This is like every writing day for me.

More housing near train lines, please.

In the morning, radio XENY, during the day, the oldies station coming in from Tucson.

I feel like they disrespected Mrs Met by not winning yesterday. But anyway LGM!

Hot take: all stairs should be escalators.

St. John’s Johnny the Thunderbird, dancing at the Mets game. Gotta be a good sign! #lgm #MetsSky

I really love seeing how many people on this website are currently doing a Coen brothers rewatch because of Blank Check. Now I need to find time tonight to rewatch the Man who Wasn’t There.

I need this in my life!

I am a US citizen and grew up on the southern border, crossing almost every day. I still remember with rage every time I was pulled aside for extra interrogation. Sometimes in the side room. This is clearly written by someone who’s never had to prove their citizenship.

Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future

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Tigers lost (boo) but Mets won (yay). This is going to be a confusing series for me.

I am now, officially, an associate professor! 🥳 I assume everything is going to be completely different from now on.

I guess the president doesn’t believe in the steroid era.

How can it stop working if all I did is add a comment?

Bright Eyes made a ska song and it fucking rules! SKA is back, baby! (It never left) youtu.be/lxfd9MF601Y

Albertasaurus. Like a T-Rex, but Canadian! And they may have hunted in packs!

Tom Clancy’s Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets (5th edition)

It enrages me how useful grant proposals are lol Also, related, one of the ways that cancelling future grant opportunities harms science is that it scales back a process that often helps scientists really think through our ideas When we do less of it, the science can suffer

I really like this idea! The weird design choices built into ChatGPT, the weird flattery and stickiness, make it less useful for doing science. I want something that is a tool, not a pretend version of a yes man. The computer from Star Trek isn’t constantly telling Picard how smart he is.

Got in the car and NIN was playing. I felt like I was in a grim dark 90s action movie.

Why is no one talking about how this song sounds just like the guns of brixton? open.spotify.com/track/5aejtA...

You can’t call the company foundation if it’s purpose is to make robots! A misreading of Asimov. Robots renting is very interesting. Related, I have wondered at what point our organic chemistry labs will include some introduction to automated synthesis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/b...

I make my students put their phones in small envelopes when in class. It’s one of best things I’ve done in the classroom, tied with asking them to not use their laptops. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

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The #1 thing that blows my mind about how most people use LLMs: they believe if they ask the LLM a question about how it works or how accurate it is, the LLM will truthfully answer them. I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.

Paging the #CompChemSky and #iTeachChem communities: Could you please help my MSc student with an education project, exploring how gen AI shapes the way we think, solve problems, and build confidence.

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

I think it’s weird that people take zoom calls in coffee shops.

Last two days, been describing the plot of Coen bros. movies to my 10 year old daughter on the way to summer camp. Explaining Barton Fink and Millers Crossing to a child is a weird exercise (“the hotel looks haunted but no ghosts”) So glad they won @blankcheck.bsky.social March madness!

Never noticed this before, but there are “baby” stalactites forming on the arch of the American Museum of Natural History 77th St. entrance. My daughter is going to summer camp at the museum and I noticed these for the first time.

Is it wrong to say 15 min away?

Visited 24. Only 26 more to go.

Sure this is a great video, but what if instead we had another Cuomo video where he wanders around the upper west side awkwardly interacting with people.

Still looking for a CHARMM scented candle. #compchem #chemsky

Reading the comments from reviewer #2.

I spent this podcast thinking “I’m pretty sure I read this book, why is this all so familiar”.

If I were rich (I am not) there would absolutely be the Frank Vázquez chair of Theo Chem at NAU, and named postdoc positions. Maybe a couple of centers for biophysics. Alas.

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

New Superman movie is a hopepunk film.

This type of approach needs to spread to all of the boroughs, especially Queens, which has many large swaths served only by busses.

In our last faculty meeting, someone asked if anyone was active on social media. I didn't say anything because I am pretty sure none of our 20 year old students are on this website.

Arizona is the best flag! Others are pretty good, but the AZ flag is the best. I biased of course, but still.

The new Superman is so good!

Reminds me of getting bacanora in a glass Gatorade bottle.

The new Jurassic World movie put up a Titanosaur in Rockefeller Center! This should be the new thing, just putting up life sized dinosaurs all over major American cities. No movie tie in, just dinosaurs statues everywhere.

I grew up in northern Mexico, where they serve white menudo, which I love, but I have to get it with no tripe, which is the main point of the soup. It’s literally tripe soups. Love the broth, love the hominy, but if I eat the tripe I immediately start gagging.

Does anyone pick the gold plated ice cream? I’ll pay for fancy ice cream that tastes good! Same with the foi gras burger. I’ll totally get a fancy burger, but I don’t like the cruelty of foi gras. I feel like the test needs some different options. Anyway, apperantly I’m solidly mid.

Recently heard this on @wfuv.bsky.social! youtu.be/XRdNwHmUiiQ Listening to radio is still one of the best ways to listen to music. Something magical about a real person playing a song and knowing thousands of people are listening with you. If you listen and can donate you should! wfuv.org

I may need to quit my job so I can just read this thread over and over again.