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Spotted in Santa Barbara – quite possibly the best job description ever?

📚 Join Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), one of the world’s leading centers for foundational research, for the 2025–26 academic year and pursue your own research within one of our four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science. More: ias.edu/news/institute…

🔍 Thayyoor K. Radha, one of Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)'s earliest women of color, joined in 1965–66 as a Member, but her later success was rendered undiscoverable after her marriage saw her change her surname. Now, the archive has collected more elements of her story: ias.edu/ideas/rediscov…

A beautiful night to be on campus! 📸: Joshua Horowitz and Minghao Guo

🌌 A team of astrophysicists, led by George Wong from Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) School of Natural Sciences, has developed a novel technique to search for black hole light echoes. This major step forward provides an independent measure of the mass and spin of black holes: instituteforadvancedstudy.info/4hBW2K0

Digital Content Specialist Abbey Ellis (Dr Abbey Ellis) reflects on art historical allegories in IAS life and discusses writing about the work of Maria Loh, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, for the Institute's flagship print publication: youtube.com/watch?v=VfEmQW…

"You're so funny." Thanks, I have a degree in art history and need to remain employable somehow

Pickles are great..until you're in one.

This week I’m delighted to be attending the CASE Editors Forum 2025 in Austin, TX! 🤠 Please say hello if you are also here!

Having work to do on the weekend isn’t so bad when you have such cute company 🐰

🪐 A potential new dwarf planet in the solar system? It was a pleasure to write about this amazing discovery by Sihao Cheng from Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)’s School of Natural Sciences!

Snaps from my recent trip to Yale Art Gallery! Fantastic to see some of the Dura-Europos materials in person ✨

Interested in architecture? You need to be following The Brooking – breathing life into architecture 👈

New year, new equipment: a larger trolley custom-built to handle our collection, with no more tipping when we move hefty doors! The trolley is already earning its keep by helping our staff to move a cell door from Guildford Police Station, which dates to 1854.

❄️ A hush of snow across the Institute for Advanced Study campus—captured on film by Fernando Brancoli, Member (2025–26) in the School of Social Science, using his Leica M3, a 35 mm analog camera from the 1950s.