Paper mill content growing faster than legitimate research, according to study by @reeserichardson.bsky.social & colleagues — which @elisabethbik.bsky.social mentioned in her talk at #WCRI2026: cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

More destruction of science

The latest Gen AI data visualizations are just off the hook

Hey, UC Berkeley chemistry department: C&EN would like to hear from you. DM, or signal Laurel_Oldach.07 (amplification appreciated!)

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

One story is an anecdote and it means nothing. You can’t interpret this AT ALL because you don’t have controls. I haven’t read the story, because either way (went well, went badly) it means NOTHING… except to him. But you can’t infer anything from it. Please stop trying to science without controls.

Endpoints News is asking “Who’s leading LGBTQ+ inclusion in biopharma? Nominate them for Endpoints’ annual report”. I hate that nomination could make companies a target of the admin. This timeline sucks.

Since DOJ isn’t going to touch any of the pedophiles in the Epstein files, could states take the material in the files and file state charges?

Reminder, the ACS Inclusivity Style Guide still does not include Gender & Sexuality nor Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality. They were removed almost a year ago. Something tells me, it isn't a pause on those two sections. Review & refinement shouldn't take a year. #ChemSky #ChemChat

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

This needs new alt text: “a Nazi Brownshirt accosts a child before kidnapping him while other pedophile protectors (PP) guard the Nazi from snowballs”. Every adult here should face capital charges.

If any of this was happening to gun-loving republicans in Texas, there’d already have been multiple shootouts between “don’t tread on me”s and the feds. I don’t think the feds realize how lucky they are the people they are up against aren’t as insanely violent.

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The irony that the Trump admin thinks Maduro - a foreign national with no connection to the US - is subject to US laws but legal immigrants aren’t protected by those same laws.

All of those people who claimed to be desperately worried about mental health at the start of the pandemic seem to no longer care about mental health. It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will. That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.

Steve Miller’s racism is getting attention. But EVERY TIME he’s mentioned, we need to mention he’s Trumps deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. Trump === Miller === Trump Burn the racist xenophobes down.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Early in 2025, several folks started lists trying to track how Scientific Grad School admissions were adjusting to funding changes. Now as we arrive at the end of 2025, I'm curious how things have settled out. I know some programs have cut 50-100% of their admissions for this year. Others? 🧪

One is killed and one injured and they ban an entire country. But don’t be fooled - if this was seriously about stopping the violence, they’d have banned white men from owning guns years ago.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

From the Guardian : why is it that Republicans need to have first-hand experience with something terrible to support calling out said terrible thing? I have not experienced childhood sexual trauma and I fully support transparency here - even if long-time Dems are named!

I’m gonna fukin die if sandwiches get banned before assault rifles.

Signs we are seeing in WA #nokings

This entire farce where the GOP refuses to seat Grijalva is just the Merrick Garland BS all over again. The refusal of the GOP to follow the law should lead to their removal from office. Permanent ban.

Who the fuck cares? We have a president RIGHT NOW who’s tearing our country apart, destroying public services, attacking his political opponents using our government, and cannot even give a quaint toast in front of the UK Royalty, and the fucking WaPo is reminiscing about the last president.

Dr. Levi, you don't have the authority to make something require a prescription, actually. That's not part of what ACIP does.

He's clearly a yes. He is a menace to public health. Hopefully he is better at operations management. Argues that most high-risk people are on medications and are getting them from someone who can prescribe. Here comes another yes from some other member. I hope there are 2-3 more sane people

De novo Design of All-atom Biomolecular Interactions with RFdiffusion3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

As I read through this, I pondered the question: this is for questions they know the answers to. Now imagine using these tools for (1) questions you don’t know it’s getting wrong and (2) questions that have less pre-existing knowledge captured (because it’s not homoscedastic error)

Oh FFS - the brain damage is speaking again. Why don’t people call him out on his bullshit. It’s absurd.

Feed the corrupt to pigs, use the manure for crops and then feed the children fresh produce and pork. Here in Oregon we call that upcycling.

“I have instructed my team to link psychosis with Republican ideology and to ban the party as a dangerous substance.”

"I don’t care what motivates mass shooters. It doesn’t matter if they’re motivated by far-right white nationalism, QAnon, radical Islam, delusion, sexism or revenge. Without access to guns, these motives won’t result in mass shootings; it’s that simple."

Please, people. Stop treating anything RFK Jr says as science. It’s not. It’s not even close. 🧪

“A close look at the so-called data reveals that the vast majority of the cited papers — all but about 40 — have little or nothing to do with the vaccines. They concern the consequences of COVID-19 infection, not the shots.” *screams into the void*

Wait. I thought Trump was asking to reduce the US costs not raise everyone else’s? Brilliant move. Why don’t we make everyone else suffer with terrible healthcare systems and costs just like us.

Ftlog. They did a global search for the word diversity and cancelled anything with that in the name. There are lists that show how stupid they are. Vought is an idiot and dangerous.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

“the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 [14 million] … additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 [4.5 million] … in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030” Unconscionable and immoral.

This is so amazingly ignorant. They/He has no clue what it takes to set up a process, ensure plant and supply chain accessibility, update regulatory documents (across multiple countries) , etc. 🧪

Pro tip: say no to at least 50% of requests and, whenever you decline, provide the names of two male colleagues who are shirking their share of service. (Gold star for BCCing the dean when you do so.)

Long but nicely detailed analysis of the current state of AI/ML in chemical sciences. I am resisting using AI to summarize it…

Elect a Republican, start a war. Every Republican president since i was a child has started a new war.

Had he been a person of color, he’d have been round up and disappeared for such activities. But as a white man, they even turn a blind eye to it after-the-fact.

LLMs are sociopathic- they know what to say to get the reaction they’ve been trained to seek but they have no feelings about it.

They are all incompetent and dangerous. This is the kind of work that would get them all fired in the real world.

Ffs. Completely unqualified hack, Andrew Follett, claims science is failing because of a couple of cherry-picked fraud cases. Science does have challenges but it’s only “failing” if you are on the side of false narratives and fake HHS MAHA reports. www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/anot...