NE-CAT just finished hosting our (first) Data Collection and Processing Bootcamp for the year. We covered common diffraction issues, SAD data collection, XDS, and DIALS. 🧬🔬🧪🧶

He can make it real if he repeats it enough. That is how a dictatorship works.

Where are my DOGE savings?

Photo of the humidity chambers in the wet lab with equipment and a microscope inside

Our portable humidity chambers from @mitegen.com are here and they look fabulous. The chamber is held together with magnets so collapsed for easy storage but can be assembled quickly for users. Now, we need some crystallographers doing room temperature experiments at NE-CAT. 🧬🔬🧪🧶

I had to come to BlueSky to see the #NoKings turnout since nothing on the @nytimes.com

Good job.

Shutdown seems the same as no shutdown. NIH wasn’t paying before and it isn’t paying now.

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

If Trump appoints grant reviewers, will they appointees even understand the science they review? After all, Nancy Mace thinks scientists are making transgender (not transgenic) mice.

Who else is concerned about the slow disbursement rate of FY25 NIH funds? 🧬🧪🔬

Like around 10 usable datasets.

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How a crystallographer rolls on Sunday morning with a cat, crystals, coffee and @proteinsociety.bsky.social Tshirt.💊🌡🔬

It rained in more ways than one on Trump’s parade.

Yesterday shows that if your approval rating is 38%, people think your parade is a bad idea.

Will it rain on Trump’s Parade?

The same is happening at Cornell. NIH owes money but has silently stopped paying.

It really does look like $trumpet

Hey Structure peeps! NE-CAT@APS is having a data collection and processing bootcamp immediately after the ACA in Lombard. If you are in town and have time / interest (or have students who you think would benefit), register today! 🧬🧪🧶
necat.chem.cornell.edu/data-collect...

Trump Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked About Due Process and Upholding Constitution (Gift Article) President Trump repeatedly said he didn’t know when asked in a TV interview whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.

The Oath of Office explicitly states, ‘I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’

Foresworn and Unfit to be President.

Already forgotten the Oath of Office ‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’

MTG used stun guns in town hall attendees and she’s proud of it.

The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University. The funding pause involves mostly grants and contracts with the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services.

Suffering is for 'the people' not Trump.

He ran on vengeance and now is going to make everyone suffer for him losing in 2020.

Dr. Graeme Winter standing in front of an Eiger Detector in the endstation of a macromolecular crystallography beamline at NE-CAT.

NE-CAT is thrilled to welcome Dr. Graeme Winter as our new Associate Director! Coming from Diamond Light Source, Graeme brings a wealth of experience in synchrotron X-ray sources, crystallographic software development, and automation. 🧬🧶🧪 necat.chem.cornell.edu/new-associat...

Trump Tariffs = Tax Hike

Opinion | I Study Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic. (Gift Article) The outbreak in Texas could become much, much worse.

An op/ed on measles that everyone should read because "measles can erase the immune system’s protective memory of prior infections. This “immune amnesia,” as it’s called, leaves people vulnerable to viruses and bacteria they were once protected against." 🧪

I just went to check the LIVE @ senate.gov and Booker is still speaking this morning at 7:30 AM. Meanwhile, Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin by offering $20 per vote for Brad Schmiel. How is this not a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 597 ?https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

You are prescient.

I finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by @scalzi.com. I laughed. I cried. I wonder if this book is an allegory for the decline of the United States.