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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13h

DC was a relatively calm and peaceful city before Trump's inauguration. You know who and what has made life miserable here? Trump and DOGE. We now have the highest unemployment rate in the entire country at 7% (as of today) and the number of homes up for sale has increased 64% since last June.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 13h

And this really fucking sucks. I'm so sorry

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus ...

Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 13h

omnomnomnom ... I remember when this paper came out.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 14h

Prof Tarpeh gave a virtual lecture to us in 2020 or 2021. It was fantastic. Great news that he got a MacArthur.

Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 14h

So proud of our Stanford colleague Will Tarpeh, newly named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Will is a brilliant and innovative scientist and a deeply committed community builder who helped launch a support network for junior Black faculty at Stanford. We’re all beaming!

news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Stanford Professor William Tarpeh receives MacArthur Fellowship

The chemical engineering professor was recognized for his advances in recovering valuable materials from wastewater. “This award is a testament to my community,” he says.

news.stanford.edu

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 14h

It's a good question!!

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 18h

Its really beautiful!

Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 18h

This is good. I hope we start to see some collective action/statements from groups of universities on this soon.

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 18h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 18h

Fun picture from this morning watching some research progress.

Different layers of barrel (char layer, pyrolysis layer, and virgin wood layer) soaking in ethanol.

three vials containing ethanol and samples from different part of a whisky barrel. From left to right are: char layer, pyrolysis layer, and virgin wood layer. These samples have been soaking for just under a day. But the slight auburn coloration in the ethanol with the pyrolysis layer shows where most of the color in whisky comes from.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome!
That's always how I was at that age too

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 1d

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

www.nature.com

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

urmomma_urface at gmail dot com

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

All the patients in the waiting room who had a full day of 'prep' staring daggers as they watch other people drink coffee 😂
That decision might be for your own safety.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

This is really cool!

Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo-abad.bsky.social · 1d

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto and coauthors introduce a programmable nonlinear photonic chip. By projecting light patterns onto a waveguide, they reconfigure how light interacts with light—opening the door to software-defined quantum, sensing, and communication optics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics - Nature

An optical slab waveguide with highly programmable nonlinear functionality is described, enabling the demonstration of versatile control over broadband second-harmonic generation across the spectral, spatial and spatio-spectral domains.

www.nature.com

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Also, NIST scientists are some of the best in the world. It is a great loss to all of us when they aren't doing the things that they are incredible at. Send out warm thoughts to all the folks at NIST and the rest of our federal employees during this shutdown.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats again to Professors Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Alright MOF-mavens and Nobel fans ... This might be one of my favorite things to ever come out of my collaborations with NIST. They put together a hilarious video on MOFs and their potential use in environmental sensors.

ChemSky 🧪

www.nist.gov/video/shark-...

Shark vs Bunny: Sensor Showdown

NIST sensor scientists demonstrate metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their ability to selectivelycapture specific substances ... using puppets

www.nist.gov

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

ChemSky

Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Listen. It's quite obvious I'm running some sort of racket here. There is just no way I should be associated with these incredible chemists!! 😂

Matt Davenport @mrmattdavenport.bsky.social · 2d

First of all, I just really appreciated him, Katherine Mirica, @omarfarha.bsky.social and @matthartings.bsky.social so graciously sharing their time for project that was just getting off the ground. (2/I got a couple more in me)

Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Listen. It's quite obvious I'm running some sort of racket here. There is just no way I should be associated with these incredible chemists!! 😂

Matt Davenport @mrmattdavenport.bsky.social · 2d

First of all, I just really appreciated him, Katherine Mirica, @omarfarha.bsky.social and @matthartings.bsky.social so graciously sharing their time for project that was just getting off the ground. (2/I got a couple more in me)

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Isnt this the same dude who is voting illegally as a PA resident?

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Got to listen to a great talk from @everywherechem.bsky.social today at AU

Professor Rigoberto Hernandez giving a lecture to the chemistry and biochemistry majors at American University

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, Shawn. But it's MOF and not MIF. Clearly an organic award </sarcasm>

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of which ... zeolites have MOFs beat by a long-shot in terms of applications and probably should have won a Nobel years ago.

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