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Heather Pierce to Lead the Association for Human Research Protection Programs Starting January 2027 #USA #Washington #AAHRPP #AAMC #Heather_Pierce

@davekarpf.bsky.social they heard you.

Damn it. Dr. Bunch is terrific.

At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...

Julia Curlee devoted her life to serving her country. She briefed Mike Pence and served as a director on the National Security Council. But when her gender identity became public, she was told she was no longer needed.

Join us at ACS Fall 2026 in Chicago for “Machine Learning Meets Electronic Structure Theory”—three days at the intersection of quantum chemistry, materials & AI. 📅 Aug 24–26 📍 McCormick Place, W180 Supported by APL Computational Physics (AIP) and Electronic Structure (IOP). #ACSFall2026

@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky www.ovid.com/jnls/pidj/ab...

57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

The AAMC urges the Office of Management and Budget to rescind its proposed overhaul of federal research grant regulations, emphasizing deep concerns about the potential impact on science, patients, and academic medicine. Learn more:

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Frontier Molecular Orbitals... Never underestimate the fear factor! #chemsky #chemchat #chemistry

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Petrichor. Gotta love that.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/19/o... Having attended UMass Amherst, I can attest to the strength of the Five College system of which Hampshire plays an important role.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Hey inorganic people: Does anybody know what happened to the symmetry site at Jacobs university? I see that Jacobs has become Constructor. I'm wondering if the symmetry site - which was crazy useful - has been redeployed elsewhere. #inorganic #grouptheory #galois

A 2006 paper analyzes the public health response to the 1918 influenza pandemic not only validates the value of social distancing, but anticipates the consequences of relaxing those policies too soon. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.

"You are not allowed to break the law in service to this country": @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Navy veteran Sen. Mark Kelly joins The Weeknight after several Democratic lawmakers called on members of the military community to stand up for the Constitution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chj_...

Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪

Inorganic Peeps: I'm looking for a new inorganic text and like Housecroft and Sharpe but would also consider Weller, Rourke, Armstrong, Lancaster, Overton. In the past I've used Douglas et al, Huheey et al and Meissler et al. but I'm looking for a change. Any experience/recommendations?

Virginia! I’m here today for a very important reason: to ask you to vote for your next Governor, @abigailspanberger.com. Tune in:

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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Happy Mole Day, everyone! 10 to the 23 is a biiiiig number. Here are some incredible drawings from @chemscrapes.bsky.social illustrating the bigness of moles and the smallness of atoms and molecules.

“[t]he near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Teaching scientific writing like

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Here’s a @science.org review Omar Yaghi published about 10 years ago 🧪 chemsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen. He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social “Every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown...is already happening.” This isn’t about partisanship. It’s about stopping the erosion of our public services. It’s time to protect the programs that serve our communities and stand up to authoritarianism. #StopTheScam

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

I have always been mildly suspicious of this form of currency. Now I know why.

Powerful new article in NYT Magazine on cancer research [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

I'm a Former Surgeon General. Here's Why I'm Getting the COVID Shot This Year. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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"I never thought I would see the day when I couldn't rely on the CDC website for fact-based information with transparency about how it got there, what it's recommending and why." Former CDC director and author of "The Formula of Better Health," Dr. Tom Frieden, on @npr.org's All Things Considered:

www.aap.org Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule: United States, 2025 The American Academy of Pediatrics evidence-based immunization schedule includes updated guidance for children and adolescents from birth to age 18.