Reuben Greenaway is a machine operator custodian in MIT's Department of Facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Yukiko Yamashita is a Professor in MIT's Department of Biology and a Member of the Whitehead Institute, seen here holding a flask of fruit flies in her lab at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wed., March 2, 2022. Yamashita's research focuses on developmental genetics in Drosophila fruit flies, looking at the process of speciation, studying stem cells and junk DNA, and as a general model of tissue homeostasis.

Science
Mechanical Engineering junior Wei Xun He works on a prototype for a wearable device that captures a person's motion during a desk critique session in the first design studio class in the new D-Minor design minor at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Nov. 3, 2016.

Education
Ethnic Russians and pro-Russian Latvians gathered in Victory Park (Uzvaras parks; Парк Победы) and laid flowers at the foot of Soviet-era monuments in the park on Victory Day in Riga, Latvia, on Mon., May 9, 2022. Victory Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in Russia and Russian enclaves around the world as a commemoration of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany ending World War II, but in Latvia it is viewed by non-Russians as a symbol of Soviet occupation of their country. In previous years, Russians in Riga gather at the Soviet-era monument to mark the holiday, but this year, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Riga government imposed substantial restrictions on pro-Russian gatherings and symbols in the city and during the holiday. The statues at the monument were surrounded by barricades covered in Latvian and Ukrainian flags, police barricades prevented people from approaching the monuments, images showing the horrors of the war in Ukraine were on display, and people were not allowed to lay flowers at the monument themselves, instead giving them to police officers to lay at the foot of the monuments. Many of the Russians who went to the monument on this day argued with police about the restrictions, and pro-Ukraine demonstrators brought the Ukraine flag to protest Russia's actions in the country. The previous day, Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), a holiday not celebrated by Russians, people were allowed to directly approach the steps of the monument and lay flowers themselves.

Photojournalism
Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign event at the Littleton Opera House in Littleton, New Hampshire.

Politics
A worker analyzes a full-scale iron electrode after a process trial in the Form Energy lab in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, on Tue., March 21, 2023. Iron-air batteries work by pairing an air electrode with an iron electrode and rusting and derusting the iron electrodes. According to its website, Form Energy is an "energy storage technology and manufacturing company." The company has developed an iron-air battery that stores energy for 100 hours and is aimed at replacing traditional powerplants by storing energy generated from renewable energy sources such as wind or solar. In this lab, the company develops and tests sub-scale and full-scale iron-air batteries. Other facilities operated by the company elsewhere in the US handle more full-scale production and testing of the batteries.

Industry

Portraiture

Reuben Greenaway is a machine operator custodian in MIT's Department of Facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Science

Yukiko Yamashita is a Professor in MIT's Department of Biology and a Member of the Whitehead Institute, seen here holding a flask of fruit flies in her lab at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wed., March 2, 2022. Yamashita's research focuses on developmental genetics in Drosophila fruit flies, looking at the process of speciation, studying stem cells and junk DNA, and as a general model of tissue homeostasis.

Education

Mechanical Engineering junior Wei Xun He works on a prototype for a wearable device that captures a person's motion during a desk critique session in the first design studio class in the new D-Minor design minor at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Nov. 3, 2016.

Photojournalism

Ethnic Russians and pro-Russian Latvians gathered in Victory Park (Uzvaras parks; Парк Победы) and laid flowers at the foot of Soviet-era monuments in the park on Victory Day in Riga, Latvia, on Mon., May 9, 2022. Victory Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in Russia and Russian enclaves around the world as a commemoration of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany ending World War II, but in Latvia it is viewed by non-Russians as a symbol of Soviet occupation of their country. In previous years, Russians in Riga gather at the Soviet-era monument to mark the holiday, but this year, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Riga government imposed substantial restrictions on pro-Russian gatherings and symbols in the city and during the holiday. The statues at the monument were surrounded by barricades covered in Latvian and Ukrainian flags, police barricades prevented people from approaching the monuments, images showing the horrors of the war in Ukraine were on display, and people were not allowed to lay flowers at the monument themselves, instead giving them to police officers to lay at the foot of the monuments. Many of the Russians who went to the monument on this day argued with police about the restrictions, and pro-Ukraine demonstrators brought the Ukraine flag to protest Russia's actions in the country. The previous day, Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), a holiday not celebrated by Russians, people were allowed to directly approach the steps of the monument and lay flowers themselves.

Politics

Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign event at the Littleton Opera House in Littleton, New Hampshire.

Industry

A worker analyzes a full-scale iron electrode after a process trial in the Form Energy lab in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, on Tue., March 21, 2023. Iron-air batteries work by pairing an air electrode with an iron electrode and rusting and derusting the iron electrodes. According to its website, Form Energy is an "energy storage technology and manufacturing company." The company has developed an iron-air battery that stores energy for 100 hours and is aimed at replacing traditional powerplants by storing energy generated from renewable energy sources such as wind or solar. In this lab, the company develops and tests sub-scale and full-scale iron-air batteries. Other facilities operated by the company elsewhere in the US handle more full-scale production and testing of the batteries.

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A crow sits in a blooming cherry blossom tree in The Quad on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, on Sun., March 17, 2024.
Mount Rainier visible from the Kingston Ferry.

Selected highlights and recent work

The new MK30 Prime Air drone at the BFI1 Amazon Fulfillment Center in Sumner, Washington, USA, on Wed., Oct. 11, 2023.

Amazon’s new delivery drone

Cathy O'Neil is a data scientist and best-selling author, most recently of the book "The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation," seen here at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Mon., April 4, 2022. O'Neil also wrote "Weapons of Math Destruction," for which she received the Euler Book Prize. "The Shame Machine" looks at what she calls "the shame industrial complex," especially in the realm of social media and partisan politics. O'Neil is also CEO of ORCAA (O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing) a consulting group focused on examining bias in algorithms. ORCAA audits algorithms for racist, sexist, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory results in fields including hiring, insurance, and banking.

Author and data scientist Cathy O’Neill for The Observer, and other recent portraiture on assignment

Gund Kwok, all-women lion dance troupe

UNION GAP, WASHINGTON - AUGUST 18: Asparagus and pepperjack cheese tamales are a seasonal specialty of Los Hernández Tamales in Union Gap, WA, on Fri., Aug. 18, 2023. In 2018, Los Hernández Tamales was given a James Beard America's Classics award. (M. Scott Brauer / Los Angeles Times)

Food in Washington’s Yakima Valley, for the LA Times

George Church is a geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist, at Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, seen here in his lab and office at the New Research Building in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Sept. 5, 2017.

Portraits of professors and scientists

A man rides a water slide at the water park at Meixin Foreigner Street in Chongqing, China.

Chongqing – Where the Rivers Meet

Xenobots, micro-scale "living robots" made from embryonic frog stem cells, float in a petri dish in a lab at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, on Thu., Sept. 9, 2021. The robots were created by Douglas Blackiston, a Senior Scientist at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, and Sam Kriegman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Weiss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University. Kriegman designed the artificial intelligence system that created the structure for the xenobots and Blackiston is responsible for building them. As Blackiston put it, "Sam tests [the robots and other experimental setups] in the virtual world, and then I test it in the real world." The machines are capable of autonomously performing simple tasks including navigating mazes and gathering small particles together.

Xenobots, for Bloomberg Businessweek

Folk dancers gather in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the International Day of Dance

Postdoctoral Associate Jasdave Chahal (left) and Research Scientist Omar F. Khan are seen here in the Langer Lab at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., Nov. 15, 2016. The two worked together to create a programmable RNA vaccine.

Portraits of professors and scientists

A fancy limousine for hire with gold rims and a large hood ornament stands in a parking lot near Soviet-era khrushchyovka apartment blocs in Narva, Estonia, on Tue., May 10, 2022. Narva is Europe's easternmost and most Russian city (approximately 95% of the population is Russian) and sits on the border with Russia in northeastern Estonia. The city was practically leveled during World War 2 and was rebuilt with Soviet-style apartment buildings.

Narva – Between Europe and Russia

Uber and Lyft drivers rally to unionize in front of a local Uber Greenlight office in Saugus, Massachusetts, US, on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Uber and Lyft drivers gathered to demand the ride-hailing platform reinstate workers "unfairly deactivated" and voice support for legislation that would give drivers for the companies the ability to unionize, access to a base pay rate and protections such as unemployment insurance. Photographer: M. Scott Brauer/Bloomberg

Uber/Lyft driver labor rally for Bloomberg News

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A crow sits in a blooming cherry blossom tree in The Quad on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, on Sun., March 17, 2024.
Mount Rainier visible from the Kingston Ferry.