EU augments opportunities for scientists around the world to launch or re-launch their careers in Europe.

Yeah this is actual unironic advice for any 1st years: you seriously need to go get beers or otherwise hangout socially with more senior grad students (no one else will really know) and hopefully get ensconced enough that someone will tell you “hey just fyi Dr. GoodPubs is low-key a total sociopath”

I’m pretty sure succulents are souvenirs from another planet.

I feel like this is the wrong question: it’s not that Trump will have a third term, more that it’ll be harder for any Democrat to beat the Republican Party. There’s no federal law saying states have to count votes. We’re on the verge of being a 1 party system.

Great way to find people who grew up in St Louis: Hi Fi. Fo Fum.

The strangest part of adulthood, and parenthood, is how often you need to fake being awake, alert, and excited.

For those with kids, Elon is Gobby and Trump is Rhino, right?

How are we going to save democracy when we can’t even do group projects?

This feels existential for US science: To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work (e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.) No institution could *ever* comply.

The smartest people in the world would come here to solve the hardest problems. The richest people in the world would bring their money here. And we’re breaking that. Possibly for good.

Thoughts on Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind saying that AI could cure disease in general in ten years. Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!

To all the historians out there, people who study the Madagascar Plan, people who study the causes of the Opium War, people who study Smoot-Hawley and its impact, how much do you want to scream right about now?

In case you're looking for a book to help you understand Trumpism, this was a "warning" written by a former high-ranking Nazi official in 1938 after he escaped Germany. Almost every page reads like a description of what's happening in America...

How do you make anything from vibranium?

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

What would Descartes think about AGI?

I feel like we should bring back those old WWII posters that say “The walls have ears”

Down into the details of how compounds and binding sites interact:

Bookmarking this valuable tracker on student visa revocations, from @insidehighered.com As of right now, IHE database shows that more than 1,000 international students & recent graduates have had their legal status changed by State Dept. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.

🚨🚨 Major scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: @ec.europa.eu is now issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to #China.🧵 www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.

SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists. Hospital network will invest $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge,’ by @jenniferyang.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

📣 Un poste d'assistant temps plein en philosophie (lié à la réalisation d'une thèse de doctorat) est ouvert à l'ULB, pour une durée de 6 ans. Deadline : 27 avril 2025 Détails : cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... A diffuser largement !

Tenure-track Faculty position just opened up in my department! If you want to be part of a dynamic group who is excited about science, apply. For more details, visit www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr... Please share in your networks! #microsky

Applications are open for early career researchers to participate in Falling Walls Lab Melbourne, which will be held at the Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne in July. Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas in Berlin in Nov 2025. falling-walls.com/falling-wall...

This is incredibly worrisome. Please read the whole thread.

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

I'm getting word that the latest attempt to strangle what's left of the NIH is that purchasing agents have been mostly/completely cut, with the purchasing to be done by centralized GSA staff. Who either don't exist or aren't assigned. That means in practice no spending at all! (1/2)

Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

Yup, right on time, as was entirely predictable.

🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees! AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations. NIH and NSF will be case examples. Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Designing single-polymer-chain nanoparticles to mimic biomolecular hydration frustration, from Alfredo Alexander-Katz and their team: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky

Grant cancelled? 👇

A completely serious question. When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country. cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others

Bonkers. French researcher on its way to a conference was denied US entry and his electronic equipment seized after computer searched and anti-Trmp *messages* found. Even if CNRS doesn't put the US on the travel black list (which they likely will do), it's clearly not safe to go there 😨

I would love to see a Venn diagram of software engineers who hate vibe coding vs software engineers who were fine with AI generated art.

Can someone with a deeper understanding of Constitutional history explain why the US Marshals reports to the President?

Are people really not familiar with the Madagascar Plan?

I leaned heavily into the hard sciences this year at #SXSW. I also visited the German and EU delegation installations. Here's what I will tell you: US researchers are utterly heartbroken about the US losing its dominance in research. The EU and China are absolutely thrilled to fill that gap.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

Something no one talks about is what a wet lab sounds like. So many unique sounds and clicks that just fade into the background. One of my favorites is the “shhht” sound that ice makes when you dump is from an ice bucket. Any others?

Now would be a good time for Americans to read about Operation Paperclip. This will have ramifications for decades to come.

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1