If I remember my high school French correctly... Zut alors!

Time for England to just switch to ultra defensive for the rest of the match

The TL;DR of the below thread: East Tennessee State University has M.S. Chemistry funding available for domestic US students FOR FALL 2026 SEMESTER. Chemsky, if you know anybody who is chasing after a grad school seat, ETSU would like to hear from you.

"I used ChatGPT as my search engine" sounds like the inscription on some poor soul's tombstone

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

I'm joining the war on Taco Bell on the side of Taco Bell

Thank goodness these are ORGANIC parasites

Not getting any explosive diarrhea today (just heart diseases)

It’s a p-orbital towel #chemsky

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

Not sure what the testosterone is for but I, too, think it's important to know if our soldiers have high tritium levels

this can’t be real

If congress worked efficiently and effectively represented the will of the people, they would make daylight savings time permanent. Then, in winter, when it is pitch black at 8 am, they would vote to make standard time permanent. Then they would just repeat this every year.

Our department is hiring! We teach and do research with undergraduates exclusively. For a PUI, we have very good facilities and instrumentation (400 MHz NMR, six MS). Great colleagues and students — about 1/3 of majors go on to Ph.D. #chemsky @chemjobber.bsky.social jobs.cofc.edu/postings/18244

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

tech ceo: making computers smarter than people is hard geoff: what if we just make people dumber than computers tech ceo: I love you geoff have three super yachts

Impressive how the weeks and months and years keep passing and there remains no compelling reason for me to use generative AI for anything.

My extensive investigation has not turned up any evidence against the fast food chain

Some good news to share this week: my tenure and promotion has been approved by the board of regents! (And my new contract makes it official.) Starting in August, I need to remember to introduce myself as an associate professor!🧪🎉

I’d bet that even though it’s horrible, it’s still better than having implosive diarrhea.

The Henderson-Hasselback potato equation

Nothing is quite as discombobulating as going shopping at a grocery store while on vacation

If Adolf Hitler flew in today They'd send a limousine anyway

That Claude ad fucking suxxxxxxxxxxxxx

C'mon people, this is just a phishing scam to get the answer for your bank account security question

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This is not just a roundabout way to force physics majors to have to take a little bio and chem, just like we have to take their courses. At least that's not my entire motivation...

Speaking of teaching laboratories: Our chemistry majors take 4 semesters of introductory labs (2 chem, 2 physics) Biochemistry majors, along with pre-meds and biology majors, take 6 semesters of intro labs (above and 2 bio labs) Those are just the *introductory* labs. Feels a tad inefficient.

Many elements (e.g., technetium, lutetium, thulium) aren’t real and were just put in the periodic table to avoid blank spaces

Analytical instruments were better when they took up half a room. You could easily reach inside to access everything and swap out parts. Benchtop is overrated.

There should be only 1 journal citation format #ChemSky

We need to revert to alchemical nomenclature “where be my spirit of hartshorn?”

If we really cared about chemistry as a laboratory science, the curriculum would have fewer 3-5 hour weekly/biweekly labs and students would spend at least a semester doing lab work full time

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.

Trying to decide between [it's_a_trap.star_wars.gif] and [that's_bait.mad_max.gif]

“Hey guys, photosynthesis, amirite? Who wants to do the Calvin cycle with me?”

Crowdsourcing pairs of food-based names for cats GO

*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead

It's crazy how sentences you could never dream into existence form naturally on the internet

Ooh! I know this one!

I knew it

Regarding the Brown University A.I. cheating story: I used online testing starting during covid and for many years afterward. I went back to in-person exams just before LLMs really permeated everything, but not because of any cheating. It just worked out well logistically. [1/x]

Summary of a good thread on academic integrity

Watched the three Tron movies last week. The two modern ones miss a lot of what made the original so fun. They take themselves way too seriously

Worked very hard to get my cholesterol to zero only to have all my cells fall apart

What's everybody's favorite Beethoven piece? Mine's the one about the werewolf girl

We did one of those escape rooms in a box as a family last night. Miraculously, we are all still talking to each other today

That is some bullshit

I love the smell of curing drywall joint compound in the morning. It smells like... well, curing drywall joint compound

I fundamentally disagree with this. We cannot reform the NIH right now. We need to fight against ALL changes until we have an administration that isn’t hellbent on destruction. Until then we have to assume that literally everything is being done in bad faith.