Andrew Tan
@andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
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yangyangcheng.bsky.social
Who becomes a scientist, what kind of work does she do, and why? Generations of women in China have explored these questions. For @madeinchinajournal.com, I trace their stories and the different answers their struggles and achievements reveal—on the purpose of science and the meaning of womanhood.
Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal
In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and cal...
madeinchinajournal.com
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tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social
Same thing happened in Texas and has now spread across many, if not all, UT System universities. UT Dallas no longer has a functioning faculty senate. Maybe we will have a path to reconstitute sometime soon but for now there is no senate.
bwjones.bsky.social
The Utah legislature gutted the power of university faculty senates in the state. I was told by someone on Utah Capitol Hill that the president of the University of Utah worked with the legislature on that legislation.

I'm surprised that Arizona's faculty senate has not had the same happen to them.
timsteller.bsky.social
The University of Arizona's faculty senate has voted to ask the UA president to reject the Trump administration's proposed compact. It's among an accumulation of voices who say not to be tempted by the good things in the compact due to its more fundamental threats.
tucson.com/news/local/e...
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startswithabang.bsky.social
Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics

This year's Nobel Prize in physics was all about building the first sustainable macroscopic system to exhibit quantum behavior.

Here's the science behind the prize, and why it matters.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum
Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025's Nobel Prize in physics
Quantum mechanics was first discovered on small, microscopic scales. 2025's Nobel Prize brings the quantum and large-scale worlds together.
bigthink.com
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
Who’s cutting onions in here?
♥️🥹😅😭

“I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.”

Yaghi speaks about his early life as a refugee in Jordan, the wonderful way his field has developed, and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry

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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
Omar won! He won! 🤩 So wonderful!

From Palestinian refugee to Nobel glory: Omar Yaghi’s incredible journey

Born in Amman to refugee parents, Yaghi rose from humble roots to reshape modern chemistry

gulfnews.com/world/americ...
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hannesmehrer.bsky.social
🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684

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seeingwithsound.bsky.social
Model-guided microstimulation steers primate visual behavior arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684 by @hannesmehrer.bsky.social @mschrimpf.bsky.social et al.; in humans compare higher-level visual cortex stimulation with verbal (object-level semantic, auditory) AI scene description? #BCI #NeuroTech
Overview of approach
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
This vvvvvvvv
jacob-hanna.bsky.social
A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!
andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
"A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!"

- Jacob Hanna
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jacob-hanna.bsky.social
A Palestinian, son of Palestinians displaced from Gaza (Al-Masmiyya) to Jordan, wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry... Professor Omar Munis Yaghi from the University of Berkeley!!

..Some members of the Yaghi family are still under the rubble in Gaza!
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emulenews.bsky.social
Otra predicción fallida: Nobel de Química 2025 a las redes metalorgánicas de Omar M. Yaghi, junto con Susumu Kitagawa y Richard Robson. Un premio muy esperado desde hace años (yo lo predije para 2023)
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Panel 1
A figure stands at a lectern 
"This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything." 
The screen is completely packed with such things 

Panel 2,3,4,5.
Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"
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peaseroland.bsky.social
Omar was last on Science in Action a year ago, with an exceptional Organic Framework compound that gobbles up oodles of CO2 from the free atmosphere.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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peaseroland.bsky.social
Yay ... A long favourite of mine Omar Yaghi gets the chemistry #Nobelprize
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rosalafersousa.bsky.social
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.
andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
Fascinating essay by Shaul Magid on the "belief in Israel as a liberal and democratic – albeit ethnocentric – state".

"One day, Jewish-Israeli society will recognize that this 'Jewish and democratic' thing gradually tightened the noose around it from the day of its founding." - Assaf David
joelhs.bsky.social
"We find ourselves at a moment where the compatibility of “liberalism” and “Zionism” feels increasingly untenable... The permanent occupation, to say nothing of the destruction of Gaza, has undermined any plausible claim to Israel as a “liberal” country." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid
Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed
www.theguardian.com
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saskajanet.bsky.social
Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿
Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.
andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
🐸 🇿🇦 🤣
chrislintott.bsky.social
Prof. Gurdon was Master at Magdalene when I was an undergraduate. I remember trying to make small talk while he had students over (generously) for Sunday lunch. But I also remember him making a magnificent job of introducing Nelson Mandela, who was being made an honorary fellow of the college..(1/n)
cam.ac.uk
It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r
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marcolongobardo.bsky.social
Happy to be quoted with esteemed colleagues in this article for Anadolu Agency, where I discuss international justice for Pal_estinians: www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/2-...
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
Famine’s Long Shadow

Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.

Alex de Waal

jewishcurrents.org/famines-long...
Famine's Long Shadow
Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.
jewishcurrents.org