Michelle Francl

I am decidedly venerable then!😂

We saw it last year in Scotland - clouds foiling the view here, too.

Voted!

Trump flips and decides to starve people after all President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed that he plans to weaponize hunger in America, writing in a post on Truth Social that he will not fund food stamp benefits during the government shutdown—...

Trump flips and decides to starve people after all www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

It Is Cruel to Deny Food Assistance to Those Who Truly Deserve It: Corporations “Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by...

"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"

Supermoon: Why you should look at the sky tonight and every night - Vatican News Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory, highlights our need to reconnect with the beauty of the night sky, encouraging ...

Look up! A SUPERMOON will happen on Nov. 5, 2025. This is a repost of an article from 2024 by Brother Guy Consolmagno.

www.vaticannews.va/en/world/new...

The Myth of the Perfect Cup Remember when we all collectively lost our minds because Michelle Francl, in her book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea, suggested adding salt to water to brew the perfect cup of tea?

The best cup of tea is the one you love...lovely article by Shabnam Weber betweenleavesandletters.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...

Wondering what you can do if you are able in this emergency? Suggestion here:

I set up a standing monthly donation to a local food bank for this reason.

Speaker Johnson isn't Catholic, but this isn't a sectarian statement; it's a plain reading of the Biblical text Johnson and so many in the Trump administration (and in the R Congressional caucus) claim to accept as inerrant.

Camels and needles' eyes ain't in it.

My planned "finished book manuscript" and "submitted paper" reward is trying a recipe for fruit squares using pectin!

(Very fancy) kitchen chemistry!!

When the tea book came out, someone asked me about these (as it turns out, fake) tea plantations in Scotland.

Still grateful for your recommendation of Scrivener. Latest book should pop out of its confines this week!

I read 2 Anne Cleeves mysteries set in the Scottish islands (was on holiday in Scotland): Killing Stones (centered on Orkney) and Wild Fire (centered on Shetland).

This is what the President of the United States thinks of people exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest? Appalling.

This is a lovely remembrance!

Brilliant!

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Apparently?

Innumeracy at work! Each vaccine dose is roughly 0.5 mL, if a child gets 80 doses over the course of many years that is not even a shot glass in TOTAL. You can often find the lies and misdirection by doing a quick analysis a la Fermi.

I wrote a book prompted by a tweet!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Regional outlets - the local news spaces -- are a good spot to go if you want to get your message out to the general public. If you are at a university or institute, your communications office might have both suggestions and connections.

Thanks - it's my favorite line in there!

Cutting NIH funding puts my life on the line — and maybe yours, as well | Opinion Private investment in pharmaceutical research can't replace the National Institutes of Health. Both public investment and the private sector are needed to be world leaders in health care.

And on the (very personal) cost of NIH funding cuts share.inquirer.com/dnDg69 3/3

Medbeds, ‘truths’, and fantastical science, oh my! | Opinion It will take more than clicking the heels of my ruby slippers twice to pull back the curtain on what is passing for science in the White House.

And yes, I'm writing op-eds. On President Trump and the grift of fantasy science share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6 2/3

Opinionated science Nature Chemistry - When the facts can’t speak for themselves, scientists can give them a voice, argues Michelle Francl.

Why should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3

I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.

In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽

Extra carbons, extra happy, no?