

Bronson Messer
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@thebron
Hillbilly cyborg astrophysicist • Director of Science, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility • Tweets my own • https://t.co/dwsGA14DhA











This year’s chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1965 to parents who were refugees from Palestine. When we spoke to him he shared his story: “I grew up in a very humble home, we were a dozen of us in one room, sharing it with the cattle that we used to raise. I was born in a family of refugees, and my parents could barely read or write. My father finished sixth grade and my mother couldn’t read or write. It’s quite a journey. Science allows you to do it. Science is the greatest equalising force in the world. Smart people, talented people, skilled people exist everywhere. That’s why we really should focus on unleashing their potential through providing them with opportunity.” Today Yaghi shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for their work developing metal–organic frameworks. Learn more about the prize: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…













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📣 The 2026 INCITE Call for Proposals is open through June 16! From #AI to astrophysics, INCITE supports groundbreaking research that requires extreme-scale computing. ✨ 📝 More details: bit.ly/3VjoEhX