"People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration."

— Bertrand Russell

Sweden’s wolf policy tests EU commitments to wildlife welfare

Latest news: Sweden has received a formal letter from the EU Commission stating that the country’s attempt to lower the wolf reference value to a politically determined figure of 170 wolves is not acceptable.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3KpeOZo

So sad. The passing of an icon. So many memories of Claude.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wow 👇

So cool to see this one finally out. Oxylipins continue to fascinate with their multiple functions. What an amazing group of compounds. Shout out to Marina Botana @greasy-scientist.bsky.social for a fantastic study. The first of many to come!

Yes - this is required for all large instrument purchases in the EU. It is quite a time consuming process to write the tender - specify all of the must and should demands - and then go through the negotiations. But is required by law.

Beautiful morning for a paddle

Wonderful to be back in Kyoto. Thinking of you @metabomichael.bsky.social

Good morning

Glorious fall morning

Great Parcelsus slide! @erinbakerims.bsky.social

It’s always a good morning for a swim 😄

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 111 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Shameful

YouTube video by Happy Doggo The Dark Secret Behind Delhi’s 1 Million Stray Dogs Crisis – Why They're In trouble(I Saw It Myself)

I spent the weekend in Delhi. What the locals showed me shocked me. I promised I would share it with the world as just like the dogs they are voiceless

youtu.be/6wgTYH6Te20?...

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.

Some are embracing the fantasy that the cuts to #NIH funding will only have an impact here in the USA. As Nature reports, the NIH is the largest global funder by far and dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you for posting. Jim was inspirational. One of my favorite teachers from UC Santa Cruz. He will be sorely missed.

Good morning from Stockholm

Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws?

You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni

🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!

⏳ Don’t miss it! Submit abstracts & scholarship apps for Microbiome Metabolism & Metabolites by Sept 23 (11:59 PM MT).
📍 Jan 19-22, 2026 | Banff, Canada
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Greatly looking forward to what will be a fantastic conference for those interested in all things lipid. Come join us at #LipidomicsForum in Vienna this September!

So many oxylipins. So little time!

Wonderful to be here in beautiful Okinawa for #AOMSC2025! Excited to hear updates on mass spectrometry across Asia-Oceania. From Bench to Beach!

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event Usually alive with colour and fish, Ningaloo reef and the Rowley Showls now look as though they are ‘painted white’ as temperatures rise

Another “spatial refuge” finally succumbs to rising sea temperatures.

The hopeful narrative that isolated “heat-resistant reefs” will continue to avoid climate change (and somehow recolonise everywhere else) is wearing very thin. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great to see this out!

Sorry to say that I will not be attending in Prague. I will instead be at the Bench to Beach meeting of the Asia-Oceania Mass Spectrometry Conference in Okinawa. aomsc2025.org

Greetings @metabomichael.bsky.social from Washington DC and the Exposome Moonshot Forum. Stray Dog Gin here - all the way from Greece.

Day 2 of the Exposome Moonshot is now officially underway!

Mellow morning out on the lake. Well appreciated serenity in turbulent times.