Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP www.science.org/content/arti...

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

🎉 happy 24th birthday to ayah!!!

Come join us at SBU Chemistry! We are looking for an Assoc/Full Prof in Materials or Polymer Chemistry, supported by the SUNY Empire Innovation Program. Deadline Oct 16. Reach out if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/173681 #facultychemjobs

The Vassar Chemistry Department is looking for a full-time (full benefits!) lecturer in organic chemistry. The position has a renewable 3-year contract offering significant stability in these unstable times. Please spread the word far and wide! vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...

Really grateful to the NSF for awarding our MRI grant to acquire a helium recovery system for the NMR facility at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Chemistry! An important step towards sustainable use of a limited resource. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT @jeflip.bsky.social / @lipshultzsbu.bsky.social out in ACS Catalysis, feat. my rockstar undergrad Celeste Barefoot who worked in this during her REU! She's applying for PhD programs this fall!! 🔗below

Really delighted this is out @ ACS Catalysis. The chemistry looks a lot like a job prop I wrote 4 years ago, and we've spent a good chunk of the group's history learning a LOT about Ti photochem. Congrats especially to Jagrut, who defended 2 weeks ago! doi.org/10.1021/acsc...

A really amazing workshop! Thanks to @tehshik.bsky.social @vydong.bsky.social and @sarponggroup.bsky.social for organizing and Nikki for providing a pharma perspective. decent location...

"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding" Meanwhile, private foundations:

This is not just HHMI. All Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding calls are CLOSED. The Gates Foundation has no Grand Challenges funding opportunities. I've never seen anything like this. Private foundations have just decided to stop supporting biomedical research.

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Really happy to see this paper (last from my postdoc in the Radlab) out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! P-redox catalysis is really powerful for cascade amide coupling/activation – congrats to @alilabchem.bsky.social and Nico (started on this project as a FRESHMAN)! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

PhD #2 from the group - congratulations Jagrut, and thanks for all you've done for the group!

10 hours before the SBU internal deadline - 👋👋👋

My department at Colgate University is hiring a tenure-stream assistant professor in Organic Chemistry this fall. Please feel free to reach out with questions, and please repost. We're an undergraduate university with a strong focus on research. @chemjobber.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/170152

Great job Jagrut! And a rrally great event organized by ACS CVS @lipshultzsbu.bsky.social

Happy “commute in shorts, change into lab pants at work” season to all who celebrate.

Things you love to see (given the circumstances)

Very cool story! Also when Jonah (now 9 months) drank his first bottle of frozen/thawed milk, we were so relieved. Lucky to have a VERY not-picky baby. Really exciting to have a science solution to this.

Mini 🧵. I had the exceptional opportunity to be a reviewer for the NIH RADx-UP program last week. RADx-UP is an NIH program aimed at providing grants for community-based interventions to improve health equity in COVID testing among those most highly impacted by COVID-19.

We opened our pool last Thursday. Getting it clean and ready for swimming has been the most hands-on chemistry I've done since last summer. I miss being in the lab (and really hate pool care).

Really excited to share this work. Lots of fun and opportunities with Cp-ligated Ti complexes. Especially proud of Jagrut for spearheading our efforts when he transferred into the group in summer 2023.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u... via @statnews.com

When everything is "normal", writing and administering an NIH T32 program is crazy. Despite being an immense amount of work (probably the single most effort-demanding grant one can direct), it comes with no salary for the PI...

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

🧵New from me: MAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHD infoepi.substack.com/p/maha-plag...

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Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Looks like they'll achieve that in part by funding about a quarter of the grants they are currently funding. 7% success rate is harrowing stuff. If you're not at a top school, will you even bother applying?

The free Remote Supergroup for Chemistry Undergraduates (RSCU) is starting for this summer on June 5! All are welcome, so please reach out if you’d like to join our weekly meetings with research talks, career/grad panels, equity chats, networking, and more. #chemsky Keep reading to learn more:

Two independent analyses show that when looking at the size of substrate scopes published in Organic Letters, or in Organic Letters and JACS combined, the average number of examples reported has more than doubled in the past decade. #ChemSky

NEW — I obtained the full State Dept. memo Politico reported on earlier today that calls for a pause on the scheduling of interviews for certain foreign student visas: www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

We are recruiting a PhD student in machine learning for photocatalysis! In this project, we will collaborate with the group of Frank Glorius @gloriusgroup.bsky.social to develop predictive tools for energy-transfer-catalyzed photocycloadditions. Reposts appreciated! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.

At 1:45:10, Edlow answers and indicates his desire to cut off extensions to F1s via OPT: "what I want to see is a regulatory and subregulatory program that would allow us to remove the ability for employment authorizations for F1 students beyond the time that they're in school."

This week marked the 3rd SBU-BNL Photochemistry Supergroup, with a great poster session and 10 speakers from @stonybrooku.bsky.social Chemistry & MSCE, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social, @hofstrau.bsky.social, and @adelphiu.bsky.social! Thanks to SBU ORI for support!

Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

the great-recession-undergrad to pandemic-postdoc to DOGE-era-assistant-professor pipeline

MilliporeSigma to institute a tariff surcharge on May 5

Incredibly excited to have Jill joining us here at SBU!!

We are looking for a new postdoc to join @lipshultzsbu.bsky.social to work on synthetic methods enabled by catalytic photochemistry of catalyst-substrate complexes! Please apply here by May 8: stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio... #chempostdoc

you’re not seeing double … a recap of our april fools’ prank on jeff

Incredibly excited to have Jeff Long here at SBU today to deliver the 7th Franklin Award Lecture, hosted by Steve Koch!

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

No orders for supplies/reagents/equipment (already a huge bottleneck after earlier cuts). No travel or conference registrations. And certainly no hiring. So this could be a total freeze, in everything but name. Is that the new workaround the administration is trying? Isn't that illegal? (2/2)