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Thanks to undergraduate contributions from jordan bunch (now grad student at Stanford) to collaborative project with Seth Cohen's group UCSD Chem Biochem, my career-long losing streak at JACS comes to an end : ) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

First #PodCAT of 2025 out now with brand new Prof. and PodCAT's biggest fan Jason Adams! We had a great discussion about starting a lab and what you can do to best prepare yourself for success during your independent academic career. Spotify link: open.spotify.com/episode/0dK4mj…

Happy to help out new science-interested podcasters. See here my pilot episode with Sean Patterson. While not a science major, Sean worked through all my videos on Nanoengineering. Here, we covered a range of topics, from exercise to semiconductors to AI youtu.be/Lx6Yhzzpibw

Real and fake Associate Deans, if federal funding is slashed by 70% (total budget, not just IDC), what's the strategy to make up the revenue? Enrollment? Advancement? Licensing?...Sports? Real estate?

"When he realized that Senate Republicans were characterizing his [NSF] project as one of many they considered ideological and of questionable scientific value, Darren Lipomi, chair of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester, was incensed." undark.org/2025/02/21/ant…

"List Strengths and Weaknesses separately against the NSF Review Criteria" The reviewer finds this proposal to be staunchly anti-Marxist. The Broader Impacts are in line with guidance that farmers til their own land and cede the means of production to the factory owners.

My grant was not reviewed last week. It's a renewal of how to best treat seizures in infants after TBI in the ICU, which is not evidence-based. Submitted in Nov. Grant ends in July. Staff for this project leave in May for med school- not rehiring. Funds about 50% of my salary.

Hard for me to take all that lovey-dovey reporting of discovery and "news you can use!" from the NIH feed seriously after that sycophantic cave on 2/7, which is still posted there like a piece of poop on the floor.

Congrats Yu Wang and Patapoutian Ardem Patapoutian lab's team on the involvement for PIEZO2 in adipose tissue phenotype/fat metabolism. Pleased that Lipomi/Patapoutian lab postdoc Utku Sonmez were able to help out. Scripps Research Stanford University UCSD Engineering HHMI sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Is saving 0.15% of your budget the excuse for having no study sections or council meetings the last 6 weeks?

Thanks Ramesh!

All new #PodCAT out now with Prof. Aditya Bhan from College of Sci & Eng. We talked to Prof. Bhan about mentorship, overcoming rejection, and the role of AI in catalysis. It was a stimulating conversation and an honor to host Prof. Bhan on PodCAT! Spotify link: open.spotify.com/episode/3bu6Ff…

This was a fun exercise as an antidote to misinformation about the role of federally funded research in the economy, regardless of human capital and the creation of knowledge youtu.be/sQwvuoTLrIg

Candid conversation with my colleague Marc Porosoff on effects of real and coming cuts to academic research laboratories. youtu.be/RLVWA3lqYPA?si…