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Nature @nature.com · 3h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 6d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Colette Heald @coletteheald.bsky.social · 8d

We have a new PhD project to study ozone formation from fires. If interested in atmospheric chemistry, fires, living in Zurich, and studying at ETH, consider applying here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

PhD Position in Atmospheric Chemistry

jobs.ethz.ch

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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 6d

I am able to sponsor postdoctoral fellows through this program!

www.chemistry.ucla.edu/bhaumik-priz...

Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program – UCLA

The Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites nominations for the Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program. This newly instated program seeks to bring the brightest young scientists to UCLA to expand their scientific training, make new discoveries, and network with interdisciplinary scientists of all stages. The Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program is made possible by the philanthropy of physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Mani L. Bhaumik. The program supports three fellows annually for a three-year postdoctoral position.

www.chemistry.ucla.edu

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7d

A lot of grim things in this world but at least the Yankees lost.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7d

That's quite the chart annotation.

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

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 9d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 13d

New paper by @matthewgoss.bsky.social (along with @hannahskenagy.bsky.social and @coletteheald.bsky.social)! Matthew reexamined a bunch of old* SOA experiments, to get a better handle on the oxidant and RO2 chemistry involved.

* including some from my postdoc, ~20 years ago 😬

Matthew Goss @matthewgoss.bsky.social · 13d

Our paper examining the chemical conditions of past chamber studies is out! This work explores assumptions made when creating SOA parametrizations based on laboratory data, and can hopefully point to ways of improving model representation of SOA.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Re-Examining Chemical Conditions of Past Chamber Studies of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation

The simulation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in 3D models generally relies on measurements made in laboratory chamber studies. However, many of the laboratory studies that underpin the aerosol pa...

pubs.acs.org

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Climate.us @climate.us · 14d

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 14d

happy NYC Climate Week everyone

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Trump: "It used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago in the 1920s and 1930s they said, 'global cooling with kill the world.' Then they said 'global warming will kill the world.' But then it started getting cooler ... it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world."

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15d

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 15d

IDGSMF

A seasonal assortment of decorative gourds

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16d

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways.

I could write a whole article about this, but as one example:

“To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…”
No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 18d

Celebrating Richard Flagan's 50 years of service to @caltech.edu! Rick arrived in 1975 intending to study combustion chemistry and ended up playing an enormously influential role in developing new instrumentation to quantify atmospheric aerosol and helping to mitigate air pollution in LA and beyond.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 18d

Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"

AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

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CNN @cnn.com · 19d

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 19d

DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism

ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19d

Let me just say a simple thing.

Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.

If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 20d

#facultychemjobs weather report: continued downward trend

Today (9/17/25), there are 156 tenure-track research/teaching positions and 16 teaching positions for the 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List.

9/17/24: 245 tenure-track, 18 teaching
9/19/23: 265 tenure-track, 17 teaching

Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Aug 15

#facultychemjobs weather report: Trump Administration impact visible

Today (8/15/25), there are 81 tenure-track research/teaching positions and 8 teaching positions for the 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List.

8/13/24: 105 tenure-track, 7 teaching
8/15/23: 104 tenure-track, 4 teaching

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

docs.google.com

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 20d

A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:

Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare | The National Academies Press

Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

nap.nationalacademies.org

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 22d

Alternating between rage at having to figure out PDF/A conversion for my NSF report and wistful nostalgia for when government used to be mostly about making us do things like this

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23d

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23d

the only AI i need is an earpiece i can wear at my kid's birthday party that tells me the name of the parent i've met like four times before

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