Neuroscientist Jeroen Geurts has dedicated his career to finding the cause of multiple sclerosis, a brain disease affecting millions. Unsure of what exactly he is looking for, he searches in places others have neglected.
👀 Watch The Mystery of MS at shorturl.at/nIGZl
🧪 #Neuroscience ⑂
28.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ben Feringa: "I think scientists could do with a bit more recognition. These our our heroes."
As #NobelPrizes are being announced, time to read back this 2020 interview with Nobel laureate #BenFeringa.
👉 shorturl.at/xRlZ5
Scientists are often modest creatures, but Feringa thinks a little more celebration could create more role models and increase our collective knowledge in the long run.
07.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To map the effects of climate change, mountain hydrologist Walter Immerzeel (@mountainhydrology.bsky.social) and his team venture to remote altitudes where other scientists do not go.
Follow one of his extreme missions in the 15-minute short film #MovingMountains 👉 shorturl.at/9nqmC
🧪 #hydrology
22.09.2025 09:32 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What is intuition? And how can gut feelings influence science? Trailblazing neuroscientist Eveline Crone (@unileiden.bsky.social) takes us on a 14-minute animated journey into the brain as she champions the scientific value of intuition.
Watch now 👉 shorturl.at/Mvf8I
🧪 #Neuroscience
11.09.2025 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Yoeri van de Burgt (@yvdburgt.bsky.social). He is researching new smart materials that can make artificial intelligence more efficient by processing information directly at the place where it arises.
Read more 👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/y...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
#HCI
04.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Rik Peels (@rikpeels.bsky.social)
He studies how extreme beliefs emerge and develop, with a particular focus on the relationship between beliefs and behaviour in radicalisation processes.
www.ammodo-science.org/researches/r...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
28.08.2025 08:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Nathalie Katsonis (@nathaliekatsonis.bsky.social )
She investigates how tiny molecules can convert light and chemical energy into useful movement. Coordinating their motion, she develops new, adaptable materials.
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/n...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
20.08.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Marvin Tanenbaum. He is developing revolutionary imaging techniques that allow him to film molecular processes in living cells at the level of individual biomolecules.
www.ammodo-science.org/nl/researche...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
#bioimaging #microscopy
14.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Leila Akkari (@leilaakkari.bsky.social). She combines insights from immunology and molecular biology to study how tumour cells and immune cells influence each other.
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/l...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
#immunology #molbiol
05.08.2025 07:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Jenneke van der Wal (@jennekevanderwal.bsky.social). By investigating how speakers of different African languages structure information in their grammar, she unravels fundamental principles about how people articulate their thoughts.
👉 shorturl.at/BwEEj
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
29.07.2025 09:18 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Janna Cousijn (@jcousijn.bsky.social). She investigates why some people become addicted to substances while others do not.
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/j...
Introducing the Ammodo Science Award laureates of 2025 🧪
22.07.2025 08:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ammodo Science
Hi Dani,
We're Ammodo Science, an organisation supporting fundamental science through awards and fellowships. We also produce free-to-watch short science documentaries. Could you add us to the Science feed please?
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18.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Have you met the laureates of the Ammodo Science Award 2025? We're highlighting them one by one.
Meet Freek van Ede (@freekvanede.bsky.social)
He studies how our working memory actively processes and prioritises information to anticipate future behaviour.
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/f...
18.07.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Stephanie Wehner for winning the prestigious Körber Prize 2025!
Have you seen our 2024 short film Moonshot Mission about her incredible work?
Watch it here 👉 www.ammodo-science.org/story/stepha...
10.07.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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