This is bonkers - in popular energy-related areas, 10 -15% of the TOTAL papers are reviews or perspectives @pubs.acs.org #ACSEnergyLetters Editorial: Should You Really be Writing A(nother) Review Manuscript? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

What's sad about this is that Disney recently produced Andor, which may be the best written show about fighting fascism and what happens when you don't, and then failed to understand their own content by capitulating to said fascist! Irony is dead!

Andor is an excellent watch.

There is no more timely show than Andor.

I would like to invite the CEO of Disney to take some time off and watch a television series titled “Andor”. I can’t remember who made it, but it’s really good and he needs to understand its message.

Science denial, whether it’s climate change or efficacy of vaccines, hurts us all.

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

There was a school shooting today. Gun safety laws are needed! www.denverpost.com/2025/09/10/e...

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I’m sure this will be fine. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

It's hard to write when you have songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters stuck in your head.

For those following the DOE climate report, DOE is getting sued because they didn't follow the relevant laws. www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel...

With Trump set to use crime as a fake justification to threaten DC today, media coverage should make one thing clear: At this point his pattern of manufacturing pretexts for militarizing domestic law enforcement has become undeniable. Some thoughts on that here: newrepublic.com/article/1987...

If institutions pay, they will just keeping asking for more.

The media needs to stop calling these “settlements.” They are extortion payments. UCLA did not do any damage to the federal government it doesn’t have to “settle” shit.

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Well shit www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Would love people that have worked on the IPCC to comment on this 'report' www.energy.gov/topics/climate

Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.

Excited to showcase our group’s work at the 21st ICBIC in Long Beach! Stop by our posters and join us for the research talks!

What a great way to kick off #ICBIC21 ! A fabulous brunch with friends, old and new! @chemjen.bsky.social Make your way down to Long Beach this week for an amazing lineup of speakers and posters presenting on all things new and exciting in #bioinorganic

Job listing at UCI Chemistry recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09715

🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels. They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B). If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...

The 2025 GYA membership call is open until 15 Sept. 18:00 UTC. Applications are sought from young, independent scholars who combine the highest level of research excellence with a demonstrated passion for delivering impact. More info can be found here: globalyoungacademy.net/call-for-new...

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

👀👀 www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademi...

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

She voted for a bill she thinks will hurt Americans but wants other people to fix it for her

Well, fuck

The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems. www.science.org/content/arti...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

The International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) is taking place in Long Beach, CA from July 28 - Aug 1! There is still time to register and submit an abstract! www.icbic21.org

Hundreds of graduate students are writing to their hometown newspapers to defend their research, as the Trump administration drastically reduces science funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”

#BethesdaDeclaration @standupforscience.bsky.social I decided to share the opportunity to sign the support letter for the Bethesda Declaration with my entire email list for our family holiday letter. I learned some important lessons. 1/n

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Spending a few days with intramural researcher at NIH has me thinking about the old Bell Labs, the storied research institute where major breakthroughs in physics, chemistry and mat sci (and associated @nobelprize.bsky.social awards) were made in the 70s-80s 1/n

A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social‬, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”.

A tactic of fascism is moral corruption of the public by using fear to induce inaction. The signatories of dissent are protecting themselves and all of us by stepping up. Thank you.

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.

“Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems…The UC system is the state’s third largest employer, and both systems are major engines of research…”