Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Liquid cooling!! This is such a great complex fluids problem to work on. 030
Reposted by Chris WirthTim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/07/2025Interactive Map of NSF Regional Innovation Engine 2025 Semifinalists tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFEng... 011
Reposted by Chris WirthEffie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 16/06/2025DOE wants to eliminate regulations which require buildings receiving fed funding to be accessible to disabled people. We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16 Pls help push back! Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert... More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...dredf.orgTell the Department of Energy to Stop Attacking Civil Rights and Section 504 - DREDFDisability Rights Education & Defense Fund 7124111
Reposted by Chris WirthRep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 12/06/2025The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects. We the People. 708210995876
Reposted by Chris WirthPaul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing? 9033441414
Reposted by Chris WirthCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/05/2025Straining the bounds of propriety is when I gave a talk at an Ivy League med school wearing jeans and a polo. This is extraordinary corruption. 311647241
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Among the stream of shit over the last four months, the understones of this post from NSF brought me to near tears. This is so profoundly fucking sad. 150
Reposted by Chris WirthProf Rausch @profrausch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025In 2023 and 2024, I was on the steering committee of the ASEE NSF CAREER workshop. Unfortunately, this program is not offered this year. Therefore, four recent NSF CAREER Winners and I have decided to put together an informal Q&A to support future CAREER winners! Sign up here: lnkd.in/evq4bYnv 145
Reposted by Chris WirthDenis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... viastatnews.comCancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under TrumpCancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say. 04832
Reposted by Chris WirthEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved 5940141640
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Timeline cleanse: Bruges and Interfacial Science (Bubble Nucleation) 010
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I've listened/read a lot by Mike Roth and really like his approach. Offering good thoughts here in this interview. 020
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The downright lovely thing about trains and urbanism is that if my flight is delayed I'm stuck sleeping on the floor of IAH for the night, but when a train gets messed up I get rebooked for 2 hrs later, with partial refund, and get to hangout in the city while waiting. 020
Reposted by Chris WirthGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...defector.comNeither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | DefectorMars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac... 1602261900
Reposted by Chris WirthNicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency. 15249607226498
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025What do you mean here? Indirects should be determined by each university? Actual indirects are higher than what was typical before January. Happy to educate as needed. 000
Reposted by Chris WirthAndrea Corpolongo, Ph.D. @archeanandrea.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Don't sit in silence while history repeats itself. On March 7th, join a #standupforscience2025 protest against political interference in science. Rallies will take place in DC and capital cities across the US: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... 🧪 15523
Reposted by Chris WirthThomas M Truskett @tmtruskett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Final note from Bob Brown's "Will the American research university make it to its 100th birthday?" www.elsevier.com/connect/will... 121
Reposted by Chris WirthPaul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025In Memory of Andy Acrivos: University of Minnesota Alumnus and Titan of Chemical Engineering cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...cse.umn.eduIn Memory of Andy Acrivos: CEMS Alum and Titan of Chemical EngineeringAndreas (Andy) Acrivos passed away on February 17, 2025. Born in Greece in 1928, Prof. Acrivos arrived at Minnesota in 1950 following undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, becoming the second... 0106
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is actually true and I learned about it from my dad, who retired from a good career as a civil servant. I'm 100% behind fixing all these weird inefficiencies. Fixing these weird efficiencies is mostly not what Elon is actually doing though, that's the problem. 010
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025New diss track just dropped: Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America. 000
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Amongst all the doom and gloom, check out this clever application of Marangoni Flow! youtu.be/Jtd7mMW7-0Yyoutu.beSoap opera in the maze: Geometry matters in Marangoni flowsYouTube video by American Physical Society 010
Reposted by Chris WirthDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Mistake to see this solely as a higher ed issue. The design of scientific infrastructure after WWII was govt funding a broad network of research via universities. That worked out pretty well for the US, helped make American higher ed a very successful industry w a positive economic externalities 51200219
Reposted by Chris WirthCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20258. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities. 7239511116
Reposted by Chris WirthCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/02/2025The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors. 423497
Reposted by Chris WirthCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 31/01/2025www.forbes.com/sites/roncar...forbes.comOne More Time: Why Diversity Leads To Better Team PerformanceDiscussions on diversity in the workplace can be heated and contentious. But the data still shows more diverse teams outperform their less diverse peers. Here's how. 3293107
Reposted by Chris WirthDr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...orwh.od.nih.gov 43973615
Reposted by Chris WirthFrances Arnold @francesarnold.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The White House website has been wiped clean, but thanks to @erichorvitz.bsky.social , all the Biden #PCAST reports are available below. I want to thank the #PCAST members, all of whom donated their time and expertise to helping policy be science-based. tinyurl.com/2acnv2nhtinyurl.comPCAST Reports (2020-2025) 39525
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Congrats to Hairou Yu for recently having a paper accepted in #JCIS! The manuscript concerns surface interactions of microcapsules made of #green materials. This work was funded by multiple grants from the #NSF. Check out the paper below. Congrats Hairou! Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...doi.orgRedirecting 040
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Secret Santa and Holiday Lunch with the group today! Wishing everyone a happy and restful holiday season from our group. We're looking forward to a happy and productive '25! #ColloidsRCool #EverythingFlows 020
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I'd like to express deep #gratitude and #thanks for the wonderful people in our group. I've been away from campus this past year both because of challenges personally and now a (wonderful) sabbatical. Our group has kept pushing forward, doing great work and learning new things! #ColloidsRCool 010
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024This is so incredibly sad: signalakron.org/its-like-cut...signalakron.orgFaculty, students at University of Akron react to proposed cuts.Proposed cuts of 10 polymer professors at the University of Akron has already had a chilling effect on the well-regarded program. 120
Reposted by Chris WirthSaverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing. Self-identify and I will add you... See you at APS-DFD! go.bsky.app/8Njfprh 658637
Reposted by Chris WirthVida Jamali @vidajamali.bsky.social · 22/11/2024 I created a starter pack for chemical and biomolecular engineers! Let me know if you want to be added to the list #chemE go.bsky.app/DLGAANj 152710
Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Hi! Migrating from Twitter/X to Bluesky for obvious reasons. Looking forward to learning more about this platform. Testing out posting media with some cool data/result from a recent paper. Check it out! #ColloidsRCool 0100