Excited to share some good news: I was invited to join the Board of Directors for the newly established @genomicsed.bsky.social nonprofit. GEP has grown into a national community with real momentum — supporting faculty, expanding access to genomics + bioinformatics, and building equitable CUREs.

Flint wasn’t just a chemistry failure — it was a community crisis. Huge thanks to @nkingsley.bsky.social for sharing the science, policy story, and his experience living and teaching through it with my Greener by Design class. #WaterJustice #GreenChemistry

🌱 This season, I’m grateful for the seeds of possibility — including a new one I’m excited to grow. I’ve received a UNH Sustainability Seed Grant to advance systems-level sustainability education and expand green chemistry pathways across #STEM. #Sustainability

Always a pleasure to discuss the wonders of lignin. Note: it’s not suggested to hug the big ball of Twine in Cawker City KS. It’s rumored the locals pee on it. With that said it has over a literal ton of lignin in it.

🍂 From acorns to lignin — chemistry, creativity, and a dash of twine. This week’s Greener by Design guest, @manhattanscientist.bsky.social (SUNY FIT), showed how sustainability can be both brilliant and fun: #GreenChemistry #Sustainability #STEMEducation #GreenerByDesign

Kicking off a new Adapt Faculty Mentoring Network with @acs.org Green Chemistry Institute this week! 🌱 Eight new participants, eight returning as facilitators—shared leadership in action. 💚 How do you build communities that help people grow into leadership roles? #GreenChemistry #Community

We kicked off our Greener by Design guest speaker series with Dr. Meghna Dilip (Worcester State University) and wow — what a talk. “Ionic Liquids: A Cautionary Tale in Green Design and Lessons Learned” explored both the promise and the pitfalls of ionic liquids.

Life’s been busy with fall course prep, but I finally wanted to share this: we got to help at least 7 tiny painted turtle hatchlings cross the road safely after they hatched near our mailbox. 🐢💚 A magical summer moment. #sustainability #wildlife #EverydayJoy

This season’s garden experiments had wins, fails, & surprises. Tomatoes thrived this year (drought & all) — heirlooms from local plant sales. Even got some yummy yellow ones! Pickle-palooza: sweet, dill, garlic-dill, & my grandmother’s sour (mustard) pickles. (Only I eat those… but it’s tradition.)

This is truly well said

Imagine spending all that time and energy to become an FBI agent and then President Mumbles McFacepaint orders you to march around the yuppiest neighborhoods of Washington DC in tactical gear so drunk college kids can jeer at you.

Last night, chants of “FREE DC” echoed loud and clear through the Washington Spirit broadcast, absolutely incredible. Huge shoutout to everyone who made noise. Free DC is doing amazing work! ✊💚

These are not the stories of the “violent criminals” ICE says they are detaining. These are CHILDREN.   The headlines are horrifying. So much for keeping us safer…

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

🌀 BIOME 2025 (organized by @bioquest.bsky.social ) was one of the most energizing events of my summer. Educators across disciplines came together to catalyze change through inclusive, sustainable, community-centered STEM education. #BIOME2025 #CatalyzingChange #STEMed #CommunitiesOfPractice

It’s been a BIG summer of conferences—packed with ideas, momentum, and community. Here’s a quick rundown of where I’ve been showing up (and what I’m carrying forward). 🧵👇

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute. Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

What an absolute waste of everyone’s time if you only have a 1 in 25 chance of being awarded funding. A waste of time for the applicants, for the reviewers (unless we’re just having robot RFKj review them), a waste of time for people waiting for cures and treatments.

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

"Elite" schools could never!

BIOME 2025 Day 1! Welcome to our annual BIOME 2025, focusing on the theme of Catalyst for Change: Empowering Faculty to Move Forward Together. Take a sneak peek below at today's schedule below! For more information and to sign up for BioQUEST news: qubeshub.org/community/gr...

Yesterday we posted about the Trump administration shutting down the LGBTQ+ youth crisis line, the “press 3” option on 988 is officially gone. The Trevor Project is stepping up to help fill the gap, and they could really use some support right now. If you’re able, please consider donating! 🏳️‍🌈 💛

Heartbreak on top of heartbreak.

Back on our Maine land. Orchard’s hanging in—but the MVP? The murder hat. 🧢🟦 Blue cup + stick-em = deerfly doom. Before/after in pics. No bees harmed. Just weird, wonderful DIY pest control. You're welcome. #MarusMeadows #DeerflyDefense #RegenerativeAg #BugNerdsUnite #NatureHacks

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.

If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.

Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment. Infrastructure for a police state.

ICE will have a budget greater than the Ukrainian armed forces in 2024. Let me repeat that. The Republicans are willing to pay more than entire military budget of the Ukrainians to round up people into camps and deport them into a Gulag. ICE would be the 8th most well funded military on Earth.

Trump is the enemy of the American people. He is doing everything to create an Authoritarian gov’t. His BBB is a reverse Robinhood. He is stealing from the middle/poor to give to his rich friends. He is stealing your rights. Are you just going to sit there and watch our country being destroyed?

Look at it this way….. when the GOP passes the #BigBrutalBill, they cut healthcare for the most vulnerable, give huge tax cuts to the people who need it least & they fund a giant expansion of Trump’s Gestapo forces also known as ICE. It’s dark.

🏴🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️159! Unsustainable. Start preparing, mentally and practically, for a general strike. ✊July 4-5, Free America: action.womensmarch.com/calendars/fr... ✊July 17, Good Trouble Lives On: goodtroubleliveson.org ❌👑 #indivisible indivisible.org 🏴 #generalstrike ✍️+🔄 generalstrikeus.com/strikecard

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home.... For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Here's the official union statement on the HUD takeover. Small correction that's not included in the screenshot: "Correction: currently 1,833 NSF employees work in the NSF headquarters building."

Back at Maru’s Meadows this weekend, where the projects keep multiplying and the clover keeps thriving. Highlights: – Transplanted fir trees – Native perennials – Three Sisters planting (shovel-only version) – Pumpkin trials + sunflowers – New habitat signs!

“Genetics has long been considered a uniquely delicate field of study, b/c it deals not with the present but with the future — & it’s dangerous, these skeptics believe, to throw away long-held principles of what to look for just because we’ve gotten better @ looking.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...

American redstart coming straight at us before banking left on repeat = birding magic. Also: Baltimore oriole, black-throated green warbler, yellow warbler, great crested flycather, 2 great egrets (one we mistook for a swan 😄). Spring migration never misses. #birding #ParkerRiver #AmericanRedstart

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Happy #pride month! We believe that chemistry is for everyone. In the face of opposition that threatens the progress we've made, it's never been more important for us to promote equality of opportunities and make chemistry as open, inclusive and diverse as it should be: buff.ly/1dShs0l #ChemSky

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

In case people are amazed/confuses/shocked/whatever by the devastating cuts proposed for US science, technology, and innovation, please remember that autocrats always go after three main targets: 1️⃣ Media 2️⃣ Courts 3️⃣ Academics It’s literally textbook and, yes, it’s happening in the US.

🌾 Maru’s Meadows update (Memorial Day weekend edition) 🌾 A quick thread on restoration, resilience, and remembering what matters 🧵

🚨 Still time to register for #BIOME2025 with @bioquest.bsky.social ! 🚨 Join us July 21–23 for a virtual summer session with hands-on workshops, thoughtful discussions, and fall working groups for deeper engagement. 🔗 qubeshub.org/community/gr... #STEMM #OpenEd #HigherEd

Blackburnian mid-song. Scarlet tanager playing peek-a-boo. Warblers everywhere — redstarts, towhee, yellow, blackpoll. Just one morning at Parker River. Wild joy. 🌿🐦✨ #birding #springmigration #warblers

Really concerned about this new initiative and how universities will respond (including mine): www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

On the left, the guy who ordered his 15-man death squad to kill and dismember American journalist Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. On the right, the former leader of Al Qaeda with a $10m US bounty on his head. And in the middle, the most corrupt US President in history.

Grateful to see the Royal Society of Chemistry affirming support for trans colleagues and friends. 🌈 Allyship matters—most urgently now. 📚 Excellent resources here: rsc.li/4j6lojs #LGBTQinSTEM #TransRights #Allyship #ChemTwitter

Teachers, are you looking for resources to support your 🌍 #EarthDay content? If so, look no further! We have a ton of material that can help you talk about energy, pollution and sustainability – explore our Education in Chemistry pages now: buff.ly/PiezkhC #ChemSky #EarthDay #ED2025