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Chris Santangelo

@materialsgeometry.bsky.social
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theoretical physicist, studier of the geometry and topology of soft materials, lover of figuring things out, teacher and dad, opinions are my own

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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The govt has gotten so gross.
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Yup
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Uh…this chart is concerning.
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Yep, that’s where we are.
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Physics Today @physicstoday.aip.org · 14/11/2025
Apply Today! The Departments of Physics and Mathematics at Syracuse University invite applications to fill multiple faculty positions in the field of ⚛️quantum information science. Read more at Physics Today Jobs! #QuantumJobs #AcademicCareers
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Theoretical and Experimental Faculty Positions in Quantum and Information Sciences job with Syracuse University, Institute for Quantum & Information Sciences | 41921719
Multiple faculty positions, both theoretical and experimental, in the field of quantum information science.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"War on Science: The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now it wants to 'correct' research" | I'll be talking with #KatyTur on @msnbc.com #KatyTurReports TODAY ~2:45pm ET www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live-k...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.
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As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.
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Andrew Leifer @andrewleifer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding
Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Eventually, we will all have to choose where we stand or don't stand.
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Almost definitely going to happen at NSF.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Moderna’s Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works—Now Politics Could Sink It gizmodo.com/modernas-sup...
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Moderna’s Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works—Now Politics Could Sink It
A new trial suggests a combination vaccine may offer equal or better protection against both flu and covid-19 compared to current vaccines.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/05/2025
1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
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NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
We did it y'all! We've been working on this for .. well, like, forever. We finally did it! We can stop science now. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-w...
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Scientists Witness Lead Literally Turn Into Gold in The Large Hadron Collider
For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 09/05/2025
The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight. @walkingthedot.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/finding-beau...
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Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences | Quanta Magazine
The physicist Sidney Nagel delights in solving mysteries of the universe that are hiding in plain sight.
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Dr. Sharan Banagiri (he/him) @geodesicvoyager.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is such a disaster. And the silence of the so-called papers of record on the dismantling of American science is indefensible.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway
Officials testified that DOGE was directly involved in hundreds of grant terminations.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 07/05/2025
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Calling all science advocates!! Carlos Brody+ are creating a searchable database of tangible science benefits, and they need you. publicusaresearchbenefits.com They are asking for suggestions - from brief to lengthy. The database is state-searchable, so all 50 states. Please spread the word!
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/05/2025
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE: 19 states + DC are suing Trump admin over illegal & unconstitutional dismantling of HHS. “…this administration has fired scientists, closed labs, shuttered lifesaving programs, without rhyme, reason, or any legal authority,” said NY AG James. www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/h...
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More than a dozen states, DC sue Trump administration over ‘dismantling’ of federal health agencies | CNN
Democratic attorneys general across 19 states and Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal hea...
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Worse than anyone could have possibly imagined.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 06/05/2025
Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’ Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
A photo illustration of RFK Jr set against disease molecules in the background. A headline from The Verge reads "Death is the policy"
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Ryan Comes @rbcomes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This was shared by program managers on LinkedIn tonight. What I said there: "The NSF is a model for research support that every other agency aspires to. Faculty around the country learn very quickly just how dedicated program managers are to their jobs and just how fair the review process is." 1/2🧪⚛️
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Slash R&D, kill the economy. “It is going to be a decline forever,” said Ignacio González, one of the study’s authors. “The U.S. economy is going to be smaller.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
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Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This 1938 pro-science manifesto defended democracy against fascism 2025 doesn't mark the first time that science has been under attack from fascist politics. This classic 1938 manifesto by 1000+ scientists is more relevant today than ever. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #science #physics #astronomy
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This 1938 pro-science manifesto defended democracy against fascism
As democracy recedes and fascism rises in the USA and around the world in 2025, history provides a lesson in how science can fight fascism.
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New paper: a simple idea to create structures whose mechanical properties can be adjusted dramatically by changes in geometry, published in Soft Matter. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Tuning stiffness of mechanical metamaterial unit cells via transitions to second-order rigid and pre-stressed states
Mechanical metamaterials have been widely studied for their broad range of exotic mechanical properties, and there is particular interest in imparting these materials with tunability to rationally alt...
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April D Ryan @aprildryan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
‘Matthew Memoli, then the acting director of the NIH, sent instructions to urgently “fund research” into “regret and detransition following social transition”’ Bhattacharya and RFK are producing a political autism/vax study… 1/ www.theatlantic.com/...
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‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’ - The Atlantic
The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Just saw an internal announcement from a major university that new funding requests from new NIH/HHS NOAs(Notice of Awards) are temporarily paused while they assess changes to the Civil Rights Protection section of grants policy statement. What have you hear from your universities?
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is a disaster for US science whose impacts will be felt *well* beyond a decade. The uncertainty is bad but the actual actions are worse. I have some really dark thoughts about what I think they are doing here and how bad this could get.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
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U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I don’t intend to capitulate early, etc etc, but imagine the worst likely scenario for science - collapse of foreign students and budget cuts of 1/3-2/3 for all basic science, arbitrary funding delays and so on. What does science look like from now on in the US and world? Ideas?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/04/2025
oh fuck there's been an E. Coli outbreak and the Trump administration essentially hid it
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 31/03/2025
Breast cancer survival rate in 1920, 5%, 1960, 25%, 1990, 64-80%, 2025, 91%
Research did this.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hey Bluesky, I was interviewed about the attacks on science for NPR’s All Things Considered. Listen, below! www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
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UMass biomedical scientist freezes pediatric brain cancer research due to federal funding problems
UMass Chan Medical School biomedical engineer and professor Rachael Sirianni leads a lab that researches new technologies to help treat brain tumors in children. Delays in federal grants have led her ...
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Vatsal Sanjay @comphy-lab.org · 26/03/2025
So inspiring to hear my mentor, Detlef Lohse (@poftwente.bsky.social), share his scientific journey in this @thelhseries.bsky.social! His thoughts on curiosity, mentorship, and the "puzzle solving" joy of science resonate deeply. A must-watch! Always so much to learn. bit.ly/3DXBixh
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"Living Histories". Detlef Lohse | #TheLivingHistoriesSeries
The Living Histories series: https://tinyurl.com/TheLHSeries Very brief "trajectory talks" on personal histories leading to the becoming of biological physicists / quantitative biologists / neuroscientists / mathematicians/ complexity scientists. Series concept: Srividya Iyer-Biswas Series organizers: Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Tapa Bhattacharjee, Jasmine Nirody, and Charlie Wright Series website: https://tinyurl.com/TheLHSeries
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authorities." www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/26/p...
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Protest called against taking of Tufts student 'ambushed' outside apartment in Somerville - Cambridge Day
An emergency rally has been called for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Powder House Square in Somerville to protest a Tufts international graduate student being taken into custody Tuesday by federal authoritie...
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We cannot be revoking visas just because someone expresses an opinion that disagrees with the whims of one or a handful of people. I couldn’t be more disgusted.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/03/2025
"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."
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Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
RFK Jr.’s organization is using the family of the 6-year-old girl who died of measles to convince other parents NOT to vaccinate. This is completely disgusting and is a symptom of our post-truth society. The head of HHS is undermining evidence-based science and further victimizing this family.
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
WTF are we even doing here? We have to be more responsible than this. futurism.com/universe-tra...
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Scientist Says He Found Evidence Our Entire Universe Is Trapped Inside a Black Hole
A new study suggests our observable universe may be trapped inside a black hole after examining a James Webb Space Telescope survey.
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Chris Santangelo @materialsgeometry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
uh, if APS was trying to convince soft matter people to keep going to March meeting, they have just made a terrible mistake. #apsmarch
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