Ivan Amato

Science writer/editor/podcaster. Science cafe founder. Crystal photomicrographer. Bylines @washingtonpost @sciencemagazine @SciAm @QuantaMagazine @TheLWON

[CEPI @CEPIvaccines]

📣 CEPI has partnered with Public Health Vaccines to rapidly advance early-stage development of a vaccine candidate against the Bundibugyo ebolavirus in response to the ongoing epidemic in the DRC and neighbouring Uganda.

https://t.co/tP6avOCa9S

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[CEPI @CEPIvaccines]

🚨 NEW: CEPI has launched an additional Call for Proposals in response to the current Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) outbreak in the DRC and Uganda to support critical, time-sensitive activities that directly inform and support vaccine R&D decision-making.

Two workstreams are in scope:

🔵 Epidemiology, modelling and analytics
🔵 Immunological and clinical assessment of potential cross-reactive antibodies induced by existing Ebola vaccines.

The Call is open to global applicants; special consideration will be given to proposals from, or partnering with, groups based in Africa.

➡️ Read the full text to find out more, including eligibility criteria and how to apply via the CEPI Portal: https://t.co/xI2YrXZmIf

Deadline: 22 June 2026.

This Call is complementary to CEPI’s other Call for Proposals, which is seeking to urgently accelerate the development of BDBV vaccine candidates.

Please consider sharing among your networks.

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

“…Then let me drift along the Bay of Time,
Till my last sun shall set in glowing light;
Let me cast anchor where no shadows fall,
Forever moored within Heaven's harbor bright…”

Fr “Drifting” by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, 1899. Footage fr 2021, #DesigningtheFuture2.

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

We brake for nautilus!

“We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said #VisioningCoralSea Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

My gratitude goes to @QuantaMagazine for its partnership in getting this article to the finish line. The facts of life are yet more complicated than you might think.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Growing evidence in mouse models suggests that non-DNA sperm molecules can pass along a dad’s condition at the time of conception. Researchers are working to understand how this occurs, and if it occurs in humans.

@ivan_amato reports: https://t.co/6fc0bgO0M5

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

Amino Acid Thicketry. Here, the combo of two amino acids, alanine and glutamine, which are buildings blocks of the proteins underlying life, recrystallized from a solution in Mezcal into a composition of embellished stalks. The area shown is the size of a bee's eye.

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

Monday mayhem!

We've never seen a scallop crash into an anemone riding a snail through a seafloor field of brittle stars either — but hey, you explore to see something new, right?!

ROV footage from #Ecosde2Cañones expedition along the Patagonian shelf break.

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

@RWSmolensJr Thanks Roy. It should be fun.

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

If you are near Montclair, NJ, this Saturday, please join me at the Montclair Literary Festival where I will have the privilege of moderating a panel with two great science writers, Carl Zimmer and Lina Zeldovich. We will discuss their latest books and other wonders.

[Juan S. Bonifacino @BonifacinoJuan]

Our lab at the NIH (Bethesda, MD) is looking for postdocs to join our team studying the molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking and their links to neurodevelopmental disorders starting on or after 10-1-2025. Send your application to [email protected]. Please repost!

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

Vanilla Entrance. Here, vanilla, the key chemical that enlivens one the world's favorite flavors, recrystallized from an alcohol solution on a glass slide into and many arresting formations, like this one. The area shown here would just about fit inside this printed O.

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

A heap of gratitude to writer/photographer Joy Yagid & The Village Green for showcasing my crystal photomicrography work with such a generous profile. Thanks also to the NJ State Council on the Arts for its recognition and support of artists like me! https://t.co/Ml9zojWiQS

[Glassworks Magazine @rowanglassworks]

"When we met around the ruins / of the tower of babel, / I didn't know what to say to you. / I didn't know how to say to you."

"Mother and Father Tongue" by @carriganak
Art: "Isthmuscopic" by @Ivan_amato
Issue 27, Fall 2023

#TBT #ThrowbackThursday #Poetry #Glassworks #GWIssue27

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

Venomous Caterpillars Are Expanding Their Range Due to Warming - My latest for Scientific American ... https://t.co/cAf1c7qdK3

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Thrilled to have worked with IEEE Spectrum on this history of Cold War technology story.

[IEEE Spectrum @IEEESpectrum]

The earliest American reconnaissance satellites have long been shrouded in secrecy. Now the veil is starting to lift, and in this story Ivan Amato pulls it back a little farther. https://t.co/Bn2IqTPj57

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

I joined the herd and now have a bluesky account. Maybe I will see you there!? @ivanamato.bsky.social

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

A many-tentacled creature (Bathyphysa) writhed & wiggled 521 meters from the surface. What could possibly satisfy the insatiable hunger of a colonial organism composed of many zooids working together, each performing a job for survival, like digesting prey or reproduction?
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[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Using fire to visualise sound waves

[Ivan Amato @ivan_amato]

Two scenic overlooks from a glass slide on which I grew crystals from a solution of the amino acids alanine and glutamine, two of the 20 molecular building blocks of your proteins. Each area you see here might fit inside this printed O. #sciart #scicomm #photography #sciart

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