Staffing up for some really fun new projects. If you're looking to join my group, use this form:

Sending an early valentine to all the federal workers living in a state of uncertainty right now. You guys rock and we still need you.

@rorypjacobson In the sea of garbage on X, this is the tweet I needed to see this morning. Stay strong ❤️

Funding agencies. Real talk. If you don't want TEA/LCA in a grant, and you're just going to recommend cutting it entirely during negotiations, please say that UPFRONT in the solicitation so we can all save ourselves the trouble. This bait and switch stuff is exhausting.

It is high time we all reconsidered the exclusive focus on nth plant TEAs. Lead author Tuhin Poddar does a great job outlining the options for TEA that's more relevant to near-term scale-up of bioprocesses in our new COBIOT article:

RT @theNASciences: In a recent @ISSUESinST interview, Darío Gil, chair of @NSF_NSB and head of @IBM Research, discusses how science is beco…

As someone married to a Minnesotan, this is the most Minnesotan thing you can say. And make no mistake, this same person will make fun of me for being "overdressed".

Appreciate the cockeyed optimism of my bank sending monthly emails insisting "homeownership may be more affordable than you think." I assure you, BoA, it is not.

@gwhuber2 Fancy! Was just writing a shoutout to CMORE in our quarterly report. Thank you guys for being so lovely and collaborative.

RT @DoeffMarca: Polls open for Electrochemical Society elections today. Go here for candidate statements and voting instructions: https://t…

📣Today, DOE released the 45ZCF-GREET model. This follows the UST/IRS guidance on the Clean Fuels Production Credit (section 45Z) released on Jan. 10, 2025. Now time for me to go collapse on the couch.

@ScottMoura Oh no!! So sorry Scott. Glad everyone is safe.

This year I'm just going to keep saying "home stretch!" until it becomes true.

For at least a little longer, I'm still posting stuff both here and in the sky place but will eventually taper off here. Go meet me where the grass is greener and the sky is blue (still cdscown).

@sfjsynfuels It's rough here! I moved over the the sky place although folks I enjoy interacting with are still split. I'm probably getting roughly equivalent engagement here and there now, and wish I could just fully make the jump.

Now being in the home stretch for all this clean energy policy work, I want to thank everyone who has tolerated me underperforming in every other aspect of my life. I owe you all, and will repay those debts soon after I go take a nap real quick.

YES

Deep decarb of clean fuels let's goooooooo:

Research can take you in unexpected directions. When Tao Dai joined my group, we were working on CDR. That led to DACS. Which led to the question: where can you put DACS paired w/ BTM wind power and can you pair it with farms?

Doing policy work vs. regular research is so different. Research article comes out: "Here is thread, plz clap and cite my paper 🙏". New rulemaking comes out: Cringe as the media reports roll in an hour after release from people who kinda sorta read it.

Missed that this ES&T reviewer award was out! The peer review process is, on balance, a complete s**t show. But ES&T routinely delivers great peer reviews. I'm truly proud to do my part for the journal. It is an act of optimism and love for research.