To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

Politely, f*ck off and tell people to drive cars with due care. “I didn’t see you!” is NOT evidence of inadequate visibility, it is **an admission of guilt** that the driver *didn’t even bother to look*.

Im begging the NYT to spend time talking to people who actually teach and work at universities. Especially ones that don't have billion dollar endowments. My issues are AI use, crumbling infrastructure, vanishing staff, unfunded state mandates, a customer service model of education...

Disappointing victim-blaming from @npr.org. This article puts the burden of safety on pedestrians and people on bikes, not on the dangerous drivers and hostile infrastructure that are the real threats. We don't need more "safety tips," rooted in ignorance and incompetence, we need safer streets.

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Been a while since I put pen to paper #chemsky

Kahless tells us that in the face of censors, of oppressors who would use your words against you even if true, you must speak out all the more loudly. All you do by silencing yourself voluntarily is save them the effort of silencing you.

Lmaooooooo

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Merlin’s tabby belly is not a trap! Warm weather has been promoting open cat conformations primed for pets. #CatsOfBluesky #Catsky

This is my kind of meditation: youtu.be/jF_0BlNDn1w

Nooooooo the company that makes my favorite pants is closing up shop… (Tariff-induced? Hard to say.) I guess I’ll just have to become a waist-down nudist.

The flex post always inspiring confidence.

If we’re going to have Chinese style autocracy in the US, I’d also like the renewable energy infrastructure, high speed rail, electric vehicles, investment in science, and good food.

I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once. I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.

good morning

Feeling a bit under the weather today, but Merlin made sure my recuperation was supervised #catsky #CatsOfBluesky

Ahem #ChemSky

TOP TEN CAT BREEDS 1. Super Bingus 2. Tender Loaf 3. Crime Bean 4. Le Squishe 5. Load-bearing Tater 6. Royal Softling 7. Electric Spiceweasel 8. Pantaloosian 9. Tammy 10. Dinky Porch Pebble

Less than 24 hours after arriving she's out and purring and making biscuits. She even sat for a few seconds on my lap. 😭😭😭

This is a good post, chemsky—please clap

After dragging ME out of bed at 8am, Merlin has decided that HE should get to sleep in all #caturday long. #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky

Tattoo idea for the dedicated vacuum distiller. #ChemSky

Hey everyone, it’s taken five years, but J. Immat. Sci. finally has its own website: immaterialscience.org. On it, you can find our our entire back-catalogue of articles (>140), links to buy hardcopies of our journals, the PDF versions, and our submission guidelines/templates.

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Making primary amides, esp from R-CO2H, is not as easy as it seems but with this new Lewis-acid catalyzed method in #OrgLettAsap Primary amide and nitrile are within scope depending on equivs of HMDS #ChemSky

#ChemSky 🧪

Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

This is amazing and our local @rideact.bsky.social and @bart.gov workers 100% deserve swag this cool!

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

Reporting on the #caturday cuddle from my local puddle. Projections are looking cozy with a chance of snooze. #Catsky #CatsOfBluesky

headline editing is the world's cheapest form of media criticism, but "with the help of 100 wt% AlCl3" is helpful context

Do I know anyone who knows about plant fossils in Maine? Or can someone recommend a book that is specific to that area? My cousin (not a scientist) is finding some on her property and she is really curious about them. My input ("that's a plant") was not very helpful. 🧪

MTC’s take on the CA37 project, basically.

Best part of a timed cat feeder: my kitties don’t wake me up in the wee hours of the morning for brekkie. 😴 Worst part of a timed cat feeder: my kitties are back in bed in full cuddle and don’t wake me up if my phone is dead and alarm doesn’t go off 🫠

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If you aren’t worried about heat- or mass-transfer, why stir a homogenous mixture? Habit? A colleague once monitored an air-sensitive test reaction (homogenous, room temp) by repeatedly pouring it from a J.Young tube back into a scin vial with a stir bar in the glove box in between each timepoint…

A little family scene on my walk home! Cedar waxwing parent feeding its babies, producing berries from its throat like a magician making ping pong balls appear. #birds 🪶

Anyone from the University of Montreal here? Please DM. Please RT.

New paper in Nature finds that global geologic CO2 storage potential is ~90% lower than previously believed. Many candidate sites could leak CO2 back into the air or into groundwater, undermining climate mitigation efficacy or putting nearby human health at risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

Now if only I could get Steam to load my cart and check out so I have an excuse to call in sick, AHEM, I mean work from home today! #SilkSong

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

from the makers of palladium contaminated stir bars, now introducing: