Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous.

Why care? 🧵

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

For day 11 of #ChemAdvent24 we're cosying up to a warming winter fire and enjoying some of its smoky-smelling compounds 🔥

#ChemSky 🧪

Mentions of research on Bluesky have crossed a half million posts as of this morning.

#Academicsky #Metascience #highered #MedSky

Day 6 of #ChemAdvent24 looks at the zingy molecules behind gingerbread's flavour 😋

Join the festive fragrance journey with @thamesvalleyrsc.bsky.social's Advent Calendar! Join us as we unwrap the delightful aromas of festive fir trees. 🎄🔬✨ @compoundchem.com #adventcalendar #ChemSky #EduSky

I’m excited to share that a chapter of my dissertation has been published in Journal of Food Science!

We evaluated the nutritional profile of plant-based meat alternatives🌱 and ground beef🥩. The nutrient profile of these products are a sum of their parts. Check it out!

doi.org/10.1111/1750...

Saw a TikTok wellness influencer suggest boiling your raw milk last night and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since

Entering the job market post-PhD

I ripped this video from Eleonora Svanberg on X (she’s not on 🦋)

She wrote:

“I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-)

Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!”

it’s cool being able to scroll through more than six posts without wanting to k!ll myself