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Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) @ewcspottesmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

The calls are officially up for the @researchireland.ie postgrad/postdoc programs! I can sponsor one applicant for each program to work @coreacter.org @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Chemistry. Please reach out if interested, and please share widely!

⚗️ 🧪 #CompChem

CoReACTER @coreacter.org · Sep 11

The CoReACTER is looking to sponsor one applicant each for the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme!

www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

Please share!

#CompChem #AcademicSky #PhDJobs #PostdocJobs

Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme - Research Ireland

The Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and mana...

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Cushing is changing the conversation around mental health and disabilities in chemistry by building spaces where students can focus on support and well-being.

#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM cen.acs.org/physical-che...

Scott Cushing: A lab works best when chemists prioritize their health

Grad student <b>Charlotte Fuqua</b> talks with this physical chemist and spectroscopy maverick about lasers, mental health, and disabilities

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 1d

The first school to volunteer for this will be making an unambiguous statement: we would be the first to resegregate our university if we could. Sure would hate to see any school I’ve been affiliated with go down in history as that kind of scum

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

As expected, the first 9 compacts were a trial run.

They have now come for all of us.

And each of us, and all of us, should say no.

Scoop via @liamknox.bsky.social at Bloomberg:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com

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

New work by Carcamo & Lynn shows how to model 10k+ neurons exactly on loopy graphs, selecting only the most informative connections. A breakthrough linking statistical physics, neuroscience, and scalable ML—turning complex brain data into tractable, predictive models. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics @pccp.rsc.org · 4d

PCCP is delighted to to celebrate our 25th Anniversary with you with a collection of more than 100 insightful articles from the PCCP community #chemsky

All papers are now online and free to access until 10th January 2026!

Read the full collection:

pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

An R-S-C promotional graphic for the PCCP 25th Anniversary Issue themed collection. The graphic includes photos of the guest editors, Henry “Fritz” Schaefer (University of Georgia, PCCP Deputy Chair of the Editorial Board) and Julie MacPherson (university of Warwick, PCCP Ownership Board member). The tagline reads “Published and free to access”.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3d

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO

If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’

www.nwo.nl

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 3d

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
time.com/7325192/cdc-...

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings

The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.

time.com

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot in good conscience recommend that my undergraduate or masters students go to graduate school in the USA. I will support them if they apply but I cannot recommend it to them. This is a change from 30 years of practice in which that was my strongest recommendation.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 4d

alarming mention of mass spec in this article about Congressional requests for EPA to track mifepristone in wastewater #chemsky ⚗️🧪

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater

www.nytimes.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27d

The concluding paragraph of #ScienceUnderSiege
(www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

And so we choose to do battle against the forces of darkness,
#ghting back against a malevolent movement that represents all that
is bad in the world— fascism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny,
and bigotry— a movement that uses antiscienti#c disinformation as
its preferred weapon. We do this not because our success is guaranteed.
Given the forces mobilized against us, we are clearly the underdog.
And no white wizard will come to our rescue. But we have truth
and justice on our side. And the stakes simply couldn’t be greater. We
#ght for a livable planet, for us, our children, and future generations.
Because it’s worth #ghting for.8

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 4d

MIT rejects "the Compact"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 4d

just going to leave this here

academic.oup.com/ej/article/1...

Publishing While Female: are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review

Abstract. Female authors are under-represented in top economics journals. In this paper, I investigate whether higher writing standards contribute to the p

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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 4d

Check out our new preprint on "How to Develop and Use Open Educational Resources" 📖✨

This iteration will later be published in a new book "Teaching Open Science" edited by @drcpennington.bsky.social and @maddipow.bsky.social. Watch this space! 👀

osf.io/preprints/ed...

OSF

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 6d

So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 7d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...

astro.washington.edu

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Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, C @jmaterchem.rsc.org · 6d

Our materials journals at the Royal Society of Chemistry are delighted to publish MOFs research and we encourage you to check out some of the work authored by our Nobel Prize winners:
@jmaterchem.rsc.org A
doi.org/10.1039/D3TA...
doi.org/10.1039/C4TA...

@jmaterchem.rsc.org C
doi.org/10.1039/D3TC...

Synthesis and hydrogen adsorption properties of internally polarized 2,6-azulenedicarboxylate based metal–organic frameworks

To improve the binding energy of hydrogen, incorporation of internally polarized organic units into metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) should be a promising strategy. In this study, two novel MOFs compos...

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Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) @jacs.acspublications.org · 6d

Congratulations to Prof. Omar Yaghi on being awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. JACS is honored by his enduring contributions as a visionary scientist & a dedicated Associate and Executive Editor serving the chemical community.

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleychemistry.bsky.social

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 7d

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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The Amsterdam Modeling Suite (SCM) @ams-software.bsky.social · 6d

🚀 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗺! Join us to develop methods & software for simulating vibrational spectroscopies of chiral molecules. 3-year EU Marie Curie position with attractive benefits. Apply here: www.scm.com/news/job-ope... #matsky #compchemsky

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