Makes me miss spring in the Midwestern woods 🤩💚

The best mushroom!

This could morph into a hard lesson in the outsized impact a fairly small group of (brilliant, hardworking) US scientists have had in defining chemical risk, particularly for data-poor compounds.

Which is not to say that states aren't vital to the science - it is a partnership. The feds provide context (e.g., standards), nationwide data, large scale imagery, models, and yes, $$ that makes my work possible, and we are ALL understaffed and devoted to working for the public interest.

Wait. You're not fired but don't work from home. We dropped the lease on your office. But don't work from home, wait what don't you understand?!

One of your best summaries yet.

Or, and I'm just riffing here, instead of raising prices they could do fewer stock buybacks and/or maybe not start their own space programs

Plus Star Trek, which may explain my core appreciation for diplomacy and mission-focused work 🖖

Not great.

Private equity space race.