C'mon Frog, I still have a week and change left!

Dear half-of-the-department: i am very sorry for not responding to the crisis you have be having today, but it's because i was responding to the crisis consuming the other half of the department. tomorrow, we'll switch it up. Yours, your chair.

Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social

You are still unfolding , becoming something you are supposed to be. (Says the Chair, trying to write the Grand Unifying Memo which will unleash chthonic joy…)

One random bit of gratitude today. Thank you @csecooney.bsky.social and Dr. HusbandHernandezPants for introducing me to @sleepymonkcoffee.bsky.social ... their brew is delicious and is a safe harbor in these tumultuous seas.

Women are not obligated to report on abusive men. Every woman has been sexually harassed or worse in the workplace. I do not know one who hasn’t. The problem is the men. Other men need to get WAY better at calling creeps out. Period.

Maybe you are waiting on your moment …

Congratulations Dr Shivam Kumar, whose PhD on PFOR redox enzymology was next level!

You say "AI Hallucination", I say "The Plagiarism Barfinator Has Coughed Up a Whoopsie"... let's call the whole th(ai)ng off.

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world. In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear. Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error. Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

This beautiful metaphor also works for any of you working on Theses or doing Science. The Blade of No One Made You Do This is a mighty tool, and you get better and better at wielding it with time.

The Blade of No One Made You Do This only gets sharper and more powerful over time, sharpened on the whetstone of For Decades. Feels good in the hand!

Happy Easter, #chemsky 🧪

No Kings. No Fucking Kings in America. #NoKings

Found out today that @kyclark.bsky.social has made their great 'Mastering Python for Bioinformatics' book into a YouTube series. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Chemist/physician Dr. Maud Menten co-authored the seminal paper 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘬 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘨, 1931. This intro'd the Michaelis–Menten equation (image). It remains a cornerstone of #biochemistry, used in drug design, metabolic studies & enzyme engineering. She was born #OTD in 1879. #WomenInSTEM

Oh Lord grant me the serenity of this small mammal

I just couldn't not participate...

Folks, more good news! Our latest paper on oyster microbiomes out in @pnas.org. Led by the inestimable Dr. Andrea Unzueta-Martinez and with great support from the Wang lab @whoi.edu we explore the how a persistent community of microbes in calcifying fluid could shape shell deposition. Enjoy!

A point of contrast.

A must read for anyone who cares (and these days, worries constantly) about American science and medicine. Credit to Prof. Will Mair for sharing his story. There are many more stories like it.

A simplified model GlucoseGo for predicting #hypoglycaemia during #exercise #T1D @diabetologiajnl.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Neither a scientist nor an engineer. Just another ineptotist, who will be way in over his head. Ineptotist (n) [in-ep-ta-tist] 1. Describes an unqualified individual being hired by another unqualified individual based on favoritism and incompetence. 2. See also — The current Regime’s administration.

This bit from my favorite Jackie Kashian album got an animation upgrade

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. My dumb dying pancreas -- hahaha you grey lump, I am still here! (or a whole dewar of l N2 -- yeah, that one time...)

If anyone has anything even remotely #BioArt / #SciArt / #StructuralBiology -related in mind for this and wants to talk about 3D printing/laser-cutting/AR options, please for the love of goodness let me know!

The next @organicdivision.org Virtual Symposium on Jan 14 @ 12 noon ET ft. Prof. Christian Malapit @camalapit.bsky.social & Dr. Kaid Harper #AbbVieChemistry #Electrochem Free to watch YouTube: orgn.link/watch Zoom: emory.zoom.us/j/18563507 #ChemSky #ChemChat

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"

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