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Student researchers in the Supra Sensors stream of the Freshman Research Initiative have been using analytical sensing tools to classify complex biological samples & study their chemical composition — including drops of wine.
#HappyFRIday #TexasScience #Enology #Viticulture #WineScience
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Some of our earliest microbial ancestors, the Asgard archaea, were able to use oxygen, says new study in @nature.com. It may solve a mystery about how complex life first arose.
#AsgardArchaea #MicrobialEcology #Eukaryogenesis #TexasScience @utmsi.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social
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Follow your curiosity to the Texas Science Festival for two full weeks of science-inspired offerings!
#TexasScience #TexasScienceFestival
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You know what we DON’T love this Valentine’s Day? 💔 Microplastics on the beach. 🏖️ Fortunately, our colleagues on the main campus, Carlos Baiz and team are working on a solution 💘 Read the story: cns.utexas.edu/news/feature...
#UTMSI #Microplastics #TexasScience #Robotics
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Meet Milit Patel, who got his start in the award-winning Freshman Research Initiative at UT. Now a biochem senior & statistics & data science minor, he is corresponding author on a major paper in the Annals of Oncology.
#TexasScience #CancerResearch #HappyFRIday
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What approaches in the classroom create lasting impact for students?
Vernita Gordon, a UT Austin physics professor who recently won a UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, has given that a lot of thought.
#STEMEducation #TexasScience #UTAustin
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Gabriela Livas, chair of UT’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, helped create a community health program that reduces mental health symptoms in 80% of participants, erasing clinical symptoms altogether for many.
#MentalHealthCare #TexasScience
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Meet Ph.D. student Mariangel Correa Orellana. When not researching how Hawaiian shrimp interact with microbes & water temp, she inspires younger students as a mentor & through a UT Turtle Pond research project.
#STEMMentorship #TexasScience @texas-ib.bsky.social
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New e-book written by @ingridbunholi.bsky.social and colleagues. Fast, practical techniques for species ID 🦈 using DNA/eDNA. “From Sample to Rapid DNA and eDNA Identification – An Easy Step-by-Step Guide”
Download here: pt.scribd.com/document/952...
#MarineScience #DNA #TexasScience #UTMSI
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Kudos to Vernita Gordon of UT Physics on winning a 2025 Regents Outstanding Teaching Award!
#TexasScience @utphysics.bsky.social
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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
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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
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🦈 Fast Solutions for an Urgent Problem - PhD student Ingrid Bunholi's new paper on the use of rapid genetic testing in shark & ray conservation. An e-book is coming soon 👉 utmsi.utexas.edu/fast-solutio...
📷 Erika Beux #Shark #TexasScience #eDNA #UTMSI #Genetics #CaseyLab
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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🎓 Big congrats to our newest Master's grad, Kody Barone!
His research explored how mangrove dieback from the 2021 freeze impacts blue carbon storage in South Texas marshes—highlighting the resilience of soil carbon in coastal wetlands.
#UTMSI #BlueCarbon #Mangroves #TexasScience
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Science and the Sea: When Hanging Out Takes Work 🐠
Hovering in place isn’t easy—fish can burn twice the energy staying still midwater vs. resting on the bottom!
utmsi.utexas.edu/science-and-...
📷 Philippe Bourjon, CC BY-SA 4.0
#ScienceAndTheSea #UTMSI #FishFacts #TexasScience
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🎬 Just days away! Join us Friday, Aug 1 | 2–3:30 PM at the Patton Center for a free screening of Our Texas, Our Future, an @HEB docuseries celebrating Texas’ natural beauty. 🌿
Info: utmsi.utexas.edu/event/h-e-b-...
#OurTexasOurFuture #HEB #UTMSI #TexasScience
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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
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❄️ Institute Insights: Arctic lagoons through snow, ice & t-shirt weather?
Mathea Kurtz-Shaw shares what it’s like to do fieldwork across 3 extreme Arctic seasons.
Read more: www.portasouthjetty.com/articles/bad...
#InstituteInsights #UTMSI #ArcticResearch #TexasScience
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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
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🎣 Caught a Freckled Guitarfish in the Gulf? Help science!
Report your catch & support research on this unique species.
Learn how ➡️ utmsi.utexas.edu/assist-scien...
#FreckledGuitarfish #UTMSI #CommunityScience #TexasScience
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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
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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
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The latest edition of our newsletter is here! 🤿 Dive into updates, behind-the-scenes stories, research discoveries, and the exciting work happening at the UT Marine Science Institute 🔗 indd.adobe.com/view/33a38a8...
#Newsletter #MarineScience #TexasScience #UTMSI
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Science and the Sea: The Not-So-Rare Giant Crustacean 🦐 At over 13", Alicella gigantea is the largest amphipod on Earth—and possibly not as rare as once thought. utmsi.utexas.edu/science-and-...
📷 Alan Jamieson, CC BY-SA 4.0
#ScienceAndTheSea #UTMSI #AlicellaGigantea #TexasScience #DeepSea
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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Hannah Rempel on receiving a grant from the International Women's Fishing Association Scholarship Trust in support of her research on the impact of pollutants on reef fishes. 🐠
#Congratulations #IWFA #UTMSI #TexasScience
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