Jake Yeston (@jakeyeston) — Bluesky Profile

9 hours ago

Hospitals Are Walking Away From Trans Kids. They Shouldn’t Over the last year, through fear and intimidation, the Trump administration has succeeded in shrinking transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming care. One by one, programs that previously se...

One by one, hospitals are abandoning trans kids as they preemptively cave to HHS threats over Medicaid/Medicare funding.

They ought to consider the terrible message walking away from some kids sends about their dedication to caring for all of them. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

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3 hours ago

You can see @agu.org's letter to NSF to get an idea about why it's important to keep NCAR intact:

news.agu.org/files/2026/0...

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4 hours ago

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.

You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

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23 hours ago

do I know any surgeons on here? if so, please DM me

this is NOT for medical related reasons, this is an economic project guesstimate about anesthetic usage

please RT

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1 day ago

I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.

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1 day ago

National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications The National Academies are accepting submissions to an annual award program that aims to recognize and develop excellence in science communication by research scientists, science journalists, and scie...

A reminder that applications are currently open for the NASEM Schmidt #Scicomm Awards, which come with a top prize of $40K in each category and welcome into a networked community of previous winners. 🧪🔭⚛️

Submit your work for consideration!

www.nationalacademies.org/programs/NAE...

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1 day ago

mother nature put the weather on shuffle

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1 day ago

It’s happening

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1 day ago

Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more.
And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share!

www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

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1 day ago

It is currently 82 degrees

At noon tomorrow it will be 35 degrees and snowing

I would like to get off this ride now please

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1 day ago

Headed to #ACSSPring2026 in Atlanta? Interested in undergraduate research? Join us for this amazing SURF Symposium Sunday March 22
Hosted by @organicdivision.org we're presenting talks by SURF recipients discussing their research and the role the SURF program played in their careers #ChemSky

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2 days ago

How a New System Could Help the Remote Drivers Who Operate ‘Driverless’ Cars How do you ensure remote operators stay alert? And what happens when they are asked to monitor multiple vehicles at once?

To learn more, I talked with one of the few researchers whose work focuses on these specific concerns. She thinks she sees a path forward. And, at the state level, regulators are listening to her.

I think it's worth a read (it's interesting). Please share.
news.ncsu.edu/2026/03/remo...

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3 days ago

mit mandlen

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3 days ago

The Edge of Space-Time Book Tour is Coming!!! And I made you a playlist!

📣📣 FULL U.S. BOOK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCEMENT 📣📣

Starting April 4, I'm going to so many cities that the preview image is tiny font!!

Come see me in person and get your book(s) signed. We have lined up an extraordinary array of conversation partners, from novelists to poets and scientists. 📚💙🧪🔭⚛️

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3 days ago

Hear insights from:
• Dr. Mohamed Ateia Ibrahim, Environmental Consultant and Scientist, AECOM
• Ann Lee-Jeffs, Founder and President, Sustainability Women in the World (SW2)
• Dr. Juliana Vidal, Senior Program Manager, Beyond Benign
• Dr. Adelina Voutchkova‑Kostal, Director of Sustainable Development, American Chemical Society

Periodic Talks Theater, Expo Hall
Monday, March 23 | 1:30–3:20 PM EDT

Join us for C&EN’s Future of Chemistry panel on designing out pollution. Hear from experts advancing new approaches to reduce pollution and waste across a product’s lifecycle. RSVP here: connect.discoveracs.org/cen-future-o...

#ACSSpring2026 #FutureofChem #chemsky

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3 days ago

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’

‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’

‘Hello’ is not related to either.

Goodbye.

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3 days ago

Yes exactly!

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3 days ago

What was #ChemTwitter like…

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3 days ago

I mean my absolute favorite thing about this is when you *start* there are folks who won’t work with carbon tet🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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4 days ago

I'm not complaining because I'm privileged to do what I do. But yes, this is it. It's constantly funny what a lot of people think authors make. "But you must get a lot of royalties from all those books!" 🤣

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4 days ago

NASA administrator talks to Science about studying the Moon, Mars—and Earth Jared Isaacman says agency may accelerate lunar science program and could tackle a new Mars mission in 2028

My latest: in an interview with @science.org, new NASA administrator Jared Isaacman promises a big uptick in lunar robotic missions, another potential Mars 2028 mission beyond comms, and continued support for earth science observation.

(Sorry astro and helio folks, time went fast.)

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4 days ago

a cookie monster is sitting on a table with a thumbs up ALT: a cookie monster is sitting on a table with a thumbs up

Anyway when @stuartcantrill.com has a lot of free time, he should make an epic Eras Tour thread of ChemTwitter’s greatest hits with appropriate Taylor Swift tie-ins

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4 days ago

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4 days ago

😎

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4 days ago

Let’s get physical

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4 days ago

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

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5 days ago

My two main controversial opinions are that Fahrenheit is good and Daylight Savings Time is bad. Feel free to express solidarity in appeals😉

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1 week ago

A quote by H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief of Science journals, on a black background. The quote is: "… why curtail a program … that cultivates and grows the number of US graduate students and future researchers?"

"There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the [Trump] administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the [NSF]’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4d0fi3N

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1 week ago

Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), such as this mother and 7-month-old joey from Queensland, Australia, embody a genetic paradox. Populations rich in diversity are declining, whereas those with little variation are expanding and rapidly reshuffling their genomes. These findings reveal that diversity alone does not determine resilience. Instead, a population’s fate depends on several evolutionary processes unfolding across generations.

According to a new study of Australia’s koala populations, rapid demographic rebound may be able to restore once-lost genetic variation and drive recombination in ways that re-establish long-term evolutionary potential in previously bottlenecked populations.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4b6hLaE

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1 week ago

Science stories for young readers

My daughter and I reviewed Megan Durnford’s terrific book “Our Plastic Problem: A Call for Global Solutions” in this week’s @science.org

chemsky #chemchat

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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