this absolutely sucks and I’m sure a lot more departments will be facing these decisions soon.. godspeed good magnet

i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time

taping this thread up outside my lab lol

chat is it good when your head of state cannot appear on camera during the national anthem at a national championship match for one of your main national sports without getting lustily booed by people who are statistically a lot likelier than average to actually be in or adjacent to the ruling class

more people should think of ‘safe streets’ in Bmore as ‘I have a right to safely walk and ride around my city without getting hit by a speeding car’

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

this whole series has raised my blood pressure by 40 points good god

love too walk in door and immediately see basallo writhing in pain. incredible

saved by a TOOTBLAN lol (kyle i love you but please stop throwing meatballs directly in the middle of the plate)

well, another grim milestone reached- state violence used to silence researchers. seriously just a matter of time before guys in masks storm a conference because cis/trans alkenes are being discussed. i think this fucking sucks! and no amount of ‘aha! they were violating decorum’ does anything

ICYMI -- this is a big deal, and we have a limited time to comment. We need everyone, including (especially!) non-academics to 1) make public comments, 2) write op eds, 3) contact your elected representatives, and 4) ask societies and advocacy groups to speak out against this and mobilize members.

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here’s something the study doesn’t mention but it’s true nonetheless: Cyclists are very safe drivers. Riding a bike makes you pay attention to everything.

absolutely.. although it was very funny to be teaching a student how to use Scifinder this morning and then realized I sounded like a maniac trying to describe ‘imagine a massive clumsy stack of phone books’ that CAS used to be (lol) before realizing they didn’t even know a phone book haha

A longform piece about AI and the CSU system; its effects on students, faculty, thinking and skills and not a single STEM prof or student is even mentioned! Impressive!

this is a very random ask but does anyone in Baltimore have a Soxhlet extractor I can borrow for a few days next week?? any size would work! #chemsky (and as long as we’re asking- if I could get 30min on a 400 or higher NMR later on that’d be amazing. It’s a summer research project for a student)

For many international scientists, research careers increasingly hinge on a US immigration system marked by delays, denials, and heightened enforcement. #chemsky 🧪

broadcast quickly descending into ‘remembering some guys’

“What OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management,” Elizabeth Ginexi, a former program officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), writes in a Substack post. “It is a vehicle for complete political control of science … ” www.science.org/content/arti...

you allowed to do a weaver on a sunday morning???

In ⤵️, I recommend sending your comment to your state electeds (Gov., legislators) and federal electeds (MoC, Senators) and content could, depending on the elected, matter much more there. Because many of our elected would-be allies simply won't know/understand why this is bad 🧵

JUST like Alby drew it up! masterful work sir

see- basically every post I make. I have three main things I truly care about: making sure everyone has food, helping those in recovery, and science. And it really fucking sucks to see all of those destroyed with not even a peep by all those in even marginally ‘on my side’.

the most pathetic part of the ‘masculinity crisis’ is thinking and preaching that everything that defines masculinity is external- getting things, people, etc. no introspection, no service, no humility. just pure ego- a guaranteed recipe for misery and pain, cutting yourself off from real love..

It *is* somewhat depressing to know that concerted collective action would stop the attacks on science and higher ed overnight if all the athletes and alums and admins all stood with the profs and students. And yet!

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

@nytimes.com It’s crazy that they’re still entirely blind to anything outside the Ivies. Gutting the NSF and NIH, forcing all grants through DOGE/AI state apparatchik functionaries destroys ALL RESEARCH. But they try to make the case ‘that fancy dandies at Harvard’ are sad they can’t do ‘frivolity’

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

something has to give.. it can never be possible for such an antisocial cadre of psychos to rip the foundations out of an entire nation so easily

This is phenomenal advice for a chemist too! It takes a lot of hands-on work and observation to get good and find your ‘voice’, nothing will ever substitute that. (his piece eight years in is truly awful good lord)

so many unforgivable sins going on it’s hard to keep track but this… this is so phenomenally stupid and ignorant it’s hard to even wrap your arms around its idiocy. This is a great read by a great science communicator- (I thought nothing could be worse than Covid teaching- how naive!!)

the Great National Self Lobotomization

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

x100000 (bonus points for making clear to the audience how the vast majority of science is failure, experimentation, keeping up the curiosity). I’m biased obvi but drug discovery is truly truly incredible work and 99% of the public thinks ‘the govt’ makes drugs then ‘BIG PHARMA’ robs you, it sucks!

boooooooooo

Completely infuriating that people's long and illustrious careers (in the arts, sciences, humanities and elsewhere) are being sacrificed for this shithead's massive ego 😠

The fruits of a system that makes affordable parking mandatory and affordable housing illegal. Means-tested free parking -- the vehicle owner can't use it unless they also own a house. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

I confess to having been disappointed in NASEM's timidity in the face of the ongoing destruction of massive portions of the US research enterprise. It is interesting to see the actual pressure being brought to bear that inspires that timidity, but if death is inevitable, maybe go out with honor?

Sad that students don’t want to take take classes at the institute that was clearly set up as a parallel right-wing grift institution and built by conservative dark money to leach off the reputation built by the scholars whose classes they are taking.