May you find someone who loves you as much as this person loves banana bread

Sky over #Chicago reasonably exciting just now…

@heydebigale.bsky.social Is also a very kind and supportive person. I can personally confirm that you will enjoy talking with her!

Lake forever problems for now (from a different window in my office building)

New sanctioned (t)rant about AI just dropped. On the limits of Alphafold and my worries about the disaster its use will cause for the literature and early-stage academic drug discovery. Look, they commissioned it. And by commissioned I don't mean I got paid, just invited. Awesome process btw.

Anyone ever stop to think about how cool solar is? It's one of the only* power generation methods we have that doesn't boil down (🥁) to "spin turbine" *That can be deployed to generate sufficient power for communities. Even nuclear ultimately is just "turbine go brrr"

#chemchat a meme for your Monday morning

Been awhile since someone has stirred the pot

Chicago is so beautiful

I live here on purpose.

When you pay $20,000 for maintenance on your $400,000 equipment and they discover a manufacturing defect and solve it with a piece of packing tape That's science folks 😂

Do I know any chemistry people on here from Spain (preferably near Madrid)? I have a rising senior here at AU (Spanish citizen) going back home to Madrid this summer and is looking for any lab work opportunities. Thanks! ChemChat ChemSky

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Experience comes from the effort of grappling with difficult problems and seeing the guts of how problems develop and then solving them. You gain a lot from sitting with a problem and looking at it from a lot of angles. It's the network of knowledge that defined expertise, and that grows from work

The human impulse to go to explore and discover is maybe one of the most admirable thing about our species. A lot has been wrong with the world recently but seeing a glimmer of what makes humanity great sure is nice

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

I will always be surprised when I leave my apartment for no more than 10 min and My Stupid Idiot (Ebb, of my pfp fame) acts like I have been gone for months and as if he has been wounded by neglect. This goober 😂

After much careful thought and analysis I have determined that there are two types of chemists. You're either an ACN chemist or a MeCN chemist.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

#Chemsky -- PhDs in Canada in chemistry--brief. Reskeets welcome. 🧵 Seeing that a lot of excellent US students are not receiving admission to PhD programs for...the obvious reasons...I want to make sure mentors, students, and advisors are aware that Canada might still be an option. 1/n

The Hunt for Red Sausage

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Just a reminder that last year, some 288 children died from the flu--the highest in a normal flu year since the CDC began keeping track of pediatric flu deaths in 2004.

The wasted wungsten

Still regretting this. Baijört: don’t do it.

This is the wewantplates.com of PCs

Look I don't know how weather works but I'm starting to understand why every year Chicagoans swear "this will be a bad winter" cuz after several years of mild winter you feel like there can't be another... Right?

Especially if you have any plans to go to a conference/convention/big gathering! You make yourself and others safe! How's the time so that your protection is up before the holiday season (Also get your covid jab)

Happy government shutdown eve to all who celebrate/commiserate

Make a band singular: the smashed pumpkin

There are a lot of sources of toxic elements in the diet, and it's worth being mindful of. The FDA publishes surveys of elements in food across the US, which is freely available Also FYI washing rice does little to remove arsenic. Long soaking, however, does have a significant effect

Check out the latest Peace Island Patreon update - if you like what we are doing, consider becoming a backer - we're just a couple of weeks from Beta! www.patreon.com/posts/125549...

We love the "warm enough to turn off heat, but not warm enough for the building to turn on AC" time of year don't we folks

Look I've been playing a lot of ttrpg and it definitely has nothing to do with wanting to be in a different universe

Let’s talk about Direct File. It’s a free, easy way for people to file their taxes directly online with IRS. You keep your tax refund — rather than paying $150 to a sleazy tax prep company. It’s more efficient! But these Republicans want you to keep wasting money on TurboTax.

Finally made the jump from the bad place and am so delighted to see a thriving community here 🙂