OpenAI's products are utterly unnecessary and run off of stolen human-made content. Students don't need them. Teachers don't need them. None of us need this regurgitated AI slop that didn't even exist four years ago.

Effective today grants.nih.gov/news-events/....

I decided to wear it anyway today 😂 (Also my husband left early for work so I didn’t have to listen to him singing wicked songs 🩷💚🫠🙃🥲) Happy Thursday yall

#booksky #nonfiction #science #womeninscience 🌱 #sciencebooks #nonfictionscience 🧪🎢

Book mail from @henryholtbooks.bsky.social ! I’m so excited to read @berondam.bsky.social ‘s new book!!

So I have forest green hair right now. This morning I got out my Barbie pink dress to wear to teach and my husband starts singing 🎶Unlimited… together we’re UNLIMITED 🎶 🙄🙄 (I changed into a different dress)

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

I had a lovely off-line weekend in the mountains with my family. 10/10 would recommend

I recently read POWER ON (about making screentime work for the entire family) One thing the book encouraged is to havea conversation with your kids about screentime limits. The book recommended that just like parents have a say in kids' screentime, let kids have a say in parents' screentime.

I admit that when i started working on this project with @kvasquez.bsky.social, i didn’t think i knew any chemists with disabilities 🧵1/ cen.acs.org/people/profi... @cenmag.bsky.social

🚨New book alert!🚨A First Look at Coding in Chemistry: Solving Problems Using MATLAB has just arrived at the Chemistry Library! @rscbooks.rsc.org @rsc.org #chemsky #chematcam

Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR. #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience ⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚

Bougie transportation this morning 💅🏻😌🚌

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Praying that these kids make it!

Three teens were critically wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the foothills of suburban Denver, including the suspected shooter, authorities said.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

My first TikTok video in almost a year! The chemistry behind the song Aqua Regia by Sleep Token. 👑 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️ #chemsky www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SdJhaD/

I finally made the TikTok/reel about the chemistry behind the song Aqua Regia by sleep token and it’s 3 min 30 seconds so I can’t share on here 🫠 #chemsky

After several years studying grasses and forbs in Yellowstone National Park in the US, researchers have formally documented the power of bison as nature’s own fertilizing agents. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Simpering cowards one and all. This is almost unbearable to watch.

A solvent-free ball-milling process can break down waste polystyrene into benzene and aliphatic hydrocarbons in as little as 15 min. cen.acs.org/materials/po... #chemsky 🧪

Why are so many journals/article aggregators trying to forcefeed me AI summaries of papers when the abstract is RIGHT THERE?

A bit of a saga, but your girl is double vaxxed (2025 COVID + 2025 Flu). Very grateful it will be easier for everyone in Colorado very soon! The pharmacist said that it will probably take a day or two to lift the CO Rx requirement. But he said he plans on giving lots of shots this weekend!

Anyone in Colorado can get the vaccine starting on Friday!

Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.

COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.

Good.

A quick note—I deleted my post about my experience trying to get the 2025 COVID vaccine because turns out my PCP does not have it yet. I’m working on getting an Rx but this is beyond frustrating that requiring a prescription is making this so much more difficult 😭

Just some pretty crystals #chemsky

Public health is not an individual task. It is a group project. We need to vaccinate everyone--including the least vulnerable--to protect the most vulnerable. I am disabled, so yeah, I can get it. But I Also really need my kids to be vaccinated to protect me (and others!) from getting sick.

The FDA on Wednesday approved updated Covid vaccines for the fall season that limit who can get the shots, authorizing the vaccines for people 65 and older and those with medical conditions. It is the federal government’s most restrictive policy since the pandemic began.

I filed! Make sure you do, if your books were stolen.* *They probably were.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Scaling up like this takes attention to every little detail, and a willingness to question your typical assumptions. Not everyone is capable of it!

I just learned what my villain laugh sounds like 😹

I'm sitting at the kitchen counter checking email. My husband is microwaving oatmeal. He recently read my chapter on lasers/masers. He turns to me, points to the microwave and says, "K-band, am I right?" Me: "That is closer to L-band (1-2 GHz), but let me check." (It is 2.5 GHz, S-band).

I'm working on double checking citations for my book right now. Here is a stack of a few of the books that I read to write my narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy:

Our 3.5 year old will say "Let's tidy up!", and then stand there and watch us do all the work before walking away telling herself "Good job!!" We think she's going to grow up to become a university administrator.

I had some left over Hatch green chiles and a couple summer squash so of course I thought about making calabacitas. My kids wanted pasta so improvised a calabacitas alfredo and it turned out sooooo good. I thought I had invented something, but definitely not. www.facebook.com/reel/1029821...

ACS Council approved establishing the Committee on the Advancement of LGBTQ+ Chemists in their fall council meeting today + other actions: cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #Chemsky

This really shouldn't be a surprise. If you don't practice a skill, your proficiency declines.

GenAI is not inevitable and not everybody is using it, those are lies. It isn’t just creatives who hate it, my partner works in tech industry and so do many of our friends and they all hate AI too!

The faint sound of a house of cards collapsing

Groll! youtu.be/45oMQc6WhJI?...

This has been a week full of warnings for the American food supply, at least involving cheese, coffee, and now potentially radioactive shrimp. I'll provide the FDA alerts in this thread.