NE-CAT just finished hosting our (first) Data Collection and Processing Bootcamp for the year. We covered common diffraction issues, SAD data collection, XDS, and DIALS. 🧬🔬🧪🧶

Our portable humidity chambers from @mitegen.com are here and they look fabulous. The chamber is held together with magnets so collapsed for easy storage but can be assembled quickly for users. Now, we need some crystallographers doing room temperature experiments at NE-CAT. 🧬🔬🧪🧶

I had to come to BlueSky to see the #NoKings turnout since nothing on the @nytimes.com

Good job.

Shutdown seems the same as no shutdown. NIH wasn’t paying before and it isn’t paying now.

If Trump appoints grant reviewers, will they appointees even understand the science they review? After all, Nancy Mace thinks scientists are making transgender (not transgenic) mice.

Who else is concerned about the slow disbursement rate of FY25 NIH funds? 🧬🧪🔬

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How a crystallographer rolls on Sunday morning with a cat, crystals, coffee and @proteinsociety.bsky.social Tshirt.💊🌡🔬

It rained in more ways than one on Trump’s parade.

Yesterday shows that if your approval rating is 38%, people think your parade is a bad idea.

Will it rain on Trump’s Parade?

The same is happening at Cornell. NIH owes money but has silently stopped paying.

It really does look like $trumpet

Hey Structure peeps! NE-CAT@APS is having a data collection and processing bootcamp immediately after the ACA in Lombard. If you are in town and have time / interest (or have students who you think would benefit), register today! 🧬🧪🧶 necat.chem.cornell.edu/data-collect...

The Oath of Office explicitly states, ‘I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ Foresworn and Unfit to be President.

MTG used stun guns in town hall attendees and she’s proud of it.

The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University. The funding pause involves mostly grants and contracts with the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services.

NE-CAT is thrilled to welcome Dr. Graeme Winter as our new Associate Director! Coming from Diamond Light Source, Graeme brings a wealth of experience in synchrotron X-ray sources, crystallographic software development, and automation. 🧬🧶🧪 necat.chem.cornell.edu/new-associat...

Trump Tariffs = Tax Hike

An op/ed on measles that everyone should read because "measles can erase the immune system’s protective memory of prior infections. This “immune amnesia,” as it’s called, leaves people vulnerable to viruses and bacteria they were once protected against." 🧪

I just went to check the LIVE @ senate.gov and Booker is still speaking this morning at 7:30 AM. Meanwhile, Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin by offering $20 per vote for Brad Schmiel. How is this not a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 597 ?https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

I finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by @scalzi.com. I laughed. I cried. I wonder if this book is an allegory for the decline of the United States.

500 cases of measles in the US, 5 outbreaks in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Kansas, 2 deaths so far. If we are really are at a 70% vaccination rate, then we'll exceed the last big outbreak in the US of 1,282 cases in 2019 (89% of cases were unvaccinated).

Killing tomorrow’s biomedical researchers today. 🧪 www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

I can't believe Durbin voted yes on cloture. Such a failure.

Lunar eclipse totality this morning in North America. 🧪

I love me a good chart showing Trump destroying the retirement of millions of Americans.

Schumer is spineless for caving. He just basically said that he’s ok with firing 80% of federal employees and killing federal funding for research.

I’m really glad I didn’t buy a Tesla last fall.

Where will Trump plug in his Tesla since he is removing all car chargers on government property? Last I checked, the White House is government property.

How much will your taxes go up in the Billionaire Tax Cut?

H5N1 bird flu has killed 1500 Sand Hill Cranes so far in Green County, Union County, Jasper County, La Porte County, and Starke County, Indiana per DNR. Signs that the bird flu is getting worse in the US. 🧪

I hope that other probationary employees who were wrongfully terminated by DOGE are able to find some relief under this ruling by the Office of Special Counsel that the firings for performance were illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-d...

I use Govtrack to get updates on what my Congress Critter is doing. They are trying to expand to Executive Orders. If you want an unbiased source of the exact text of executive orders, consider backing their kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gov...

Honestly, I don’t know how these agencies think their people will be seeing their emails in a weekend since federal employees are banned from teleworking so they can’t log in remotely to check their email. It might get them fired.

So how many people will commit tax fraud this season with an understaffed IRS unable to audit. Tax returns are on the honor system afterall time.com/7259673/irs-...

Soon your sensitive private info from your tax returns will be posted to the DOGE website…

The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting an outbreak of measles in the South Plains region of Texas. At this time, 48 cases have been identified with symptom onset within the last three weeks. Thirteen of the patients have been hospitalized. www.dshs.state.tx.us/news-alerts/...

What is 5 USC 552a? Is this for real?

He can try to blame whatever he wants, but like COVID, this is only the beginning of many unnecessary deaths caused by Trump's actions.

If causality is causation, then isn't it more likely that getting rid of DEI caused the mid-air collision? Because giving people stress by firing them makes everything safer.

💉🌡💊🔬 Good news explainer on current state of bird flu. Cows -> Humans = B3.13 = mild disease Chickens -> Humans = D1.1 = severe disease Mutation rate is up. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Grant review panels have been halted at NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? Be a Research Scientist 2. your initial major? Biology 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Chemistry 4. what do you do now? I'm a Macromolecular X-ray Crystallographer/Structural Biology/Biophysicist/Other

The PDB has a new paper out detailing tools at rcsb.org that can be used to look at experimentally determined structures and AI predictions. 🧪

Electricity (ComEd Supply + Distribution) = $0.1159/kWh Gas = $3.09/g (Bourbonnais, IL 1/20/25) Car = 3.2 mile/kWh or 27.3 mpg (actual, 1/20/25) Monthly driving cost (gas) = $99.60 Monthly driving cost (electric) = $31.87 I own a Prius Prime that drives in both electric and hybrid mode.

The only way to save TikTok is for ByteDance to sell to a US Company. ByteDance refuses to sell. How does giving it 90 more days to sell TikTok save it? It just closes 90 days from now? Does anyone think this is just a PR bait and switch? #TikTokBan

Isn’t shuttering TikTok the app’s own fault for not believing that Biden won’t prosecute during the next 24 hours? Or, do they think Trump is a liar? #TikTokBan