Happy Helium Remembrance Day to all who celebrate #ChemChat #NMRChat

For the second year in a row, Parafilm has been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025! 🏅

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Happy Ctenophore Day! 🐙🦑🧪

@katmabu.bsky.social telling it like is, giving us the facts on the ground at the ICE detention facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago

Good morning #warzone Chicago! It’s a hellscape, here, I tell ya! No wonder everyone’s afraid to go downtown! Who will save us from this madness?

I don’t give a shit if JD Vance doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution. Striking civilian boats in international waters is both unconstitutional and a war crime. The party of “law and order” clearly doesn’t care about respecting it.

2010: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines do I need to get beforehand? 2025: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines should I get while I'm there?

Happy Labor Day! Remember how we got here? People were murdered in Chicago and Pullman in the fight give you this day off. @katmabu.bsky.social here speaks to how this history is especially relevant, as federal troops are about to invade Chicago AGAIN. (Yes, *again!*)

The horror!! 😱 I’m in Washington DC and I personally witnessed a large group of people outside, in the dark, at night, unbelievably close to my civilized hotel… … watching movies in the park!! Egad! Someone call the National Guard to keep us safe from this audience!!

Friday morning project: finally jettisoning a bunch of old, redundant, mostly yellowed NMR standards that’ve been cluttering up the lab. I bet some of these date back to the 1990s! #nmrchat #realtimechem

Well this is frightening. I just verified this myself. Sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the constitution are indeed missing from constitution.congress.gov/constitution/. For the moment, the version at the Archives still has them, www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Pro tip for people who need to attend a training session to use scientific equipment: Don’t ask “Can I show up an hour late?” to a one-time three-hour group training. Especially one that you’d already agreed to attend at that time. It’s not a good look.

The NSF is in trouble. Here is my latest substack post: open.substack.com/pub/artediso... @standupforscience.bsky.social

Congress: Tu stultus es!

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

I needed to hear this today. Schiff isn’t exactly bringing much-needed relief to the scientific enterprise with this post, but his earnest acknowledgement of our distressing situation and its significance is welcome.

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Alarming for U.S. academia: “All 350,000 Chinese nationals - students that are here in the country - gotta leave immediately.” - Steve Bannon (Trump advisor) on NPR today, discussing U.S. universities #science #immigration #universities Quote at 5:21 of the 11-min audio: www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

Hey U.S. NMR facility managers. FYI the gov't docs that regulate academic recharge facilities (Circulars A-110 and A-21) don't seem to be available anymore. They've generally been on whitehouse.gov, but now there are zero circulars, afaik. #NMRChat #NMR #AMMRL www.whitehouse.gov/omb/informat...

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social provides some much-needed rationality by placing our current moment in historical context. For me, her remarks carry more weight by including dictators active in my news-reading lifetime, like Qaddafi and Pinochet.

Despite the cold and oscillating snow/rain, THOUSANDS of people turned out at Chicago's #standupforscience2025! Including Senator @durbin.senate.gov and @schakowsky.house.gov. Gratifying and energizing to see so much support for #science! #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall

Anyone have a sense of this means no flu vaccines next fall in the US? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

So we’re supposed to trust the tech bros to run the world, but it’s 2025 and you still can’t export a Word document as a PDF without choosing whether to keep the fonts OR the hyperlinks, but NOT BOTH. 🤦🏻‍♂️ answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

Has anyone had disturbing problems on FB this morning? I’m finding that @npr.org posts on news articles about Trump and Musk link to an unworkable fake N.PR address, whereas articles about #science work fine. The fact that only select articles fail suggests this isn’t a normal hack.

@microscopyed.bsky.social could you please remove me from your Core Facilities starter pack? It looks like it’s supposed to focus on imaging and microscopy facilities, and mine (NMR spectroscopy) is not part of that. I love the community, but I don’t want to misrepresent myself. Thanks!

Big increase in usage entires this year, according to the very rough year-to-year increase in the number of login sheets. People took a liking to the 600 (installed 2023) & started using 500-2 more (incl. new interest in titrations, kinetics). Whew! #nmr #nmrchat

Doing my annual culling of inactive #NMR accounts, thinking about the beginning of the This American Life episode that starts with a guy on a subway platform, pointing at strangers saying “You, you’re out. You, you can stay”. #nmrchat www.thisamericanlife.org/75/transcript

He’s started!! www.noradsanta.org/en/map

Current mood after experiencing the news the last month and a half (courtesy of artist Maxine Thirteen, linktr.ee/maxinethirte... )

I just realized there’s a technical error in this attractive holiday decoration (in the building where I wait for the bus in the morning). Do you see it? It helps if you’re a chemist.

Happy International Day Of Persons With Disabilities! Disabled people matter today and every day so make sure to promote their voices!! 💜

I love it when the students clap at the end of a training session. #NMR #NMRchat

Want an #NMR probe? I’ll be giving some away or nominally selling them soon. 1st stop = the CANMRDG meeting Oct 5 at MSU. If you attend I can probably just hand you one of these on a first-come-first-serve basis: chemnmrlab.uchicago.edu/surplus/ Registration ends TODAY! canmrdg2024.eventbrite.com

One week left to register for the October 5 CANMRDG meeting at MSU! Updated speaker/poster list at: canmrdg.org/2024-meeting There's still room for a few more posters! Register at canmrdg2024.eventbrite.com #NMR #NMRchat

There's still time to submit a poster abstract to present at the Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group (@canmrdg.bsky.social) Oct5 at MSU! Register w/ abstract on Eventbrite by Sept 3: canmrdg2024.eventbrite.com