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A ‘town square for the arts and humanities’: The new Princeton University Art Museum shares opening details After previews for students, members, faculty and staff, the museum will open its doors to all — with free admission, as always — starting with a 24-hour public opening from 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, to...

"The new museum was designed to be a kind of town square for the arts and humanities, a place of coming together."

The Princeton University Art Museum's doors are now open, beginning with a 24-hour Open House event featuring collections tours, movie screenings, artmaking and more.

YouTube video by NPR Podcasts Princeton professor Susan Wolfson on why we love 'Frankenstein' two centuries later

Discussing the phenomenon of Frankenstein throughout pop culture, Princeton english professor @erda53.bsky.social joins @npr.org's Book of the Day podcast.

🦇 EEB Associate Professor Gerald Carter is uncovering how vampire bats "learn, remember, and form social bonds." ⤵️

The American red wolf is endangered. These 'ghost genes' could save it : Short Wave Every American red wolf alive right now is descended from only 14 canids. In the 1970s, humans drove the red wolf to the brink of extinction. Because of that, red wolves today have low genetic diversi...

👻 By using ghost genes — genetic markers from ancient species that can be detected in the DNA of modern species — @bvon.bsky.social is hoping to help save the red wolf population.

What does ‘abracadabra’ mean? The earliest mention of ‘abracadabra’ comes from a text in the second century A.D., which used the term as a treatment for fevers.

As many celebrate Halloween with witches, ghouls, magic and the macabre — where did we get the term abracadabra? 🎩

Don Skemer, medieval historian, weighs in at National Geographic.

a group of bats hanging from the top of a box

🦇 In two short months, staff from Princeton Facilities and Laboratory Animal Resources transformed an unused space into a bat cave, for use by Dr. Gerald Carter who studies vampire bats and their lifesaving food sharing relationships: https://bit.ly/4oh5CVJ

Princeton senior Isam Mina awarded Rhodes Scholarship for Jordan Mina is a molecular biology major and plans to become an oncologist. For his senior thesis, he is using machine learning to analyze large global clinical datasets to explore the role of the gut microb...

Congrats to Princeton senior Isam Mina who has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at @ox.ac.uk. He is among two recipients chosen by The Rhodes Scholarships (@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk) for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.

We see you, Ashleigh Johnson '17!

Princeton Engineering - Wastewater plants produce twice as much greenhouse gas as estimated Researchers measured greenhouse gases from 96 wastewater plants across the country and found the emissions were much higher than estimated

By utilizing their mobile lab called the "Princeton Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment" (aka PACE), scientists found that, collectively, sewer plants produced 1.9x the nitrous oxide gas and 2.4x the methane as estimated by the EPA.

Yiyun Li Named Princeton University’s Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Creative writing professor Yiyun Li has been named the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

Princeton's Yiyun Li (@appletwigli.bsky.social) has been named Princeton University’s Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, an appointment first held by Professor of Creative Writing, Emerita, Toni Morrison.

Our congratulations to @skinnider.bsky.social!

Founding partner Microsoft to bring new Discovery AI technology to NJ AI Hub With the new platform, researchers can speed up scientific discovery by using advanced AI and high-performance computing to analyze vast amounts of scientific data, simulate experiments and discover n...

In an important step forward for the NJ AI Hub, founding partner Microsoft announced that it will bring to the Hub its new Microsoft Discovery platform, an advanced Agentic AI and cloud technology that promises to accelerate research and solve complex problems more efficiently.

Dirty water boosts prospects for clean hydrogen Wastewater can replace clean water as a source for hydrogen production, eliminating a major drawback to hydrogen fuel and reducing water treatment costs by up to 47%, according to new research from Pr...

New research from Princeton shows that wastewater can replace clean water as a source for hydrogen production, eliminating a major drawback to hydrogen fuel and reducing water treatment costs by up to 47%.

Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica.

🥶 Led by Princeton's @blueicedude.bsky.social and Sarah Shackleton, a team of scientists has discovered the "oldest directly dated ice and air" on the entire planet in Antarctica.

Celebrate Princeton Innovation spotlights entrepreneurial researchers and their impact “The ambition they have to make their groundbreaking ideas escape from the lab and into the world inspires us,” said Provost Jennifer Rexford, the event's keynote speaker.

A cross-section of New Jersey innovation leaders — faculty, researchers, students, inventors, entrepreneurs and investors — convened on campus for the annual Celebrate Princeton Innovation event, designed to spotlight University innovators, showcase ideas and forge new connections.

A row of smiling people standing in front of a dinosaur skeleton

Had a wonderful visit from collaborator Tatsuya Hirasawa from the U of Tokyo! We’ve been awarded a joint Princeton-Tokyo grant to exchange exciting new techniques in vertebrate evo-devo. Our visit to Japan will happen in March!

Russell Kulsrud, one of the last survivors of Project Matterhorn, dies at 97 “Russell was one of the people that established the reputation of Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as the place to do plasma physics in the world,” said Sir Steven Cowley, PPPL director.

Princeton remembers Russell Kulsrud, Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences, emeritus, who expanded scientists’ understanding of the universe’s plasma and was one of the last survivors of Project Matterhorn.

“First Salmon”: 73-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Fish History Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest salmon in Arctic Alaska’s Cretaceous fossil. During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs ruled the land, but the waterways of the Arctic were home to creature...

🐟 New research into fossils from the Cretaceous Period found 3️⃣ previously unknown fish species, including "the oldest salmonid in the fossil record."

Tumor-on-a-chip offers insight into cancer-fighting cells in immunotherapy | Penn Today Penn engineers and collaborators have built a living tumor on a chip to expose how cancers block immune attacks, and how one existing drug could make immunotherapy like CAR T more effective against so...

Princeton researchers Joshua Rabinowitz and Won Dong Lee contributed to a "tumor-on-a-chip" at @upenn.edu, a transparent, microengineered device that's giving way to new insights about how immune cells interact with cancer.

The new museum was worth the wait! The collection looks fantastic, the "promised to museum" pieces in the Princeton Collects exhibit promise a great future collection, and the building itself is gorgeous. So happy to have this back in the neighborhood!

TMLR Publication: Getting Aligned on Representational Alignment. Congratulations to the author team and the representational alignment community.

Link: openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...

#MLSky

Princeton Engineering - New materials make high-performance membranes the filters of the future Princeton researchers demonstrate the potential of MXenes, a class of water-loving, single-layer materials with high electrical conductivity, for separating ions and compounds from complex solutions.

Princeton researchers are demonstrating how membranes made from next-gen materials, a class of water-loving, single-layer materials with high electrical conductivity, show promise when separating ions and other compounds from complex solutions.

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Alongside @stanford.edu's Nick McKeown, Princeton provost Jen Rexford pens a piece about the NSF's vital impact on software-defined networking, which "revolutionized how networks are built and operated today": https://bit.ly/4qtDIHm

'Genius Is Not Just Born, It's Made': Inside Bob Dylan's Stunning Folk-Era Bootleg Series

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz has been a Bob Dylan fan since childhood, and he produced a new Bootleg Series box focused on the folk era.

Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...

How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?

Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.

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'Genius Is Not Just Born, It's Made': Inside Bob Dylan's Stunning Folk-Era Bootleg Series Princeton historian Sean Wilentz has been a Bob Dylan fan since childhood, and he produced a new Bootleg Series box focused on the folk era.

Princeton Professor of History Sean Wilentz talks with @rollingstone.com about growing up around the Greenwich folk scene and his keen insights on Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series. 🎶

Bruce Wright's portrait surrounded by members of his family

Princeton dedicated a dozen Prospect House spaces in honor of faculty, alumni and others who “helped to shape the University and the world” through their achievements and perseverance in the face of adversity: https://bit.ly/3LaiCxB

YouTube video by Kempner Institute at Harvard University LLM Skills and Metacognition: Scaffolding for New Forms of Learning? with Sanjeev Arora

How do LLMs think about thinking? 🤔
In the latest Kempner Seminar Series talk, @profsanjeevarora.bsky.social (Princeton University and Princeton PLI) explores how “metacognition” shapes problem-solving in large language models.
Watch here: youtu.be/Tl48e0Euois
#KempnerInstitute #AI #LLM #CS

Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts selects Poet Mahogany L. Browne for Holmes National Poetry Prize Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts selects Poet Mahogany L. Browne for 2025 Holmes National Poetry Prize.

Congratulations to poet @mobrowne.bsky.social who has been selected as the latest recipient of the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing.

At Princeton, classics professor Barbara Graziosi is collaborating with computer scientists to develop AI-based tools to fill in the gaps of ancient texts to better understand them.

Learn more about the humanities at Princeton: https://bit.ly/3SPoHAg