David Waterman
dagewa.bsky.social
David Waterman
@dagewa.bsky.social
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I get such weird whiplash from reading about straightforward fascism like this online, then interacting with colleagues in real life who seem so wilfully ignorant to all of it and are looking forward to attending an American conference next week or doing a fellowship in the US.
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.

Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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We might have been looking at atherosclerosis the wrong way all these years. Is the cause a bacterial metabolite?
A New Cause of Atherosclerosis
www.science.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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June 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Enhancements of the intensity-clustering algorithms available within DIALS and utilized by xia2.multiplex are described and demonstrated #MultiCrystalDataSets #DataProcessing #Clustering doi.org/10.1107/S205...
June 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Does crossing the pond affect crystal quality?
No!
June 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Ed Davey: UK must stand up to 'bully' Donald Trump
Ed Davey: UK must stand up to 'bully' Donald Trump
Lib Dem leader says UK should "hit back with tariffs of our own" and co-ordinate a with the EU and Canada.
www.bbc.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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It helps to hear individual stories rather than DOGE apparatchiks referring to abstract “money saving cuts”. Thousands of small tragedies like this – check out the thread – really feel for the guy and his team. I hope many affected academics are able to relocate to more forward thinking countries
There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Flu is doing an absolute number on the NHS. Friends, you know I’m quite an understated non-sensationalist person but hospitals are truly in an awful state. Normal activity is being cancelled just to try to get on top of things. I’m really sorry to all who are not getting the service they deserve.
January 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Nice to have the cover article 😊 journals.iucr.org/c/issues/202...
Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry
Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry
journals.iucr.org
January 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Electron diffraction! From the awesome Hanna Kwon and Marcus Gallagher-Jones
November 21, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM