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Sixth-year Anthropology PhD student Rebecca Winkler has spent more than a decade documenting the lives of elephants and Indigenous people who co-exist in the forests of Thailand. Learn more in Omnia: bit.ly/41ZLazF

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Douglas Jerolmack of @meam-penn.bsky.social and @pennsas.bsky.social is using Earth-based fracture models to analyze patterns on Mars and Europa, offering new insights into planetary habitability. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-ca...

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Geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack has applied Earth's fracture pattern mathematics to study two-dimensional fracture networks across the solar system, potentially aiding in identifying habitable environments on other planets. buff.ly/rCN4V5r

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Prof. Michael Mann will be speaking at Friday’s (3/7) #StandUpforScience2025 event in DC. @michaelemann.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Chrislyn Laurie Laurore, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, is studying the public memory and history of slavery, particularly its curation in museums, monuments, memorials, and archaeological sites.

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The winners of the 9th annual Penn Grad Talks featured TED-style talks on crowdfunding in ancient Greece, gender gaps in political tolerance, shyness, opera singers and language, and how to know what you don’t know. Watch all of this year's winning talks:

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Getting ready for the Oscars tonight? Check out our Omnia Q&A with Mike Jackman, C’85, who produced "Conclave" along with Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell. The film has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards. buff.ly/duc099P #Oscars #AcademyAwards

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Using archival documents and primary source material in Philadelphia and Scotland, Catherine Sorrentino, C’25, uncovered what happened to society’s most vulnerable with the rise of “anatomical medicine.”

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Three students from the College highlight prominent and lesser-known individuals including journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and John Edmonstone, a taxidermist who trained Charles Darwin. https://buff.ly/41xen4Q #BlackHistoryMonth

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Watch the livestream of today’s #PennGradTalks featuring Penn Arts & Sciences grad students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs. Finalists compete for prizes during a day of TED Talk-style presentations.

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Ben Talks NYC, which took place this year at the Times Center in front of a crowd of 270 people, featured Jeffrey Green and Michele Margolis of Political Science, Donovan Schaefer of Religious Studies, and Sophia Rosenfeld of History.

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Classical archaeologist and architectural historian Mantha Zarmakoupi has spent the past four summers excavating the ruins of a city council building at the center of Teos in western Türkiye, in collaboration with the Teos Archaeological Project of Ankara University.

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Mike Jackman, C’85, produced the film “Conclave,” which was nominated for Best Picture and seven other Oscars. (It already took home Best Picture at the BAFTAs this past weekend.) Ahead of the Oscars, we spoke with Jackman about what this moment feels like and his time at Penn.

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Did you miss Prof. McDaniel's (packed) Knowledge by the Slice event discussing his classes "Existential Despair" and "Living Deliberately"? @pennsas.bsky.social has made the complete video available here! omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/living...

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Prof. Ala Stanford of Biology writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer on what drives the raucous behavior by Philadelphians after their Super Bowl victory. Her first-year seminar on the intersection of biology and health tackled that question head-on.

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Great turnout at last night’s Ben Talks event in Palo Alto! Penn Arts & Sciences faculty Beth Wenger, Jeffrey Green, and Donovan Schaefer presented on the topic Discourse and Democracy and took a nuanced look at U.S. democracy and the forces and undercurrents that are driving our discourse today.

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Adrian Lorenzo, C’11, was on a fast track in Major League Baseball before walking away to pursue his other passion as an artist. He’s discovered success there, too.

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Aced the final 🏆 Congrats @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social — Super Bowl Champions! Go Birds 🦅

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We’ve put in the work. Ready for the final exam. Go Birds!! 🦅 #FlyEaglesFly

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With the Philadelphia Eagles set to compete in Super Bowl LIX, Prof. Megan Robb of @upennrels.bsky.social discusses her Religion and Sports class -- a space where students discuss ritual and ceremony, debate where sports and religion intersect, and even meet the Eagles chaplain.

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A new book, "The Age of Choice," by Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, is reviewed in The New York Times. Listen to our episode of the Omnia Podcast with Prof. Rosenfeld, "Truth and Democracy": https://buff.ly/4gp7AhL

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Sarah Pipkin, C’14, former Penn student turned London librarian, connected the dots to solve a century-old mystery about books belonging to famed author Oscar Wilde. The discovery adds to our understanding of LGBTQ history.

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The Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center (Plant ARC) aims to enhance plant development and fortitude in the face of climate change. Anchored in the Department of Biology, Plant ARC will collaborate broadly across Penn as well as with local stakeholders, and beyond.

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Penn Arts & Sciences faculty are responding to the climate emergency. Learn more about how they are generating solutions, thinking creatively about the policymaking, and considering how best to communicate this complicated and often-controversial issue. https://buff.ly/3PVxb78 #ClimateSolutions 🌍

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We’re excited to be featured in Omnia! 🎉 Check out how we support collaboration and innovation among Penn’s amazing data scientists at @pennsas.bsky.social

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Congratulations to @upenn.edu's @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social on the publication of her book, Under the Nuclear Shadow!

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Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and Interim Dean of Penn Arts & Sciences, recently helped verify the first major manuscript from Frédéric Chopin since the 1930s. Kallberg explains the intricate process and plays the lost waltz in our Omnia feature.

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In December, we celebrated the opening of the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology. The now home to @vagelosenergy.bsky.social marks the start of a new chapter in Penn’s study of energy science and the fight against climate change. https://buff.ly/3PUSDJz @pennchemistry.bsky.social

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Research from PhD student Nazar Khalid, Professors Emily Hannum and Jere Behrman, and Senior Lecturer Amrit Thapa investigates how more intensive and frequent flooding is affecting young students in India's rural north.

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Whether decoding medieval manuscripts or analyzing national polling numbers, Penn’s 100-plus data scientists have plenty to talk about, and Penn Arts & Sciences’ Data Driven Discovery Initiative is leading the charge in fostering collaboration.

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Growing up the child of a famous scientist, Karyl Charna Lynn, CW’65, was expected to follow her father’s path. She pursued chemistry throughout her schooling, but when she started writing about opera, she knew she’d found her passion.

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A new book by Professor of Mathematics Robin Pemantle and longtime math teacher Henri Picciotto offers middle and high school educators actionable materials and invites reflection and connection across disciplines. https://buff.ly/4azbFyB #MathEducation #TeachingResources

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Go Birds! 🦅🦅 #FlyEaglesFly

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Omnia Weekend Read: PDRI-DevLab, only two years old, is on the ground in developing nations to generate better evidence that can influence real-world decisions. Learn more in our Omnia Magazine feature: https://buff.ly/3Wvsi8w @guygrossman.bsky.social

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In our first edition of Research Roundup of 2025, we examine “wing spreading,” how a popular homestay accommodation increased robberies in London, how to reduce votes lost in the mail, and spending on home care.

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On @mprnews.org, Prof. Diana Mutz spoke about how cable TV "shout shows" and other sensationalized news media can contribute to political polarization. "The way that these networks attempt to draw eyeballs is essentially through conflict and incivility," she says. Listen here:

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Did you know Martin Luther King Jr. pursued Philosophy at Penn? His original record card, listing his courses, is housed in the University Archives. It's a vivid reminder of the 20-year-old future Civil Rights icon's campus days. #History #Education #MLK

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Check out our starter pack of faculty, departments, and centers from Penn Arts & Sciences on @bsky.app. More to come soon! go.bsky.app/NXM2aBd

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Excited to be joining @bsky.app! Follow us to learn more about our faculty, students, and alums and stay up to date on the latest research and scholarship from Penn Arts & Sciences. Visit our online magazine, Omnia Magazine, for the latest articles, podcasts, and videos! bit.ly/4fEvgiu

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