"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father and the weirdos on TikTok" Matthew 24:36 (New CJ Edition)

The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Chromforum seems to be down this morning, so... Anyone have experience and advice on multiple Agilent GC-FID instruments connected to one workstation with OpenLab ChemStation ? The optimal network configuration (multiple NICs or use a switch?) in particular is my holdup I think. #Chemsky #AnalChem

#chemsky peeps. I am trying to locate the NIST Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark database, that should be located at cccbdb.nist.gov. I cannot get to it now. I get errors such as bad gateway, etc. It had diverse and inclusive datasets, maybe they killed it ? #compchem

As a mentor, educator, and chemist with a disability, Shana V. Stoddard brings a powerful and multifaceted perspective to scientific research and higher education. cen.acs.org/synthesis/me... #chemsky 🧪

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Glad to have this pop up in my podcast feed recently. #chemsky 🧪 www.ted.com/talks/jenny_...

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

Alf Hog

“Judgement night” (1993)

"Sneakers" (1992, James Horner)

To my H-1B friends, I am so fucking sorry. This all sucks so much.

UH

I really hate how networking spam has now gotten to the point of invading your personal email box, i.e. people more or less doing the same scam of "I saw your resume on LinkedIn, wanna be hired?" but now via email. Really a phenomenon that requires (IMHO) a whole-of-government response

#chemjobs #compchem Assistant Professorship in Theoretical Chemistry at University of Cambridge www.ch.cam.ac.uk/job/52637

Currently doing laser safety training for work and it’s just making me feel nostalgic for the good ole days in grad school when I used class IV lasers every day #chemsky

Wow

Man IG ads are weird

Jackson Pollock’s famous painting Number 1A, 1948 looms large, both physically and in the history of modern art. But the blue pigment that Pollock used in the painting had been something of a mystery, until now. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪

My colleague Marko Jeran turned me onto this electrolysis demonstration using our cabbage indicator. #anthocyanin #redox #acidbase

whoa

Come join us at UofL. We are seeking a tenure track assistant professor of organic chemistry broadly defined to start August 2026. #chemsky #chemjobs uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa...

Want to re-up this on my feed. We are accepting applications until filled. @chemjobber.bsky.social #chemjobs our department is a fantastic place to work, with wonderful colleagues, great students and beautiful mountains to play in.

This is not red cabbage! These are all #corrole solutions! Beautiful colours made by Gianella at our lab! #realtimechem #chemsky #science

Look at that, it’s an induced dipole! #ChemSky

In @science.org this week @zachwickens.bsky.social and collaborators find a way to do Z-selective elimination using thianthrenium chemistry in a versatile route to Z olefins. chemsky 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nobel chemistry laureate David MacMillan tells the Heidelberg Laureate Forum audience that chaos at the US NIH left his Princeton University lab without federal funding for 7 months, lost them $1m dollars, and “every time you open the New York Times, it’s not necessarily getting better.” #HLF2025 🧪

#facultychemjobs weather report: continued downward trend Today (9/17/25), there are 156 tenure-track research/teaching positions and 16 teaching positions for the 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List. 9/17/24: 245 tenure-track, 18 teaching 9/19/23: 265 tenure-track, 17 teaching

The 2026 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (run by Arvind Ganesan and Todd N. Whittaker) has 20 research/teaching positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 156 tenure-track positions and 16 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Be my colleague! Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is hiring two tenure-track positions for Fall 2026, chemical education and coatings technology. Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

#chemsky #facultychemjobs 🧪⚗️

ACS publications need to add something useful to the first sentence of the body of their emails. In the summary column, all I ever see is "To improve and transform your experience..." According to my records, they have been improving and transforming for well over a year.

watch for exploding prosecco

No you can't make me invent an analytical test that gives you all the data from next to no sample. There's a reason I have quantities specified beside my capabilities. When it says 20 mL it's because I need to use 20 mL, not because I want to bathe in all the excess. #AnalChem #Chemsky

SETEC ASTRONOMY

at what point will "ICEing" be a tactic deployed against people like (very regrettably) "swatting" is now?

Lots of things are crap right now but I made this latte art today and normally my latte art is also crap so that's a little win for me

This week in the C&EN Magazine: Chemists with disabilities rethink how we do science + Higher ed chemistry departments prep for more upheaval. Read more: cen.acs.org/magazine/103... #chemsky 🧪

Any professors from graduate programs in sciences want to be a part of a Zoom session for University of Richmond undergraduate students interested in applying? I'd love to add a few more to my roster especially in the chemical or biochemical sciences. It would be next Tuesday at noon Eastern.

such a great movie

lol this is EMA erasure "And we’ve submitted to the F.D.A. — it regulates not just drugs in the U.S. but de facto in the whole world, because the rest of the world defers to the F.D.A."

lol whut

I feel like indoor air chemists might have some thoughts on this story #chemsky 👀

"When we design tools that welcome different ways of sensing and thinking, we open new reaction pathways for discovery. Inclusive design doesn’t just widen participation; it expands the very structure-function relationship of science itself." cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

So many were involved in this project, but I want to give a special shout out our guest editor Mona Minkara! Mona had a hand in selecting our theme and the 12 Trailblazers featured here. She also wrote a stellar guest essay that I highly encourage you to read: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

These 12 profiles highlight how this year's @cenmag.bsky.social Trailblazers are expanding our knowledge of the molecular world, while not shying away from talking about the struggles that come with having to navigate inaccessible STEM environments. cen.acs.org/people/profi...

I must continue to mumble that government speech regulations are bad