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jmelville.science
climate tech (electrochemistry, industrial decarb, synthetic fuels, carbon removal, solar radiation management) formerly: ARPA-E (fellowship), Georgetown (adjunct prof), MIT (PhD), UC Berkeley (BSc) ask me anything: https://jmelville.science/ask/ 🇺🇸→🇸🇬
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5 minutes scrolling through /r/gradadmissions will blackpill you on the future of basic research in the US. Thread after thread of young applicants from around the world giving up on their lifelong career dreams of becoming scientists, solely bc of uncertainty from the NSF/NIH funding cuts. 🫠

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if I were Europe I'd be doing a crash university buildout right now. a whole bunch of top US academics can be had at pennies on the dollar www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

This is so true and exactly why VC is not the right funding vehicle for climate tech.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

out on a first date. she asked me "are you artistic?" but i misheard and replied "i've never been diagnosed"

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

@tylernol4thepain.bsky.social has asked me to write a thread elaborating on some comments I had made to him about the paper via DM to further the discussion on this topic and to bring up some extra nuances that to his credit he put into the introduction of his paper:

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments