Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??”

SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

2 people in foreground at desks making braille periodic tables with 10 people in background.

Four images of wooden templates for braille periodic tables with tactile balls, glue, and tweezers. Last image is of CEN article about braille periodic tables effort

We had a great turnout for our Chemunity event to make a braille periodic table. Thanks to Mike Fricke for sharing designs! We made some modifications to fit on our smaller laser printer.

#chemsky #chemchat @calpolypomona.bsky.social

For folks in California, AB 1557 was just amended to make up new definitions for Class 1 and 2 ebikes that would dramatically impact their usability for carrying kids and cargo. @calbike.bsky.social has a good summary; contact your representative now: click.everyaction.com/k/129073693/...

Your videos are great and very helpful for training my students. Thank you!

Fingernail crescent Earth suspended in space, continents and clouds clearly visible, with a Venus dot far in the background, and moonshine illuminating the night

Crystal clear view of Earth's terminator, showing half the globe in daylight that fades into the night half. The daylight side really embodies the blue marble nickname, with captivating cloud patterns and gorgeous oceans. What a nifty planet.

Since NASA apparently isn't on bsky I wholeheartedly suggest you keep an eye on images.nasa.gov ... two new beautiful blue marble images dropped 

I met a lot more of both than I expected. Many came for special award symposia.

This is one that I’ve most been looking forward to putting out there. A false choice that I still see and hear in far too many cities. Please share. #UrbanTruth

Chart of CO2 levels from Aranet monitor for Sunday March 22. levels fluctuate mostly between 500-900 ppm throughout the day-all in the „green“ color coded zone

FYI to #ACS #ACSspring2026 attendees, the Georgia World Congress center has really good ventilation!

The CO2 levels throughout the whole day stayed in the green zone on the Aranet monitor.

#chemsky #chemchat

#chemsky #realtimechem

Black vent structure with whitish biofilm on all the surfaces

Black vent structure so much whitish biofilm on all the surfaces that the black base can hardly be seen

Check out our new research to probe habitability of ocean worlds out as a preprint on ChemRxiv: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

This is entirely the concept of an awesome Masters student Damara, who passed her defense yesterday!

These vent structures were grown in a lab and are covered in biofilm.

Long Covid Awareness Day 2026 It's 2026 and the Covid pandemic rages on despite many pretending it no longer exists. Today is a day to remind people of the disabling nature of the virus and how they can protect themselves.

This Long Covid Awareness Day let us remember the millions who've been disabled by the virus.

The people who've been forgotten and left behind.

The folks who have to hide their diagnosis because of the stigma attached to it.

You think you don't know anyone with Long Covid?

I promise, you do:

folks if the LA times is acknowledging covid as an ongoing mass disabling event it is definitely an ongoing mass disabling event

Congrats!

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Lecture bottle of 13CO2 with regulator

Gearing up for a super expensive 13CO2 labeling experiment. Wish us luck!

The cylinder comes with 33 psi of 13CO2 and a big warning label not to open it without a regulator-otherwise you lose your precious gas!

#chemsky #chemchat #realtimechem

Riding a bike is safe.

Cars and poor infrastructure make it dangerous.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

Congrats!

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Yes, around that age

In CA it was taught during high school chemistry which was 9th or 10th grade. However, we also have many first time university students who are learning this concept.

#chemsky

Perry: The learning loss from the ‘ICE pandemic’ "As Trump’s virus lurked around Minnesota schools looking to kidnap children and their parents, many children quite reasonably went into hiding," David M. Perry writes.

New piece: on learning loss after immigration raids.

Ignore news conferences and politicians. We will know the current horrors are over when kids come back to school. But getting kids back in school is just the first step. Then the real work begins.

Thank you!

View of campus buildings and grass in foreground with ranges of snow capped mountains across the whole horizon

Enjoying the view of snow-capped mountains all around from our instrumentation chemistry lab at Cal Poly Pomona!

#chemsky

California's E-bike Accountability Act seeks to ensure safety, requiring owners to register their rides with DMV The proposed e-bike registration law seeks to introduce mandatory DMV registration and license plates for Class 2 and Class 3 e-bikes.

Moral panic around e-bikes is getting out of control.

The assemblywoman proposing this bill is quoted in the article saying she has concerns abt people riding "30,40, even 60 mph" -- those are not e-bikes! Those are e-motos!

www.cbs8.com/article/news...