Claire Cobley
@clairemcobley.bsky.social
Passionate about developing sustainable chemicals & materials and climate tech
Former editor-in-chief of sustainable chemistry and materials chemistry journals
Former editor-in-chief of sustainable chemistry and materials chemistry journals
Congratulations Katalin!
🌱 Zero Emission Award: Uni-Graz-Chemikerin Katalin Barta für ihre Forschung an der Gewinnung von pharmazeutisch relevanten Molekülen aus Holz ausgezeichnet: www.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...
Zero Emissions Award für nachhaltigere Medikamente
Lignin ist das Forschungsgebiet der Gruppe um Uni Graz-Professorin Katalin Barta Weissert. Sie wurde mit einer renommierten Auszeichnung geehrt.
www.uni-graz.at
June 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Congratulations Katalin!
Reposted by Claire Cobley
“Given the very real consequences for our competitiveness, our standard of living and, yes, also our bottom lines, we all ought to be making the case for aggressively funding basic science.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing
Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“Given the very real consequences for our competitiveness, our standard of living and, yes, also our bottom lines, we all ought to be making the case for aggressively funding basic science.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
The damage being done to science in the USA right now is unprecedented and will leave deep and lasting scars. If you care about advances in healthcare or any of the other ways scientific discoveries improve our lives please speak out!
April 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The damage being done to science in the USA right now is unprecedented and will leave deep and lasting scars. If you care about advances in healthcare or any of the other ways scientific discoveries improve our lives please speak out!
Reposted by Claire Cobley
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
Reposted by Claire Cobley
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive.
Goodnight friends. Get some rest.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive.
Goodnight friends. Get some rest.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive.
Goodnight friends. Get some rest.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
is right. You can humiliate and fire us. But we will not stay down. Because we truly believe in our mission. We fight for people. We fight for kids. For the right to survive and the hope to thrive.
Goodnight friends. Get some rest.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Love this idea
Remember writing a letter “to any soldier“? Reposting something doesn’t do much. I look on Google maps for different federal agencies & mail them a postcard that says “to any public servant, you are appreciated. hold the line.” #HoldTheLine. #chaoticgood
February 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Love this idea
Reposted by Claire Cobley
This is a really lovely piece and a great one to start the year off with, on the power of optimism (I've admittedly been in short supply of this from 2021-2024, but I'm starting to embrace it now)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘I became an optimist the night my wife died’: a science writer on loss and letting go of rationalism
Sumit Paul-Choudhury had always prided himself on his critical thinking, until his wife was diagnosed with cancer and he was forced to rethink his life from scratch
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is a really lovely piece and a great one to start the year off with, on the power of optimism (I've admittedly been in short supply of this from 2021-2024, but I'm starting to embrace it now)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Excited to collaborate with others as interested in the potential of academic research to generate climate solutions as I am!
If you're a PhD student (or know one) working on an exciting advance in any climate-relevant field, check out the new Inflection award-apps close Dec 1: inflectionaward.com
If you're a PhD student (or know one) working on an exciting advance in any climate-relevant field, check out the new Inflection award-apps close Dec 1: inflectionaward.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Excited to collaborate with others as interested in the potential of academic research to generate climate solutions as I am!
If you're a PhD student (or know one) working on an exciting advance in any climate-relevant field, check out the new Inflection award-apps close Dec 1: inflectionaward.com
If you're a PhD student (or know one) working on an exciting advance in any climate-relevant field, check out the new Inflection award-apps close Dec 1: inflectionaward.com