NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Professor Wenlin Zhang received a 2026 Early Investigator Award from @acspmse.bsky.social, which honors early-career researchers who have made significant contributions to polymer materials science and engineering. https://bit.ly/3PLGZ7r

Hearing Zeytuntsiner on @vermontpublic.org as part of the “Caucasian Sketches” was not on my bingo list for today.

felt like there was not much reporting on Trump's investigation of Yale Med School, and the reporting that did exist undersold how batshit the investigation is I have attempted to remedy these errors ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Congrats to Vedang and the other honorees!! 🎉

Want to stay close to science, but you've decided the lab isn't right for you? Have you considered a career in editorial? Well, if you have a background in biomedical engineering or biomaterials (or materials science more generally - see linked ad) then your next job could be at Nature Materials!

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

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Morphologically chiral crystals from achiral dyes, made by Lizzie Killalea. Dedicated to the memory of Fraser Stoddart who loved stereochemistry, as we do. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Pulitzer Prize winner gets no media coverage. Total coincidence he is a Palestinian? #whatsthescam @kimwingerei.bsky.social #gaza michaelwest.com.au/palestininan...

Had a great time visiting @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and learning about the history of the city and the chemistry department (sitting in Bunsen's chair in one of the pics). #chemsky

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afternoon. https://bit.ly/4e7Q9VE

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose

Impunity is what you get when genocide is not prosecuted and justice is not served. Impunity is what emboldens others to commit genocide. Coming full circle 111 years later, impunity is what allows you to publicly boast abt your ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Karabakh/Artsakh. #ArmenianGenocide

Ok chemsky here's the @gracegdhan.bsky.social paper in print, and I've been working with Chris Bickel for coming up on 20 years, but I think you'll all agree he outdid himself with the artistic concept of this cover!

Sadly, another April 24th commemorating the continued destruction of the presence of Armenian indigenous communities in our traditional homelands.

There seems to be a dispute on this.

A big step forward in Photopharmacology, just published in Nature Medicine: nature.com/articles/s41... A compound we conceptualized in 2008 (PMCID: PMC4040390) and synthesized in 2010 (PMCID: PMC3401033) proves effective in human vision restoration.

My son Danny is competing for the grand prize in the John Lennon Songwriting competition in the category “Folk”. Please vote for him! You could also win a guitar! jlsc.com/vote.php Here’s a live version ❤️ www.instagram.com/reel/DXHqLPb... You can check him out on dannybradleymusic.com

Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social

Atoms are not real #chemsky #chemchat www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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

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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...