Busy Assemblymember and mayoral candidate @ZohranKMamdani stopped by a BioBus Pop Up Lab at Queensbridge Park and met Díana and Henry, two BioBus alumni who are now staff scientists! 👏🏽. Special shout out Díana’s TShirt - BioBus is proud to be a union workplace with @opeiu153 💪🏽

RT @heavymetalp0et: It’s my turn to do something fun and spread some good!. 11/2/25 - This Marathon dev runs the @nycmarathon!. I’ll be rai….

RT @FRPSsupt: @frps_Letourneau students stepped into science today aboard the @BioBus! From studying daphnia under microscopes to exploring….

In their workshop, ‘Establish a Toolkit for Creating Place-Based Programs: Lessons Learned & Strategies for the Future,’ they shared the pillars of their neighborhood-based programs as a model for building strong community partnerships! 🎊🎈 #caps2025.

Today BioBus Community Scientists Candida, Marina, Bella, Zoe, Luz, and Maia led a workshop at the Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences hosted by @AAPSciences in Portland, Oregon! 👏🏼

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Come to BioBase Harlem after school on Monday to explore bird 🐦 migration and anatomy, feathers 🪶 under microscopes 🔬, urban wild birds in NYC, and what can make birds sick through playful hands-on activities! Plus, meet high school scientists!

RT @HarveyforNY: TY to all who joined our Earth Day event w/ Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Assn @NYCSanitation @GrowNYC LES Ecology Center &….

The talk is given by given by Christine Marizzi, Ph D, and is FREE and open to everyone. Drinks and light bites will be served. 🎟 There are a limited number of tickets available - register now at 🦅

Wondering what's up with egg prices and bird flu? 🍳🐓 Join us NEXT WEDNESDAY at BioBase Harlem to learn how virology relates to current events in our special Science Happy Hour talk “Bird Flu is No Yolk: How the New York City Virus Hunters Track Avian Influenza”

We’re hiring! 🚎 BioBus is seeking a Mobile Lab Technician to help support our Mobile Lab Fleet. Visit to learn more and apply 🧑🏽‍🔧

March’s Featured Volunteer is the amazing Ariana, who we first met in an after school Explore program on the Lower East Side. Once she graduated high school, Ariana returned to BioBus to mentor our students during her gap semester before starting engineering school at BU!

Thanks to everyone who came out for some fun after school learning, and to our community partners like @WestHarlemDC, @dana_fdn and @SimonsFdn for making programs like this possible!.

🐞 Studied insect eyes with an electron microscope .🌈 Learned about color and color blindness .👁 Watched a community scientist dissect an eye under a microscope .🔬 Got to see a real preserved human brain up close!

🧠 Made wearable "Braincaps" that showed different regions around the brain.🧬 Learned how neurons work and connect with a pipe cleaner craft.🎨 Illustrated microscope images inspired by Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal

⚡️🧠⚡️ We had a very special After School Science Hour in Harlem this month! For #BrainAwarenessWeek, we invited students and community members to BioBase Harlem to learn about neuroscience. At stations around the room, they:

RT @ASMicrobiology: Time’s running out to sign up for the next JVI Seminar! Learn how the @BioBus NYC Virus hunters track emerging diseases….

RT @EricDinowitzNYC: Yesterday, I joined my colleague, NYC Majority Leader @AmandaFariasNYC, in celebrating #PiDay with @BioBus at City Hal….

Then, they joined @GOLESNYC for a sofrito making class! Thank you to the families who joined us and thank you to GOLES for partnering with BioBus and supporting this event! 💙🧡

This Saturday BioBus and @GOLESNYC teamed up to bring the Lower East Side an exciting new event: Sofrito Science! 🌶🧄🫑🧅🔬 Young people and their families explored the science and nutrition of sofrito, the base ingredient in Puerto Rican food.