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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations to @hahrie.bsky.social, recipient of a @macfound.org genius grant for her research on political organizing, social movements, collective action, civic engagement, and democracy. 🎉https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/hahrie-han-macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant/

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations to JHU chemist @tomkempa.bsky.social, who has received a $1.3M @moorefound.bsky.social award to advance his “lattice embossing” research, which aims to control quantum states in 2D materials. hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/t...

Johns Hopkins chemist Thomas Kempa receives $1.3M Moore Foundation award

Prestigious award from foundation's Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative supports work that advances fundamental research by 'brilliant mid-career scientists'

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · 6d

The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum reopens on October 13 after three years of updates, renewing a 140-year legacy as a hands-on space for students and scholars to connect with ancient cultures. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/home...

Home for Ancient Objects Enters New Era - Arts & Sciences Magazine

Photography by Will Kirk When the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum officially reopens on October 13, it will celebrate both 140-plus years of

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · 7d

On October 15, the Fifth Annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival will bring together civic leaders, students, scholars, and Baltimore community members for an afternoon of dialogue and ideas. snfagora.jhu.edu/event/fifth-...

Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival

The Fifth Annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival will bring together civic leaders, students, scholars, and local Baltimore community members for an afternoon of connection, curiosit...

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · 19d

Johns Hopkins has launched a new Department of Neuroscience, bringing together researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Arts & Sciences. With faculty across Hopkins, the department includes 1,000+ brain researchers, 450 neuroscience majors, and 121 PhD students. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/15/j...

Johns Hopkins brain scientists converge in cross-university neuroscience department

Shared by the schools of Medicine and Arts and Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience aims to unify neuroscience research and education across the university

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · 21d

Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how today’s political battles could destabilize the Federal Reserve and reshape the global economy. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/16/t...

The importance of preserving the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve

Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how prevailing political forces threaten to disrupt the nation's money supply and the global economy

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Aug 26

First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hopkins researchers are using phone-camera style sensors to hunt for ultra-light dark matter, opening a new window in particle physics. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/27/n...

New dark matter detectors look for 'wimpier' particles

Hopkins researchers help develop technology to broaden search for universe's greatest mystery

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · Aug 20

When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind?

In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners

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Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates can track individual conspecifics...

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 19

Rabbits and elephants aren’t so different...🐇🐘 Check out this cool research from @talboger.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social

tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · Aug 19

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!

In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 19

Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social
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Four Johns Hopkins scholars selected for Simons Foundation collaborations

The highly competitive projects bring together experts from a range of disciplines to explore promising topics of fundamental scientific importance

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 19

Johns Hopkins welcomed the Class of 2029 on Sunday. Approximately 1,300 first-year students arrived from 49 states, 28 countries, as well as Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and American Samoa. Roughly one in five is a first‑generation college student. hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...

Johns Hopkins welcomes hundreds of new Blue Jays to campus

Incoming first-year students moved into Homewood campus residence halls on Sunday, marking the beginning of New Student Orientation

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Baltimore folks, I’m really looking forward to talking this week at the Ivy Bookshop about my new book, Something Between Us. How can we rebuild a collective life beyond forces of division and suspicion? Please join us this Thursday, August 21st at 6pm.

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Ivy Bookshop - Anand Pandian: SOMETHING BETWEEN US: THE EVERYDAY WALLS OF AMERICAN LIFE, AND HOW TO TAKE THEM DOWN (with Emma Snyder)

In SOMETHING BETWEEN US, anthropologist Anand Pandian offers us a remarkable close-up of the forces that have hardened our suspicions of others. From car dealerships to sales conferences of home forti...

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 14

Bats are helping scientists map how the brain tracks moving objects without sight. Echolocation is giving us a new view of the hippocampus in action. 🦇 Read the study here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Bats give scientists new glimpse into ‘GPS of the brain’

Sound-based navigation is teaching us how the hippocampus builds spatial representations.

Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 13

Susan Choi, a professor in the Writing Seminars, recently released her sixth novel, Flashlight. The book follows Louisa as she revisits the night her father vanished, exploring themes of captivity, identity, and intuition across 1970s Japan and beyond.
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Out of the darkness

Susan Choi's sixth novel about the traumatic fallout of a father's disappearance blends themes of captivity, identity, and trusting one's intuition

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 12

Pioneering algebraic topologist and beloved mentor Jack Morava, passed away at age 80. Considered a "mathematician's mathematician," he was often described as being ahead of his time. He was known for warmth, curiosity, and his legendary gorilla‑suit Halloween story. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/08/j...

Mathematician Jack Morava, renowned algebraic topologist, dies at 80

Morava, a member of the Hopkins faculty for nearly four decades, remembered for his warmth, brilliance

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 8

JHU anthropologist @anandian.bsky.social’s latest op-ed in the @baltimoresun.bsky.social explores the decline of neighborliness in America. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/t...

The decline of neighborliness in America | GUEST COMMENTARY

The decline of neighborliness has heightened our country’s divisions, writes Anand Pandian.

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congratulations to four Hopkins mathematicians, Jacob Bernstein, Chikako Mese, Emily Riehl, and Ziquan Zhuang, who have been invited to speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). 🎉 #ICM2026 #math
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Four Johns Hopkins professors to speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians

Held every four years, the congress is considered the top showcase for new developments in math

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Jul 28

Folks in Baltimore and Maryland, catch me live on WYPR’s Midday with Tom Hall this Tuesday 7/29 from 12-1, talking about my new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down. Tune in to 88.1 FM and join the conversation.

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Jul 15

Johns Hopkins scientists found over 200 misfolded proteins linked to Alzheimer's and dementia. This could change how we detect and treat the disease. 🧠 hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/11/m...

More misfolded proteins than previously known may contribute to Alzheimer's and dementia

New study suggests more than 200 types of misfolded proteins could be associated with age-related cognitive decline

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JHU Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships @jhu-bdps.bsky.social · Jul 8

With dual appointments in the Economics department within @jhuartssciences.bsky.social and @johnshopkinsams.bsky.social within @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social, Giannone develops models grounded in rigorous statistical and economic theory that monitor macroeconomic risks in real time.

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Anand Pandian @anandian.bsky.social · Jul 2

Folks in DC, please join me on Thursday 7/10 at Creative Grounds café for a book event sponsored by worker-owned bookstore cooperative Bol. We'll be talking about my new book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down.

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Jul 2

What keeps Jane Austen's work alive 250 years later? Scholars from Johns Hopkins and beyond break it down, from her sharp wit to her social insight. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

Jane Austen lives on

As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular today than ever before.

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Jul 1

Chemist Stephen Fried studies how proteins fold and what happens when they don’t. His research could explain aging, memory loss, and brain health. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

A master of protein origami

Johns Hopkins chemist Stephen Fried has spent decades investigating how protein cells fold, unfold, and misfold, a cause of many neurodegenerative diseases and our cognitive decline. His pioneering wo...

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Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences @jhuartssciences.bsky.social · Jun 27

What happens when scientists and philosophers tackle questions about time, life, and consciousness? Here are five key takeaways from the Natural Philosophy Forum at Johns Hopkins. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/06/five...

Five Takeaways on Natural Philosophy - Arts & Sciences Magazine

Illustration by Grace Toscano Last month, about 150 philosophers, scientists, and other thinkers gathered at a Baltimore hotel to discuss topics ranging

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