghan, professor of biology, shows that the key to axolotl limb regeneration is retinoic acid. Could this be the key to human limb regeneration in the future? 🧪 🐙 Learn more: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

Tornadoes are showing up outside “Tornado Alley.” Chengfei He, assistant professor of marine and environmental sciences, breaks down what’s driving the shift—and why these storms spin the way they do. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/21/a... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season, and two Northeastern professors are weighing in on whether the Saffir-Simpson scale (used to measure hurricanes) should be revamped. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/29/c...

Leila Deravi, entrepreneur and associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, weighs in on the reasoning behind e.l.f. buying Hailey Bieber's skin care company, rhode. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/30/r... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

Psychology professor Karen Quigley offers insight on the viral Macron clip—because when it comes to physical interactions, context matters. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/29/e... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

Summer is here! But so are ticks. Associate biology professor, Nick Takacks, shares information about deer ticks and some tips on how to stay safe. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/25/h... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

On Tuesday, Brickett Elementary students got a special visit from the @northeasternmes.bsky.social to learn about some of the things that they may find on beaches! Students got to interact with crabs, sea urchins, and learn more about life under the sea. 🧪 Learn more: itemlive.com/2025/05/27/s...

Aaron Stubbins, professor of marine and environmental sciences, and Northeastern researchers have discovered have uncovered a “light smog” of microplastics drifting below the surface of the world’s oceans. 🧪🐙 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/01/o... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

Dive deeper into the Three Seas program offered by the Marine Sciences Center at Northeastern University! 🐙 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/29/t... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

Anh Nguyen, PhD student, and Max Bi, associate professor of physics, have observed that when subjected to sufficient stress, tissues can “suddenly and dramatically rearrange themselves,” similar to how avalanches are formed in the wild.🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/24/t...

Erin Cram @erincram.bsky.social and Javier Apfeld ‪ @javierapfeld.bsky.social, biology professors, are part of an elite group of scientists in the Boston area who study worms! But with the ongoing federal budget cuts can worm research survive? 🧪 Learn more: www.bostonmagazine.com/news/c-elega...

Congratulations to our science Huskies from Dean Sive!

Arun Bansil, professor of physics, worked with an international group of scientist to successfully create laboratory conditions that brings researchers closer to understanding dark matter. 🐾 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/16/d... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

Jing-Ke Weng, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, weighs in on the "suicide" tree featured in The White Lotus. The tree's appearance in the show has triggered a discussion around how accurately it's being portrayed. 🐾 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/08/s... #LikeAHusky

Naomi Rajput, a fourth year neuroscience student, juggles course work with research, multiple clubs, co-ops, and a social life stating that “I live by this quote: ‘Aggressive growth is a product of imbalance.'" 🐾 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/15/n... #LikeAHusky #COSConnects

The distribution and behaviour of microplastics in the ocean is influenced by their size, with some microplastics potentially entering carbon cycles, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/3ScX6Zd 🌊 🧪

A team led by Jing-Ke Weng, professor of chemistry, chemical biology and bioengineering, repaired a gene in the coyote tobacco plant, turning back the clock to pave a path forward for the development and discovery of new drugs.🌱🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/14/c... #LikeAHusky

Mariam Hamza, marine and environmental sciences, is working with 3 chemical engineering grad students at Northeastern to address the $4 billion annual post-harvest crop loss in sub-Saharan Africa with an app called AgriQ-Connect. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/08/a... #LikeAHusky

Love worms, molecular genetics, and big questions? We’re hiring a postdoc to build a CRISPRa toolkit to identify new aging mechanisms in C. elegans. Email or DM me to find out more. Please share & repost!

[APRIL 30] Join us for a virtual interactive symposium to explore how a broad set of collaborative approaches can help address current challenges in the research landscape. 🧪 Register here : evt.to/eiuhmaeew

I am looking forward to this meeting !

A chemistry class taught by Leila Deravi, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, allowed students to develop their own personal care products after learning about the chemical composition and structure of such products. 🧪 Learn more: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/11/c... #LikeAHusky

It’s National DNA Day! Many organisms have 1 or 2 copies of their genome per cell, but did you know some species carry many more? The Takacs lab investigates polyploidy in the Lyme disease spirochetal bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. The cell shown here has 14 copies! 🧪 Credit: Natalie Desilets

Drum roll please...... 🥁 After establishing his powerhouse indie label 10K Projects, Elliot Grainge was tapped, at just 30 years old, to lead Atlantic Music Group. Grainge will return to #Northeastern as the 2025 undergraduate commencement speaker. Read more: bit.ly/4d5E6pr

Happy National Physics Day! National Physics Day celebrates the wonders of the physical world—from Galileo’s pioneering work to today’s quantum breakthroughs. 🧪 Check out these two sculptures by a physicist on campus: news.northeastern.edu/2025/04/07/f... #NationalPhysicsDay #LikeAHusky