First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.

Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

"We've ended DEI - but we need you to give $10 million to pay for conservative professors."

defending freedom of speech on college campuses by banning freedom of speech on college campuses

The entire John H. Seinfeld Festschrift can be found here:
pubs.acs.org/page/aeacd5/...

Published today, the atmospheric chemistry community and ACS ES&T Air celebrate the important scientific contributions of John H. Seinfeld to atmospheric and aerosol science through this Special Issue dedicated to his legacy.

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Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Climate Science Serving America Fellowship Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

Dear Friends,

Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest.

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learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

Atmospheric Chemistry Insights from the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting reductions in worldwide emissions, associated primarily with the transport sector, provided an unprecedented opportunity to explore the response of atmospheric chemistry and composition to large anthropogenic emissions perturbations. While air quality generally improved in early 2020, this was tempered by increased formation of secondary pollutants (e.g., O3 and secondary particulate matter, PM) in many regions studied. Declines in NOx emissions were largely responsible for the changes in O3, driving decreases in O3 concentrations in remote regions and increases in urban regions due to both decreases in O3 titration by NOx and also nonlinear changes in O3 production. Lower NOx levels also increased the levels of other oxidants (e.g., OH and O3), leading to a general increase in atmospheric oxidation in polluted urban regions. This enhanced oxidation promoted additional PM formation in some regions but was generally outweighed by decreases in primary PM and other secondary precursors (SO2 and VOCs). The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to large local perturbations in air quality but only modest reductions in the global abundance of short-lived climate forcers (including O3 and PM).

Delighted to share that our review on what the COVID-19 lockdowns revealed about atmospheric chemistry was published today. What fun to write papers with wonderful colleague/friends! @jessekroll.bsky.social @envchemjen.bsky.social @chemdelphine.bsky.social

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Climate science serves America – and beyond As climate science faces challenging times, Project Drawdown is stepping up with a fellowship for early- to mid-career scientists and engineers.

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For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.

The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.

grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

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the types of podcasts: a guide

Congratulations to @Caltech ESE grad student Hongmin Yu whose work continues to reveal new surprises about peroxy radical autoxidation. Read her latest paper on a surprising fast H-shift in 1,2-diethoxyethane pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

We are experiencing an extremely rare maintenance issue at BUILDING REDACTED. Basically, the building thermostat is not working properly. It is set to 216 degrees F. To give everyone an idea of how hot it is, the cold water in the kitchen lounge on the second floor is hot to the touch and the metal door hardware is hot to the touch as well.

Holy shit y’all I just got an email I’d like to nominate for the "Wildest All-Faculty Email" Hall of Fame

Just in: UCAR has filed a lawsuit against NSF, the Commerce Dept, NOAA, and OMB to prevent the dismantling of NCAR, alleging "violations of the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act."

Exceptionally proud of my friend @tehshik.bsky.social on winning the ACS David Evans Award
If you’re at #ACSSpring2026 stop by for this symposium - it’s jam packed with tons of great chemistry
#ChemSky

Climate Science Serving America Fellowship Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

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With our new paper coming out, I thought it was finally time to join Bluesky

In our paper, we provide uncertainty bounds for the concentration of the oxidation products of dimethyl sulfide and methanethiol across three field campaigns, representing tropical, temperate and polar marine conditions

Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc

Watching the DOGE boys try to describe their mission and define DEI is tremendous content

www.youtube.com/watch?v=joma...

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Picture of an aircraft carrier, The Onion Magazine Cover October 2006: WHY AMERICAN HUBRIS WILL NEVER CATCH UP TO US Richard Perkins On Our Permanent And Unassailable Dominance Of Everything Page 14

My all-time fav

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

thehill.com/policy/defen...

Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

okay, this is funny, though

A graphical abstract showing the "Shiba pipeline" with two dogs: Shiba and scShiba Title of the paper: "Shiba: a versatile computational method for systematic identification of differential RNA splicing across platforms" https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/53/4/gkaf098/8042001

All graphical abstracts should include at least one animal

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further