It is September 1st, which means it is official, so here’s the obligatory change-of-signature video 🥲
Dani Arias-Rotondo
@dr-dani-ar.bsky.social
she/ella 🇦🇷 || assoc. prof. at Kalamazoo College || coordination chemistry + photophysics || cat & reptile lady, bookworm, slow runner
Things you may not know only exist with the help of Dolly Parton: Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Moderna covid vaccine Millions of free books for children And that's before you even consider her music. She wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the *same day*!
When I’m feeling down, I like checking my spam folder. It’s good to be reminded that I’m a world expert in nanotechnology, semiconductors, catalysis, biochemistry, medical case research, cancer, and astrophysics, to name a few.
I loved seeing the comments on LinkedIn about the logo. I really hope they either go back or adopt the Cthulu logo.
Dani Arias-Rotondo@dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 4w agoBut can we all agree the new ACS logo is very ugly?
Straight-up Nazi approach: All Haitians are ordered to appear at the ICE office…
I feel like I was part of something bigger than myself today. New ACS logo just dropped.
Scott Bagley@bagphos.bsky.social · 4w ago
But can we all agree the new ACS logo is very ugly?
Question for #ChemistsWhoRun: should I put “marathon runner” on my CV? (I’m only ¼ joking)
Some good news even though the damage has been done & many of us lost funding due to these illegal actions. ‘A federal judge ruled Friday that federal officials can’t cancel existing grants simply because they don’t align with new government priorities’
Trump officials can’t revoke grants due to new agency goals, judge rules
The ruling scores a win for a group of 21 attorneys general and three governors who sued over the Trump administration’s approach to grant terminations.
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Let me go back to suffering over fútbol. I don’t need any part of this show.
In case anyone was wondering, I am already suffering. I never have fun watching my team play.
Hey #chemsky just dropping it here that next year I go up for tenure! (I cannot believe it either lol remember the pinkyprincess college days? lol) So if your department is thinking about speakers next yr & you are interested on hearing on amazing chem education research keep me in mind please :)
Seeing the celebrities of my childhood/teens today is… sobering. #WorldCupFinal
They're still not over "the hand of god". We're still not over the Malvinas war. It's not the same. #ENGARG
Si esto se mantiene voy a ser muy feliz. Rojaijú Paraguay! #GERPAR
Por un lado, qué alegría que #CaboVerde haya clasificado. Por el otro, no quiero tener que hinchar en su contra cuando jueguen contra #Argentina.
33% of the World's population does not have access to clean drinking water. Eff the data centers.
It’s the #WorldCup so here’s my 2nd famous site from each country playing in the World Cup. It’s ARGENTINA 🇦🇷. This is an incredible cave painting from the Cueva de las Manos. It was made by using bone pipes to spray pigments over their hands. 🕰️ variously 7,300BC-700AD
academic labor conditions are an academic freedom issue and vice versa
Jen Mercieca@jenmercieca.bsky.social · 2mo ago"An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
Am I back here because I need to find and consume even more #WorldCup content? Yes, yes I am. Also, I got tenure a couple of months ago, yay!!
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
For those concerned about environmental justice, the EJScreen tool (which provides valuable mapping and screening data) has not yet been taken down, and the database can be downloaded. Act fast… www.epa.gov/ejscreen/tec...
Technical Information and Data Downloads | US EPA
This page provides an introduction to the technical information about EPA's Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Tool (EJScreen) as well as links to detailed guidance.
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Received this email from my chair tonight (🧵, 1/6): "The DOE has issued new guidance indicating that, until further notice, there will be delays in any funding actions. Here’s what this means for projects pending or already awarded by DOE: 1. Pending Proposals: Awards will be postponed. ...
Teen Vogue never ceases to amaze me ✊🏼
Teen Vogue@teenvogue.com · 2y agoWhen a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Saw people posting on this and was hoping they were isolated incidents… but nope, it’s real and it’s bad www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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