Fleet fingered element lovers, it's time to take C&EN’s periodic table challenge. Can you beat my score? 28 on Minute Challenge #chemsky cen.acs.org/education/sc...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

It's Axl Rose's birthday today, so no better way to celebrate than by sharing this classic @johnmoe.bsky.social piece.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎉 Congratulations to Meha Jain, winner of the inaugural ASU–Science Prize for Transformational Impact, for pioneering work that uses satellite data and artificial intelligence to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change while protecting the environment. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3McGb9K

What effect has living in an era of informational "noise" and emergence of AI "slop" had on our nervous systems and bodies? Artist-researcher Eryk Salvaggio explores these questions through an award-winning video essay and hybrid performance happening at the MSU Museum on Feb 12: bit.ly/BR_2_12_26

"The cathodic sonnet at C3 serenades the reduction of a wispy oxide film caressing the nickel surface. " Now I kind of want to start a symphonic metal band just so I can call it Cathodic Sonnet.

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED: You now have until Sunday, Feb 8 to apply for Planet Detroit's Neighborhood Reporting Lab! Learn to report on environmental and health issues in your Detroit neighborhood. No journalism experience needed. Apply →

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

For everyone who’s ever asked why I call a concussion a brain injury or had a debate with your spouse about whether your child should play football, this video’s for you. Thanks to ⁦‪Chris Nowinski and ⁦‪Matt Hasselbeck‬⁩ for joining me on radio row at Super Bowl 60 www.freep.com/videos/sport...

Squirrels cast shadows, or they may not. No way to predict the weather. #SquirrelHaiku #GroundhogsDay Fox Squirrels in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on February 2nd, 2026 #flickr #Squirrels #SquirrelOfTheDay #SquirrelWisdom #Michigan #sqrlpix #squirrelsofbluesky flic.kr/p/2rUQDYx

Excited to share the findings from Therese Christensen's and my article! In a nutshell: living in Denmark doesn't prevent you from experiencing a motherhood earnings penalty, but it does give you access to government benefits that help offset those financial losses.

Should not be used.

I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.

Y’all must read this deep-dive on ultraprocessed foods by @edelger.bsky.social! At the very least, scroll to the quiz and see if you can figure out the line between “processed” and “ultraprocessed” foods 🥦🍦🍯 ngl, I got a bit salty over some of them cen.acs.org/policy/US-ul...

No. 13 Michigan State women’s basketball will face the biggest game of its season Sunday when it welcomes No. 9 Michigan to East Lansing, but first, the Spartans took care of business on the road.

I, for one, welcome our new big small cat overlords. bridgemi.com/outdoors-lif...

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

Public trust in science and technology is a serious, growing problem, especially now. Instead of trying to solve it with better communication, we should adopt a more inclusive approach to innovation that takes low-tech, incremental, and system-wide solutions seriously. My new piece @science.org 👇🏽🧵

It's shocking that they're doing unlawful voter purges in Ypsilanti Township. Good work by the @acluofmichigan.bsky.social to discover what was happening and challenge it. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

ENTRIES CLOSE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1: Enter your best work from 2025 in the National Association of Science Writers' Science in Society Journalism Awards or Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards by February 1, 2026. Discounted entry fees for members. Membership not required:

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

“What we know in research is that there are people who would be alive today if they hadn’t had access to a firearm when they were acutely suicidal,” said April Zeoli, director at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Michigan. Story from @kdailey.bsky.social

Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

The scientific illustration for this paper is sending me. Post your best caption below phys.org/news/2026-01...

Look. Alls I'm saying is that if you were serious about being a highly mobile warrior, you'd be drinking horse milk. https://bit.ly/4pQi5iM

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

This is awesome.

The choir was just a warmup - the NAACP president and MLK's godchild are issuing strong challenges to U-M and academia as a whole in their remarks. Please watch later if you can't watch live. #MLKDay

I remember running through the wet grass Falling a step behind Both of us never tiring

We can't say this often enough or loud enough...

"Traffic isn’t chaos. It’s just therapy with horns. Every red light is a breathing exercise. Every missed exit is an opportunity for growth."

"...the Great Lakes are the great uniters of the region. And they need all of us to stand up for them now as we envision and work to enact a better future."

I'd like to chat with people who have applied for grad school in chem or biochem for fall 2026 for an article in C&EN (@cenmag.bsky.social) about how funding changes in the US are impacting admissions. If this is you, please fill out this form. forms.office.com/r/5xUxaqEnfX #chemsky #chemchat

As various groups roll out their analyses of 2025 temperature records today (spoiler alert: it’s hot) , NOAA and NASA are not holding the joint press conference they usually do to announce their recap. Data will be released but without the open chance to talk to agency experts that usually exists.

Targeting by the FDA. Toothpaste investigations. Medicaid changes that threaten to limit access. Even as critics of water fluoridation point to other sources of fluoride as an alternative — usually in the name of individual choice — many are creating barriers to these same products. My new story:

Sam has been standing at this window all day but still can't think of anything to proclaim.

I did not like reading this, but I did agree with it.

Matt Ryan ate dinner and did all his homework, so he gets to be President of Football. defector.com/matt-ryan-at...

Of course a strange maze would terrify a mouse that has only ever known a shoebox. But what of a mouse that has explored a vast field, ran from the spatter of raindrops, felt the warmth of the sun and the chill of night, and dug into the living soil of the Earth? defector.com/what-a-week-...

It is Friday and the store is open until 3:30pm! Today we have this good boy with the cone of shame for $15.

Amazing images from the Rubin observatory displayed tonight at #AAS247 in Phoenix, at the Arizona Science Center. This is the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae first light image projected on a planetarium dome.

Knicks HC Mike Brown used to babysit Pistons HC J.B. Bickerstaff. You read that right. Talked to the top two coaches in the East ahead of Monday’s showdown about their 30-plus-year relationship, which features a love for Jelly Roll. Exclusive: www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...

We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6

Exciting news! I was interviewed by @currentbiology.bsky.social for their Q & A section, where I talk about the future of palaeontology, dangers of AI in education, social media and science communication. Featuring, my doodles! cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01552-0

I absolutely love this video about semiconductors from my engineering and multimedia colleagues at @umichnews.bsky.social. It takes me back having the TV/VCR cart rolled into science class to watch Powers of Ten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CFv...

"There's a lot of bad stupid in the world right now and I think we need more good stupid."

What I wouldn't give to be an ancient jawless fish...

Potter Park Zoo will be collecting holiday lights to be recycled through the end of January! Proceeds go to fund their annual Wonderland of Lights. Read more at bit.ly/3MF8sG3