Congratulations to 2025 #MacFellow William Tarpeh! The Stanford chemical engineer is working on sustainable and practical solutions to treat wastewater and recover valuable mineral resources. 🗞️: stanford.io/3IZIBqF

Do you like things to be orderly but still a little unpredictable? Check out sessions like “Quasicrystalline, incommensurate modulated, and composite phases” or “Approximate Periodic Symmetry”, just to name a couple. Browse the microsymposium list at www.iucr2026.org/mic...

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Another in a long list of shamefully backward moves this administration has taken that weakens American higher education.

Thank you, everyone, for the support. You can now read my full account at The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Our paper in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. @pnas.org on simulating solid–solid phase transformations particle-by-particle is online now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We observed all three canonical pathways between the body-centered cubic and face-centered cubic sphere packings in unprecedented detail ...

This work was conducted primarily by Dr. Reum Scott and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), through the now-archived Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPS-Ascend), as well as by the ACS PRF. @acs.org

Our paper in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. @pccp.rsc.org with @runofthephill.bsky.social on MOF self-assembly simulations is online now, a.k.a. Lego® for MOFs. We demonstrate the spontaneous assembly of rationally designed, coarse-grained, rigid-body models of 34 distinct MOF nets, ...

A Coarse-Grained Simulation Toolkit for Metal–Organic Framework Synthesis https://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-50s8j?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

We are looking for a motivated PhD student working on the project "Interplay of structure and dynamics in aluminum phosphate frameworks" in my group at Bremen University. Application deadline is July 7th. tinyurl.com/rt62tk6y

📣 We're on the lookout for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills! Be the go-to person in the lab for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rythems: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization! More info below👇

We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Raphaële Clément as the Director of our new Electrochemical Materials Department!! 🎉🔋 She’s a battery innovator using NMR magic to unlock greener energy. Welcome to the @maxplanck.de, Raphaële! Learn more at: www.fkf.mpg.de/8744352/2025... 📷 Photo credit: UCSB

Imagine a world without MIT. We'd be missing a lot. www.youtube.com/watc...

Because I have opened a BlueSky window and am procrastinating on reading final papers, let me also share what this spring has been like from my corner of the academic world.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

This speaks to the real contributions international students and faculty make every day, and the real harm we are all facing : www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

As of this morning, we've tracked over 600 student visa revocations at more than 100 colleges. That's double yesterday morning's count. Send updates to me or @amowreader.com and follow @insidehighered.com interactive visa map here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

@liamknox.bsky.social: DHS "formalizing a policy to search the social media accounts of all foreign applicants for US visas or other benefits" per memo. ICE "will collect applicants’ social media handles and scour their accounts for any 'antisemitic activity'”

Breaking News: The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern, two officials said.

Urgently reposting! University leadership need to actively check the SEVIS database every day (studyinthestates.dhs.gov/sevis-help-hub). Ask your chair to commit to it. Yesterday, UW discovered 9 visa cancellations & only found out b/c they ran a status check. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I'm tracking international students who have had their visas revoked / legal status changed in the past month, check out this handy map to see which institutions have reported visa revocations: public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., immigration law professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the human cost. He says the round-ups are designed to "send a message... to scare people, and it's working."

The legality of this aside, having your life disrupted like this mid-semester is awful. For grad students, it doesn't just mean their lives disrupted, it also means research projects thrown into disarray (assuming they survived funding cuts) and classes and labs suddenly deprived of their TAs.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that his department has revoked the student visas of hundreds of students so far, with plans to cancel more.

Jason Stanley says he’s not fleeing the U.S., but he does not want to work in a society that is not free. So he’s going to Canada. chroni.cl/4hK5Ujz

The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK

After much hesitation, I canceled my travel plans to US-based @cecamevents.bsky.social ML workshop. I simply cannot see myself travelling to the US given current politics — especially restrictions on academic freedom, freedom of speech, and immigration. #chemsky

Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday. Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice. To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/

Trump’s Latest Target: Foreign Scholars As the administration continues its crackdown on noncitizens in higher ed, international academics face ICE raids, deportation and challenges at the border. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4iuYmmg

New @thebulletin.org: There's no substitute for NOAA and the National Weather Service Forecast for weaker weather service: Americans will die, businesses will lose billions by @cornelluniversity.bsky.social scientists Toby Ault, Daniele Visioni, & Peter Hitchcock thebulletin.org/2025/03/fore...

This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Essentially all our work is enabled through grants. Federal grants fund scientific research and the livelihood and training of graduate students and researchers at universities such as Cornell. @cornelluniversity.bsky.social

Last week, we published a paper in Phy. Rev. Mater. @apsphysics.bsky.social, on the high-pressure structural transitions in self-assembled systems of isotropic particles: doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

'No one can expect individual scientists to make a stand, at professional and even personal danger (even though some are doing so),' writes Philip Ball. 'But prudence cannot mean timidity, nor can it risk looking like it.'