Another Deutsche Bahn long-distance trip, another 30+ minute delay, another missed connection that will lead to at least a two-hour delay. Trying to make the environmentally conscientious decisions really biting my ass here.

Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938. Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST. 🧪 👩‍🔬

Why spend years getting trained in research, building a story, just to watch capricious decisions, not based on science or merit, destroy years of your hard work and career? I feel this deeply. 🧪

I love it when somebody in the lab proves me wrong with experimental data. #LifeOfPI 🧪

Iran just continuously reiterating that the ceasefire DOES apply to attacks against Lebanon is absolutely masterful. If they stick to their guns, they either end up saving Lebanon from a lot of death and destruction, or proving that the US is completely powerless to rein in Israel.

I just think she's Neat

I can't see the election changing anyone's mind. Trump didn't vote himself into office twice, or force congress to sit back and do nothing while he waged an illegal war that explicitly violates the constitutional limits placed on his power. The US doesn't have a Trump problem, it has a US problem.

Career development at TU Delft has become a source of anxiety, burnout and mistrust, the Delft Young Academy writes. Dissatisfaction with promotion procedures is severe, widespread and urgently calls for a response, write the scientists in this opinion article.

A well-earned win for @crystallised-cricket.com and team!

What was normalized in Gaza will have lasting effects on the entire world. It was a signal to the worst of humanity that they can get away with even livestreamed genocide. And we see that very genocide expanding today, and Trump joining in not under cover like Biden, but front & center.

Dear friends, I'm delighted to announce open PhD positions at Ewha Womans University! If you know someone looking for a PhD or a MSc+PhD position, has a passion for the beauty of MOF structures, and doesn't mind the unbelievable nature, food, fun, and cultural marvels of Seoul, feel free to share 🌟

"A whole civilization will die tonight", writes Trump. I screenshotted it for posterity — I am certain, The International Criminal Court did too. This day, April 7, is January 6 all over again. Trump will be sitting in front of a tv hoping to be entertained by the violence he has set in motion.

everything I hate about science communication in one article. give people a catchy phrase and hide the real science behind it. people leave with the phrase and absolutely nothing else. purple isn't real is a stupid way to discuss what they are talking about. pedantry plus clickbait is not scicomm

Getting really close to breaking the Apollo distance record. < 5 mins! artemis-live-dashboard.vercel.app

👨‍🚀 The #Artemis II crew are now further from home than any humans ever, and European engines brought them there 🚀. 🌍 The record of 400 171 km was previously held by the Apollo 13 mission 🌕.

Lebanon is 33% Christian. Israel is illegally invading Lebanon & bombing Christian villages. Moreover, Israel has warned Lebanese Christians & Druze to forbid any Muslim from hiding in their homes & Israeli troops are now hunting for Muslims hiding in attics of Christians. These Are War Crimes.

The abject failure of US systems, institutions, laws, politicians, the constitution, and the populace to put a stop to this is absolutely unforgivable.

Across Israeli prisons, the number of Palestinian detainees classified as “security prisoners” has surged from roughly 3,500 before October 7 to around 10,000 today — about half of whom are held without charge, as “unlawful combatants” or in administrative detention. www.972mag.com/palestinian-...

U.N. investigator Francesca Albanese is seen by her supporters as a rare and forceful voice piercing the cone of silence and indifference that has fallen over Gaza. This has earned her powerful enemies. 🔗 www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Two of the same illegal invasions. Two differing reports. The utter shamelessness of the New York Times to continue to whitewash Israel’s illegal actions and war crimes—even as they’ve killed 1300 Lebanese citizens including more than 200 children. Beyond failed journalism. Beyond Pathetic.

France plans to hold a big tender for 10 offshore wind projects, and announce winners by late this year or early 2027, as part of its green push.

This means WAR! #crystallography #chemchat careers.abbvie.com/en/job/senio...

"Once the dismantling of international law and basic protections for human life is accepted in one place, it becomes far easier to justify everywhere." - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

How to make your own robot! A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org. Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...

U.N. investigator Francesca Albanese is seen by her supporters as a rare and forceful voice piercing the cone of silence and indifference that has fallen over Gaza. This has earned her powerful enemies.

A child. They beat him and they gut shot him and they let him writhe in agony until he died.

"But the Palestinians being executed by Israel confessed to being terrorists!" PALESTINIANS. DETAINED. UNDER. MILITARY. LAW. DON'T. GET. LAWYERS. DURING. THEIR. INTERROGATIONS. AND. TORTURING. THEM. IS. ROUTINE. AND. LEGAL.

Israel’s parliament approved hanging as the default death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis. Human rights groups, including B’Tselem, say Israelis kill Palestinians with impunity and face no accountability. This is apartheid—stop supporting American politicians who enable it.

Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni. They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years. Unprecedented. (📸 Cradle Media)

With the eyes of international media firmly focused on its wars on Lebanon and Iran, Israel has moved a step closer to legalising the execution of Palestinian prisoners. Ryan Kohls reports.

#TaxTheRich ‼️ #Vermögenssteuer #Tempolimit #Wärmepumpe

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

SO LOW! Contamination control at JAXA started before launch, and our engineers smacked the hermetic sample seal 1000+ times 😂 Skeptical? Here's a wild rundown of what it takes to protect an asteroid sample so well that when you find the building blocks of DNA... you can trust they came from space.

Comet Interceptor! ESA/JAXA mission will visit (but not sample return) either a long-period comet or interstellar object. But finding biologically important molecules in small celestial bodies from the early Solar System is a good sign that they might be wide spread in other planetary systems.

The chance of contamination is EXTREMELY low at JAXA. So unless the team that received the sample grain for analysis screwed up (and they should know what they are doing!), this is the discovery of all key nucleobases could be delivered to the early Earth by asteroids like Ryugu 🙂

This. Amaze amaze amaze. Possibility of contaminated samples is low, I suppose, @elizabethtasker.bsky.social?

Remember J. K. Rowling has made trans people’s lives substantially worse. We are not just telling you to boycott someone who’s screaming hate into the void. She is actively influencing policy.

When I read up on Israeli history, it becomes clear that Israel has a particular doctrine for expanding its borders. Scorched Earth. Turning the land into a wasteland, forcibly displacing countless civilians, and then move in the settlers as they redraw the borders. Sie wollen Lebensraum, ja?

DC Minis #17 - The "Promoting a Book Thing" Episode dresdencodak.com/2026/03/23/d...

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught by an underwater robot during an expedition off the Phoenix Islands.

I do think we are staring down the barrel of having to pay a handful of companies until the end of time just to exist in society while they harvest everything about our lives for profit and absolute control... and if we can't stop it now, it'll never be stopped.

Love it! 🥰

"Who, exactly, is making all of the solar panels, wind turbines, battery packs, and electric vehicles enabling this transition? In a word: China." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... via @danmccarthy.bsky.social 🔌💡

Link: petapixel.com/2026/03/16/p...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: We are against this war because it's illegal, there's no reason behind it and is causing a lot of damage.

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

Hmmmm ... techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/b...

Remarkable retraction notice.