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Jesse Kroll
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atmospheric chemist at MIT; also does other stuff sometimes

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Environmental science 45%
Geology 17%
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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d
Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’ https://theonion.com/pretty-cute-watching-boston-residents-play-daily-game-o-1819574643/
Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of ‘Big City’

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 4d
Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
Lawrence M Krauss 'The War On Science' featuring numerous Epstein enthusiasts

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations to Hongmin (Maria) Yu who successfully and expertly defended her thesis "Exploring Atmospheric Autoxidation of Organic Emission from Volatile Chemical Products". Thanks to @jessekroll.bsky.social, and @caltech.edu Profs Mitchio Okumura, and Rick Flagan for serving on her committee.
Proud Paul with Maria. Maria gave me a red flowers - a tradition in China.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 8d
Internal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
DOE scientists blasted climate report ordered up by boss
Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five climate contrarians to write about global warming. Department experts pushed back on the findings.
www.eenews.net

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 9d
“You can feel your brain getting smoother as you watch it.”

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Tim Seeley @hackintimseeley.bsky.social · 9d
This is a great review: northshoremovies.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/31/r...
Review – Melania
MELANIA. A documentary directed by Brett Ratner. Featuring Melania Trump, Donald Trump. Rated PG. 107 minutes. In theaters. Signifying nothing One of the most stultifying moviegoing experiences ima…
northshoremovies.wpcomstaging.com

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 10d
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 11d
Great interview — especially since had I assumed that whoever invented the Oddy Test must've passed away a long time ago.
(...Of course, up until Tuesday I also thought that about Philip Glass, so this has been quite the week.)
For 50 years, his test has been saving museum artifacts
Andrew Oddy looks back on his career as Keeper of Conservation at the British Museum and the exposure test that bears his name.
pubs.acs.org

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 11d
@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

#SaveNCAR
Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
agu.quorum.us

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 13d
"I understand that terrible AI systems are technically terrible, but I’ll be damned if they’re not confident... What naysayers don’t seem to realize is that people respond better to a confident liar shouting out answers than a polite expert. Women can back me up on this."
Our Customers Demand Terrible AI Systems
We’ve been banging our heads against the wall, trying to think of the new “it” thing our customers want. At one point, somebody suggested improving...
buff.ly

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 14d
We have a new paper out today, looking more in detail at the potential air quality impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injections, finding them more driven by climatic feedbacks than by deposition. This is the 1st questions one receives when discussing this, so really important to explore in depth!
Air quality impacts of stratospheric aerosol injections are likely small and mainly driven by changes in climate, not aerosol settling
Abstract. Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a proposed climate intervention method to offset future global warming through increased solar reflection in the stratosphere, but its broader enviro...
acp.copernicus.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14d
New at Can We Still Govern: NIH scientist @markhisted.org reviews the damage done to American biomedical science in the last year and looks ahead:
"Scientists should not be political partisans, but they should be partisans for liberal democratic principles."🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/american-b...
American biomedical science in 2026
Where we are, how we got here, and what to do next
donmoynihan.substack.com

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 14d
How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?

My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.

www.science.org/content/arti...

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 16d
Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 18d
Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

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ACS Environmental Science Journals @envirosci.acspublications.org · 19d
We are proud to announce that Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a globally respected journal with a rich legacy as a premiere source for the environmental health sciences community, has joined the ACS Publications portfolio.

Read our announcement: buff.ly/Tc1m9Xp
Promotional graphic with text. "Press Release: Environmental Health Perspectives joins the ACS Publications portfolio"

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 21d
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22d
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23d
Writing is thinking

Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

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Sarah E Hancock @sarahehancock.bsky.social · 23d
Found on LinkedIn alongside text describing how PCR works. 😂. #TeamMassSpec #massspectrometry #science #badai

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 27d
There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination.

Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
Variety @Variety X.com #BillMaher says he predicted his Golden Globes loss because "this woke town f—ing hates" that "I speak freely": "Obviously, it's something | said. Well, it's everything I said," and "I speak freely, and this woke town fucking hates that. And that's okay. I've made my peace with that. So I know how this goes. This is not something I would ever ... I have good standing. If l win this by some miracle, to go what people always say, 'I can't believe it, I'm shocked. I really should be shocked." Maher has received 41 Emmy nods across his projects, only winning once for outstanding informational series or special for "Vice" in 2014 in his role as executive producer. This year's Golden Globe nomination was his first. He lost to Ricky NEWS Bill Maher Predicted His Golden Globes Loss Because 'This Woke Town F-ing Hates' That i Speak Freely' VARIETY

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Scoiattolo @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · Jan 10
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
Amber Glenn wearing her gold medal after winning the US National Championship Women’s Singles Competition. She is dressed in a black short sequined gown and proudly holding a progress pride flag behind her. There is a gaggle of photographers in front of her.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Jan 10
This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!”

But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.

If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · Jan 8
...Yet more evidence that those who yell the loudest about "merit" have no idea of what "merit" actually is, much less how to measure it

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · Jan 8
Excellent article from @chadtopaz.bsky.social, debunking the newest right-wing proposal to make faculty hiring more "merit-based". Chad (very generously!) accepts their premise that test scores are good metrics for faculty merit…then shows statistically that their proposal simply cannot work.
chadtopaz.bsky.social Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · Jan 8
A right wing proposal would force public universities to gather/publish standardized test scores (SAT, GRE, etc.) for every faculty applicant across stages of a faculty search, to “restore meritocracy.” 👀 My op-ed today explains one of the many reasons this is nonsense: bad statistics. #AcademicSky
Faculty Merit Act Is Meritless (opinion)
A proposal to mandate publication of SAT and other standardized test scores for all faculty and faculty job applicants is statistically unsound.
www.insidehighered.com

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · Jan 8
A right wing proposal would force public universities to gather/publish standardized test scores (SAT, GRE, etc.) for every faculty applicant across stages of a faculty search, to “restore meritocracy.” 👀 My op-ed today explains one of the many reasons this is nonsense: bad statistics. #AcademicSky
Faculty Merit Act Is Meritless (opinion)
A proposal to mandate publication of SAT and other standardized test scores for all faculty and faculty job applicants is statistically unsound.
www.insidehighered.com

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · Jan 7
this new version of Connections is very confusing

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jan 6
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jan 5
I'll take it 😎
Funding deal rejects Trump’s push for major science cuts Congressional appropriators released a “minibus” of three bipartisan spending bills today that would pare back the budgets of some science agencies but largely reject Trump’s request for steep cuts. The minibus consists of the Commerce-Justice-Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior-Environment bills, which cover a substantial portion of federal research funding for fiscal year 2026. The package includes: $24.4 billion for NASA, a 1.6% cut (including $7.25 billion for NASA Science, a 1.1% cut); $8.75 billion for the National Science Foundation, a 3.4% cut; $8.4 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, a 1.9% increase; $6.17 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, roughly flat funding; $1.42 billion for the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.0% cut; and $1.18 billion to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a 2.3% increase

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cenguild.bsky.social @cenguild.bsky.social · Jan 5
We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6
Image with a red, spiked circle and white chemistry flask with a red ampersand in the middle above text that reads, “Chemical & Engineering News is forming a union,” in all caps