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“How do you get penalized for playing a tough schedule by not making the NCAA Tournament?” Specifically mentioning Auburn… Because you won barely half the time! And if we based the field on schedule strength, it would be full of SWAC and MEAC teams!

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

According to the Louisiana Democratic Party, Chasity Martinez got outpsent by a 3-to-1 margin in tonight's election yet still turned in a 37-point overperformance—and a victory.

The administrators of Columbia, Penn, Brown will do their best one day to gaslight us into believing they did the best they could, but it’s harder when others made different choices.

Blue wave watch: Democrat flips Trump +17 Texas Senate seat in 32-point swing www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...

BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points. How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

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Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

National Security Advisor Pelt to Ohio State, but about 13-10s

Ohio State to Michigan, "You can't beat me 13-10 again." Michigan, "no...[points at massive bison in the background] but he can."

Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux. See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta ([email protected]) and I ([email protected]) with questions!

To Arctic explorers out there!,this article journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... just got published in BAMS! It provides highlight of CHACHA project! @biometlab.bsky.social @paulstoy.bsky.social @eliebz.bsky.social @profdesai.bsky.social @andrewpault.bsky.social @ametsoc.org

A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...

Thanks Faye for sharing this

The David Sinclair award went to absolute powerhouse of aerosol science Jonathan Reid And Jason Surratt @surrattairchemlab.bsky.social was recognized by many generations of of his group members and AAAR for his excellence in teaching, mentoring and training 💖💖 #AAAR2025

All-time great plenary this morning on aerosol monitoring networks in the US and globally by Ann Dillner #AAAR2025

Hearty congratulations to Celia Faiola and Coty Jen, joint recipients of the Kenneth T. Whitby award for excellence in aerosol research by an early career researcher #AAAR2025

Plenary speaker Chris Hogan shares some eye-opening thoughts on the Knudsen number at 8 AM #AAAR2025

If the Supreme Court killed the Voting Rights Act by early January, Republicans in several Southern states would likely have enough time before the 2026 elections to re-gerrymander their congressional maps and target Black Democrats whose seats are currently protected by the VRA

Very happy to see this paper out! This has been a fun collaboration between @mcneill-lab.org and the Grassian group at UCSD. We are moving closer towards model representations of this intriguing size dependent microdroplet chemistry. Modeling by @sandhyasethuraman.bsky.social !

A ton of effort goes into tracking special elections on our Big Board, so we're always grateful when people cite us by name and link us. This data—especially the presidential results, which we calculate by hand—doesn't grow on trees! Ds now running 15.7 pts ahead of 2024. In 2017-18, it was D+10.6.

Today, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors proclaimed September 9, 2025, to be “Dr. Kimberly Prather and Dr. Paula Stigler Granados Day” in the County of San Diego. Supervisor and Scripps alumna Paloma Aguirre authored the proclamation. Congrats to @kprather.bsky.social and Paula!

Evidently this needs to be said: Do not spray nitric acid into the air in the hopes of limiting viral transmission. More pollution is not the solution. At all.

we could have wall to wall coverage of Trump's health. it could be the most important issue in the country right now, and not without decent reason. there could be wild speculation about his bruising and his public absences. there could be multiple front-page NYT stories. but who is he, Joe Biden?

So the lab just got our first price quote with the Trump Tariffs included. Turns out that an increase in the cost of a scientific instrument by 39% (the tariff rate for Switzerland as of Aug 7) is…a lot of money! 1/

Check out the USEPA's newest air cleaning allies activity book for children. DJ is definitely the coolest (and with additional filters in parallel - a more effective ally than Aerie).👇 www.epa.gov/system/files...

HUGE FLIP: Democrat Catelin Drey wins deep-red state Senate seat in Iowa, breaking the GOP's supermajority. Drey won by 11 points in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year. It's another massive overperformance. The Iowa GOP should be very worried for the midterms. Our full writeup:

Catelin Drey crushed it tonight, winning by 55.2% to 44.8% in an Iowa Senate district that Trump carried by 11. Can't wait to dig into the precinct-level results. @ZacharyOS.bsky.social and I will talk with the Democrat tomorrow.

We talk about it in our piece, but Catelin Drey ran on a very clear message: affordability and education. It's a message that works everywhere. (The Republican, meanwhile, wanted to eliminate Iowa's income tax and replace it with ... nothing.)

One more special election tonight, for CA's conservative 63rd Assembly District. Results here: electionresults.sos.ca.gov/special/stat... Our writeup:

Sometimes at an atmospheric chemistry conference you realize the presenter is showing a blueprint of your old apartment @andrewpault.bsky.social @amfankhauser.bsky.social

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 43 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky

Harvey Mudd is hiring a tenure track analytical chemist. Come join my department!

#AAAR2025 deadlines ahead! Don’t miss: ✍ Late-breaking poster abstracts due July 25 – submit for topical areas, special symposia & more: brnw.ch/21wUggW 💸 Super Early Bird reg. ends July 31 – lock in the lowest rates: brnw.ch/21wUggV 🎓 Student Assistant apps due Aug 1: brnw.ch/21wUggU

We had the opportunity today to visit the tower at the DOE AMF3 site at Bankhead National Forest. We need federal funding to enable resources like this to understand fundamental processes occurring on Earth.

Happy International Women's Day! A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people. A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈 www.wired.com/story/the-te...

📣 Deadline extended! You now have until June 27, 2025, to submit nominations for two prestigious AAAR awards: 🏆 Susanne V. Hering Award 🔗 brnw.ch/21wTvWB 📄 AS&T Outstanding Publication Award 🔗 brnw.ch/21wTvWA Winners will be announced at the #AAAR2025 Annual Conference! #AnnualAwards

The board of the Fulbright program appears to have entirely resigned, accusing the State Department of illegally canceling scholarships "based mainly on research topics": www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

What a humiliating defeat for former UMich president Santa Ono: "And I’m here to ensure that DEI never returns to the University of Florida," he said—today. And now:

AAAR has new travel grants for current/recent federal scientists and program managers and an updated job board coming soon. See below for a statement from the AAAR Executive Committee: @americanaerosol.bsky.social @vfmcneill.bsky.social @jessekroll.bsky.social @andrewpault.bsky.social

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Remarkable how batteries are transforming CAISO. If deployment quadrupled (challenging now with the tariffs), non-co2 emitting sources (solar + hydro + nuclear + wind + geothermal) could provide nearly 24 hours of carbon free electricity.

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

2/ Just as critically, numerous cancer cure research studies (along with various other diseases) are being killed in secret while making it hard for news to get out because nothing has officially been canceled. If you have a loved one with cancer, sorry.

The current administration’s narrative that Harvard (and all universities) feel “entitled” to federal dollars misleads the public. Nor are these funds a “privilege” 1/n