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Jesse Kroll

@jessekroll.bsky.social
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atmospheric chemist at MIT; also does other stuff sometimes

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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.
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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.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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.
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Hawaiʻi Pacific Parks Association @hawaiipacificparks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Holei Sea Arch had been showing signs of instability for years. In 2022, large surf from Tropical Storm Darby took a chunk of the natural sea arch and park rangers warned it could collapse at any time. #HVNP #HoleiSeaArch
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Hawaii's famed Holei Sea Arch is gone forever
The arch is believed to have been 550 years old.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This made me laugh. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How your email finds me
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
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
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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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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...but not gas regulators 😬
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
oh wow they really like Swagelok
Screenshot showing custom SO2 injectors, with lots of swagelok
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
apparently sulfur dioxide is a "really reflective gas"
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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.
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Kate Marvel @handle.invalid · 19/09/2026
My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them
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Colette Heald @coletteheald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are looking for a new PhD student to join our group in 2027! Interested in all the ways that oxidized nitrogen cycles in the atmosphere and affects air quality and climate? So are we! Details and link to apply are here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
jobs.ethz.ch
PhD Position in Atmospheric Chemistry
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🧵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.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
😂 That's exactly how I feel
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AtmChemAerosolJobs @atmchemaerojobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Postdoctoral associate on indoor atmospheric chemistry, MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, on assessing the efficacy and impacts of commercial air cleaners. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What's the ratio of op-eds about Claudine Gay paraphrasing someone vs op-eds about Ariely just straight up fabricating data
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.
[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Seeing all these stories about the incredible generosity and charity of Dolly Parton and thinking that all the other multimillionaires and billionaires could do the same thing too they just don’t want to.
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Colette Heald @coletteheald.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Oxidized nitrogen cycling in the troposphere is complex! Out today, a paper led by former PhD student Ishir summarizes our current understanding of this budget and cycling. acp.copernicus.org/articles/26/...
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Characterizing the global tropospheric budget of oxidized nitrogen (NOy)
Abstract. Nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) in the troposphere form an array of secondary pollutants that are detrimental to air quality, ecosystems, and climate. The family of reactive oxidized nitrog...
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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@caltech.edu partners with NASA to continue the OCO missions. Caltech’s unique relationship with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will allow us to continue to produce these important records of the Earth’s changing carbon cycle. To learn more about these sensors and data, visit oco.caltech.edu
caltech.edu
NASA Selects Caltech to Operate the Orbiting Carbon Observatories
The missions provide information about plant productivity and ecosystem health from farmlands to tropical and high-latitude forests, and the uptake and release of carbon dioxide globally.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci ⁠ She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899
My 9.25" x 12.5" linocut portrait of physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) in a gradient of turquoise to green, shows her and her discovery of atomic recoil in gold (Radon gives off an alpha particle and daughter nucleus goes in opposite direction).   A series of diagrams at the bottom shows how the Rutherford research group understood chains of radioactive active transmutations at the time.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s a bit ironic that the more academia is treated like a business, the more we run into business problems (“branding”, etc.), and then the business problems are held up as proof of long-standing and deep-seated problems of academia
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Journal of Pain
“Dear Professor, Submit your manuscript for quick review -Journal of Pain”
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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@acs.org Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant for postdoctoral researchers and new faculty members. Awardees may receive up to $125,000 to support a postdoctoral fellow or associate for two years.
app.connect.discoveracs.org
Funding available for early-career and faculty researchers in sustainability
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
google translate to the rescue
A safety sign, translated from Norwegian to English: “Use handrails, break the collarbone when you walk in pants and on the floor. Oh, the diaper is moving during the crossing.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
THANK YOU www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
More important, the bat viruses that the grant paid the lab to study are so genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 that they could not have produced it, a point that independent virologists have made repeatedly. That disposes of the specific charge that research that Fauci’s agency funded produced the virus. It did not.
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Debbie Gibson Versus PPE (2009)
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2025
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026
Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/07/2026
This combination, two days apart, will serve for future historians as an effective shorthand for the lunacy of the moment.
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My personal (and 100% incorrect) view is that Germany has also won it only once. (The other three German wins were by West Germany.)
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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Poor bastard’s starving
Cookie Monster: For every goal today, me going to eat a cookie
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m finally going to listen to my doctor and eat more vegetables and get more fresh air
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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