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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Support WiCOR during #FillTheHill! 🦩 The 24 hours of fundraising starts today, Oct 1, at 5PM! Look for WiCOR in the full list of funds at uwflamingos.com or visit the Give page on our website.

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Amazing opportunity to work with @bethcimini.bsky.social 🎉👇🏼

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jewelwing audio @jewelwingaudio.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social made us all a present! I LOVE THIS THING it makes my wee photographer heart sing :D This is an interactive page that includes the the mission photos, on the official timeline, w/ metadata & location of the craft at the time THANKS HANK! artemistimeline.com#artemis-ii-l...

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Artemis II Photo Timeline

An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026.

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Thanks to all of our amazing donors we met our $4,000 match challenge, and exceeded our goal of $8,000 raised during our first Day of the Badger! 🦡 We are so thankful for your generous support of WiCOR! Final results: dayofthebadger.org/wicor On, WiCOR! On, Wisconsin! 📸Melinda Soares-Furtado

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

WiCOR pets looking dapper in their Day of the Badger bow ties 😍🎀

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Fellow #UWMadison Alumni! Day of the Badger is happening now!! 🦡❤️ Support your favorite department, college, center, and campus initiative! Most have matching funds which will double your impact!

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Want to learn about "How to Build a Habitable Planet"? 🌎🪐 Join us this Friday at WiCOR's Science Expeditions presentation! 🧪 Details below 👇 @uwsciencealliance.bsky.social @uwmadisonls.bsky.social

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This in-person event is free and open to the public - hope you'll attend!

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uwsciencealliance.bsky.social @uwsciencealliance.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Embark on a Science Adventure at UW–Madison’s Science Expeditions! - April 10-12, 2026 UW-Madison Science Expeditions is your chance to explore the unknown! Meet researchers, explore research facilities, marvel at Science Spectacular shows, and dive into hands-on experiences.

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Really excited for this one!

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Still time to register for the WiCOR STAR Bootcamp! 🚨Registration closes Wed. April 1 🔭🧪

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Little red dots are clearly mitochondria

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

WiCOR will be holding the second annual Summer Training in Astrobiology Research (STAR) Bootcamp on June 1-5, 2026 at UW-Madison! Registration is now open and will close April 1st Visit our event webpage to learn more go.wisc.edu/wicorstar2026 #astrobiology #uwmadison 🔭 🧪 #planetsci #chem #bio

Flyer for the WiCOR STAR 2026 Bootcamp, which has a beach scene showing labels of the different topics covered during the bootcamp, and a group photo from 2025 along with a QR Code linking to the event webpage.

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Listen 🎧 to #WiCORMember Hannah Zanowski's interview on The Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio. She shares about her research on the #oceanography of #Earth 🌎and #exoplanets 🪐 -"why stop at one ocean"! 🧪 🔭

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Visiting #WisconsinStateParks this summer? Like star gazing? 🌟🌌🪐 Attend a #UniverseInThePark talk to learn from astronomers and gaze through telescopes 🔭 🧪 Find details from @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social at badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/ #Astronomy #StarGazing #StateParks

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Congratulations to the international AGE-PRO team, led by #WiCORMember Ke Zhang, for their 12 papers in the upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal! 🎉 Read the press releases to learn more about their groundbreaking work on #ProtoplanetaryDisks! public.nrao.edu/news/alma-pl... 🧪🔭

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ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming Disks - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

An international team of astronomers has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Happy Earth Day! 🌳🌿🌻🌍🌎🌏

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If you are in the Madison area, join #WiCOR for this exciting talk!!

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Join #WiCOR for the Spring 2025 #WiCORLecture on “The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?” from Prof. Jack W. Szostak on 📅May 1 @ 7 pm in the📍Chemistry Building S429, UW-Madison! This talk is open to the public - share with friends & family! wicor.wisc.edu/event/wicor-... Accessibility? wicor@wisc.edu

Flyer for the WiCOR Lecture for Spring 2025 "The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?" from Jack W. Szostak, on May 1, 7pm in Chemistry S429 (UW-Madison), Open to the Public. Abstract and event accommodation info on website linked in text.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If you’re looking for some sleepy time white noise tonight, I had an ~~idea~~ this week… It’s a white noise video that donates all revenue to Partners in Health and you can watch it here: youtu.be/dv2XyqC-EQ4

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White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!!

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

@wicor.bsky.social has extremely exciting main research questions: 1) how do habitable worlds form? and 2) how does life emerge on habitable planets?- check out the Research page to learn how WiCOR is tackling these 2 main questions: wicor.wisc.edu/research/

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The WiCOR Website has launched! 🚀 Visit the site to learn all about WiCOR! 🧪🔭 wicor.wisc.edu

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/02/2025

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

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Wisconsin Center for Origins Research @wicor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hello from the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research! 👋🧪🔭 WiCOR’s Mission is to advance our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife in the #Universe through interdisciplinary #research and #education. Follow us to stay updated on all things WiCOR! linktr.ee/wicenterforo...

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! We're so excited to be co-hosting #GBIxBINA2025 with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, in beautiful Montreal on Oct 6-10, 2025! 🍁 Need Financial Assistance? 📅Apply by March 5, 2025! Details & application links @ www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/gbixb...

Image of Montreal sunset skyline with text Join Us at GBIxBINA2025 Oct 6-10

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, explores the history of our deadliest infectious disease. It's also about our horrifying present: TB still kills kills over a million people per year, even though it's been curable since the 1950s. Signed copies can be ordered at everythingistb.com

yellow book cover reading Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection Signed Edition

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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

As a new year begins, we want to take this opportunity to look back on 2024 together and thank you for your support & interest in Euro-BioImaging. We wish you all the best in 2025 🎉 and look forward to many opportunities to share our passion for imaging this year. 💚🔬

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Wishing the #bioimaging community a Happy New Year, Bonne Année, y Feliz Año Nuevo! 🧪🔬

2025 Happy New Year! Bonne Année! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! with a background image of Armonic duets – Carla Maria Jaramillo Restrepo

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We've a postdoc opening for our lab at the Broad: Cambridge MA! Must have experience in toxicology + data science Work on the wonderful OASIS dataset we are producing... Cell Painting, transcriptomics, proteomics in various liver cell and tissue models! broad.io/mlcbpostdoc

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Sharing about @bioimagingna.bsky.social and #MicroscopyDB at #CellBio2024, come stop by the poster until 12:45 pm PT!

Vanessa Orr in front of her BINA and MicroscopyDB poster at CellBio2024

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Vanessa Orr @vorrphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Learn more about BINA's Prof. Development Program! Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social for supporting this program!

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🎉 Not a Fluorescence photo, but rather a photo of many people who use florescence, taken at our BINA 2024 Community Congress #BINA2024CC! If you missed it in our newsletter yesterday, the presentation recordings are now available on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Group Photo of participants at the BINA 2024 Community Congress in Madison, WI.

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! The recordings of the #Virtual #I2K2024 workshops are available now tinyurl.com/VirtualI2K20... Thanks to all who presented! Please re-share! 2022 and 2023 content available too: www.youtube.com/@I2KConference

Virtual I2K Flyer notifying that the Recordings are available on the I2K YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@I2KConference

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello, Hola, Bonjour Bluesky #Bioimaging Community! 👋 Thank you for the warm welcome here! Learn more about BINA: linktr.ee/bioimagingna #bioimaging #microscopy 🔬 #MicroscopyMonday

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