Chris Santangelo
@materialsgeometry.bsky.social
theoretical physicist,
studier of the geometry and topology of soft materials,
lover of figuring things out,
teacher and dad, opinions are my own
studier of the geometry and topology of soft materials,
lover of figuring things out,
teacher and dad, opinions are my own
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"War on Science: The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now it wants to 'correct' research" | I'll be talking with #KatyTur on @msnbc.com #KatyTurReports TODAY ~2:45pm ET www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live-k...
Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC
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June 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"War on Science: The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now it wants to 'correct' research" | I'll be talking with #KatyTur on @msnbc.com #KatyTurReports TODAY ~2:45pm ET www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live-k...
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Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.
fortune.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
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New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding
Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.
www.nature.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Eventually, we will all have to choose where we stand or don't stand.
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Eventually, we will all have to choose where we stand or don't stand.
Almost definitely going to happen at NSF.
🧪 "The core strategy Republicans seem to be employing is to slow #NIH spending as much as possible to generate budget surpluses, and then use those surpluses as justification for slashing the NIH budget."
I wonder if this is similar at #NSF.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
I wonder if this is similar at #NSF.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Almost definitely going to happen at NSF.
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Moderna’s Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works—Now Politics Could Sink It gizmodo.com/modernas-sup...
Moderna’s Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works—Now Politics Could Sink It
A new trial suggests a combination vaccine may offer equal or better protection against both flu and covid-19 compared to current vaccines.
gizmodo.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Moderna’s Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works—Now Politics Could Sink It gizmodo.com/modernas-sup...
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1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
www.science.org
May 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
We did it y'all! We've been working on this for .. well, like, forever. We finally did it! We can stop science now.
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...
Scientists Witness Lead Literally Turn Into Gold in The Large Hadron Collider
For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.
www.sciencealert.com
May 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We did it y'all! We've been working on this for .. well, like, forever. We finally did it! We can stop science now.
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...
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The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight. @walkingthedot.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beau...
Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences | Quanta Magazine
The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight. @walkingthedot.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beau...
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This is such a disaster. And the silence of the so-called papers of record on the dismantling of American science is indefensible.
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is such a disaster. And the silence of the so-called papers of record on the dismantling of American science is indefensible.
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Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway
Officials testified that DOGE was directly involved in hundreds of grant terminations.
arstechnica.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
May 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
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Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you.
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states.
Please spread the word!
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HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE:
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
More than a dozen states, DC sue Trump administration over ‘dismantling’ of federal health agencies | CNN
Democratic attorneys general across 19 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal hea...
www.cnn.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE:
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS.
“…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
Worse than anyone could have possibly imagined.
What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...
May 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Worse than anyone could have possibly imagined.
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Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
May 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
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This was shared by program managers on LinkedIn tonight. What I said there: "The NSF is a model for research support that every other agency aspires to. Faculty around the country learn very quickly just how dedicated program managers are to their jobs and just how fair the review process is." 1/2🧪⚛️
Also, the union that represents NSF employees (AFGE Local 3403) also sent an open letter today to the National Science Board urging swift and vocal action.
"Please do not hesitate to take a stand defending NSF, even if it is your last act as a member of the NSB."
www.savensf.com/_files/ugd/e...
"Please do not hesitate to take a stand defending NSF, even if it is your last act as a member of the NSB."
www.savensf.com/_files/ugd/e...
May 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This was shared by program managers on LinkedIn tonight. What I said there: "The NSF is a model for research support that every other agency aspires to. Faculty around the country learn very quickly just how dedicated program managers are to their jobs and just how fair the review process is." 1/2🧪⚛️
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Slash R&D, kill the economy.
“It is going to be a decline forever,” said Ignacio González, one of the study’s authors. “The U.S. economy is going to be smaller.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
“It is going to be a decline forever,” said Ignacio González, one of the study’s authors. “The U.S. economy is going to be smaller.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Slash R&D, kill the economy.
“It is going to be a decline forever,” said Ignacio González, one of the study’s authors. “The U.S. economy is going to be smaller.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
“It is going to be a decline forever,” said Ignacio González, one of the study’s authors. “The U.S. economy is going to be smaller.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
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This 1938 pro-science manifesto defended democracy against fascism
2025 doesn't mark the first time that science has been under attack from fascist politics.
This classic 1938 manifesto by 1000+ scientists is more relevant today than ever.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #physics #astronomy
2025 doesn't mark the first time that science has been under attack from fascist politics.
This classic 1938 manifesto by 1000+ scientists is more relevant today than ever.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #physics #astronomy
This 1938 pro-science manifesto defended democracy against fascism
As democracy recedes and fascism rises in the USA and around the world in 2025, history provides a lesson in how science can fight fascism.
bigthink.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This 1938 pro-science manifesto defended democracy against fascism
2025 doesn't mark the first time that science has been under attack from fascist politics.
This classic 1938 manifesto by 1000+ scientists is more relevant today than ever.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #physics #astronomy
2025 doesn't mark the first time that science has been under attack from fascist politics.
This classic 1938 manifesto by 1000+ scientists is more relevant today than ever.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#science #physics #astronomy
New paper: a simple idea to create structures whose mechanical properties can be adjusted dramatically by changes in geometry, published in Soft Matter.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Tuning stiffness of mechanical metamaterial unit cells via transitions to second-order rigid and pre-stressed states
Mechanical metamaterials have been widely studied for their broad range of exotic mechanical properties, and there is particular interest in imparting these materials with tunability to rationally alt...
pubs.rsc.org
April 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New paper: a simple idea to create structures whose mechanical properties can be adjusted dramatically by changes in geometry, published in Soft Matter.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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‘Matthew Memoli, then the acting director of the NIH, sent instructions to urgently “fund research” into “regret and detransition following social transition”’
Bhattacharya and RFK are producing a political autism/vax study…
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www.theatlantic.com/...
Bhattacharya and RFK are producing a political autism/vax study…
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www.theatlantic.com/...
‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’ - The Atlantic
The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.
www.theatlantic.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
‘Matthew Memoli, then the acting director of the NIH, sent instructions to urgently “fund research” into “regret and detransition following social transition”’
Bhattacharya and RFK are producing a political autism/vax study…
1/
www.theatlantic.com/...
Bhattacharya and RFK are producing a political autism/vax study…
1/
www.theatlantic.com/...
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Just saw an internal announcement from a major university that new funding requests from new NIH/HHS NOAs(Notice of Awards) are temporarily paused while they assess changes to the Civil Rights Protection section of grants policy statement.
What have you hear from your universities?
What have you hear from your universities?
April 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just saw an internal announcement from a major university that new funding requests from new NIH/HHS NOAs(Notice of Awards) are temporarily paused while they assess changes to the Civil Rights Protection section of grants policy statement.
What have you hear from your universities?
What have you hear from your universities?