I’m watching Wimbledon on @espn.com. The sounds from the court are consistently 5 seconds behind the play. The commentary is correctly synced, so this is clearly a production issue. I’m flabbergasted they’re screwing up in such an amateurish way.

Know that libraries count things. How many people have cards, how many times a book or DVD or CD is checked out, etc. And then we take those numbers to our internal staff and say "look, people want this" to justify purchases, and then to local govts to say "look, we need to stay open".

Scott Atlas, the champion of herd immunity as an Fox News commenter and the Trump Advisor during COVID, weighs in with a DEEPLY MININFORMED op-ed in the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/7

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

Another important thread from @jeremymberg.bsky.social , this time on data showing nih programs to improve minority access to research careers worked.

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Are you on the faculty job market? Interested in coming to work here at Stony Brook? (You should be!) Physiology & Biophysics (my home department) is looking to add faculty at the Asst/Assoc Prof level: apply.interfolio.com/148377

Hey, Friends! We've got 3 weeks to submit comments to the Federal Register opposing horrible OMB rules allowing political appointees to terminate US scientific & medical research. Resources in this thread make it EASY to write your letter. I also drafted letters for busy friends & family to submit 🧵

Just submitted my letter to oppose OMB proposal. What are you waiting for? actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Interesting point-counterpoint related to the Matt Ridley "Scientific Freedom" lecture. First, @angierasmussen.bsky.social posted a short comment on The Scientific Literacy Project. geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/06/15/v... 1/9

I wonder what that reader would think of “A Clockwork Orange”.

For all would-be SpaceX investors, reading "A City on Mars" is a strong recommend. Very funny on the many ways space is terrible, uneconomic, and the decades/centuries of (boring, non-phallic rocket related) research needed to make settlement even a vaguely realistic proposition.

#OPENACCESS: A robust platform that computes NMR relaxation rates (longitudinal and translation) from MD trajectories, benchmarked on a bunch of proteins. Do you need a magnet for measuring relaxation or not, find out yourself!

📣 We’re accepting nominations for “Rising Stars in Bioengineering” (self nominations welcomed)! Deadline: Jun 30th, 2026 forms.gle/mmdzutrPk1fd...

Dinner tonight: pork lo mein stir fry with cabbage and carrots

The 2026 University of Rochester iGEM Team's crowdfunding page is live! Help us reach our goal by donating through the link below. Your donation will help fund lab supplies and get us to Paris for the iGEM Jamboree! Link: give.rochester.edu. @urochester.bsky.social @urochesteradm.bsky.social

The server where my wham code has lived for many years has been retired, and the code has been relocated to GitHub (github.com/agrossfield/...). If you maintain a tutorial that references the old site, it would be great if you could update it. 1/2

According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Quartz (especially synthetic) is very common. It’s apparently a bit easier to maintain than granite, and much easier than marble.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Once again, @dereklowe.bsky.social is not holding back and I am here for it. www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

Just paused work, because I saw that Sinner is down in the fifth set at Roland Garros. This would be an enormous upset!

Excited to share this paper from @yiechanglin.bsky.social showing how lipids can move between bacterial membranes along the bridge like protein TamB. Also happy to be able to post the cool movie. 🎥🌟 #MDsimulations #StructuralBiology doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

They took down the paywall for this article. I sent a stern email. They listened. Way to go, @slate.com

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Who is the most outstanding university educator that you can think of? Please repost if you can, I would really appreciate it!

🚨 Lipid Time 🚨 New preprint out! Using high-throughput Martini 2 simulations, we studied ~5,000 transmembrane helices in a phase-separating membrane. Most helices preferred disordered environments, some localized at domain interfaces, but none in the liquid-ordered phase! doi.org/10.64898/202...

Justin Wolfers: “Charts can lie. Liars can chart. And the Department of Labor is now doing both.” newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-lie...

I've approached multiple people without any responses (it's that time of year, I think), so I'm gonna try launching this into the bluesky. I need someone who can speak with me about Mercury geology. This probably means someone who worked on MESSENGER? But please share and thank you for any help! 🧪🔭

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an nba game where one team had 3x the other team’s score midway through the second quarter.

Okay as someone who ran the meal program at a drop in homeless center for three years. I'm going to do a mini thread of the common things I see people posting/asking/. First - I'm pretty sure "freeze dried" actually means vacuum sealed and frozen.

We just preprinted one of my favorite studies @FlatironInst . I was lucky to be part of an amazing team studying the effects of rapid cooling to preserve samples in cryoEM. Read on to learn about the limits of cryoEM for biophysics and how to overcome them www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

An email to Director Bhattacharya to end my weekend. 1/6

If your first instinct when hearing about violence against women is to say “not all men,” this one’s for you

I’m at Alton Brown’s live show. Super-excited to see what he does.

The President's fiscal year 2027 Budget was released today. Important---Important---Important The President's Budget is always fundamentally a political document that Congress may or may not (usually not) take very seriously. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... 1/9

Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11

Melania Trump's robot stunt was unsettling, but here reason is worse: to promote replacing human teachers with robots. This is no one-off. It's the newest front in the GOP war on education. Conservatives hate kids learning to think for themselves. www.salon.com/2026/03/30/w...

Roasted chicken lecture today in my chemistry of cooking class featuring the Zuni Cafe chicken (which should bless your table at some point in your lives). Also talk about @hels.bsky.social & hairdryers www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... And any class I get to say "spatchcock" is a good one

My column in Chemistry World reads a little differently this month:

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

My quote of the day When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There are many problems with this statement from Director Bhattacharya. (1) As @michaeldgreen.phd notes, applicants have no option to requests multi-year funding. An applicant may request a front-loaded budget with more funding in early years with justification (may or may not be approved). 1/6

file sent to me: manuscript_file_final_version.docx subsequent file sent by me: manuscript_file_thats_fucking_adorable.docx

Hi! I write historical (and some contemporary) romances. Here's a list of my books by series in reading order. www.courtneymilan.co... /jb #HistoricalRomance #ContemporaryRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #RomanceAuthor

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...