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Georgia Tech College of Sciences@gtsciences.bsky.social · 6h ago

🌊 Georgia Tech research suggests that the sargassum affecting coasts in the Caribbean, Gulf, and tropical Atlantic may have entered a "self-sustaining cycle, effectively feeding its own expansion."

Sargassum, the smelly nemesis of beach vacations, has become a self-sustaining disaster that will keep coming back

Communities and entrepreneurs are experimenting with ways to turn this nuisance into a valuable resource.

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Georgia Tech College of Sciences@gtsciences.bsky.social · last wk.

#Congrats 🎉 Professor Yuanzhi Tang has been named an @acs.org Fellow. Tang was recognized for her outstanding research contributions and her leadership and service to the chemical sciences.

Yuanzhi Tang Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Yuanzhi Tang, executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) and Georgia Power Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been named an American Chemical Society (ACS) ...

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Georgia Tech College of Sciences@gtsciences.bsky.social · 2w ago

Georgia Tech is launching a new research center focused on harnessing the power of AI to help predict, treat, and prevent disease. Jeffrey Skolnick, Regents’ Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, will lead the center's first initiative: building virtual models of human cells.

Georgia Tech Receives Commitment to Launch New AI-Driven Health Innovation Center

Parker H. Petit’s commitment will launch a research hub focused on using artificial intelligence to model diseases, identify treatment paths, and move discoveries closer to patient care.

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Thackery Brown@thackerybrown.bsky.social · last mo.

New article with @yirenr.bsky.social ! Memory for pairs of visual stimuli can be strengthened by music as a contextual backdrop. Critically, this influence extends to indirect relational associations more---v @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Music enhances associative generalization: Evidence from a memory integration task - Memory & Cognition

Successful knowledge generalization requires integrating overlapping experiences into flexible memory representations that support inference beyond direct experience. Although context is known to infl...

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Georgia Tech College of Sciences@gtsciences.bsky.social · last mo.

🌳 Georgia Tech’s arboretum – which spans the entire campus and includes 15,000+ trees and 130+ species – has been recertified as a Level II Arboretum by ArbNet.

Georgia Tech Arboretum Earns ArbNet Recertification

For Georgia Tech, the campus arboretum is more than a designated area of trees. It is the entire campus. Walkways, quads, greens, and streetscapes are all part of a curated landscape carefully selecte...

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Thackery Brown@thackerybrown.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper! We examined how affective experience+drive to explore spaces can shape memory, emphasizing that "complexity" is a moderator and only part of the story for configural learning @crane-navsci.bsky.social @gtsciences.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The architecture of curiosity: How spatial configuration influences affect, exploration, and memory”

Curiosity is a key driver of exploration and learning. Prior empirical studies have largely focused on internal mechanisms of curiosity and not its in…

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