i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Do I know anyone who has applied for/been awarded a K18?

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

The anti-trans and anti-abortion contingents are united on a variety of tactics/bigotries, but one of their top ones is about turning Big Brother into Big Neighbor (or, in this case, I guess ~ Big Student ~). The goal is to make everyone with an ounce of knowledge or compassion afraid to show it.

IT'S FINALLY TIME! BakeOff is BACK. You know what that means ChemBakeOff reaction/meme thread.

two thoughts. 1) this prose is *rough*. 2) describing weiss as possessing a “shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition” is evidence you’ve suffered a brain injury

New Carly Rae Jepsen to bless the first day of classes....SUBLIME. AND we're getting EMOTION-SideC? shaking honestly www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Jm...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT @jeflip.bsky.social / @lipshultzsbu.bsky.social out in ACS Catalysis, feat. my rockstar undergrad Celeste Barefoot who worked in this during her REU! She's applying for PhD programs this fall!! 🔗below

In addition to basically serving as genocide apologia - because this is what this is, and make no mistakes - they also put it under the topic of 'Israel and Antisemitism.' They believe that fighting antisemitism means denying a genocide, and this makes everything more dangerous for Jews as well.

Running a little Hajime Ito group chem to cook up some silyl boronates! GC looking good so far 😎 #RealTimeChem

"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives." --Mamdani, in this interview:

COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO DRY

When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.

As it should.

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

and i’m not a reporter. i emailed somebody to ask about identifying lichen i found, after i read their article about it experts generally love a polite question from somebody who shows their work

I foresee so many fucking preventable lab accidents from "advice" given by this shambling technobeast and so many jobs gleefully downsized that are absolutely not replaceable with plagiarismbot9000

Maybe we shouldn't throw our planets resources and freshwater into the Pandora's box that makes critical mistakes on things that are trivial for humans

GPT-5 probably suggesting something like drying your aqueous layers with MgSO4. Call me fucking Sarah Connor bc 🚮

I mean it’s great* that gpt5 will suggest vague analytical chemistry things to try but it definitely will not be there at 7 am to restart the console in the 110-year-old building that is undergoing electrical work nor will it come back at 6:30 on a Friday to reset another console that’s being weird

RYAN GOSLING KEN: And like, there’s these HUGE fuckin horses that they deliver beer with JOE ROGAN: I’ve seen the videos of those. You know they think that’s what people got the idea for dragons from? KEN: I heard that, I thought that’s what they were too JOE ROGAN: It’s like, they might as well be

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Well shit www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I would be embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed

A very happy Some Items of Interest day to those who celebrate! dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

Very odd to put Ohio & Florida among “fair” maps. Ohio’s map was repeatedly struck down by courts as illegal gerrymander, and GOP just ignored the ruling till it ran out the cock. Florida’s dismantled a Black-majority district that a court had ordered last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

AI chat bots cannot actually report the news. And I don’t say this on aesthetic grounds - I say this on “they do not exist in 3D space” grounds. We will soon have no news whatsoever if this continues. Too many people still either haven’t realized this, or don’t want to believe it, but it’s true.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

During my time at IU, we wondered whether we could engage electrophiles in our Cu coop. catal. to establish 3 contiguous stereocenters instead of 2. Not long before I left, I found that it was indeed possible--huge kudos to Suman for taking this from proof-of-concept to across the finish line!! 🎉

New @stanna-dorn.bsky.social paper alert!! 🚨 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Brown's faculty senate should consider abolishing course evals, if they're just going to be used as fodder for witch hunts against vulnerable faculty.

The Nazis did things like this with German universities

This violates R.I. Gen. Laws § 11‑24‑2.3 on its face which provides protections for gender identity in public accommodations in Rhode Island. Brown University is openly admitting it will brazenly violate Rhode Island state law. I expect lawsuits will follow.

🔥 An approach for light-driven, Ni-catalyzed C-heteroatom couplings that: -Couples tough nucleophiles (yes, 3° alcohols!) -Couples electron-rich aryl bromides -Doesn't need a PC -Runs on 100 ppm Ni -Delivers on drug syntheses and late-stage modifications Now on @chemrxiv.org: tinyurl.com/3ss6x24j

Feels like the timeline could use some Branch Manager

Also met @dmeremin.bsky.social for the first time irl too!!!

Barb and Star go the 600 MHz NMR

*LinkedIn voice* "Thanks to #AI making some graphics for me, I have time to stick my #head up my #ass without the burden of trying to find the right picture. This is what it means to be an #inmovator and what you miss if you don't join the #AI #Revolution. "

Peaflower Lavender lemonade (codename: Purple Rain) saving my life rn

Dating profiles say they want "chemistry" that's "organic" but I'm the asshole for breaking out the chair conformers?

Just met @kaine.senate.gov on my way back from Organic Reactions GRC?!!! Absolutely wild trip

Got to meet Liam at ORP! His stuff is awesome

when I tell you i've been waiting for this moment so long!!!! What an incredible human being and friend ❤️ great to see you Nick!!

Finally met the one, the only, the powerful @stanna-dorn.bsky.social at ORP GRC. Such a long time coming, and so much fun

Had to leave the GRC a bit early, but had a great time. Amazing science, and everyone was so friendly and generous. And I met a slew of #ChemSky favourites, including (at last!) the very photogenic @ndchiappini.bsky.social