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November 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Fantastic piece by @meaganbrem.bsky.social. Congrats! @vt-science.bsky.social
Delighted to share my Roanoke Times article on alcohol-facilitated partner abuse ⬇️

Under the influence: How alcohol fuels partner abuse roanoke.com/opinion/colu...
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is our fourth Thanksgiving with students, and it's going to be the biggest and best yet. We are expecting about 500 Hokies, friends, and family to join us! I can't wait.
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This is home for Thanksgiving
This year, all Virginia Tech students are invited to celebrate Thanksgiving with a holiday meal hosted by College of Science Dean Kevin Pitts and his wife, Toni.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Big, if true.
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is correct. International students subsidize domestic students, they do not displace domestic students. It's a win-win.
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
30% drop year over year!
September 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
US must support chemistry research
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June 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Another VT Science Corner is out! Congratulations to Georgia Hodes for this excellent op ed! @vtneuroscience.bsky.social @vt-science.bsky.social roanoke.com/opinion/colu...
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June 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Long-running physics experiment dashes hope of new particles and forces | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Long-running physics experiment dashes hope of new particles and forces
Muon is just as magnetic as predicted, requiring no new theory to explain
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June 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Muon Wobble Mystery Deepens as Fermilab Hits Precision Goal

After six years of meticulous measurements, scientists at Fermilab have delivered their final word on one of physics' most puzzling mysteries: how much does a muon wobble in a magnetic field? The answer, precise to 127 parts-per-billion,…
Muon Wobble Mystery Deepens as Fermilab Hits Precision Goal
After six years of meticulous measurements, scientists at Fermilab have delivered their final word on one of physics' most puzzling mysteries: how much does a muon wobble in a magnetic field? The answer, precise to 127 parts-per-billion, surpassed their original goal and represents the most accurate measurement of its kind ever achieved. Yet rather than solving the mystery, this remarkable precision has highlighted a growing divide in the theoretical physics community about what the numbers actually mean.
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June 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It's Reading Day, Hokies!
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May 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Another VT Science Corner is out! Congrats to Jen Van Mullekom for a great piece on applications of statistics! Thanks to the Roanoke Times. @vt-science.bsky.social roanoke.com/opinion/colu...
VT Science Corner: Statisticians make backyard digging a little safer
The future holds promise for robots to actively collaborate in diverse aspects of human endeavor, transforming industries
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May 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
They want to end the model that US research has utilized for almost a century. But they seem uninterested in replacing it with a new model. www.science.org/content/arti...
Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal
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April 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
News media: people who are aware of the overwhelming evidence for vaccine safety and effectiveness but unwilling or incapable of accepting this evidence are not "skeptics". Please stop calling them skeptics. The definition of skepticism doesn't include denial or disregard of factual information.
April 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I think that people who don’t fly often come to the airport with an expectation that flights will be on time and they will be treated with respect. Reality must be a huge shock for them.
March 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Air travel advice: don't miss your connection by 5 minutes (like you have any control over it...) You stand at the gate staring longingly at the plane that was supposed to take you away. And you know what follows: rebooking, re-rebooking, and a 5 city reroute that will get you there next week.
March 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Thanks for Giving, Hokies!
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February 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Really cool, "upcycling" plastic waste into soap. Greg Liu, Virginia Tech Chemistry, making it happen.
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Could plastic waste be recycled into soap? Virginia Tech chemist finds a way
Scientists estimate we recycle only nine percent of the plastic that’s produced around the world. A chemistry professor at Virginia Tech has discovered a way to use waste plastic to produce an ingredi...
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January 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Helen Edwards was a great scientist and primarily responsible for what was arguably one of the greatest scientific instruments mankind ever built. www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-...
Fermilab research center being renamed in honor of trailblazing female physicist
A research center at Batavia’s Fermilab is being renamed in honor of the woman who oversaw for 25 years the most powerful particle collider in the world.
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December 25, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I believe we have made some progress over the last couple of decades, but not nearly enough -- and not fast enough. We have to figure out to do better. We are literally losing talent to stereotypes. www.the74million.org/article/girl...
Girls Face Stereotypes about STEM Abilities as Early as 6, Study Finds
Beliefs that boys are better at computer science and engineering could have ‘downstream effects’ on girls entering tech fields, one researcher says.
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December 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Quantifying the global biodiversity of Proterozoic eukaryotes. #Science

"Here we report a new construction of fossil eukaryote diversity from the Paleoproterozoic to early Cambrian based on a comprehensive data compilation and quantitative analyses."

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Quantifying the global biodiversity of Proterozoic eukaryotes
The global diversity of Proterozoic eukaryote fossils is poorly quantified despite its fundamental importance to the understanding of macroevolutionary patterns and dynamics on the early Earth. Here w...
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December 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM