EU augments opportunities for scientists around the world to launch or re-launch their careers in Europe.

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Europe’s choice is clear. To put science at the heart of its economy. To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration. And to welcome talent from all over the world. I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative. → europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

Yeah this is actual unironic advice for any 1st years: you seriously need to go get beers or otherwise hangout socially with more senior grad students (no one else will really know) and hopefully get ensconced enough that someone will tell you “hey just fyi Dr. GoodPubs is low-key a total sociopath”

I’m pretty sure succulents are souvenirs from another planet.

I feel like this is the wrong question: it’s not that Trump will have a third term, more that it’ll be harder for any Democrat to beat the Republican Party. There’s no federal law saying states have to count votes. We’re on the verge of being a 1 party system.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr.

Trump has been back in the White House for just more than 100 days, and he’s already thinking about a third term. “For much of American history, the notion would have been laughable,” Russell Berman writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.

Great way to find people who grew up in St Louis: Hi Fi. Fo Fum.

The strangest part of adulthood, and parenthood, is how often you need to fake being awake, alert, and excited.

For those with kids, Elon is Gobby and Trump is Rhino, right?

How are we going to save democracy when we can’t even do group projects?

This feels existential for US science: To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work (e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.) No institution could *ever* comply.

New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...

fiercebiotech.com

The smartest people in the world would come here to solve the hardest problems. The richest people in the world would bring their money here. And we’re breaking that. Possibly for good.

Thoughts on Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind saying that AI could cure disease in general in ten years. Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!

The End of Disease

science.org

To all the historians out there, people who study the Madagascar Plan, people who study the causes of the Opium War, people who study Smoot-Hawley and its impact, how much do you want to scream right about now?

In case you're looking for a book to help you understand Trumpism, this was a "warning" written by a former high-ranking Nazi official in 1938 after he escaped Germany. Almost every page reads like a description of what's happening in America...

How do you make anything from vibranium?

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

ERC to double allowance for researchers moving to EU

The European Research Council (ERC) is doubling the relocation allowance it makes to researchers coming to the EU to take up one of its grants. At present it offers third-country researchers up to €1 ...

sciencebusiness.net

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Maya Sen@mayasen.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy Harvard & others must counter this quickly The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

What would Descartes think about AGI?

I feel like we should bring back those old WWII posters that say “The walls have ears”

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last yr.

OpenAI is working on a social network focused on sharing AI generated images? Fascinating. This doesn’t sound like enough of a feature set to justify a whole new social network but I’m curious to see how it pans out.

Down into the details of how compounds and binding sites interact:

Entropy, Enthalpy, and Hydrophobicity

science.org

Bookmarking this valuable tracker on student visa revocations, from @insidehighered.com As of right now, IHE database shows that more than 1,000 international students & recent graduates have had their legal status changed by State Dept. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained

‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says

theguardian.com

🚨🚨 Major scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: @ec.europa.eu is now issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to #China.🧵 www.ft.com/content/20d0...

EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears

European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices

ft.com

Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social · last yr.

aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas. “There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”

SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists. Hospital network will invest $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge,’ by @jenniferyang.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists

Hospital network will be investing $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists immediately as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge’

theglobeandmail.com

📣 Un poste d'assistant temps plein en philosophie (lié à la réalisation d'une thèse de doctorat) est ouvert à l'ULB, pour une durée de 6 ans. Deadline : 27 avril 2025 Détails : cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... A diffuser largement !

Tenure-track Faculty position just opened up in my department! If you want to be part of a dynamic group who is excited about science, apply. For more details, visit www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr... Please share in your networks! #microsky

Applications are open for early career researchers to participate in Falling Walls Lab Melbourne, which will be held at the Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne in July. Finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas in Berlin in Nov 2025. falling-walls.com/falling-wall...

This is incredibly worrisome. Please read the whole thread.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last yr.

I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid. And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!?? God, we are fucked.