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Jesse Kroll

@jessekroll.bsky.social

atmospheric chemist at MIT; also does other stuff sometimes

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Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d ago

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)

The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

nytimes.com

Hannah S Kenagy@hannahskenagy.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Kenagy Lab at UMN is hiring a postdoc to join an upcoming ground-based field campaign focused on particle formation chemistry in agricultural regions. Details at z.umn.edu/farmsteadpos.... Contact Hannah (hskenagy@umn.edu) with questions!

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The Kenagy Lab (Department of Chemistry; https://kenagy.chem.umn.edu/) at the University of Minnesota is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join an upcoming ground-based field campaign focused on pa...

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Jake Yeston@jakeyeston.bsky.social · 3d ago

Gotta rant… I am not going to see the Elizabeth Holmes movie and it’s making me kind of crazy that it’s becoming a phenomenon, because the Theranos story is about who got fooled, not who fooled them. This jaunty @wired.com piece is reasonable all things considered www.wired.com/story/how-el...

How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else

WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · last wk.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Dylan B. Millet@dbm.bsky.social · 3w ago

New paper out in Science Advances by lead author @mvermeuel.bsky.social 🧪 Surface temps drive strong seasonality in urban reactive carbon emissions doi.org/10.1126/scia... A joint project between the @dbm.bsky.social and @chemdelphine.bsky.social groups, in collab w/ @roseatmos.bsky.social group

Surface temperatures drive strong seasonality in urban reactive carbon emissions

Urban air quality is affected by diverse volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and prior studies reveal a need to understand their seasonal sources. We combine high-resolution mass spectrometry with eddy...

science.org

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

nature.com

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 3w ago

A confirmed lab leak that we’re all hearing about. As opposed to the secret COVID conspiracy that there’s no evidence for but every major media outlet nonetheless gave credence to under pressure from the right and hallucinating op-ed columnists.

CNN@cnn.com · 3w ago

Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a suspected dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died. https://cnn.it/4i2BCfj

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 4w ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · last mo.

In the Americas, it's mostly some version of 'gasoline'. To the British & India, 'petrol', but in France, 'essence'. 'Naptha/nafta' in Argentina & in Italy, Eastern Europe & North Africa: 'benzene' (or 'benzin'). Let's explore why "make-car-go-juice" has so many names.

From reddit, a map of the world color-coded by "What Gasoline is called around the World", and there are six categories, petrol, gasoline, benzene, essence, naphtha, and "others" which is mostly China.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.