I've written a comprehensive report on plutonium pit production - including a critical look at the history, the risks and costs, and the science of Pu aging. Short story: new pits are unnecessary, dangerous, and expensive and alternatives provide a safer future. Please read and circulate! #NukeSky

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial @nature.com this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/d41...

With the population aging, Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation is creating programs to ensure every older person lives with purpose, fulfilment, and dignity. Discover CABHI’s AgeTech Insights—your hub for market intelligence to inform science, policy and innovation in Canada: bit.ly/4fvFS45

Jonas E. Salk, born #OTD, developed the first safe and effective vaccination against poliomyelitis. 🧪

Read about what the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy has been up to and how we support early-career scientists in policy advocacy and community engagement efforts!

@bdavisbio.bsky.social @isakoditomassi.bsky.social @emmascales.bsky.social @erinmorrow.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social @alexlando.bsky.social @kassstem.bsky.social @gator-pase.bsky.social @scipolucla.bsky.social @pspdg.bsky.social

Guest piece for #Inform&Influence detailing how SNAP has succeeded as a #grassroots org coordinating multiple nationwide initiatives. #SciPol #SciAdvocacy #SciComm #McClintockLetters www.linkedin.com/posts/debora...

Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" is unconstitutional and should be universally rejected by colleges and universities. knightcolumbia.org/blog/a-brief...

More than 420 state bills attacking key public health protections have been introduced in 2025. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted. Please call your state's elected officials!

FYI, the closing date for submitting comments on the US Dept. of Eds plans to prioritize "patriotic education" in its discretionary grant programs is this Friday, Oct. 17. The @historians.org has an excellent resource to help folks weigh in! www.historians.org/news/action-... #Education #Censorship

Plant, Baby, Plant is a new grassroots movement started by Robin Wall Kimmerer "to care for the Earth in the garden and in the streets." "...we will counter the forces of destruction with creative resistance in support of life." plantbabyplant.com

Please repost and share this flyer with any STEM undergrads in mentorship programs that you know! This work important to better understanding the role of mentorship in professional development. Undergrads sign up here: go.ufl.edu/mentorshipma... @kassstem.bsky.social #STEMeducation #mentorship

Fellowship in action | 9 Oct. 2025 This could be you. Apply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS fellowship. Deadline: Oct. 31 Info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... Fellows on fellowship in their own words in a suite of short videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...

Trump admin plans to RIF 1100-1200 HHS employees according to court filing

What happens when science funding disappears? At UCSF and the SF VA, labs are laying off staff, trials are paused, and patients are left waiting. Our new Civic episode breaks down how federal cuts — and now a shutdown — are reshaping science in the Bay Area. 🎧

Thanks @mildobserver.bsky.social for taking the time to chat with me, superstar @erinmorrow.bsky.social & others. Our convo was inspired by the McClintock Letters, run by @cornellasap.bsky.social & @snapcoalition.bsky.social, w/ the mission of reconnecting scientists with their hometown communities.

Six of nine Nobel Laureates so far this year have been American based, half of whom immigrated to the US. Four have ties to University of California. Prof Yaghi was born in Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents who could barely read and write. He immigrated to the US as a 15 year old.

The prize is shared by Susumu Kitigawa of Kyoto University, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Omar Yaghi of UC Berkeley

🧵 Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is for the discovery and stabilization of metal-organic frameworks, stable networks of metal ions and carbon (organic) molecules Applications of these porous compounds include catalysis and pollution remediation

🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

Day156 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's #JohnOliver w/ fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution John(H. sapiens) having a lovely time with the Paleozoic Pal of Isotelus gigas ⚒️ #trilobitetuesday #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #Paleontology #SavePRI #Cornell

Exclusive: "The CDC is far too important to just give up on" says Susan Monarez, who was director of the CDC for just 29 days under the current administration go.nature.com/4nUJZd8

🧵How to counter science skepticism in the manosphere, from an astrophysicist-explain scientific virtues as purpose driven: "Good scientists are intimate with the limits of what they know and stand ready to learn in domains outside their expertise. ... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

@cornellasap.bsky.social presents 314 Action- How does a scientist run for public office? Shaughnessy Naughton is a trained scientist who ran for the U.S. House in 2014. She'll share how scientists can influence public policy. In-person and online: cglink.me/2ee/r2290923

Want to engage and « do something » about microplastics in your own environment. Consider joining the foldscope community that has been mapping novel sources of microplastics around the world. microcosmos.foldscope.com/post/zCoLNt3...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Meet Tufts alum Miles Arnett, co-organizer of a nationwide effort in which aspiring scientists write letters and op-eds to their local newspapers about the importance of both their research and its federal funding. | @mjarnett.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

“Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking paracetamol will” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every single one of these leaves is a bug.

Day148 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution Life could be coprolitastic instead of hell with the #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #SavePRI ⚒️. John is H. sapiens, fossil is a mammal coprolite 🧪 #mammals

Listen to facts, doctors, and science!

🧵 In addition to lying here, Trump and Kennedy put fetuses at risk: acetaminophen is prescribed for fever, and fevers can DEFINITELY cause problems for fetuses! "Decades of studies have shown a clear association between fevers early in pregnancy and a specific set of birth defects, ...

...This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding." The article is free. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Trump & RFK Jr lie. This study from last year looked at 2.5M Swedish children; 186k were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Conclusion? "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis...

This is incredible!

Excited to announce the release of the Loopapalooza Pale Ale & Fold Skool Fizz Seltzer (non-alcoholic) on tap and in cans at both Steel String Brewery Taproom in Carrboro, NC and at Pluck Farm in Mebane, NC! Thanks to @researchamerica.bsky.social for having these at your event last week!

Great conversation with Representative Deborah Ross today, along with students from NC State! Great conversations re: multi year funding, the NSF GRFP, @sciforgood.bsky.social, international student scientists, @snapcoalition.bsky.social and more!

Government shutdowns pause federal work deemed non-essential. This can stall discoveries and innovation, impacting U.S. global competitiveness. Read about what’s at risk in AAAS’ latest report: https://www.aaas.org/news/research-rd-funding-impacts-federal-shutdowns

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Why the push on acetaminophen? The @wsj.com editorial board answer: "The Occam’s razor answer is the influence of RFK Jr., who is carrying water for his friends in the plaintiffs bar. A who’s-who of lawsuit shops are pushing the Tylenol-autism link in federal court. The litigants include...

@lisaguernsey.bsky.social and I are out with a new article for @newamerica.org capturing #student voices that have been caught in funding cuts and grant cancellations over what we refer to as a "summer of despair for #STEMeducation" Please read it and share! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

I’ll be speaking tomorrow (9/23) at 9am EST at the DC campus of Arizona State U on a project by @rti.bsky.social to calculate the long-term impacts of technologies invented at NIH labs. See cspo.org/event/ntfa09... Register to attend in-person or online. #techtransfer #sciencepolicy

Excited to welcome our 2025 cohort of @newamerica.org Future of Work & Innovation Economy initiative fellows! Thanks to @politico.com for covering the news. Welcome Francie Genz, Phil Singerman, Celeste Carter, @adamfagan.bsky.social, and @techiewonk.bsky.social! www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Heartfelt reflection from @cornellasap.bsky.social co-prez and founding member of @snapcoalition.bsky.social, @emmascales.bsky.social as she shares her #McClintockLetters piece and some of what she learned along the way <3 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Environmental challenges, like extreme weather events & critical changes in Earth systems, remain a priority, underlining the importance of risk mitigation in an interconnected world.🌐⚠️ —WEF Global Risks Report 2025 https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/global-risks-report-2025-bleak-predictions/

Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR gene editing. “There has been a collective forgetting” of how life was before vaccines. 🧪Source: The Atlantic on IG

Spotted at the @researchamerica.bsky.social National Health Forum! Very cool @jpflores.rbind.io and @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social

@rosemalb.bsky.social and Naman's work at @upenn.edu centered around a "Reverse Science Fair," which challenged graduate researchers to present their scientific work to high school students.

SNAPpers Amanda, Naman, and @rosemalb.bsky.social (from @pspdg.bsky.social) presented their @researchamerica.bsky.social #SciPol projects at the National Health Research Forum (at @aaas.org headquarters). Thanks R!A for sponsoring these projects + investing in the next gen of #ScienceAdvocates!

Amanda's project focused on increasing #scipol skills in students at the @uofalabama.bsky.social Birmingham and fostering connections between student scientists, the Birmingham community, and policymakers.