tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

perpetually misreading kalshi as kashi and wondering how high-fiber cereal has such a stranglehold on the nation

look if I have to see tamale roulette than you have to see it too

Just want to point out the GM of the Stanley Cup winning team is a chemist who was in Jeff Long’s first class of graduate students. (I was an undergrad in the group at the same time and know him!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Tu...

OH MY BAD THERE IT IS

Interview with the vampire 2nd interview with the vampire Just circling back with the vampire Final interview with the vampire Hiring the vampire Probation period with the vampire Everyone’s going in on a card for Geoff, it’s his birthday on Saturday but we’ll do a party on Friday with the Vampire

This may make me sound old as dust or too young depending on your perspective, but whatever: we are all so damn lucky that Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong recorded music together so frequently, like how insanely fantastic is that power combo? What a generous gift.

i love my life

i've stuck myself at this desk until i have two (2) workable drafts for silly articles about science. unfortunately, i am a perfectionist, so we'll see how long this actually takes

500 level chess is awesome cuz i can blunder my queen and there’s a 50% chance my opponent won’t even notice 😭

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Happy Easter people :)

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

the enshittification of chessdotcom UI 🚬🫩

Great 🧵 summarizing the complexity of genetic sex "Gender critical" transphobia is fundamentally fascist, religious idealogy Not biological reality

New Beloved Scientific Edutainment Article on aryl dot org is Out Now: aryl.org/2026/03/17/V...

i think about this video every time i wait for a train youtu.be/nkC3Nc3LqFI?...

PAPER TIME! Best title ever. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

i stopped eating cheese, got my life together. things seemed okay. so i started eating cheese again. and since then everything's gotten worse.

sharing this in honor of my first prep TLC !😸

I had a meeting today where we discussed student use of A.I./LLMs and it really crystalized that probably my biggest dislike of these tools stems from the fact that using them increases isolation.

Cuprocene is the first neutral, stable copper metallocene, created by a team led by William J. Evans, an organometallic chemist at the University of California, Irvine. cen.acs.org/synthesis/cu... #chemsky 🧪

ramadan mubarak!!

wtf i just got purple first in connections

新年快樂! Happy Lunar New Year!!!

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

what it’s supposed to look like vs what i got (yesterday)

Help, Discord is asking me to verify my age by making me answer this???

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

so far tonight bad bunny has sung more reggaeton songs than the patriots and seahawks combined

CARTOON/GARFILD2.GIF

i wish more people around me spoke german so i could practice with my friends </3

An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

Happy Groundhog Day! (“Peanuts” from 70 years ago, February 2, 1956)

if anyone wants to have an in-depth conversation about gender with me i’m so down (preferably irl or otp)

??? not how that works but whatever

*screams in history of science*

This kid is awesome, actual hero.

🍇 NMR Chemical Shifts of Common Flavonoids 🍇 📄 This #OA study explores how three #NMR solvents may be used as a reference for isolated compounds, for detecting #flavonoids within mixtures like plant extracts as reference data for #NaturalProduct databases. 🔓 www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...

just set up for this awesome checkmate on my next move 😍 can't wait to play it!

dear chemists, please do not use genAI for your graphical abstracts/covers/article thumbnails

my ligand is currently crashing out so i don‘t have to 🥰🥰🥰🥰

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage