the older I get the more I realize that "drained pool politics" is the only term you need to know to understand pretty much everything that's happened in the US for the last 50 years

Climate disasters are becoming a significant upward transfer of wealth

In "the most rigorous test to date of how AI would perform in the real world," researchers found that workers using AI completed tasks 19% slower than when working without it -- but thought they were faster. #AI #GenerativeAI 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

I can't believe this finally worked

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

a sidequest from our liquid marbles process, cinnamon gas marbles are both brand new chemistry/materials science research and a good way to impress people at a dinner party 🧪

🚨Reporters🚨 I'm looking for a reporter who's can zoom into my graduate professional development class and talk about interviewing scientists (e.g., what makes a good interview, how can scientists help reporters, ...).

gave a brief talk to a "Climate Reporting on TikTok & Instagram" class at GWU about how we approach science (and occasionally climate) communication on Reactions. Really interesting concept for a class and a great group of students coming to it from different majors, areas of interest, etc.

Yesterday in the time it took for me to drop my son off at daycare (<5 mins) ICE showed up, kidnapped one of my neighbors, and left. I only saw them leaving the neighborhood.

This whole thread is brilliant, but this one specifically perfectly describes so many impotent protest tactics.

Backyard butternut squash harvest

Is that good?

🧪 MOFs win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. We managed to get this out on the day of the announcement in spite of mixing up two photos while shooting and having to do some quick & heavy roto work—can you spot it? MOFs are the future of a staggering amount of tech, here's a quick intro:

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Our Fellow Americans, This shutdown is the fault of YOUR legislators in Congress, not ours. We don’t have any. Sincerely, 700k Falsely Accused People in DC

They're deliberately going after immigrants who are following the rules because they don't care about the rules

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

Thank you for sharing our lawsuit, Kyle. ICE took one CASA member on his way to a life-saving dialysis appointment, one mile from the hospital. They ignored his U.S. driver’s license and left him without critical treatment that day, putting his health in immediate danger.

In case you're interested in a large, peer reviewed, and recent study on the effect of acetaminophen use during pregnancy on children's autism & ADHD outcomes, here's one. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ever hear someone say that the chlorine smell at a pool is actually from pee mixing with chlorine? Well, the good news is that's not entirely correct. The bad news is, that's not entirely correct. We set the record straight about what you're actually swimming in. 🧪

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders. But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

love to have an "Environmental Protection Agency" working to protect us from, uhh, lower levels of toxic PFAS in drinking water cen.acs.org/policy/chemi...

I made an experimental astrophotography timelapse dance film mainly just to see if it was possible. We had two dancers doing an all night shoot in the eastern slopes of the Cascades, holding poses for 15 seconds, moving a tiny bit for the next frame, and holding again for 15 seconds.

Will it explode or will it levitate and disappear? With Leidenfrost droplets, we're only beginning to understand what happens and why. 🧪

just explained what "groyper" means to a balcony full of people at a party and hated myself through the whole process

1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*. bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Well that was a pretty loud fighter jet flyover in Petworth just now

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

why are you criticizing how much money I spend on my sword collection when we're spending almost twice as much on health insurance?

Feels great: Fox News picking up our story & video about a new chemistry breakthrough on edible fat absorbing beads Feels... weird: hearing my own voice come back to me via Fox News

The weird part is that New Mexico (the area going by that name) predates Mexico (the country going by that name) by a few hundred years.

The Banach-Tarski paradox has been bested en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%...

good chemistry lesson/party trick: If you mix 250 mL of everclear with 250 mL water, you somehow wind up with about 485 mL total. The best part is that no one is entirely sure of why it happens. 🧪

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

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DC Councilmember @janeese4dc.bsky.social wants to give DC residents "local news coupons" that they can give to the outlet of their choice, which are then used to allocate grant funding to support local journalism. 51st.news/opinion-dc-m...

woooooof

This was our first collaboration with Dr. Chem Thug, making a fuel gel from eggshells. 🧪 It's been going mini-viral on PBS tiktok recently, but if you haven't caught it there, here's the original on our ACS Reactions YouTube channel:

🎵 visible poverty is not the same thing as crime🎵

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Liquid marbles are a bit of a viral chemistry trend, and in making a video about them we might have actually found the kernel of a publishable scientific discovery. Our latest Reactions video for ACS & PBS Digital Studios. 🧪

Liquid marbles are a bit of a viral chemistry trend, and in making a video about them we might have actually found the kernel of a publishable scientific discovery. Our latest Reactions video for ACS & PBS Digital Studios. 🧪

I used to think, wrongly, that Hiroshima was a FAFO moment. But then I grew up. It was a crime against humanity

Sannd Abu al-Shaer was killed before his first birthday. Sannd was just 70 days old when an airstrike killed him and his 8-year-old brother, Abdul, and 5-year-old brother, Tariq, in September. wapo.st/3UCiAjn

We had a volunteer butternut squash pop up in our backyard so we decided to just let it go and now it's trying to evict us. Also pictured: volunteer amaranth and a native serviceberry struggling to hang on in the middle.

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

NEWS: The D.C. Council voted 7-5 to partially repeal Initiative 82, the voter-approved measure which phases out the tipped minimum wage in D.C. Here are the details of the repeal proposal, sponsored by @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social and @cmchenderson.bsky.social. The details: bsky.app/profile/maus...

Not sure if this is a post for #chemsky or #beersky but I just had a Stone IPA that tasted like denatonium benzoate. 0/10 would not recommend.

Starting up OnlyLabs, where people can pay to watch researchers who used to have federal funding do Hot Uncensored Cutting Edge science experiments.

Mexican Coke is in the news right now thanks to a typically nonsensical proclamation by the President. WaPo has done a couple stories about it that lean into the pop culture understanding while mostly missing the point, so here's a reminder: Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even WaPo & POTUS)