Through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) ACCESS program, researchers are revealing how red blood cells respond to stress — paving the way for safer, more effective blood pump designs.
Learn more about this exciting research: bit.ly/4sLWyKq
#PoweringDiscoveries
🚀 Artemis II is safely in orbit! 🚀 A daring 10-day voyage will take four astronauts on a loop around the moon and set the stage for future forays to the lunar surface
... and very concerned about species extinction trends.
Happy that pbs archived my interview with Paul Ehrlich discussing The Dominant Animal. klru.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/500... DEP He was always very kind with my ignorances
TACCSTER 2025 Brings Texas Researchers Together to Advance Science with Supercomputing
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TACC: Supercomputer Simulations Revise Ice Loss Estimates for Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
ow.ly/YBr950X4ZwL #TACC #HPC #HPCwire
"ChatGPT Plus had a fondness for using the word 'groundbreaking'.” 😂
Space clouds @drshepherd2013.bsky.social
Basic research -"Our modern economy—w/ giants like Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet—would be unimaginable w/o the humble transistor and the passion for knowledge fueling the relentless curiosity of scientists like those who made it possible." www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1...
Congratulations to Dr. Claire Parkinson, recognized for her remote sensing work including on the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites.
Good news society can use from the natural hazards data community!
It's hard to quit smoking, in more ways than one. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @natclimate.nature.com
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"Each US taxpayer spends about $4 per year to cover the Weather Service budget."
Was a pleasure to speak with one of the scientists who wrote a good chunk of the code that brought the world the first black hole image, now using TACC systems to simulate the black hole environment of M87*.
'This is where I'm coming from' makes this story about by @drshepherd2013.bsky.social on Malcom-Jamal Warner even more poignant www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... @jayrosen.bsky.social
The only thing unusual about the Atlantic's first named storm of 2025: it formed farther to the northeast than any other June storm on record. My post on the latest "shorty" (short-lived storm less than 2 days in duration) to grace the Atlantic:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/06/trop...
Also note that the color of your swimsuit matters for visibility in emergencies www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/h...
Seemingly obscure research often leads to important results, in unpredictable ways. For instance, research on Gila monster venom led to the development of GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and obesity.
I was honored to edit this new essay by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social.
Out of ignorance or malice, many people ridicule the funding of basic research. David Shiffman discusses how to explain its value--and why the looming cuts will be so devastating. 🧪
www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
A changes B is the element of narrative, nested to form a new way to model memory.
Congrats to @taccutexas.bsky.social at @utaustin.bsky.social on June 2025 Top500 list of fastest supercomputers, based on LINPACK benchmarks in solving linear algebra eq.
* #1 US Academic supercomputer with #NSFfunded Frontera
* Stampede2 ranked #7 US academic although supeseded by S3
www.top500.org
Til Abt 'inorganic arsenic' www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
A custom illustration for NASA's Curious Universe podcast featuring a farmer standing in a field holding a tablet. In front of him is a field, and in the distance, an ocean. A Landsat satellite flies over the field, scanning the ground, while NASA's PACE mission flies over the ocean, measuring phytoplankton there.
We take it for granted, but those mapping apps on our phones? NASA (government-funded) research made them possible. Today on NASA's flagship Curious Universe podcast, a celebration of Landsat, a 50+ year program to map the Earth's surface from space.
spike protein domains and mutations in VOCs
Fiona's tang fish named Dorry matches the spike colors
A behemoth effort from @fionachembot.bsky.social in which she does amazing science (showing how VOCs reshape allosteric pathways) while also making the SARS2 spike color palette match her fish Dorry 😍🫠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
Dream job
I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.
