We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

Hey Minnesotans. Have your bosses sent you a mealy-mouthed email about how to remain productive during these troubled times or some other example of non-committal, faux-concerned corporate-speak? We want to publish a bunch of these. Send examples to keith at racketmn.com. You will NOT be identified.

Please share. 💔

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Board of Peace - Season 1

📢New seminar alert! Next Wednesday! 📌Hydrazone-Based Adaptive Materials 🗣️Ivan Aprahamian, Dartmouth College 📅Wednesday 28 January 2026 🕚11 AM icmab.es/hydrazone-ba...

Come work with us at Nature Chemistry! We're hiring a locum editor to handle our chembio content in London or Pune.

The self sabotage of American science in full display. Thousands of grants supporting clinical trials of new treatments, basic science and clinical translation have been terminated over the last 12 months. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

NSF is open for feedback on their strategic plan, deadline is Jan 27!! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Minnesota is more than what you see on TV. We’re a state that believes in the dignity of all people. We feed our kids and take care of our neighbors. I’m proud of the ways Minnesotans are meeting the moment with decency and generosity - as we always do. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Congressman Aderholt from Alabama is the chair and he is apparently willing to help OMB here, adding report language (which is toothless) rather than including this in the law. If you are from Alabama, please contact his office and your Senators and share your thoughts. 2/3

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

This is what RFK thinks about vulnerable children.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

#Sabbatical in Europe begins. First stop: Barcelona, where I’ll spend time picking the brains 🧠 of @moth-poulsen.bsky.social and @damabilino.bsky.social. Then it’s off to Berlin to do the same with Stefan Hecht 😂. Say hi if you’re nearby #chemsky #chemsky

BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.

House Judiciary Committee releases on New Years Eve (in an obvious attempt to bury this info) the Jack Smith deposition transcript. I recommend doing a word search for "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." And explanation of disenfranchisement of urban areas. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis https://theonion.com/israel-agrees-to-go-back-to-killing-palestinians-on-less-frequent-basis/

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.

Considering how often his name still comes up, even in the most random settings, it’s difficult to believe that he is no longer with us. RIP, Fraser #chemsky #chemchat

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

"In what data the government has so far released, covering the first half of the blitz, a Tribune analysis found only about 1.5% of those detained for immigration-related reasons had been convicted of a violent felony or sex crime."

OSTP has issued a request for information, please share with them your ideas for how to improve government functions related to science funding and policy www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Come be my colleague @ucdchemistry.bsky.social! We're currently looking for an organic chemist (broadly defined) to start as a permanent (i.e., tenured) assistant professor. Job reference (www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...) is 019237. Due date Feb. 27, 2026 Reach out if you have questions!

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. Trump's economy.

The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors. Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

“After all, research supervisors are just as good as their students” — Sir J. Fraser Stoddart. A wise take-home message from one of the founding fathers of MASC—who sadly passed away almost a year ago—in a 1991 BBC broadcast. #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

#GVerse #Attention Jessica Tarlov delivers brutal reality check on #Shit4Brain’s economy: just 17,000 jobs added per month, 700,000 more Americans out of work than last year, and youth unemployment soaring past 10%. Share widely.

We’re going to share it with The Atlantic on Signal. 🤡

Step 1: Fire the experts funding American science. Step 2: Change review process. (You are here) Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues. Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.

Download our large database of funding opportunities for early-career faculty and researchers Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 433 funding opportunities.

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

PhD contract available in the @icmabcsic.bsky.social in my group to work on the synthesis and characterization of New Photosensitisers for Panchromatic Photoisomerization. Retweets appreciated. Candidates please contact me directly.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow