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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote a book prompted by a tweet!

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 2d

Regional outlets - the local news spaces -- are a good spot to go if you want to get your message out to the general public. If you are at a university or institute, your communications office might have both suggestions and connections.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks - it's my favorite line in there!

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 2d

And on the (very personal) cost of NIH funding cuts share.inquirer.com/dnDg69 3/3

Cutting NIH funding puts my life on the line — and maybe yours, as well | Opinion

Private investment in pharmaceutical research can't replace the National Institutes of Health. Both public investment and the private sector are needed to be world leaders in health care.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 2d

And yes, I'm writing op-eds. On President Trump and the grift of fantasy science share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6 2/3

Medbeds, ‘truths’, and fantastical science, oh my! | Opinion

It will take more than clicking the heels of my ruby slippers twice to pull back the curtain on what is passing for science in the White House.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 2d

Why should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3

Opinionated science

Nature Chemistry - When the facts can’t speak for themselves, scientists can give them a voice, argues Michelle Francl.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.

In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

Oh so the guy who made up gross lies about immigrants STEALING AND EATING PETS has more thoughts about immigrants? I’m sure he’s totally telling the truth this time.

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They’re Lying, Dividing, And Distracting. Don’t Believe The GOP’s Shutdown Hype

“This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law," said Sen. Mark Warner. "It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.”

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 4d

Extra carbons, extra happy, no?

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 4d

On my fall break reading list!! I hear that the @vaticanobservatory.bsky.social gets a shout out.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 7d

It always feels more real in print.

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Newspaper open to op-ed on medbeds. Photo of Dorothy’s ruby slippers.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 8d

The skeet that got me to write this: share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 8d

Science is the art of the real, not the art of the deal. My op-ed in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Medbeds, ‘truths’, and fantastical science, oh my! | Opinion

It will take more than clicking the heels of my ruby slippers twice to pull back the curtain on what is passing for science in the White House, writes Michelle Francl-Donnay.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 10d

A post for #SciArtSeptember day 28: scientific art is not just biological (imo). There is beauty in this depiction of the trajectory of a comet by American astronomer David Rittenhouse based off his 1770 observations.
From my 1789 copy of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 🔭

A fold out diagram on browning laid paper depicting astronomical observations of a comet in what was assumed to be an assumed a parabolic trajectory, later corrected to an elliptical trajectory by Johan Lexell. The Sun has a face and looks like the emoji.

#Astronomy #HistSci #HistStem

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 9d

That’s one of the accidents I talk about when I teach nuclear chemistry — it’s the first thing that came to my mind, too.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 12d

My medications, which are life-altering, will double in price. They aren’t made in the US at all.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 12d

The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.

Breaking: Donald Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals from October 1

The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.

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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 17d

So, crystallography folks, can guess what it is? Single-crystal related, device is complete and I know the answer.
#crystallography #oldschool

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 18d

St. Paul?? maybe before that episode on the road to Damascus?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 19d

Should someone demand Brian Kilmeade donate to a local homeless shelter?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 19d

If you are wondering when we ceased to be a democracy, this might be the moment, when the president of the United States says that broadcast news cannot criticize him.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 20d

Trump:

"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes McSweeney's isn't really funny, it's just really real.
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How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left

If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 22d

Writing is thinking through your fingers. -- Isaac Asimov (paraphrased)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23d

This is false. For example, the libertarian @cato.org breaks down the numbers, showing about 6 deaths from right-wing politically motivated attackers for every 1 from left-wing attackers.
Moreover, the claim that shooters represent anyone other than an unhinged fraction of society is the deeper lie.

The Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank, offers a breakdown of political violence in America. One basic point is that ideologically-motivated political violence mostly comes from the right

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23d

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them.

This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · Aug 6

Bryn Mawr College is looking for an analytical chemist! #chemsky www.brynmawr.edu/inside/acade...

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