"Schools must adopt effective filters to block inappropriate or misleading content." What filters block misleading content from ChatGPT? Is there a "no disinfo" or "no faked citations" or "no hallucinations" filter? There is not. This is poisoned tech. You have to block the entire product.

Charlie Brown also invented the alkyne zipper reaction, look it up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkyne_...

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

As a former process chemist, yes. You get such 3am calls such as “There’s yellow foam overflowing out of the vessel, what do we do?” Or “We accidentally charged the vermiculite packing into the vessel along with the hydride reagent, it’ll be okay right?”

makes me want to chew glass wapo.st/4aXfzn5

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Every morning while making coffee www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Jonathan Chait on something I’ve noticed: that when you look for a defense on conservative media of many of the President’s actions… you find… nothing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

God I wish it was only because of DOGE

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Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, you set up an experiment that would disprove it. If you can't do that, you shut your fucking mouth and learn something.

having the unmistakable urge to blog about the epstein documents by doing a taxonomy of creepy elite email writing styles DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT TO MY EDITORS

Re Abbvie #chemjobs

No idea if this is the case here, but a city council member in my suburb said that our many vacant downtown storefronts were due to a tax law that allows landlords to write off losses from vacant properties, so if they don't get the rent they want, they can make more money by letting it sit empty.

The NMR section is my favorite.

PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown

Opinion | Actually, don’t let them eat cake

Someday I will not have to write about Sarepta Therapeutics and their ineffective drugs that never should have been approved by the FDA in the first place. This is not that day.

Do an experiment? No darling I don’t think so

Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care

Yeesh

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

@ninaluong.bsky.social is really upping her costume game this year. And she can still work in it!

quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!

So, if that's true, is there some kind of shot you could take, to help prevent autism?

Looking for some mad science journalism this Halloween? Look no further than 🩻Spooky, scary skeletal editing🩻 (and more chilling chemistry news from @cenmag.bsky.social) cen.acs.org/synthesis/Sk...

Professor Emeritus Axel D. Becke @dalhousieu.bsky.social has passed away at age 72.

For those who are wondering about grant proposal reviews in the USA

Yes, this is accurate.

Maybe its not really theft because they needed them to train their AI

A true pleasure to host Koji Kubota @uchichemistry.bsky.social for a stop on his Merck Banyu Lectureship Award Tour!

New @chemrxiv.org, a collaboration with @honggen-wang.bsky.social and group alum, now asst prof. Myojeong Kim: the first true catalytic interception of isodiazene-generated primary-amine-derived radicals. The key is an N-F reagent that enables productive chain carrying! doi.org/10.26434/che...

Please join us in congratulating Neubauer Family Assistant Prof Anna Wuttig, who has been named the recipient of the 2025 Early Excellence in Science Award in Chemistry. The Bayer Foundation is honoring her "for advancing electrocatalysis for energy storage, conversion, and medicinal chemistry."

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This is America

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

2025-10-08: Yes. Days since last #NYTXW OREO: 0

2025-10-07: No. Days since last #NYTXW OREO: 44* *Longest OREO-less streak since 2025-04-06

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So if there’s no portal to submit the NSF GRFP yet and the government is shut down…..

I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool

if the television is not saying what’s true then how can I ever emerge tremfyant

a piece exploring this concept www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

A Warm Welcome to Our Newest UChicago Chemists! As an incoming student, you're now at the epicenter of chemical innovation. We're excited to have you become part of our story and see the discoveries you will make this year.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.