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This is outstanding news, and a perfect example of why we need to continue to support scientific research.

Things I am grateful for today: the ability to send my daughter away at college emotional-support stroopwafels

It's Not Too Noisy On The Western Front

Anyone from the University of Montreal here? Please DM. Please RT.

Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

Anyone out there have experience with chemaxon as a structure drawing software? Please RT #chemsky ⚗️🧪

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

And that is how we do that, everyone is welcome at the periodic table #inclusion

Nice run in DC before the @acsbiol.bsky.social program starts this morning! #ACSFall2025

Pope Leo at Mass with the Poor: “Avoid drawing distinctions between those who serve and those who are served. Each one is a gift to the others and we are all members of a Church of the poor.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Nice early morning 6 miler with @castanedalab.bsky.social 🏃‍♂️

Very well put

Here it is folks, your guide to #ACSFall2025! Check out the awesome lineup of sessions #ACSBIOL is putting on, including tons of joint sessions with our friends at CARB, CELL, @acsmedi.bsky.social, @organicdivision.org, and @acscomp.bsky.social!

I swear if we reach 1000 followers on here before #ACSFall2025 I'll eat an entire banana 🍌

One of the most valuable things I was told by my postdoc advisor (applicable to both papers and grants):" it's not what you write, it's what they read"

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness:

34, greatly assisted by trips every year to a new MLB ballpark for our wedding anniversary

You're cancelling his show but giving him almost a year to say what he wants without fear of consequences... This seems like a poorly conceived plan

Next time I hear about "a war on Christianity", guess now we know who's actually waging that war

Grant submitted, let's spin that wheel...

URichmond is hiring two tenure-track faculty. One in biochemistry/chemical biology and the other in experimental physical chemistry. This is a terrific place to work - our focus is on our talented undergraduates and we have robust research resources. chemistryjobs.acs.org/job/assistan...

OMG I needed this laugh, thank you

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Just loving that I'm wearing my noise-cancelling earbuds in my office so I can work on my grant and not lose my mind due to the constant drip-drip from a water leak in my ceiling that's been going since before Monday and already took out a ceiling tile #proflife #watertortureisntfunatall

Realizing the hidden impacts we have on our children: My daughter told me her high school US government class listens to NPR programs quite often, and she loves hearing "her boy @steveinskeep.bsky.social" because she was so used to hearing him in the morning on NPR when I drove her to school

This is my faith.

Here's an off-the-wall source request, and perhaps a bit of a timeline cleanse for molecular biologists: I'm looking for someone who knows anything about how salmon sperm DNA became such a ubiquitous reagent. (ThermoFisher Scientific- the first vendor that came to mind- surprisingly unresponsive.)

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

My wife and both kids are at various scouting camping events this weekend, and we're dealing with rain, flood watches, and now an air quality alert. What pantheon of weather gods did we inadvertently anger recently?

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Very grateful that we received the notice of award for our chemistry REU program yesterday, looking forward to hosting our summer undergrad researchers for several more years (and more, hopefully...)

I just left a comment. It doesn't have to be long or detailed. Some nice information here: peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

"Accidentally" is doing *so* much work in this headline: www.syracuse.com/us-news/2025...

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

Oh wow. Note: This response (below, which is real) to Trump’s tweet depicting himself as pope is from the New York State Catholic Bishops, who represent the collective bishops of the state. Among them is Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who Trump appointed to his new religious liberty commission this week.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

"Today, I am announcing my decision to step down as Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), effective today. It has been an honor and privilege…

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

Seriously considering this for my next birthday

Phage people - does anyone have a lambda phage with a deletion/mutation in the integrase gene (unable to lysogenize)? If so, can you please share it with us to help us test a cool hypothesis? Thanks! Please RT. 🦠🙏

There’s a chemsky joke to be made about the astrobiology news, revolving around sending the grad student 120 light-years away to run the Swern reaction where no one else can smell it

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

In the midst of all the chaos and uncertainty, I'm very grateful to have a reason to celebrate today

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Next up, Cornell and Northwestern