I am looking for a postdoc. Come work at Rutgers on a very timely research topic: lead pipe replacements, water quality, and novel corrosion control deployments. Please consider applying and share widely! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/225184

Two whistleblowers hanging out by the water.

Wow. A 90th percentile of 1 ppb. What a remarkable achievement! Go Flint. ABC12: Eight straight year of safe water in Flint.

I am looking for: - a postdoc (January 2025 or earlier). Environmental Engineering, Science, and Chemistry PhDs preferred: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/225184 - a PhD student (Fall 2025): siddhartharoy.org/hiring/ Consider applying and share widely!

> Live by the norm "trust but verify, and speak your mind," rather than the more common norm in academia: "trust everyone blindly, and don't publicly indicate any possible distrust until other people have spoken out first, leading to a case that has now been definitively proven."

Timely read by Claudia López Lloreda in Undark Magazine that also discusses our recent PNAS Nexus paper on current hypercompetition for tenure track positions in academia: doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

With a brave pediatrician and a brave engineer at HxA2025 in Brooklyn. Such great role models!

"The pressure of fast publication is so great that people rush into print with hurriedly written papers that show little concern for careful formulation of ideas. [...] Most effort is devoted to acquisition of [scientific] techniques instead of insight into important concepts."

"Rather than the paradox in which no one talks about legitimate failure, we need a wholesome culture of aiming for the stars and being willing to admit when we didn’t hit them. That’s the sweet spot for scientific innovation." arenamag.com/articles/the-p…