The Isotoparium

How fast are REEs and U uptaken by fish remains? VERY!
Learn more in Jean-Alix Barrat's new paper:
www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2544/

Backward is definitely the direction this country is taking, back to before any progress...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

This is not how you reform. This is how you do damage. We've too quickly forgot how during the 2025 cycle, NSF dropped the ground out from many applicants by deeming entire paths and topics of study as ineligible after students had already spent time applying. 1/2

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Bay Area friends! I'll be at at @lindentree.bsky.social tomorrow (Thursday, 4-6pm) drawing free cartoon portraits and signing books. Come say hi!

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

Smoke plume from January wildfire near L.A. carried lead for miles » Yale Climate Connections Hazardous lead levels – the product of incinerated paint and pipes – have been found far from the fire’s edge.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/Smok...

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.

We will hold this administration accountable.

🎯

#NeverForgetJanuary6th

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Following the inspiration of @ohdearz.bsky.social @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social here’s the NASA fleet with the proposed budget cuts. Red X’s will be fully defunded, green X’s will lose all NASA funding but have other funding sources, and exclamation point means >50% cuts

Let's do it!

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Both would be best

Also CO2 below 350 ppm

Agreed. If one's principles depend on the current administration in place, they are not principles, they are pretenses. Shameful, indeed.

NY Times headline edited from "President Casts Doubt on Due Process Rights" to "President displays ignorance of Constitution"

Fixed it for ya, @nytimes.com

@christophermichel.com is not just an amazing photographer, but also a talented story teller. Thank you for this beautiful portrait and post!

#NoKings

A projection on the outside of the Old North Church reading "Let the WARNING ride forth ONCE MORE: TYRANNY is at OUR DOOR"

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

Just another day in an authoritarian USA...

Go Harvard! Finally a University standing up in the face of the orange authoritarian and his goons!

Thank you, Larry. It's a sad day when Caltech is on the map again for lead studies...

The Eaton Fire Hit Caltech Scientists Close to Home. Now, They’re Studying the Toxic Aftermath | KQED In the aftermath of the Eaton Fire that raged across Los Angeles County in January, Caltech scientists came together as a community to support their colleagues and ask critical environmental research ...

www.kqed.org/news/1203534...

Lead Concentration in Dust and Tap Water after the Eaton Fire Following the January 2025 fires, a team of isotope geochemists from Caltech collected samples from 53 houses in Altadena and Los Angeles. The lead concentration data from the samples, collected outsi...

How Much Lead and Other Toxic Metals are Present after the Eaton Fire?

scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/susta...

Apparently, the Royal Society needs help finding their moral compass...

EATON FIRE RESIDENTS UNITED

Important effort from Altadena/Pasadena residents, in the aftermath of the Eaton fire. If you have data, consider adding them.
www.efru.la

🇫🇷❗️🇺🇸 French researcher expelled from the US for expressing "a personal opinion on the policies pursued by the Trump administration", - Le Monde

👀 The CNRS researcher was reportedly subjected to random checks upon arrival, before his computer and phone were searched.

Very disappointing #LPSC experience this year. Due to the lack of speaker ready room, slides did not show as they should have, and no opportunity to catch this.
With a registration cost nearing $700, this is not acceptable.
Bring back the speaker ready room.