Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

Made some choreg (Armenian easter bread).. And yes that's a 🥨 shaped choreg, cause Berlin. Happy Easter to all who celebrate today 🐰

Lost in translation...

Come and join my group at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social! We have an opening for a postdoc position in photopharmacology. Prior experience with photoswitches and photopharmacology essential. Deadline 27th April. For more details see my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #Chemsky

Hi #chemsky! I'm looking for examples of U.S. labs that have closed, moved overseas, or otherwise been lost in the last year. If this is you or someone you know, please reach out: [email protected] or LDattaro.73 on Signal.

you don't need an umbrella when all your clothes are made from plastic

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

hmm

Bernie is the billionaire class’s nightmare.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

Supramolecular chemists, can you help me out? Who do you recognise in this photograph from 1994?

Hey #SupraChem community, have you registered for the #ISCSummerSchool2026 yet?!?! No?? 😱 No worries, there are still two weeks to do it! The deadline is fixed to April 12th!! So, check it out on the website for all the info 👇👇https://convegni.unica.it/iscsummerschool2026/!!

Fancy a career in scientific publishing? We're looking for an Associate/Senior Editor with expertise in device engineering to join the Nature Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team. Can be based in Shanghai or Pune. Closing date: April 15th. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Protesting at the big No Kings rallies may feel gratifying, but does it really accomplish anything? It’s a fair question. I give four reasons why we all should attend if we can tomorrow. My write-up in the replies.

FELLOW AUTHORS: the deadline to file a claim in the Anthropic settlement for stealing all our work is MONDAY. The settlement provides for $3000 per work. GO GET YOUR MONEY. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

A very well produced story from NBC in San Diego about disruptions to can cancer research. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investi...

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

It's only force majeure if it comes from the Majeure region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling shitshow.

Don't miss your chance to sign up for a fantastic conference with a great lineup! You still have a chance until 15 April. Join us in Groningen #ISOP2026 #photochemistry

Excited to share our recent @jacs.acspublications.org Pulling a fluorinated 1,2-diazetidinone mechanophore through three arms activates two orthogonal mechanochemical pathways, quantitatively mapped using 19F NMR spectroscopy. bit.ly/40EHUZl #chemsky

youtu.be/y4jE8qRIz60 #artsakh #armenia

📅 Lutz Ackermann, Peter Gölitz, Dieter Kaufmann, and Oliver Reiser have organized an Armin de Meijere Memorial Symposium, “From Small Rings to Large Compounds”, which will take place on May 22, 2026, at the University of Göttingen. Registration required (see program l-i-c.org/news-events....).

An American hero who provided medical care to the Boston Marathon bombing victims had his home destroyed by Israel today in an attack on a civilian area. In any world, that should be headline news here in the United States. Journalists and editors, where you at?

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Almost Final call for oral abstracts for ISOP 2026! Join us in Groningen on 6–9 July for four days of exciting photochromism, discussion and networking. 🌐 isop2026.eu 🗓 Oral abstracts will continue to be considered until 15 April #ISOP2026 #Photochemistry #MolecularSwitches #ChemSky

Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields. It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

The arXiv is becoming a nonprofit separate from Cornell, and they're looking for a CEO. Please repost to let good candidates know! @dabacon.tachyon.institute, @harrowing.bsky.social, @michaelnielsen.bsky.social jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

Chemistry in current events: the connections between fertilizer, the Haber-Bosch process, and the Persian Gulf. Read this and your knowledge will exceed that of most of our current political leadership after only a few minutes of light work:

The genius businessman strikes again

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking forward to the SupraChem 2026 meeting at @tu-dortmund.de sites.google.com/view/suprach... @suprachem2026.bsky.social #chemsky

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Still not sure if you should attend a Take Back our Science Rally today? If you do nothing, nothing will change, and the way the current administration deals with science, things need to change. Visit this link to find your local rally! fight2win.standupforscience.... #March7

Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/

It is a good time to reach out to your friends/colleagues who are from the middle east

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

30 years. This video should be on every network.

I'm a organic materials chemist with experience in synthesis and characterization of small molecules and polymers. I have recently returned to Ontario after 18 years in the US. I'm looking for opportunities in and around the Greater Toronto Area, if possible. Would love to chat! #chemchat #chemjobs