What better reason to eat fruit?! 🥭🥑
Eating more fruit, particularly avocados and mangos, leads to positive changes in vascular health.
@pbrcnews.bsky.social editorial featured in the Journal of the American Heart Association: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #nutrition #NationalNutritionMonth
Learn more about this research on Pluto pits that may be a source of atmospheric methane! lsu.edu/blog/2026/02...
Study published in @agu.org JGR Planets
@lsuscience.bsky.social, @lsugeology.bsky.social
#plutoisaplanet #geology #methane
Where did #Pluto get those clustered pits that look suspiciously like gas pockmarks?
@lsu.bsky.social Planetary Science Lab researchers have some possible answers! 💨
www.youtube.com/shorts/m9JAM...
LSU researchers build exoskeleton to make construction safer | @nolanews.bsky.social
Read: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
#Education #engineering #design #robotics
We are celebrating #nationalengineersweek by sharing some exciting research and inventions by LSU engineers. Today: a metal-free battery!
Learn more: lsu.edu/blog/2026/02...
@lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social #energy #battery #engineering
Breaking: Regeneration of fins and limbs relies on a shared cellular playbook! Covered in @sciencenews.bsky.social by the amazing Elizabeth Pennisi
Fav quote: "The red blood cell thing blew my mind."
@lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @ischneider.bsky.social
It’s National Day of the Mexican Axolotl! @ischneider.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @perezlouise.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social #axolotl
Freedom from addiction: LSU researchers are working to find a molecular intervention that would reduce drug-seeking and drug-taking behaviors. Learn more in this behind-the-scenes interview!
#addiction #health #neuroscience @lsuvetmeddean.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social
youtu.be/duTFnCs_BLU
LSU researchers have invented a dental imaging system that replaces X-rays and eliminates their associated health risks. It uses a special mouthwash and a near-infrared light camera!
#dentist #innovation @lsuengineering.bsky.social @lsuvetmed.bsky.social
Learn more: lsu.edu/blog/2026/02...
AMERICAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP!
LSU has signed two new research agreements in Washington D.C. with Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to strengthen U.S. energy competitiveness and bring new soloutions to the Gulf Coast. 🔬
FULL STORY: https://bit.ly/4bmZgQV
Another win in D.C.! 🇺🇸
LSU and U.S. Army Cyber Command have entered into an education partnership agreement to advance research, prototype development and technology transfer, strengthening cyber capabilities for the Army and U.S. Cyber Command.
FULL STORY: https://bit.ly/4amLQTU
LSU researchers found that Formosan termites dynamically “resize” their brain’s smell and vision centers to match each caste’s job. Visual shows 4 different size brains, with the swarmer's brain having the largest vision centers.
LSU Research Bites: Move over, bees and ants! Termites are also highly adapted for colony life - they even resize their brains for their different roles: lsu.edu/blog/2026/01... 🐜 🧠
@lsu.bsky.social @lsuagcenter.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
Seeing the unseen just got clearer at LSU 🔬
New AZtec software now powers the SEM in LSU’s AMAC, enabling sharper imaging and large-area chemical mapping.
Learn more✨: https://bit.ly/4jN9L1X
@lsugeology.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social
Our research impact reaches all the way to Antarctica! 🌎
LSU researcher @icedoctord.bsky.social and team at @lsugeology.bsky.social have documented, in rare detail, a large brine discharge event at Blood Falls. The salty, blood-colored water flows out when pressure under Taylor Glacier rises.
@lsu.bsky.social
A perfect single layer of nanoparticles can improve sensors and solar cell coatings. But such layers have been very difficult to make... until now.
Research Bite: Acoustic Vibrations Solve a Long-Standing Challenge in Nanoparticle Assembly www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... w/ @lsuengineering.bsky.social
Astronauts Could Live in Structures Made from Moon Rocks - featuring LSU researchers presenting at #AGU25! eos.org/articles/ast...
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Preventing foodborne illness: You might have heard the saying, “don’t eat raw oysters in months that don’t have an ‘R'." That’s because of the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus. Can we better forecast outbreaks?
They saw vibrio coming: LSU researchers have developed an AI-assisted forecasting model to predict Vibrio levels in coastal waters and in oysters.
They stopped vibrio in its tracks. By tracking conditions, especially solar radiation levels, up to 80 days before oyster harvest, the new model guides recommendations on oyster consumption.
Cool weather means it's time to enjoy oysters! 🦪 Months with an "R" are safer for enjoying oysters without a risk of bacterial contamination. But why is that, and how can we better predict exactly when oysters are safe to eat? 🧑🍳
LSU researchers answer this Q: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Through an LSU x Our Lady of the Lake "Collab in Action" funding round in 2024-2025, seven research teams received $1.6 million for projects ranging from studying #athlete healthspan to building #digitaltwins to better understand brain injuries.
See their progress! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Quote: "2026 will be a turning point for AI and digital-twin tech for hazard mitigation. Forecasts will be faster, more accurate, and tailored to community needs."
What will the future of monitoring our coastlines for hazards, and forecasting flooding and other storm impacts, look like? What will 2026 bring in terms of #AI and #digitaltwin technologies that we can apply?
Read a Q&A with LSU expert George Xue: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
Catch Xue at #AGU25!
Big CONGRATS to grad student Katie Thomas for successfully defending her master’s thesis project, The Impact of Dyadic #Coping on #Alcohol Use and Related Problems among College Students in Romantic Relationships! Way to GEAUX! @lsupsychology.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social
closeup of sugarcane byproduct
How much #Methane comes from #SugarCane waste? When bagasse byproduct is left to rot in fields, a lot. But there are better options.
Learn more from @lsu.bsky.social researchers at #AGU25! lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...
A water sampler so easy to deploy to collect data about microbes present in local streams or wastewater systems, anyone can use it! #microbiology
@lelanargi.bsky.social, @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social, @karenweintraub.bsky.social this might be of interest!
@theresluethi.bsky.social, this might be of interest!
Learn more about this research: www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12... #publichealth
Pathogens are MOST problematic in areas where we have the LEAST amount of data. In a low-resource setting, using a $10,000 gold-standard #wastewater sampler to test surface waters for #viruses and bacteria just doesn't work.
LSU engineers created a $4 alternative. www.youtube.com/shorts/MzXAK...
Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
