Andy Ault

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 43 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky

Harvey Mudd is hiring a tenure track analytical chemist. Come join my department!

#AAAR2025 deadlines ahead! Don’t miss:

✍ Late-breaking poster abstracts due July 25 – submit for topical areas, special symposia & more: brnw.ch/21wUggW

💸 Super Early Bird reg. ends July 31 – lock in the lowest rates: brnw.ch/21wUggV

🎓 Student Assistant apps due Aug 1: brnw.ch/21wUggU

Yay!!!!! Congrats!!!

Very tall tower for measurements of biosphere/atmosphere exchange at the DOE field site in Alabama. You can see the tower rising up out of the forest.

Closer view of the tower at Bankhead National Forest.

We had the opportunity today to visit the tower at the DOE AMF3 site at Bankhead National Forest.

We need federal funding to enable resources like this to understand fundamental processes occurring on Earth.

Great to hear! Thanks for highlighting this important effort!

On the video call, tensions rose. At one point, Lidia Morawska, a revered atmospheric physicist who had arranged the meeting, tried to explain how far infectious particles of different sizes could potentially travel. One of the WHO experts abruptly cut her off, telling her she was wrong, Marr recalls. His rudeness shocked her. “You just don’t argue with Lidia about physics,” she says. Morawska had spent more than two decades advising a different branch of the WHO on the impacts of air pollution. When it came to flecks of soot and ash belched out by smokestacks and tailpipes, the organization readily accepted the physics she was describing—that particles of many sizes can hang aloft, travel far, and be inhaled. Now, though, the WHO’s advisers seemed to be saying those same laws didn’t apply to virus-laced respiratory particles. To them, the word airborne only applied to particles smaller than 5 microns. Trapped in their group-specific jargon, the two camps on Zoom literally couldn’t understand one another.

Happy International Women's Day!

A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people.

A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈

www.wired.com/story/the-te...

📣 Deadline extended! You now have until June 27, 2025, to submit nominations for two prestigious AAAR awards:

🏆 Susanne V. Hering Award 🔗 brnw.ch/21wTvWB

📄 AS&T Outstanding Publication Award 🔗 brnw.ch/21wTvWA

Winners will be announced at the #AAAR2025 Annual Conference! #AnnualAwards

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

The board of the Fulbright program appears to have entirely resigned, accusing the State Department of illegally canceling scholarships "based mainly on research topics": www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Yep, will dm you

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Great idea! If you have microscopy substrates, happy to look at them

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Amid bitter conservative backlash, state board rejects University of Florida president pick Santa Ono was met with outright opposition from Republicans including Sen. Rick Scott, Reps. Byron Donalds and Greg Steube, and Donald Trump Jr. over DEI.

What a humiliating defeat for former UMich president Santa Ono:

"And I’m here to ensure that DEI never returns to the University of Florida," he said—today.

And now:

Does that make U. Florida the newsmax of universities? With developments in FL it might be heading that way. Curious what Ono's OANN would be? Hillsdale College?

I'd argue Gaetz didn't quite burn his bridge with the MAGA base quite the way Ono did with his (university folks), Gaetz can always retreat to the fever swamps (figurative) and rw welfare. Huge screw up by Ono.

Thank you for your leadership on this Rachel!

A message from the AAAR Executive Committee We are writing this note of support and encouragement for everyone in the AAAR community and especially our colleagues at federal laboratories and in federal agencies, including program managers and staff that support aerosol science and, more broadly, scientific research across the country. We look forward to supporting our federal partners in any way we can, starting with travel grants for recent/current federal scientists and program managers for participation in the upcoming 43rd AAAR conference in Buffalo, NY. The call for travel grants will be made around June 1st. We also want to share with everyone that a revamped job board will be active in early Fall. For our federal colleagues: your work and your contributions to our community and the scientific research enterprise are extremely valuable and greatly appreciated. We are very thankful for all of the opportunities we have had to collaborate with you, learn from you, and engage in discussions with you at conferences. We deeply value your contributions to aerosol science and the many scientific fields with which we overlap. AAAR and its members have benefited tremendously over its 43 years of existence because of the direct contribution of federal researchers to our field. Some of the most impactful publications in our Aerosol Science & Technology journal have come from projects led by federal scientists, including from large-scale field campaigns that were only possible because of you. Finally, we really appreciate your ongoing leadership and support of the AAAR community through involvement in committees, working groups, and the Board of Directors. We want to express our strong support for federal scientists in and beyond the AAAR community, and we look forward to your continuing involvement in AAAR and the field of aerosol science.

AAAR has new travel grants for current/recent federal scientists and program managers and an updated job board coming soon. See below for a statement from the AAAR Executive Committee:

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Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Clearly articulated, we need more of that, Faye for President?

Remarkable how batteries are transforming CAISO. If deployment quadrupled (challenging now with the tariffs), non-co2 emitting sources (solar + hydro + nuclear + wind + geothermal) could provide nearly 24 hours of carbon free electricity.

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

2/ Just as critically, numerous cancer cure research studies (along with various other diseases) are being killed in secret while making it hard for news to get out because nothing has officially been canceled. If you have a loved one with cancer, sorry.

The current administration’s narrative that Harvard (and all universities) feel “entitled” to federal dollars misleads the public. Nor are these funds a “privilege” 1/n

During my career NSF has been the glue holding US environmental science together. Like in other areas, it has carried fundamental research and been a model of rigorous and objective review that truly gives exciting ideas a fair chance. However, in this field it has also (1/2)

Early in the pandemic a colleague of mine and I wrote an urgent piece about counterfeit N95s being used by doctors and nurses. The counterfeits were coming from China. In the piece we reiterated that people should only be buying NIOSH-certified N95s. The program that certifies N95s was also canceled

Hearing now that every National Science Foundation grant is having to go through a new “DOGE review”. So existing grants and long term science and technology research having to undergo review by one of Elon’s interns. Huge percentage not passing their muster.

here i translated this to american for everyone

Some good news for a change–Queen's has set aside funds to assist any students who have lost their visa status in the US and are looking to continue their graduate studies. Please share widely.

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...