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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
7/ Awardee Emanuele Cocucci has a bold hypothesis about extracellular vesicle formation: bulky proteins play a key role in crowding and bending membranes. His project could reshape how we understand membrane organization and remodeling. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Cocucci! 🙏 #HFScout Jeanne Stachowiak
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
6/ Awardee Catherine Mitchell is measuring ocean life from space 🛰️. She's developing a way to quantify zooplankton & their metabolism using satellite images alone - work that can transform our understanding of ocean ecosystems. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Mitchell! @bigelowlab.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout Angel White
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
5/ Awardee @burnsajohn.bsky.social is bringing radiolarians (single-celled marine organisms) into the modern genomic🧬 era by establishing a novel radiolarian model system together with the community! 🙌 🥳 Congrats Dr. Burns! @bigelowlab.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @prakashlab.bsky.social
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
4/ #DYK that only some immune knowledge gets transferred from moms to breastmilk 🤱? Awardee @cicacanesso.bsky.social thinks the mammary gland plays a critical role in regulating this selective transfer. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Canesso! @einsteinmededu.bsky.social 🙏 #HFScout @pipethero.bsky.social
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
3/ Awardee Carl Denard is setting out to map proteases to the substrates they can cleave ✂️ by widening the search space to include completely novel substrates. His work could transform how we understand and reprogram protease function. 🍾 Congrats Dr. Denard! 🙏 #HFScout Kris Prather
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2/ What if a new job changed your personality & extended your life? 🤯 Harpegnathos ants 🐜 do exactly that. Awardee Janko Gospocic is studying the epigenetics behind their caste-transitions, which could unlock new ways to reverse brain aging. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Gospocic! 🙏 #HFScout @planaria1.bsky.social
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
💫 Meet our latest awardees, who are pushing the boundaries of what we know about brain aging, protease specificity, immune inheritance, ocean food webs, & cell physics. Learn more about their projects: bit.ly/HFAwardees. Join us in celebrating the them in our 🧵 below! /1
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Qing (Andie) Zhang @zqing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Honored to be nominated as a candidate for the Early Career Member-at-Large on the APS DFD Executive Committee! The DFD community is central to my journey, and I’m passionate about advocating for young researchers and interdisciplinary science! 🌊🔬 #APSDFD #Fluids #Biophysics @prakashlab.bsky.social
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Charlotte Brannon @cbrannon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Thanks Manu for the incredible mentorship and training for the past 6 years!! Scenes from my thesis defense :)
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"For 5 cents per person per year, the EU can maintain one of the world’s most important climate monitoring systems that impacts our everyday lives and improves resilience to the climate crisis." We must strengthen int'l science in response to Trump budget cuts.🧪 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready
The system of ocean current that moves heat in the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate. Today’s monitoring of it may be discontinued
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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Exciting end of an amazing conference that covered so much cool physics across the tree of life: closing talk by @prakashlab.bsky.social at #EESMechanobiology.
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EMBO @embo.org · 09/06/2026
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-go…
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NinaDehnhard.bsky.social @ninadehnhard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New article out on #plastics in #fulmars. Thanks to my wonderful Master student & great colleagues in Norway & Iceland, as well as fishers in both countries, we now sit with a lot more knowledge about plastics in #seabirds in the North Atlantic. www.nina.no/english/Abou...
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Eight out of ten northern fulmars have plastic in their stomachs
Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Photo: Nina Dehnhard/NINA. The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) is a seabird found across the North Atlantic and Arctic marine regions, including along the N...
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
(1/n) Press release: Thank you Schmidt Ocean Institute for such a remarkable partnership. 2 weeks, 30plus new species, a couple of world’s first at sea. The entire expedition etched in memory - from keeping an angler fish alive for days to mysteries of giants from deep m.youtube.com/watch?si=f10...
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Designing the Future 3 | 4K ROV Highlights
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Dr. Manu Prakash of @prakashlab.bsky.social at Stanford University watches this midwater tableau fr #DesigningTheFuture3 expedition (filmed at 393m) and asks, "Who's eating whom?" (Read full caption on YouTube to learn more.) youtube.com/shorts/0Ltkk...
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Who is eating whom? #designingthefuture3 #midwater
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Why do I see parasites even in the night sky - maybe because of this gigaoicel scan from Octopi: storage.googleapis.com/octopi-malar... Counting malaria parasites is not so different from counting stars in the sky🤔 octopi.cephla.com
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
When Pixar lamps went on a walk in San Francisco.
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Hip hip hurray - we have a new doctor in the house. Congratulations Dr @cbrannon.bsky.social that was a spectacular defense; so many fun stories all tied together in an hour. Also, the same week Charlotte’s big paper on information bottlenecks in ciliary flocks got accepted in Nature Physics.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It me!
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UH oceanographer selected as lead author of IPCC report on CO2 removal approaches
SOEST oceanography professor David Ho was selected as a lead author for the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
As many organisms down below in ocean as the stars in our skies. Chance to see them both is “mystical and magical” in every sense of the word. Thanks @schmidtocean.bsky.social - who needs rocket ship if you can meet aliens on our planet. Live stream to join fun www.youtube.com/channel/UC1m...
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Jenny Woodman @jennywoodman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Watching the @schmidtocean.bsky.social team launch a robot, ROV SuBastian — the #designingthefuture3 science team study the ocean’s midwater in international waters off Brazil. Accelerating species discovery & expanding our genetic library of life on Earth seems a good way to spend one’s time! 🌊
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Starry nights. With @burnsajohn.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social
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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
While we're preparing for our eventual ROV dives, @prakashlab.bsky.social and I found the expedition's #firstprotist, an acantharian, by filtering the ship's on board seawater stream 🤩. @schmidtocean.bsky.social #protistsonsky
Manu Prakash looking at an acantharian on his custom confocal microscope
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
here's an antidot against (almost) any kind of anti-intellectualism. no words required, just the video...
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
(1/n) What if you never had to make your bed? What if your laundry could fold itself? Folding is everywhere around us - but did you know that folding flat sheets are at the ❤️ of diversity of shapes in the animal world - since 500 million years ago. Our latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudC...
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Self-folding laundry
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
«Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning» —W.A. Ward Can you imagine a sweeter reward for a researcher than witnessing a Peruvian girl from Cusco looking at cochinilla and wool through a forldscope for the first time? (on 𝕏 in 2023 by @teamfoldscope.bsky.social, @prakashlab.bsky.social)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“.global catastrophe since many incredible programs are not currently being funded. Parasites don’t carry passports. Diseases spread across countries, so being able to survey & address these pathogens in one part of the world benefits public health everywhere.” www.the-scientist.com/a-low-cost-s...
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A Low-Cost, Self-Driving Microscope Could Speed Up Infection Diagnostics
Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.
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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🤩to see this behemoth of a story out ! Pushed by @nikobiota.bsky.social & the Amazing @embl.org AML Team (Tina, Michael, Paulina) and in Co. with the Best #science #family you can dream of! This truck was #home, for weeks in a row & in my heart for a lifetime. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
That smile speaks volumes - as always. Congrats Felix Hol (a lab alum) to be selected for TEDFellows class of 2026. From the swamps at Stanford to villages in Madagascar - I have so many memories with Felix - but his joyful laugh is one that rings again and again. Let's go catch some mosquitoes.
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
How self-driving cars motivated us to build a universal diagnostics platform for malaria/Tb. The arc of technology is unpredictable at best. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeg...
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Self-driving microscopes
YouTube video by Cephla
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
How self-driving cars motivated us to build a universal diagnostics platform for malaria/Tb. The arc of technology is unpredictable at best. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeg...
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Self-driving microscopes
YouTube video by Cephla
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healthpolicy.stanford.edu @healthpolicy.stanford.edu · 11/02/2026
🌎 @prakashlab.bsky.social has developed Octopi, a robotic device that diagnoses malaria in blood smears faster, more accurately & more accessibly. With an open software architecture and powered by AI & battery or solar energy, Octopi is 100x more efficient—and affordable. #Malaria #AI #GlobalHealth
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Affordable microscope speeds up malaria diagnosis with AI
The Octopi microscope autonomously analyzes blood samples in minutes, detecting malaria-infected cells among millions. Its creators hope it will accelerate the fight against malaria.
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Pranav @pranav-s.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach them to fish and you feed them for a lifetime” With ODION and Octopi, we’re building a platform that lets anyone create AI-powered diagnostics for the diseases that matter most locally. Connect with us if interested at ODION.org
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
12 years in the making - we are finally scaling up our “universal diagnostics” platform. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeg... Read about the global program here: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026... If you are passionate about bringing cutting edge tools to work for “everyone” - reach out and engage.
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Self-driving microscopes
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Cellular Olympics - now in Knowable magazine! Enjoy this with your favorite Olympic sport! knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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Microbial Olympics: Super-duper one-celled athletes
They race, they leap, they spin, they shoot. Meet the organisms for whom physical prowess is more than sport — it’s a matter of life and death.
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
After all the anticipation - FrugalScience 2026 - a collaborative global collective is LIVE again for 2026 season. www.frugalscience.org Apply - deadline 9th January (midnight)
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Frugal Science
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Charlotte Brannon @cbrannon.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My first PhD paper with Prakash Lab is out in its final form! Here we uncover the many folded forms of Placozoa and how cilia unfold them. Enjoy the paper and our stop motion summary of this story! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
priceless comment from your kids! give them a hi-five ✋
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Helen Zenner @helenzsci.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Ok, so my 11 yo says he is going to work it out as well, but has informed me that he'll probably need a lot of machinery. He has to do some unfolding to get started, as apparently you can't do inventing in school uniform!
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Helen Zenner @helenzsci.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Amazing research and such a fantastic scicomm video. I'd like to show it to my kids, but I'm afraid that it'll backfire and they'll use it to explain why all the clothes in their cupboards are unfolded despite the fact they were folded when they went in....
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
(1/n) What if you never had to make your bed? What if your laundry could fold itself? Folding is everywhere around us - but did you know that folding flat sheets are at the ❤️ of diversity of shapes in the animal world - since 500 million years ago. Our latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudC...
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Self-folding laundry
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
You can read Manu's recent @jcellsci.bsky.social interview here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Interview with Manu Prakash
ABSTRACT. Manu Prakash is Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biology (courtesy) and Oceans (courtesy) at Stanford University and co-founder of Foldscope Instruments, Planktoscope and Cephla. Manu ...
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our next extraordinary biologist is Manu Prakash, plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference, who was recently interviewed for @jcellsci.bsky.social. #100biologists @prakashlab.bsky.social
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Cephla @cephlainc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Cephla is at #SfN2025 through Wednesday 11/19. Come to our booth at 3217 to check out our Squid+ spinning confocal and fluidics system + learn how we help accelerate developing/disseminating/adopting new methods and scale data production capacities! #HCS #LiveCell #SpatialOmics #ExpansionMicroscopy
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christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
yeah! 🎃
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Anthony Dornan @dornan.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Now that is a great idea - when my kids were young enough to trick or treat I would have been delighted if they had come home with a Foldscope.
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Success. Nearly 259 Foldscope deployed in hands of unsuspecting candy crazy kids. Halloween is always more colorful with the microscopes - specially in a few weeks they could look at the micro-fauna of the teeth with so much sugar consumption.
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TeamFoldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween! Are you celebrating by searching for ghosts and spiders with your #Foldscope?
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