How can a silly-putty-like substance help us understand cancer cells? Allen Distinguished Investigators @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social and @lydia-kisley.bsky.social are stretching the limits of #FrontierScience by developing a new way to look inside of cells. @ucscscience.bsky.social
Lydia Kisley
@lydia-kisley.bsky.social
Physicist & Chemist @cwru | Clevelander | Materials at the ultimate concentration limit🔬 | James A. Garfield Elementary alumnae 🐊 | kisleylab.science
Four consecutive WSJ headlines tonight showcasing Trump’s tightening grip on the American economy
Sometimes I think my job is just copy/paste my CV into a 87 different formats with the clunkiest UIs. The latest one- you connect your ORCID, select what to import from ORCID to your profile, save each selection, save page. Then go to your application, import from profile, save, save page. 🫠😵
The American Chemical Society announced that the ACS Board of Directors has approved $2.5 million to be granted to graduate students who have been impacted by the termination or cancellation of their adviser’s research grant(s) cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky
ACS announces millions in funding for students affected by terminated grants
The grants will help students within 1 year of completion of their degree
cen.acs.org
Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH. This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined. I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…
We’re excited to have the latest paper from our corrosion research team published online in Advanced Materials Interfaces! Read on to learn more 🧵👇 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Electrochemically‐Assisted Low Power Density Laser Writing on Stainless Steel via Enrichment of Chromium Oxides
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.
US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war
Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.
arstechnica.com
Science funding IS more than just the research. 💯 @battalio.com on @wclivestream.bsky.social Hear from the weather and climate science community, and what our public $ support, live-streaming now for 100 hours.
At my first annual meeting! & follow @lwvgreatercle.bsky.social for events to stay informed about politics & voting at all levels federal, state, county, local levels in Cleveland
11th Annual Meeting #empoweringvoters #DefendingDemocracy
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...
Check us out at #ASMS2025 at our posters, Carli is also speaking during the Tuesday Night Young Mass Spectrometrist workshop @ucscscience.bsky.social Find me if you want a sweet Sanchez Lab logo sticker
The Science Magazine Visuals Team has won six awards at the 2025 BioImages competition. 🏆 Check them out below. (THREAD 🧵)
the scientific community is awesome, pass it on
Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow! Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research! wclivestream.com
Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…
Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH
Ohio lawmakers are once again ambushing the citizen-initiative process. SB 153 is about power -- and who gets to wield it. The answer must remain: the people. We oppose this attack on direct democracy. www.cleveland.com/ne...
“They think of themselves as kings”: Ohio Republicans target citizen-led ballot initiatives again - cleveland.com
Senate Bill 153 imposes new burdensome requirements on signature gatherers, including badges that critics call a "scarlet letter," in latest move to obstruct direct democracy and block citizens from putting a check on "ridiculous runaway lawmakers"
cleveland.com
After 73 years, is NSF's graduate research fellowship program circling the drain? www.science.org/content/arti...
Will NSF’s flagship training program survive under Trump?
Despite 50 Nobelists and 75,000 alumni, NSF’s graduate research fellows could be a vanishing breed
science.org
thankfully you can enjoy the ambiance of infrastructure anywhere with our 12 uninterrupted hours of treated flowing effluent whenever you need them. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...
12 hours of clean water flowing after being treated at a NEORSD sewage plant
12 hours of uninterrupted water flow after the sewage treatment process at the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Center in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio.
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Yes Adobe. The perfect time to update is literally when I close one document and open another within 5 seconds. Makes perfect sense. #GrantWritingProblems
When I was in college, the President of CWRU in Cleveland, Agnar Pytte told me that his family had been a part of the resistance to German occupation and so he recognized it was an obligation of every citizen to oppose authoritarianism and any hint of censorship of thoughts or speech.
Congrats to two Kisley lab undergrad alumni Ben & Sofia on their NSF honorable mentions!
Congrats to CWRU Physics students and alumni for being recognized by the #nsf! @urochester.bsky.social PhD student Alex Jasko (CWRU '23) was awarded the GRFP, while @cmu.edu PhD student Sofia Splawska (CWRU '23) and physics majors Ben Wellnitz and Sydney Winner got honorable mentions. 🎉
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
harvard.edu
www.ideastream.org/government-p...
Webmaster told to remove DEI pages from CWRU site. She refused
A Case Western Reserve University webmaster said she refused to pull pages regarding diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships. She posted about it on Facebook and said the university threatened to...
ideastream.org
NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
propub.li
Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.
Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal
scim.ag
The demand on NIH wasn’t legal and has been halted by injection I’m not sure why they think this will stand. And always on f*cking Friday evening.
Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.