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Reagan Dreiling

@reagandreiling.bsky.social
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Climber of rocks, ropes, and academic ladders 🧗🎪🧪 Senior Scientist at Qnity ⚙️ Ph.D. from Cornell University, Fors group alum👩‍🔬 She/they

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“We can do hydrogenation now without molecular hydrogen, without any palladium or any metal,” Roopender Kumar says, “enabled by the hydrogen atom, this tiny, beautiful element.” cen.acs.org/synthesis/fi... #chemsky 🧪
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Fors Group @forsgroup.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
💯💯💯 100th paper alert!!! 5th year @paigejacky.bsky.social and 3rd year Madison Neukirch have achieved RAFT for anionic polymerization using an aldehyde CTA! What some professors have called "sh*tty aldol chemistry," we call success 😎 doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
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Anionic Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain-Transfer Polymerization of Methacrylates
Anionic polymerizations of methacrylates are controlled processes that give well-defined materials; however, these polymerizations require reactive and pyrophoric organolithium reagents for initiation...
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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
If I hear one more person insinuate that polymer chemists aren’t real organic chemists, I’m sending ‘em right to this video!!
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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Soooo my best friend is smart *and* internet famous?! Go @paigejacky.bsky.social !!!
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/08/2025
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
i wrote an essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social about what it feels like to serve on an NIH grant review panel (study section) right now www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
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Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3
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Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/06/2025
yep! unpaywalled:
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Dong Group at UChicago @gbdlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
How do you turn a carbonyl into sulfur? In this work, Zining from our lab developed a carbonyl-to-sulfur swap enabled by a rationally designed N′-alkyl-hydrazonamide (NAHA) reagent that promotes double C-C bond activation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Woot wooot go @paigejacky.bsky.social !! Lab One 4 Lyyyyyfffeee
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Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD @fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Please make a comment on this NOW (they are due tomorrow). We can't let NIH and NSF POs and division directors become political appointees--this will completely destroy science.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/05/2025
Behind every cure, every breakthrough, every treatment — is someone who needed it. If NIH funding helped you, your research, or someone you love, your story can help protect it. Share your “why” and help defend the future of NIH & science. Fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Share Your “Why” In Support of a Strong National Institutes of Health
United for Medical Research (UMR) is launching a campaign called "My Why" to highlight the critical role of NIH funding and its impact on the education and careers of researchers and scientists as wel...
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest. E.g.: --Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants) --Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate) A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
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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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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🧪 ICYMI: $25,000 bridge funding for terminated NSF grants. Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix. Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
WASHINGTON, DC 20202
May 5, 2025
Dr. Alan Garber
Office of the President
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Garber,
The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?
Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates.
Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected?
Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then…running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party."
Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt.
If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy.
At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal.
Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement.
They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans.
The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede…Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University.
These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Sincerely,
Linda E. McMahon
Secretary of Education
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
A Girl Looking at a Physics Model
TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

 

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

 

 Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all. It follows intense pushback from courts across the country. Details TK
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
If your NSF grant has been terminated recently, please report it here ⤵️ airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... We're tracking these terminations to organize, advocate, and possibly litigate. And please spread the word!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
There we go.
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Rosemary Braun @rosemarybraun.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NSF REU sites awarded: 2015 - 207 2016 - 232 2017 - 248 2018 - 204 2019 - 209 2020 - 222 2021 - 189 2022 - 219 2023 - 212 2024 - 217 2025 - 52 This is not likely to increase; REU awards are made early in the year to enable recruitment for summer.
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NSF Award Search: Simple Search Results. Lock
The Simple Search Results page lists awards that match the search criteria provided.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Good for John Hartwig. He is of course correct, and it’s important to say these things loudly and clearly, both abroad and in the US.
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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Anybody else’s calculator they got in 8th grade still getting them through their PhD?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
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Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn
According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's
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Fors Group @forsgroup.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Spice up your plastic waste with PEPPr, the PolyEthylene Property Predictor!! Teaming up with the DiStasio group, 5th year Jenny Hu made and tested **THOUSANDS** of PE blends—teaching a machine learning model to relate MW distributions and physical properties for better and smarter PE recycling.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Wow. Devastated that my strategy of waiting to file my taxes just in case the IRS got wiped out did not pan out, and now I’m actually having to file my taxes. Absolutely gobsmacked (but also relieved).
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Luke Timmerman @luketimmerman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
NIH cuts are hitting young scientists the hardest. By David Baker. timmermanreport.com/2025/03/davi...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
…this is insane????
interview between NPR (Martin) and Troy Edgar, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Martin: Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?

Edgar: Like I said, if you go through the process and you're a student and you're here on a visa and you go through it, at any point …

Martin: Is any criticism of the government a deportable offense?

Edgar: Let me put it this way, Michel, imagine if he came in and filled out the form and said, 'I want a student visa.' They asked him, 'What are you going to do here?' And he says, 'I'm going to go and protest.' We would have never let him into the country.

Martin: Is protesting a deportable offense?

Edgar: You're focused on protests. I'm focused on the visa process. He went through a legal process ...

Martin: Are you saying he lied on his application? He's a lawful permanent resident, married to an American citizen.

Edgar: I think if he would have declared he's a terrorist, we would have never let him in.

Martin: And what did he engage in that constitutes terrorist activity?

Edgar: I mean, Michel, have you watched it on TV? It's pretty clear.

Michel: No, it isn't. Well, explain it to those of us who have not or perhaps others have not. What exactly did you do?

Edgar: Well, I think it's clear or we wouldn't be talking about it. I mean, the reality is that if you watch and see what he's done on the university …

Martin: Do you not know? Are you telling us that you're not aware?

Edgar: I find it interesting that you're not aware.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧪 The NSF director is lying to you. Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
Long letter from NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, available here: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Letter-to-the-Community.pdf
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Got ideas to help Stand Up For Science? We need to keep this momentum!
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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I think I’ve been mildly cursed to have one bout of yakking every year of grad school: Year 1- too much alcohol/not enough food @ our dept’s bar night Year 2- food poisoning in Kenya Year 3- horrible migraine in West Virginia Year 4 (last night)- food poisoning AGAIN from gourmet popcorn @ a movie
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!
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Howard University Receives “Research One” Carnegie Classification Indicating Highest Level of Research Production
The American Council of Education (ACE) today announced that Howard University has been conferred a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, indicating “very high research spending and doctorate pro...
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Fors Group @forsgroup.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Every day is International Day of Women and Girls in Science when all your grad students are female 😉
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a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How Ironic that on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Woman's portraits have been taken down at NIH and Women is a forbidden word that if found in your NSF grant could get it revoked. #womeninstem
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025
Funny how a little bit of complicity doesn’t save your ass … as we’ve been saying because Germany already ran this experiment
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Cooper Battle @chbattle.com · 05/02/2025
Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 31/01/2025
By polymerising the same monomer under two different reaction conditions, researchers can create a range of degradable, partially recyclable thermosetting plastics that could be sustainable alternatives for many widely used polymers today. www.chemistryworld.com/news/two-way...
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Two-way polymerisation produces both elastic and rigid recyclable thermoset plastics
One-pot synthesis uses dihydrofuran monomers
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André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Happy Black History Month! I’m trying to compile a list of contemporary black chemists and I could only think of 20 off the top of my head. Drop some names please. Thank you!
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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Oooh so neat! Should we start directing all labs to send their excess DCM to you guys?? 😉
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
schrodinger’s federal funding
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