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Chris Wirth

@wirth-lab.bsky.social
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ChemE Associate Professor with many, many microscopes | Hypeman for CWRU | #ColloidsRCool | wirthlab.org | he/him | justice is what love looks like in public | views expressed are my own

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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Liquid cooling!! This is such a great complex fluids problem to work on.
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/07/2025
Interactive Map of NSF Regional Innovation Engine 2025 Semifinalists tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFEng...
Map of NSF Regional Innovation Engine Semifinalists with link
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
DOE 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...
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Tell the Department of Energy to Stop Attacking Civil Rights and Section 504 - DREDF
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 12/06/2025
The 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.
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Man 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?
Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.

He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Or buffalo
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Samesy
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/05/2025
Straining 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.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
'undertones'
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Among 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.
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Prof Rausch @profrausch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In 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
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Timeline cleanse: Bruges and Interfacial Science (Bubble Nucleation)
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Timeline cleanse: Leuven
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I've listened/read a lot by Mike Roth and really like his approach. Offering good thoughts here in this interview.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The 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.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fuck this
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This 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...
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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars 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...
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’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.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What 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.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What if we all just email them?
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Andrea Corpolongo, Ph.D. @archeanandrea.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Don'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-... 🧪
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Thomas M Truskett @tmtruskett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Final note from Bob Brown's "Will the American research university make it to its 100th birthday?" www.elsevier.com/connect/will...
Text that reads "When this essay was drafted, I never conceived of the precipitous damage that was possible by thoughtless policy changes — like last week’s retraction of federal support by mandating a cap on NIH’s reimbursement of facilities and administrative costs. This move would ravage research universities in a single stoke and would essentially throw in the towel on US leadership in science and technology. It may not be a question of research universities surviving another 25 years; all that we have been building could be undone in less than 25 days."
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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In Memory of Andy Acrivos: University of Minnesota Alumnus and Titan of Chemical Engineering cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...
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In Memory of Andy Acrivos: CEMS Alum and Titan of Chemical Engineering
Andreas (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...
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hell yeah
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This 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.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New diss track just dropped: Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
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Opinion | 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.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Amongst all the doom and gloom, check out this clever application of Marangoni Flow! youtu.be/Jtd7mMW7-0Y
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Soap opera in the maze: Geometry matters in Marangoni flows
YouTube video by American Physical Society
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Mistake 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
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
8. 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.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Wow
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/02/2025
The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 31/01/2025
www.forbes.com/sites/roncar...
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One More Time: Why Diversity Leads To Better Team Performance
Discussions 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.
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The 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...
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Frances Arnold @francesarnold.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The 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/2acnv2nh
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PCAST Reports (2020-2025)
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm 24, I think? That seems good.
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Congrats 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...
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Redirecting
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Secret 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
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I'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
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is so incredibly sad: signalakron.org/its-like-cut...
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Faculty, 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.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I 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
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Vida 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
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Chris Wirth @wirth-lab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hi! 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
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