Sharing @cenmag.bsky.social's Holiday gift ideas with the new collage art cen.acs.org/business/con...

@society4science.bsky.social and CEO @mayaajmera.bsky.social, is this the work culture you wanted? Is this what you've been fighting against your workers for these past 560 days? @sciencenews.bsky.social @snexplores.bsky.social #ISEF #ISEF2025

#DYK (or do you remember) that the 2003 #Halloween season was marked by a series of solar storms that caused widespread damage and comms outages? ☀️🌍🎃 Learn more in this NOAA recap: www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/great-h... And check out some related science done since those storms: eos.org?s=halloween%...

NEW from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: 30 days into the shutdown, federal workers talked to us about the toll it has taken on them—unpaid bills, anxiety, and even waiting to be reimbursed for emergency cancer treatment. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/federa...

Know an inspiring early-career chemist? Nominate them for the Talented 12 Class of 2026. Nominations accepted until January 20: cen.acs.org/sections/tal... #CENT12 #chemsky 🧪

Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic? 🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...

It's been a big year for chemists trying to turn PTFE (better know as Teflon) into something that won't hang out in a landfill for 1,000 years. The latest development in this area uses chunks of sodium metal. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/materials/po...

Wildfires affect thousands upon thousands of American lives every year. Some of their stories we know — the survivors of Los Angeles, Lahaina, Paradise, Boulder. But most we don't. Here is @jeva.bsky.social with a series on the reality of life in the age of wildfires: heatmap.news/the-aftermath

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪

Thanks to Scott Dueweke for this brilliant photo of Comet Lemmon! He captured it Monday night from Purcellville, VA. Sky watchers have a chance to see TWO comets AND a meteor shower Tuesday evening and overnight, although clouds may get in the way in the DC area. More details: cwg.live

What’s pumpkin spice flavor, and why do we fall for it every autumn? The popular latte and treat seasoning contains no actual pumpkin, but it boasts plenty of food chemistry. #NationalChemistryWeek #ACS_NCW #SpiceChemistry cen.acs.org/articles/92/...

Today I’ve been thinking about how glad I am that I took an afternoon off to tour the East wing last year. We were the last people through and security was pushing us forward because they were setting up for an event… I’m bummed I didn’t take many photos thinking I’d have another opportunity to go

“The Oregon Department of Human Services has started notifying more than 750,000 residents — nearly half of whom are children and seniors — that they will not receive the benefits after Oct. 31 due to the ongoing federal government shutdown.”

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS: During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭 Why that matters 🧵

@rowanwalrath.bsky.social tried this herself back in March. It didn't go well then either cen.acs.org/physical-che...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...

Turns out, boron-based heterocycles are anything but boring! In fact, some of them are pretty magical...1,2-oxaborines, for example, can be used as precursors to 11(!) other ring systems! Read more in my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/synthesis/sh...

I’ve been excited to read this feature since @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social first told us he was purposely getting dengue fever, and I gotta say it sure does deliver an insightful look into clinical trails 🦟 cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

Zigzags in magnetic field lines might not occur only near the Sun. New #AGUPubs research by @unhresearch.bsky.social eos.org/research-spo...

Are you going to #SciWri25 in Chicago in November? IT'S PARTY TIME! Come wish @theopennotebook.bsky.social a happy 15th birthday on Saturday 11/8, 7-10 pm, at the Harp & Fiddle pub in Uptown Park Ridge, ~2 miles from the meeting hotel. Details are under 'meet-ups' in the conference Whova app. 🎂🎉

I think I might've woken up in the middle of the night muttering "MOFs"

Time to break out this pic of me being strangled by a future #Nobel Laureate in 2017… #Chemsky #chemnobel…

There was a LOT of excitement at 5:47 am in our newsroom slack this morning. Go MOFs!!

Have we written about MOFs before? Um, quite a bit: cen.acs.org/topics/mater...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #chemsky 🧪

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics for experiments that revealed quantum behavior in electrical circuits, showing that even systems made of billions of atoms can obey the strange laws of the quantum world: cen.acs.org/people/nobel... 🧪

Nobel week is basically the super bowl for science journalists, and @sarahbraner.bsky.social (with @laurahowes.bsky.social & @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social) gave us a strong opening play with their coverage of the med+physio prize! (did i get the sports metaphor right?)

While this scanning electron microscope image may look like a harbinger of doom—perhaps a symptom of a haunted instrument or a cursed lab—Gustavo Porrata Caraballo says there’s a perfectly rational scientific explanation for it. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/po... #CENChemPics

🚨Our new paper introduces the #AirQualityStripes – a visual tool to show how outdoor air pollution (PM2.5) has changed in 🌍 cities since 1850. Inspired by the iconic #WarmingStripes. Led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social 🔗 airqualitystripes.info 📄 doi.org/10.5194/gc-8... 🧵👇

"As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations." Uprooter @thaliajuarez.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Every single one of you has that indomitable spirit. But so many people don’t let it out. They don’t realize the power they have to influence and change the world. And so I’m saying to you, let your indomitable spirit make a difference." — Jane Goodall, March 30, 2024, grist.org/looking-forw...

Come for the cool solar imagery, stay for the science 😎🧪 @fmorningstar.bsky.social for @cenmag.bsky.social

We’re super excited to have Delger on the team!!

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host @craigofwaffles.bsky.social speaks with @bribarbu.bsky.social about her article diving into the new and exciting frontier of the skeletal editing of molecules. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

Amid scientific debates & controversial studies suggesting an association between low levels of fluoride exposure and slight decline in children’s IQ, residents of Brigham City and beyond are grappling with policies that endanger public access to fluoride cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP www.science.org/content/arti...

Lots of chemists work in the US on H-1B visas. The new $100,000 fee is likely to prevent many brilliant scientists from coming here, which would be a huge loss. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/careers/empl...

It's that time of year again! Any bets on who will win the chemistry Nobel this year?

RFK Jr.’s claim that Tylenol causes autism has no backing Genetic factors are far more likely to influence a child’s later diagnosis. cen.acs.org/policy/RFK-J... #chemsky 🧪

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin boasted about how the agency is taking action to “ensure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water.” At the same time, the agency terminated over $15 million in grants for “forever chemicals” research. (Published July)

"The atmosphere doesn't care how many solar panels we build. it cares how many fossil-fuel burning plants we don't," Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative at #ClimateWeekNYC

Last year, I smelled a corpse flower for the first time at the US botanic garden, and immediately texted @chemj.bsky.social about the skink. It’s very cool to see Mj’s work on corpse flowers published!

My first block print just happens to be a celebration of the High Seas Treaty, the first international framework for protecting marine life 🐋🐋

We've reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets! I talked with @aussiastronomer.bsky.social about where things go from here. (A great graphic by @unamandita.bsky.social visualizes the amazing jumps in planet finds since the first ones were confirmed in the 1990s.)

Who pays for wildfire damage? In the West, utilities are shifting the risk to customers. Utah laws cap wildfire damages and let utilities pass the cost onto customers. Utility lobbyists are pushing the model in other states. grist.org/wildfires/wh... #utilities #CA #California #Policy #Wildfire

Wildfire smoke could soon kill 71,000 Americans every year. The haze may already kill 40,000 people in the U.S. each year — the same number who die in traffic crashes. Climate change will only make matters worse. grist.org/health/wildf... #Wildfire #Smoke #Climate #Health #Wellness #Disaster

Just wrote about a wild new #geophysics finding: Satellites have detected the gravitational signal of mass redistribution in the deep Earth, near the core-mantle boundary. 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

"It’s a study in the perils of relying on the ultrarich to fund science: when the guy with the billions is ready to move on, the whole project is off." Remember Breakthrough Starshot, which was supposed to send a fleet of tiny probes to Proxima Centauri? By @sarahscoles.bsky.social in SciAm 🧪🛰️

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...