Watching Inception for the first time and I cannot help but think that someone decided to make a movie about a sandwich that contains a sandwich within another sandwich… and then would like all the applause please….

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Number 1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go … so it should be , technically, “Halloween 2”, but I will take a Sunday’s Childe “Time Bandits,” please and thank you. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

5 Days to Christmas! 🎄🐿️❄️ #ChristmasNeedsSquirrels #Sqrlpix #SquirrelScrolling

So when Obama's list of favorite books of the year is more than double the total number of books I managed to read this year, I am doing something wrong, yes? (Yes.) *Sigh*

Top Grinch or, Grinch Gun

I would love to see this for US universities

Good morning from the winter Wood.

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

I think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Hey you: be more like Sophia, alright?

Happy St. Andrew’s Day!

We are hiring with our friends over in Biology! Check out this unique opportunity for joint appointment and affiliation in the Biological Design Center! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31197

This may be the death of me.

Happy World Diabetes Day to all who celebrate - or involuntarily participate. 😄 Here's to us warriors. 💙

You have been judged…

Hey #ChemSky -- what is your department doing about the increasing costs associated with ChemDraw? Anything? Are there better alternatives at scale?

"commensurate" not "commeasurement" -- come on brain. It's only your birthday, you could have figured this out by now... though commeasurement surely seems like it should be a word.

If you want to know what AI in the university will look like, you can go back and watch 1985's "Real Genius."

Happy Mole Day for all who celebrate

When you crack open the Inbox to find a bit of spam with the subject heading: "Burnout in academia is real — here’s how to spot it early"

GET TO KNOW ME Share: - a drink you might order - a burger you might order - a movie you love that might surprise others Macallan, neat -- or anything sugar-free Anything without raw onions (migraine) and as a lettuce wrap Local Hero and/or The Fisher King

We’re starting to look for postdocs for 2026 and beyond. Nothing official yet, but if you want to use your synbio skills and the growing Microbe-Mineral Atlas to build cutting-edge biomining technologies read more below: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...

New paper from the group @jmaterchem.rsc.org - we characterized how strong light-matter coupling impacts the photophysical properties of chlorophyll a. Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

AH THE JOYS OF CALLING ALL THE CVSs ... to go through the same crappy phone try to leave the same voice saying "HEY, DO YOU HAVE MY LIFE-SAVING TECHNOLOGY? YOUR NEIGHBHOR SAID YOU DID, but then again someone else said they had the tech in stock, and then when they called me back, they did not..."

New #DexcomG7 sensor day -- also last sensor as I just ordered a resupply... & it failed. It's too early to call pharmacies. And I need to get to work, and have a zillion meetings. Tech is amazing, but it also fails... Looks like this #T1D will be going commando, pancreatically, for a spell.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Do I know anyone in Canada would be willing to invite me to give a seminar in the Fall so I can get a vaccination while I'm there? I wish I were only joking. Kinda not joking. Last time I had covid, my Diabetes leveled up; I don't want to get it again.

Check out these two new papers from our group (1/2): With @cschaack.bsky.social and Wendu Ding's groups at Wake Forest University, we demonstrate how protonation can significantly modulate the optical properties of allenes @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

One of the problems is that civilians hear “grant“ and think it’s a “fill out a form and get money” process, not a “harrowing Hunger Games competition against the brightest minds in the country” process.

#facultychemjobs weather report: Trump Administration impact visible Today (8/15/25), there are 81 tenure-track research/teaching positions and 8 teaching positions for the 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List. 8/13/24: 105 tenure-track, 7 teaching 8/15/23: 104 tenure-track, 4 teaching

slightly diminish a band: Spinal Nudge Bruce Springsteen & the F Street Band Ambling Stones

Let's talk about the #GenCon panel on AI I I did with @bradymcagent.bsky.social @jasonsanford.bsky.social and @johannah.bsky.social who moderated. This was a difficult conversation b/c we realized a # of people came looking for HOW to use AI in their creative writing. That's not what they got.

Scientists in the greater Boston area: if you’re an academic lab looking for lab supplies, or you’re an industry lab looking to donate lab supplies, get in touch with my friend April aka The Pipetting Pigeon 🧪 www.labconscious.com/blog/pipetti...

One truth I grapple with: why don't I have a name that I could easily spell out with chemical symbols like the cool kids? WHY OH CRUEL WORLD, WHY?

#BlackInChemWeek #STEM #Chemistry #Science #BlackSky

BIOCHEMISTS! We are looking for a new post-doctoral colleague at BU who will be devoted to a combination of teaching Biochemistry and engaging in Research. Ask me anything! The deadline is short, but the job is awesome. #ChemJobs You can apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/BU/CH/PA...

I am on a glide path to retirement. So my colleagues are looking for a new physical/analytical chemist. I have had a terrific 40 year run at Bryn Mawr…and will miss the students a ton. #chemsky #womeninSTEM apply.interfolio.com/170426

Not on vacation ... not yet. Why? because we are not in a post-COVID era, but very much an actual-COVID era....

So say we all.

Emergency cat!

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

Please RT. We are looking for a Research Scientist to join us at UVA Chemistry with experience in NMR or EPR spectroscopy! The scientist will facilitate applications of solid-state NMR and EPR in chemistry and biology. Apply: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0... #chemsky #NMRchat #EPR

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode, no SW, ST, or LOTR

As of July 1, this photo will represent 3 Chairs. as for now, only two.

Everyone who went to a No Kings or Pride event today: you are my favorite people! Everyone who wanted to but couldn’t because of fear or worry or life or whatever — are also my favorite people. There will be more chances. Be as loud as you can!

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. /Fin

A thread you need.