+1. Same here @coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov

I don't think this one should count. Self-aware.

I opened the Post website a few minutes ago and saw this. Indistinguishable from Breitbart slop. Bad writing and incoherent garbage. The editorial board was to my left growing up, but I enjoyed learning from the articles and op-eds. There's nothing to learn here. So sad to see what Bezos has done.

We have a new pre-print out focusing on SrIrO3-SrCoO3 superlattices! Jibril Ahammad led this work as part of his PhD research at Auburn. Jibril is on the market for a postdoc and has expertise in MBE film growth, transport, and X-ray spectroscopy. Feel free to message me if you have a position! 🧪⚛️

Couldn't happen to a better pair. One of the last straws for me with Auburn was bringing Freeze in as a coach. Made me feel dirty to be associated with a school that would employ him.

There was a discussion on LinkedIn yesterday about the good days of Academic Twitter before everything went to crap and we left. I'm curious why we haven't been able to recreate that here. A lot of the same folks are here, but there's not as much engagement. What's Bluesky missing? ⚛️🧪

This is for the head of the Office of Naval Research, which oversees university funding and the Naval Research Lab. I assume similar moves are planned at AFOSR/AFRL and ARO/ARL. Folks assumed DOD research would be safe, but that's definitely not a given. They're intent on breaking our government. 🧪⚛️

Paging UVA... The school has a conservative legal scholar as Interim President right now. Everyone is still waiting for him to act.

Sign me up for this version of tenure. Great 🧵

Good work @ssurovell.bsky.social and company! This is how to send a message. @abigailspanberger.com should speak up as well and make clear that what the current Board of Visitors has allowed will not be continuing after she takes office.

This has been a great service to the oxide thin film community since COVID. And it's free! 🧪⚛️

Nice short thread here. My favorite example of the length of time between discovery and application is superconductivity and MRI's. Superconductors were discovered in 1911, and the first MRI-like techniques were implemented in the 1970's, but they truly became widely available in the 90's and 00's.

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities! We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no. Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

I moved to the @udelaware.bsky.social to join a school that is a leader in my research field. Now the administration is going to selectively prioritize schools that sign on, which hurts our state. No school should sign. @coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov 🧪⚛️

If my grad alma mater, UVA, signs this they'll be dead to me. This is completely antithetical to academic freedom. Cc @juliamahoney.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

There's a really nice explanation (with clear graphics) in this @quantamagazine.bsky.social article of why most molecules in the atmosphere (oxygen & nitrogen) don't act as greenhouse gases, but a lot of the far less numerous ones (like carbon dioxide and methane) do. A great teaching aid :)

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

To my H-1B friends, I am so fucking sorry. This all sucks so much.

Holy shit 🧪⚛️ wapo.st/4nJSE26

This is the best summary of the current state of affairs in our country that I have read. Kudos to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social for writing such a prescient article.

Delaware football is playing Colorado in the first FBS v. FBS matchup in school history. QB just got smushed and lost his helmet. Welcome to the big leagues...

Note: bsky.app/profile/rvat...

This would be a disaster for STEM education, research, and industry. 🧪⚛️ It would make it very difficult for students to come to the US and nearly impossible for them to stay in research or industry after finishing their degrees. @coons.senate.gov @bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov

Out of all the ways the GOP has failed to control Trump and prevent the collapse of our country into authoritarianism, this is what gets me the most. People who clearly know better (Bush first among many) just couldn't be bothered to do anything.

Looking for highly motivated individuals who are keen to work on superconductivity in thin films of lanthanum nickelates. The project encompasses thin film growth by MBE, ARPES and STM. For the full advert, see www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/....

This ruling makes me very happy to no longer be teaching in Alabama.

Fantastic thread on how science (and expertise in general) actually functions ⚛️🧪

Good opportunity for folks in the oxide community. 🧪⚛️

Important thread for international graduate students. ⚛️🧪

If you're in the south in #academia I recommend taking this survey.

With everything going on, it's nice to spend time in the lab and get to work with my students here in @udelaware.bsky.social FINCH Lab. We've been working all summer to get our oxide MBE up and running. As of today, we're ready to bake out the system and get back into film growth. Great week! ⚛️🧪

Nowhere is this more obvious than in Virginia, with UVA, George Mason, and VMI. University boards have done so much damage to higher ed in the last few years and it is accelerating right now.

As I was saying... 🧪⚛️ wapo.st/4lPELyy

There is a deep problem with Michael Bender, Alan Blinder & Michael Schmidt's article. This isn't a dispute or Harvard making a deal. As many have said this is extortion as in "nice university you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it." 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

We get a 2-for-1 here @udelaware.bsky.social. The school has a great creamery and our house is 5 minutes from an adorable little creamery with cows in the field as you drive past.

In case anyone wonders why I'm not taking my research group to the premier international conference in our field this year, this is why. I know I would be able to re-enter the country, but I'm not going to subject international students in my group to the chance of being detained like this. ⚛️🧪

This is incredibly well said. I know people at Harvard and Columbia are suffering, just as people at the next institutions the administration targets will suffer. The only way this ends is when universities collectively stand up and say no.

This is absolutely pathetic from my alma mater, @cmu.edu. Selling out on free speech values in the name of not offending an administration and President that view academia as the enemy.

This is a fantastic thread. I grew up as the son of two UVA alums and did my Ph.D. there. The culture clash between the alumni from decades gone by and modern academia has been holding UVA back for 25+ years. The school should be so much better than it is but instead is headed for decline. #uva

this is exactly right. the goal of youngkin and his board of visitors is to rewind the clock back to when UVA was a school for unexceptional children of the state’s conservative elites. even expanding UVA to serve all of the state’s talented students, regardless of background, is too much.

This disastrous bloodbath is coming for every single R1 university in the country. I still can’t believe the total lack of loud public collective action to speak out against it. It’s mind-boggling to me. Mancur Olson was right, I guess.

Happy 4th of July everyone- this is the most American thing I’ve read today - please read every word: Goodbye to All That www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

This is such a fantastic story. Must read on what I view as the darkest 4th of July in my lifetime.

Let’s call it what it is — UVA President Jim Ryan’s forced resignation is an attack on all of our public higher education institutions.

His assumption, and mistake, is to think that his resignation will protect others. More likely is that those he is trying to protect will be at the complete mercy of the maga crowd, including the president, with no one standing in the way. UVA will suffer more.

Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.

Absolute disaster for my Ph.D. alma mater and a school that I love. There need to be protests on The Lawn that last all summer.