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Lydia Kisley

@lydia-kisley.bsky.social
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Physicist & Chemist @cwru | Clevelander | Materials at the ultimate concentration limit🔬 | James A. Garfield Elementary alumnae 🐊 | kisleylab.science

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 07/10/2025
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
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Four consecutive WSJ headlines tonight showcasing Trump’s tightening grip on the American economy
Trump Adds $100,000
H-IB Visa Fee and Rolls
Out $1 Million 'Gold
Card'
The new annual fee is intended to crack down on a system the Trump administration says has been used by tech companies to avoid hiring
American workers.U.S. Government
Expected to Get
Multibillion-Dollar Fee in
TikTok Deal
The fee would be the latest example of the government getting paid for involvement in private-sector deals.EXCLUSIVE
Trump Invokes 'Golden Share' to Block U.S. Steel Plans for Illinois Plant
Two weeks ago, U.S. Steel notified workers in Granite City, IIl., that plant operations would cease in November. On Friday, U.S. Steel said it has reversed its plan.Inside Disney's Abrupt Decision to Suspend Jimmy Kimmel's Show
The late-night host wanted to address the firestorm over his remarks about Charlie Kirk's
killing on Wednesday's show. Company leaders worried it would make matters worse.
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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. 🫠😵
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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
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ACS announces millions in funding for students affected by terminated grants
The grants will help students within 1 year of completion of their degree
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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.
Email from an nih.gov email address addressed to Jenna Norton saying they are removing the KICC meeting summary due to “unauthorized language”  including “health equity” and “racial/ethnic”
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Rakyan Lab @rakyanlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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....
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Electrochemically‐Assisted Low Power Density Laser Writing on Stainless Steel via Enrichment of Chromium Oxides
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2025
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.
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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.
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Virginia Grassroots Coalition - Climate @vgcclimate.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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.
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🚨🚨 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...
Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900
Other Professionals 14,400  --> 4,100
Postdoctoral Associates 5,500  --> 1,000
Graduate Students 41,500  --> 12,400
Undergraduate Students 37,300  --> 8,000
PreK-12 Teachers 42,900  --> 8,200
PreK-12 Students 128,100  --> 39,400
Total Number of People 330,100  --> 90,000
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Dr Laura Sanchez @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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
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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/05/2025
The Science Magazine Visuals Team has won six awards at the 2025 BioImages competition. 🏆 Check them out below. (THREAD 🧵)
Science Visuals logo
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
the scientific community is awesome, pass it on
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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…
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American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio @acluohio.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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...
cleveland.com
“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"
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/05/2025
Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/
[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
After 73 years, is NSF's graduate research fellowship program circling the drain? www.science.org/content/arti...
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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
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
& @physicscwru.bsky.social alum
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 22/05/2025
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...
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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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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Yes Adobe. The perfect time to update is literally when I close one document and open another within 5 seconds. Makes perfect sense. #GrantWritingProblems
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BP Davis @clevejustice.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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.
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Congrats to two Kisley lab undergrad alumni Ben & Sofia on their NSF honorable mentions!
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.ideastream.org/government-p...
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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...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025
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
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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.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 12/04/2025
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.
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Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal
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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
washingtonpost.com
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
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CWRU Physics @physicscwru.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's that time of the year... #Physics & @mlb.com baseball! Professor BOB BROWN reveals secret behind torpedo bats: I-Team fox8.com/news/i-team/... #CWRU ⚾️ Let's go Cleveland Guardians!
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CWRU professor reveals secret behind torpedo bats: I-Team
The Cleveland Guardians home opener led the FOX 8 I-Team to investigate torpedo bats as they take Major League Baseball by storm.
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Looking forward to attending the Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureships this week by Chapin Korosec, PhD at @physicscwru.bsky.social! Link has info on the 3 talks being held 4/7, 4/8, and 4/10: physics.case.edu/2024-michels...
physics.case.edu
2024 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Awarded to Chapin Korosec, PhD – MPPL Lectureship Begins April 7 – Physics
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  @msnbc.com
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Definitely a "everything is chemicals" moment here
Where is America’s drug supply made?

There’s usually no single country where a drug is manufactured. Plants in different parts of the world handle different parts of the process. Factories make chemicals and other raw materials. Drug companies buy those materials and use them to make the active ingredient of a medication. Then the active ingredient needs to be formulated into a pill or a liquid. In the final stage, the drug is packaged into boxes, vials or pens.
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer is a joke. Their front page today covers CSU wrestling and ranking the DeShaun Watson trade. Like they can't think of anything else more important going on in the world to feature?
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Sarah ⌬ @okonski-s.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Did I acquire my own graduated cylinder and 3D print a graduation cap for it in preparation for my own graduation photos? Perhaps. Being a chemistry major is serious business.
A graduated cylinder with a black graduation cap on it.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
civil servants matter. state capacity matters.
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 28/03/2025
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is Paxillin - illuminating matrix adhesions. 🧫 Our stem cell lines & plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to lower the barriers to scientific discovery. 🚛 Distributed by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social & @addgene.bsky.social
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is so terrifying. I can’t even watch it. Like a horror movie
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@marketplace.org @kairyssdal.bsky.social enjoyed the Make Me Smart episode on rare earths. fyi. - the separation is usually done by solvent extraction - so putting you mined or recycle mixture in swimming pool sized vats of kerosene or acids!
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Senior lab member Ricardo's defense is this Wednesday! Hope to see you there! @physicscwru.bsky.social
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22/03/2025
Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...
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🔭 The Einstein AI model
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a compressed 21st century.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Universities, health systems, and research institutions need to understand that there is already nothing left to lose and that forming a united front now is the only viable option.
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Lydia Kisley @lydia-kisley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
At one of my favorite meetings of the year @alleninstitute.bsky.social! Always great to meet up in person with Laura to talk big picture science. Also fun that some of the team was able to join this year!
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
woof
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
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Cancellation megathread
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Humanity: "our kids are our future" US Leadership:
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