Matt Hagen

I’m just going to repost this seasonally when I have the wherewithal, because everything we see from mid-November through Christmas is pushing sales like Cyber Monday.

But the demand they create puts Amazon workers at greater risk than usual (already above industry average) for serious injuries.

28.11.2025 02:07 — 👍 39    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 2

Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.

The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.

The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/

05.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 146    🔁 85    💬 2    📌 12

I was a fully grown up biologist listening with the wonder of a child when someone explained torpor to me at a conference a few years ago. It's wild!

02.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

getting complaints about your pronunciation on a non-audio platform WOULD be be peak Mike Hobbes

26.08.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read somewhere that the majority of Canadians live south of the 46th parallel and my sense of geography has never really recovered.

19.08.2025 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

14.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 39205    🔁 9781    💬 474    📌 594

I'm still covering whatever the heck's happening to US federal science funding, especially at NSF and NIH.

Any insider info, insights into long-term impacts or just feeling the weight of all the uncertainty? DMs open. Signal: kvasquez.12

15.02.2025 01:25 — 👍 48    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 1

Priyanka Runwal Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds

If you work(ed) at DOE, Matt Blois is covering your department. cen.acs.org/staffDirecto...

If EPA, please hit up my colleague Fionna @fmorningstar.bsky.social.

CDC, Priyanka Runwal is all over cen.acs.org/staffDirecto...

14.02.2025 22:58 — 👍 31    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 2

NIH + NSF scientists affected by today's layoffs: C&EN is working on understanding what expertise the government lost today. Give me a ring? (Signal: Laurel_Oldach.07)

14.02.2025 22:58 — 👍 189    🔁 122    💬 1    📌 1

Bad, thanks for asking!!

29.01.2025 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They're awful!! I almost signed the petition for the natural gas one back in June. If the example signature wasn't Brian Haywood I might have fallen for it.

05.11.2024 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the "high priority" mark in outlook is a privilege not a right and you are all dangerously close to losing it

20.12.2023 16:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0