The Journal of Rheology is looking for submissions for a special issue on Networks with Dynamic Covalent Bonds and Applications. Submit before Jan 31 and also consider a focused discussion at the European MSCA 'ReBond" in Crete in September. #Covalent_networks #vitrimers #recyclable #elastomers

New from Andrew Joseph Pegoda: In an attempt to overcomply with Texas law, the University of Houston will eliminate over 100 women's studies, gender and sexuality courses from the core curriculum. It won't be enough to appease extremist Republicans.

University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed

College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.

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This, this, this. Our major product is PEOPLE. (And this is amazing! I am going to see a former undergrad and a former grad student at a meeting in two days and I am so very delighted at how they continue to grow.)

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

15. I keep coming back to this line. It is willful misrepresentation of our federal funding agencies' mission beyond discovery: developing that R&D workforce (and a pipeline of ideas) that flow into the private sector so beloved to our author. We employ trainEES because trainING is what we do.

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2w ago

a bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10

Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize

Houston Chronicle@houstonchronicle.com · 4w ago

The son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston Tuesday morning, issued a statement on social media Tuesday night, saying "my father did not deserve this."bit.ly/4aK0hS2

Today, the AAUP & Texas AAUP sued Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton over directives he gave that mandated the censorship & thought policing of thousands of faculty & students leading to the suppression of academic freedom & the pursuit of knowledge. More Here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-te... 🧵

BREAKING: University professors (AAUP) represented by NAACP LDF and Lambda Legal, with Davis Wright Tremaine, file a federal lawsuit challenging censorship at the Texas Tech University System under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Science doesn't happen in isolation. A proposed federal rule could make it harder for researchers to collaborate and participate in the scientific community. Tell leaders what you think by submitting a public comment before July 13: https://go.aps.org/4vUO0ST

Hey, All! We've got less than a week (July 13) to submit comments to the Federal Register opposing horrible OMB rules allowing political appointees to terminate US scientific & medical research. This BPS link and my earlier links make it EASY to write your letter. I submitted mine! Let's do this!

Karen Fleming@karenfleming.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you enjoyed my video yesterday more than you enjoyed the USA soccer game last night (Congrats to Belgium!), you should check out my @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social blog post that tells you how to submit comments opposing the OMB rule proposal: www.biophysics.org/blog/what-is...

Out now in #CurrentOpinioninStructuralBiology! Our perspective on progress toward linking single-molecule behavior and emergent condensate properties! Led by Pablo Garcia and @ananyac2000.bsky.social 🙂 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Progress toward linking single-molecule behavior and condensate material properties

Biomolecular condensates exhibit distinct material properties that are intimately linked to their functions. A major open question is how the properti…

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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 7 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/2sCF2

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

4/4 If the NASEM are too scared to deliver news the administration doesn’t want to hear, it undermines the credibility of all of their studies. Nice to see that the new president understands that.

Our latest, a perspective on characterizing multiscale dynamics in colloidal nanoparticle gels (Phys Rev E, open access), led by William Brackett (@umich.edu) w Zach Sherman (Univ. of Washington), Felix Lehmkühler (DESY), and @deliamilliron.bsky.social (@umich.edu) journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Characterizing emergent multiscale dynamics in colloidal nanoparticle gels

Characterizing the dynamics of nanoparticle gel networks demands a spatiotemporal resolution that no single technique can provide. This Perspective describes the opportunities to address this challeng...

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🧪⚛️ Bad to worse at NSF, as it sounds like the regular directorates are being strip-mined at the 20-30% level to support the X-Labs from TIPS, in apparent defiance of the FY26 appropriations bill. www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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‘Rheology’ review: Theoretical physics meet experimental art at REDCAT https://www.europesays.com/uk/1022807/ In “Rheology,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury, an experimental theater artist, and his mother, Bulbul Chakraborty, a theoretical physicist, bridge…

'Rheology' review: Theoretical physics meet experimental art at REDCAT - United Kingdom

In “Rheology,” Shayok Misha Chowdhury, an experimental theater artist, and his mother, Bulbul Chakraborty, a theoretical physicist, bridge the language of

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Great work by the @apsphysics.bsky.social to distill the proposed OMB changes into one clear page: www.aps.org/initiatives/... Comments close July 13. Let's get in there.

Comment on OMB proposed rule for federal financial assistance

Make your voice heard on the Office of Management and Budget's proposed federal grant funding changes and defend the scientific community from this existential threat.

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Today is the last day to comment on the National Park Service website about what you think of Donald Trump's proposed Arch. Please take the time to share your opinion with them, and maybe repost so other people will comment too. The more the better. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

Another handful of sand in the gears: Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient. This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.

NSF imposes stricter conflict-of-interest rules for grant-review panels

Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency

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🧪⚛️ For scale, this is roughly 25 years of NSF funding, or 5 years of NIH funding. This, from people who claim that we can’t afford to support research, or public health.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭

📆 Join us next Tuesday, June 9 at 12 PM EST for the next klogW seminar featuring Jonas Veenstra (ENS Lyon) and Matthew Leighton (Yale University). Don’t miss this chance to hear from two outstanding early-career researchers! Please sign up and find more details here: engage.aps.org/dsnp/resourc...

Ultimately, this is an all hands moment. Every action, no matter how small, helps push the defense of science and free expression forward. This is one of the most direct ways people can influence executive action, and it doesn’t have to be difficult.

The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title

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ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments — Your Site Title

Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO

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In have made an effort to comment—more calmly and objectively that I through possible—on the proposed OMB changes. There are extremely strong non-partisan arguments that can be made. I urge my scientific friends to take the time and comment as well.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So, if there are shenanigans we can fight for people as a group rather than people fighting for their individual comments. We have full records and are monitoring it nearly hourly at this point. Here is our public comment portal: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

OMB has a new proposal for the regulation of all federal grants, which would -deemphasize peer review -ban $ for publication costs and conference travel -make it easier to terminate grants we read the 400 page document (🫩) so you don't have to www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...

Trump administration seeks to overhaul federal grant-making process, alarming researchers

The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants.

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New paper in @natcomms.nature.com! We used sound waves to vibrate a silicone mold during casting, imprinting tunable patterns of imperfections into thin shells. The shells then let us study how distributed imperfections trigger buckling. www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See reply for videos!

Risk of AI-Generated Results in Energy Research | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Risk of AI-Generated Results in Energy Research

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