Congrats to assistant professor Danielle Norcini, winner of the 2026 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics from @apsphysics.aps.org. She was honored for new ways to detect low-energy particles, from reactor neutrinos to dark matter. ⚛️ physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/2026/10/02/d...

Danielle Norcini receives Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics from APS | Physics & Astronomy

Assistant Professor Danielle Norcini has been recognized by the American Physical Society as the recipient of the 2026 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics. Norcini, an experiment...

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Three Hopkins physicists are helping build NASA's next space telescope. PRIMA will study far-infrared light to reveal how planets, stars, and black holes form, and even how water arrived on Earth, with a target launch in 2033. hub.jhu.edu/2026/09/30/n...

NASA space telescope project advances with three Hopkins team members

By studying radiant energy that only emerges in the far-infrared, PRIMA will provide new insight on the formation of planets, stars, black holes, and even how water on Earth came to be

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New Johns Hopkins research shows how cells fix severed DNA even when it's tightly wrapped around proteins. @yuanhejhu.bsky.social's team captured the process in two studies that could help make cancer therapies more effective. hub.jhu.edu/2026/09/21/d...

Scientists reveal how our cells conduct emergency repairs for DNA

Two new federally funded studies offer detailed views of proteins repairing broken DNA inside tightly packed chromatin, and of the molecular toolkit they assemble at a break, with potential implicatio...

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Join us tonight at 8 p.m. ET: @siricarpenter.bsky.social and @ferrisjabr.bsky.social are speaking with @jhuartssciences.bsky.social’s M.A. in Science Writing program about The Best Science Stories and How They Work (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Free, open to the public, and virtual!

Author Talks Presents: Siri Carpenter & Ferris Jabr

Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Siri Carpenter and Ferris Jabr on the new anthology, The Best Science Stories and How They Work.

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"The history of Latinos is U.S. history, Latino cultures are U.S. culture, Latino foods are U.S. foods, and our music is U.S. music," says Diego Javier Luis, Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor of History. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

National Hispanic Heritage Month begins with celebrations across the U.S.

Marked every year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, the month is an opportunity for many in the U.S. to learn about the contributions of Hispanic people.

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Latin American studies scholar Sara Castro-Klarén, professor emerita in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, died at 86. She co-founded the Krieger School's Program in Latin American Studies in 1988 and led it twice over nearly four decades at Hopkins. hub.jhu.edu/2026/09/18/s...

Groundbreaking Latin American studies scholar Sara Castro-Klarén dies at 86

She was known for combining intellectual rigor in Latin American literature and culture with profound human sensitivity

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"To navigate the shock waves of A.I., we must restore social science research as an enterprise that starts from the public interest," says professor @himself.bsky.social on the shift from public to private funding for AI research. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...

Opinion | The Research We Need to Understand A.I. Is Falling Apart

Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.

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A new study puts T. rex's body temperature close to our own, around 97 degrees. Johns Hopkins paleobiologist @jwiemann.bsky.social says it complements her own 2022 research into dinosaur metabolism. www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-re...

T. rex was as warm-blooded as humans, new study finds

The dinosaurs were once considered reptilian, but the new results suggest we may need to rethink their evolution

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Just announced: @siricarpenter.bsky.social and @ferrisjabr.bsky.social will be speaking at a virtual event for @jhuartssciences.bsky.social’s M.A. in Science Writing program. The event is free and open to the public and will start at 8 p.m. ET on 9/22. Register at advanced.jhu.edu/event/author...

Author Talks Presents: Siri Carpenter & Ferris Jabr

Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Siri Carpenter and Ferris Jabr on the new anthology, The Best Science Stories and How They Work.

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The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has welcomed 19 new faculty since fall 2025, across economics, neuroscience, sociology, science writing, classics, math, physics, biophysics, theatre, and modern languages. krieger.jhu.edu/blog/2026/09...

Welcoming new Krieger School faculty – Krieger School of Arts & Sciences

Meet the newest Krieger School faculty members.

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Meet Zeus. ⚡ Hopkins’ new recycling machine turns packaging foam into dense plastic blocks that become park benches and picture frames, keeping it out of the landfill. ♻️ hub.jhu.edu/2026/09/11/f...

Foam recycling now available at Johns Hopkins

A new recycling machine in a parking lot at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center takes airy chunks of foam and churns them into dense plastic cubes that can be made into park benches, picture frames, ...

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🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

The Atlantic Ocean's current system just hit its weakest point in 1,600 years, and Johns Hopkins oceanographers are digging into why. Thomas Haine and Anand Gnanadesikan explain what's driving the slowdown and what it could mean for weather worldwide. hub.jhu.edu/2026/09/08/a...

Current events: Scientists keep close eye on Atlantic Ocean changes

Recent data and modeling suggest the Atlantic Ocean's vast system of currents has slowed to its weakest point in 1,600 years. If it fails, it could redefine weather patterns and threaten marine life o...

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Sociologist and director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, Stuart Schrader, joined The Majority Report podcast. They discussed his book "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves." majorityreportradio.com/2026/08/26/8...

The Majority Report

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Polycrisis asks: what is going wrong? Polytunity asks: what becomes possible when the old order breaks down, and for whom? Political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang joins the WEF to discuss that shift, and why disruption looks different depending on where you stand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBw...

From 'polycrisis' to 'polytunity' - the future of geopolitics with Prof Yuen Yuen Ang

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It's a big day for EVE papers on the arXiv! First up is a paper led by @jhuartssciences.bsky.social graduate student Jaime Crouse exploring the effect of flare temperature on ozone photochemistry in Earth-like atmospheres: arxiv.org/abs/2608.23548

Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: The Impact of Flare Temperature on Ozone Column Depth in Earth-Like Atmospheres

Atmospheric photochemical models incorporating the impacts of stellar flares often assume a $\sim$9,000 K spectrum at ultraviolet-optical wavelengths. Recent multiwavelength observations, however, rev...

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Historian Andrew Jewett's new book traces 150 years of Johns Hopkins, from its founding through today's undergraduate experience and Baltimore partnership. hub.jhu.edu/2026/08/31/j...

New book explores 150 years of Johns Hopkins University history

Historian Andrew Jewett, author of 'Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years,' discusses how the university has changed since its founding and what lessons it should take into the future

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JHU alum @emilysneff.bsky.social spent a decade tracing how news of the Declaration of Independence spread through printers, post riders, and letters in Yiddish to dodge British interception. Her new book follows the messengers, not the signers. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

Breaking news, 1776 edition

How the Declaration of Independence spread across the American colonies and Europe, as told in historian Emily Sneff's new book.

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Congratulations to cognitive scientist John Hale on receiving the Association for Computational Linguistics’ 25-year Test-of-Time award for his 2001 paper linking language model probabilities to human comprehension difficulty. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2026/08/cogn...

Cognitive scientist Hale receives 25-year award - Arts & Sciences Magazine

Professor John Hale received the award for his paper “A probabilistic Earley parser as a psycholinguistic model.”

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A wetland was restored using 3,000-year-old fossil seeds as the blueprint. This summer, students in the @jhuaap.bsky.social Environmental Restoration course got to see the results firsthand at Big Spring Run. hub.jhu.edu/2026/08/18/e...

Environmental Restoration course takes master's students into the field

Lecturer and alum Bill Hilgartner takes students from his Environmental Restoration course to Big Spring Run in Pennsylvania—a restored wetlands site he helped bring back to its roots

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Congratulations to our newest doctor, Dr. Foley! Dr. Foley developed techniques to track Cu speciation during electrocatalytic CO2 conversion and new #electrosynthesis of C-N compounds! We are so proud of you and know you will do great things! #PhDONE @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

Rare earth elements power your phone, your car, even MRI machines, but extracting them has an environmental and geopolitical cost. JHU researchers are rethinking that: recycling magnets, using plants as miners. "It's all about the electrons." @grace-panetti.bsky.social hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

Heavy metals

Rare earth elements are crucial for our modern age. Crucial, too, is solving the environmental challenges surrounding them.

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Professor Anna Harwell Celenza joined @ucfreespeech.bsky.social's Speech Matters podcast to explore music, democracy, and America at 250, from "Strange Fruit" to the songs that shaped a nation. 🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Congratulations to John Hale, professor in the Department of Cognitive Science and @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social faculty member, on receiving the 2026 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award from @aclmeeting.bsky.social! Learn more about the award: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

A London bookseller's email led JHU classics professor Shane Butler to a 170-year-old poetry book with a pressed flower hidden inside, a keepsake from Victorian scholar John Addington Symonds' first kiss. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

Piecing together a Victorian love story

A long-lost poetry book, a forbidden love, and a classics scholar's quest to round out the censored story of a Victorian "man of letters" who helped pave the path to gay rights

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In 50 years, will we know if we're alone in the universe? Planetary scientist @planetdr.bsky.social isn't holding her breath for some of the breakthroughs: "I personally would be surprised if we accessed Europa's ocean or sent a rover to the surface of Venus by 2076." hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

What happens next?

Our researchers imagine what the world might look like in 2076, when the university celebrates its bicentennial

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Join APL and NASA experts July 16 at 2 p.m. ET for a live behind-the-scenes look at NASA's Dragonfly, hear from the engineers and scientists preparing the spacecraft, and see what's next for this audacious mission of exploration. https://www.youtube.com/live/nQeXWoPfUBY

Eye on Dragonfly Live | A Behind-the-Scenes Look at NASA's Mission to Titan

YouTube video by NASA Science

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The Supreme Court recently cited Johns Hopkins historian @marthasjones.bsky.social in its 6-3 ruling that upholds birthright citizenship. The justices pointed to her book "Birthright Citizens" and a legal brief she wrote with Kate Masur. hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/30/s...

Johns Hopkins historian Martha Jones cited in SCOTUS ruling affirming birthright citizenship

In a 6-3 decision, the court reaffirmed the long-held principle that children born in the U.S. are citizens

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Congratulations to biology professor @rajivmccoy.bsky.social on being selected as a 2026 Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative recipient from the @bwfund.bsky.social for his project: Uncovering genetic mechanisms of pregnancy loss across parental and fetal genomes. www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann...

BWF Announces 2026 Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative Recipients - Burroughs Wellcome Fund

DURHAM, N.C. — June 29, 2026 — The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is pleased to announce the seven recipients of the 2026 Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative (NGP), a program supporting innovative research t...

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A biologist who studied cancer-causing viruses in chickens sits next to a historian writing about rum. That's just Wednesday at The Academy, where retired Hopkins faculty gather every week to question, publish, and learn from each other. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/spring-2026-...

Still in Conversation at the Academy - Arts & Sciences Magazine

Retired Krieger School faculty members still contribute to research, the university, and each other in the Academy at Johns Hopkins.

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