How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells? Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells. @ucscscience.bsky.social

Four consecutive WSJ headlines tonight showcasing Trump’s tightening grip on the American economy

Sometimes I think my job is just copy/paste my CV into a 87 different formats with the clunkiest UIs. The latest one- you connect your ORCID, select what to import from ORCID to your profile, save each selection, save page. Then go to your application, import from profile, save, save page. 🫠😵

The American Chemical Society announced that the ACS Board of Directors has approved $2.5 million to be granted to graduate students who have been impacted by the termination or cancellation of their adviser’s research grant(s) cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky

Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH. This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined. I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.

Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…

We’re excited to have the latest paper from our corrosion research team published online in Advanced Materials Interfaces! Read on to learn more 🧵👇 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

Science funding IS more than just the research. 💯 @battalio.com on @wclivestream.bsky.social Hear from the weather and climate science community, and what our public $ support, live-streaming now for 100 hours.

At my first annual meeting! & follow @lwvgreatercle.bsky.social for events to stay informed about politics & voting at all levels federal, state, county, local levels in Cleveland

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

Check us out at #ASMS2025 at our posters, Carli is also speaking during the Tuesday Night Young Mass Spectrometrist workshop @ucscscience.bsky.social Find me if you want a sweet Sanchez Lab logo sticker

The Science Magazine Visuals Team has won six awards at the 2025 BioImages competition. 🏆 Check them out below. (THREAD 🧵)

the scientific community is awesome, pass it on

Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…

Ohio lawmakers are once again ambushing the citizen-initiative process. SB 153 is about power -- and who gets to wield it. The answer must remain: the people. We oppose this attack on direct democracy. www.cleveland.com/ne...

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

After 73 years, is NSF's graduate research fellowship program circling the drain? www.science.org/content/arti...

& @physicscwru.bsky.social alum

thankfully you can enjoy the ambiance of infrastructure anywhere with our 12 uninterrupted hours of treated flowing effluent whenever you need them. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...

Yes Adobe. The perfect time to update is literally when I close one document and open another within 5 seconds. Makes perfect sense. #GrantWritingProblems

When I was in college, the President of CWRU in Cleveland, Agnar Pytte told me that his family had been a part of the resistance to German occupation and so he recognized it was an obligation of every citizen to oppose authoritarianism and any hint of censorship of thoughts or speech.

Congrats to two Kisley lab undergrad alumni Ben & Sofia on their NSF honorable mentions!

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.

The demand on NIH wasn’t legal and has been halted by injection I’m not sure why they think this will stand. And always on f*cking Friday evening.

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

It's that time of the year... #Physics & @mlb.com baseball! Professor BOB BROWN reveals secret behind torpedo bats: I-Team fox8.com/news/i-team/... #CWRU ⚾️ Let's go Cleveland Guardians!

Looking forward to attending the Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureships this week by Chapin Korosec, PhD at @physicscwru.bsky.social! Link has info on the 3 talks being held 4/7, 4/8, and 4/10: physics.case.edu/2024-michels...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  @msnbc.com

Definitely a "everything is chemicals" moment here

@cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer is a joke. Their front page today covers CSU wrestling and ranking the DeShaun Watson trade. Like they can't think of anything else more important going on in the world to feature?

Did I acquire my own graduated cylinder and 3D print a graduation cap for it in preparation for my own graduation photos? Perhaps. Being a chemistry major is serious business.

civil servants matter. state capacity matters.

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is Paxillin - illuminating matrix adhesions. 🧫 Our stem cell lines & plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to lower the barriers to scientific discovery. 🚛 Distributed by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social & @addgene.bsky.social

This is so terrifying. I can’t even watch it. Like a horror movie

@marketplace.org @kairyssdal.bsky.social enjoyed the Make Me Smart episode on rare earths. fyi. - the separation is usually done by solvent extraction - so putting you mined or recycle mixture in swimming pool sized vats of kerosene or acids!

Senior lab member Ricardo's defense is this Wednesday! Hope to see you there! @physicscwru.bsky.social

Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

Universities, health systems, and research institutions need to understand that there is already nothing left to lose and that forming a united front now is the only viable option.

At one of my favorite meetings of the year @alleninstitute.bsky.social! Always great to meet up in person with Laura to talk big picture science. Also fun that some of the team was able to join this year!

woof

BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

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