Your Saturday afternoon timeline cleanse. There is something very zen about riding down a long empty road. #horse

We are the morning crew for the pledge break @wuft.org for UF’s public radio station. Support public radio!

Buncha 19 year old girls are gonna learn the hard way that financial independence is important when they're stuck in shitty marriages and have no ability to enter the labor market and support themselves.

Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse. Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

PREACH!!!!!

This is no way to run a bagel shop or a country by Art Edison. #NMRchat artedison.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

There is nothing more gratifying than waiting for your spouse at the men’s toilets because They. Had. A. Line.

This is awesome! The sign at Trump’s Doonbeg, Ireland golf course has been vandalized to remove the “T”. I barely had time to snap the photo as we drove past. Gotta love the Irish!

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday. By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children. Today, in 2025, that number is *7* And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology. 9/

Oh yes.

Thanks Ted!

Amid the chaos, science goes on and education goes on. Meet the two newest PhDs from my group: Dr. Atul Chaudhary and Dr. Bishwaprava Das! #ChemSky

Researchers from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Florida scrutinized ion-induced surface reactions and deposition from Pt(CO)2Cl2 and Pt(CO)2Br2.  ➡️ https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/articles/15/115?B=y #IonBeam #MassSpectrometry #BJNANO 💎 🔓 @mcelweewhite.bsky.social

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And the run of @mcelweewhite.bsky.social group talks at #ACSSpring2025 begins with Rashmi Singh.

The @organicdivision.org has a really packed schedule with tons of amazing symposia for #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego To help you find it all and plan your schedule here is our hand grid schedule #ChemSky

Texas measles outbreak update: 124 cases, 18 hospitalized, & now the first death of a child, who was not vaccinated. Tragic, preventable, & a direct consequence of the deadly lies spread by anti-vaxx grifters, one of whom is now the most powerful health official in the US.

The state of play in DeSantis's plot to ruin FL universities. The goal here seems to be student, faculty and parent outrage. Oh, and grift.

Rock Chalk!

The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors.

The Feb 11 deadline for nominations for the ACS Organic YAS is coming soon. Asst Profs coming up for tenure are eligible. We are flexible about Covid extensions to your tenure clock. If your packet isn’t submitted, you’re good. #ChemSky www.organicdivision.org/meetingsuppo...

Hey Organic Asst Profs coming up for tenure (and your senior colleagues) — it is nomination season for the ACS DOC Young Academic Investigators Symposium. Deadline is Feb. 6, 2025. The website has last year’s date 😳 but the other info is right. #ChemSky www.organicdivision.org/meetingsuppo...

I can’t remember who was obsessed with paw beans on #cats but I bet you have never seen any from this perspective. This is what I get while working remote.

#ChemSky Does anyone have a candidate?

Happy Boxing Day from our new glovebox! #ChemSky Also note whose job it was to go in and check the lab when my students bailed for the holidays. 😁

And the same to you!

If you ever want to fall in love with your spouse all over again, wake up to a fresh pot of coffee they couldn’t drink before leaving for a fasting blood draw. @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social is a stellar human being.

Looking forward to it! #ChemSky

For those of you who follow the changing of the seasons on our neighbors’ corner, it must be Christmas.

“no longer department chair” works for me. 😁

Update: They are going to send us a new (and, we hope, full) bottle. Kudos to my lab ordering person for staying on them.

Well, then. This is a new thing. We were just shipped a carefully packaged, pristine….empty bottle. The lack of response by the guilty parties is disappointing. Anyone else had similar problems? #ChemSky

A cheap shameless plug for…me. We all get so much critical feedback in academic science that a day of having people tell you how wonderful you are is rare and precious. #ChemSky

Nope. No ridges in mine either. Lots of brandy, though.

The very best view on a beautiful Sunday afternoon – hand grazing your friend after a lovely trail ride.

Today’s “tell a great story” seminar award goes to @levinchem.bsky.social, who gave a fascinating talk on skeletal editing at UF. I’d watch that one again and it’s way off topic for me. #ChemSky

It’s good to be back on the Executive Committee. See you all in San Diego. #ChemSky

I haven’t been posting science stuff here, but ion beam-induced deposition is really cool — especially the precursor chemistry that drives it. Check out our latest. #ChemSky www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/artic...

Quote this with a song that makes you think of middle school (junior high in my case) youtu.be/pKvNoC0SRoY?...

Instead of shitposting this morning, I have been ratposting. This time of year we find the occasional drowned rat in a stall water bucket and leave it out for the lovely red shouldered hawks that nest in our pasture. And yes, we have squirrel boards in the water troughs. This is different.

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Update: My 1985 VAC double box is no more. 🪦💔 #ChemSky