The References had a seizure and started speaking Qwghlmian.

My brother got me a chemistry joke book for Christmas, and I'm sure you'd love to hear some, #chemchat. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, some are silly, a couple are a bit off-colour 🙃 Q: What professions make the best conductors? A: The police: everyone knows copper is a good conductor

Lambert's Beer Van Deemter's Perturbation Distillery Maxwell's Barman Henderson and Hasel Bar

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Just stumbled across this awesome quote that will justify my tsundoku in future, no one can stop me 🧐

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

Merry Christmas everyone!

Meanwhile the Ducks Flamingos conflict has gotten worse Peace talks have collapsed The Christmas truce is in jeopardy Violence could erupt at any moment

Love that!

Our Open-source Hardware Infrastructure for The Netherlands (OSHNED) has been granted :) This will strengthen and improve coordination among the hubs in the Netherlands (Wageningen, Eindhoven, Delft, VU, Radboud) with a single goal: making Open Hardware the standard in science.

Why is this career thing so difficult? Just want to do cool research projects :/

Never forget: Elon Musk has blood on his hands.

Metal hydrides go!

My grading supervisor is sleeping on the job.

Nature's bookmarks make people nature-intolerant

Bluesky has also become the preferred social media platform for much of the scientific and medical communities. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Two opportunities for NLP data scientists, cheminformaticians or bioinformaticians at EMBL (Hinxton Cambridgeshire UK) ref: JR2866 | duration: 3 years | closing: 11-Jan-2026 #DataSci #cheminformatics #bioinformatics #ChemJobs #UKChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Blanking is very important

In computer simulations, as an object slides along the surface of ice, a structureless, "amorphous" layer forms. Materials scientists at Saarland University in Germany argue that this process may be the cause of ice’s slipperiness. www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-s...

Maybe we should switch to German... bromieren, Silikat, ... 🤔

"back in my day i paid a single time for a piece of software that actually did the thing it said" you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format. The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books! science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...

Would definitely watch a CSI crime scene-like show called "PI Back in Lab"

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

*sigh*

all academic applications should have consolation prizes. doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020” or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”

For folks who do pharma/biotech consulting work: how did you get started?

starting my sci fi novel like “the synthetic carbohydrate farmers trek through the electrolyte mine to reach the amino acid excavation site…”

SciReps: "a quasi-experimental field study on the Milan metro, [...] Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present " www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!

This is by far the dumbest thing I've done with computers. Lately. github.com/Wack0/entii-...

I need suggestions for a journal that will publish some careful work we have that shows how difficult it is to collect specific data carefully and how to it properly. It accidentally shows key papers in the field are likely wrong. Currently getting referees telling us there is no **impact**…

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

From @gabrielarana.bsky.social in 2021: This Thanksgiving, tell your racist aunt she is a racist. Call your sexist uncle a misogynist. Inform your transphobic cousin that kids don’t deserve to suffer because of his fragile masculinity.

“Your conception of gender is like the Bohr model atom where genders exist and move between fixed energy level shells, whereas Chris’s conception of gender is like the quantum model atom where genders probabilistically cluster into orbital clouds” @turn3coco.bsky.social, 2025

“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.” Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

I am appreciating the pun they did

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Getting a job after grad school

This make-believe-couple looks sooo definitely not straight.

Ah yes, exactly what we need right now when they shutdown the last bit of health and science they have left 😐

Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.

they gleefully announce the llm solves a difficult problem and then you find out...they use it to respond to an email, format some python, arrange two meetings in an 8 hour period. we are going to let these people burn the planet because we are too nice to tell them they sound stupid.

Cultural Revolution 2025