Really a missed opportunity to give us a ballroom update.

There should be a statue next to it of Washington Irving embellishing & sanitizing history into propaganda.

Man who's about to turn 80 celebrates death of 81 year old.

F-glaciers.

Colin Jost should start giving briefings. It would be equally valuable.

I guess we will have to invade Venezuela again to install a WBC champion more to our liking.

Is he talking to Nixon's ghost?

WBC USA vs DR >>> Oscars

Pretty sure we could replace more than 50% of university administration with AI & no one would notice.

These morons are taking what could be lightly ribbing our friends to the north who have historically owned us in hockey & making it an unfunny policy justification. It's the Canadian Baconification of international relationships

What should members of Congress do tonight? 1. Don't attend. 2. If you do attend, walk out when Trump defends ICE, or when it's clear he's not going to apologize for the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, or when it's clear he's going to ignore the Epstein survivors.

Not what everyone is latching onto, but isn't this a way to bypass barriers to let the companies LLM train on a large amount of data it might not otherwise have access to?

How the 51st state plan sound now, eh?

My friends and spouse made the mistake of suggesting that a recent viral workout video reminded them of an old SNL cartoon.

I don't know if it's as much fun as it used to be, but let's try it anyway. SUCK IT CANADA! USA! USA! USA!

Why would I invest the time & mental energy into writing an NSF grant right now?

Hey #ChemSky. I'm wondering what PhD applicants are experiencing this year. I have a student with essentially a 4.0, 3 years of research experience in my group, 1 summer (another pending) interning at Pfizer who currently has no offers. IMO this is complete nonsense. He's getting antsy.

Would Canada actually notice if the Stanley Cup was eliminated? They haven't seemed that interested in it since 1993

Offended by the Puppy Bowl, TPUSA is sponsoring the Rabid Coyote Bowl. Tune in!

Are we going to have to chain ourselves to the f*cking Kennedy Center for the next 3 years?!?!?

"Shocked"? Not the word I'd use for something observable in public on a regular basis

Nice to see that 2-days post storm the city & university have made sure it's safe to enter & use crosswalks

Why stop there? Our Olympic athletes should compete under the Individual Neutral Athletes banner.

"Pathological liar says words." Fixed it.

I know we have word counts to hit & hours of podcast & news talk to fill, but there's nothing to discuss or debate. This is a malignant sociopathic narcissist with diminished mental faculties who wasn't very smart to begin with. Everything you say after that is just filler.

Today is the 10th anniversary of my jokily starting a petition to name (then) newly discovered element 117 octarine (Oc) in honour of Terry Pratchett Element 117 (now named tennessine) is, technically, a halogen. Greenish-purple and only visible to the magically inclined seemed right to me (1/4)

I can't wait to read the tick-tock on the Venezuelan operation from whichever journalist was accidentally added to the Signal chat

Can we all agree Bama didn't belong in the CFP now? Perhaps the Big 12 shouldn't have sent any teams either.

Put me in this camp. Don't let people ignore the shitshow. Some portion of the country will believe him, but most people are sane enough to see he's a lying, incompetent, hate-spewing sociopathic narcissist. The more they see, the more they'll want to see him go.

Happy @kansascitychiefs.bsky.social elimination day to all those who celebrate!

Everyone traveling for X-Mas, the dress code is boxer shorts (ones without the button), slippers & a T-shirt being held together by threads.

All I want for X-mas is the Chiefs (& their stupid tomahawk chop) to miss the playoffs

The turkeys were part of Jan 6 of course.

Someone in a lab coat & safety goggles who is holding up an Erlenmeyer of colored liquid to the light is no longer classified as a stock photo meaning chemistry

This seems to come straight from the academic DH playbook for dealing with huge administrative asks: "If we just take on whatever increased work load and/or reduction in resources that want to impose on our department, we'll earn goodwill that we can cash in later when we need to."

Anyone know how Elon Musk’s America Party did yesterday?

Forget NYC, NJ & VA our little town's election is all you need to know about the mood in the country. In the last 3 POTUS elections Clinton won the town by less than 50 votes, Biden won by 229 & Trump won by 131. The town GOP has held a lot of town offices recently.

An odd reaction to the Nobel prize from @andrechemist.bsky.social

An inorganic chemistry Nobel. Suck it organickers!

Chemistry Nobel moneyline: There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth if the prize does not recognize C-C bond formation or C-H bond breaking (-2500)

Last week was the penultimate week of an busy academic term with two big classes. We also had to move out of our house on Oct 1 as well as finishing clearing out the basement + garage & take down fences for a job that will last 4ish months. Do you know what I didn't need on top of that? COVID

Does anyone else's purchasing/OSP give them crap about spending grant money on gloves? They claim it should be covered by indirects as a general office/lab supply. PPE?!? #CHEMSKY

I've taken a big step back on commenting about political things (thanks Elon!) but this makes non sense. I watched both @jimmykimmel.com Mon/Tue episodes. The questionable statement wasn't even directed at Charlie Kirk. He had pointed out how horrific the assassination was & sent his condolences

We are in trouble. It will be FoxNews & NewsMax everywhere soon. www.axios.com/2025/09/18/t...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Another consequence of the loss of twitter is missing news like this in real time. I came across the obituary while updating my slides for GenChem. The great Darleane Hoffman died earlier this month at 98. A true giant of the field. chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/darlean...

Screw you Secretary Brain Worm, I got a COVID booster