Laura Robinson should be much more famous--like her name should be on the Balderdash box. I've spent a lot of time wondering how Balderdash has so many words nobody knows, and like I'd watch this movie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_M...

“This chart shows installed capacity, a comparison that favors solar & wind, which can produce at full power only a few hours a day, unlike fossil & nuclear. But renewable sources together generated more electricity this year than coal.”🧪

77 words with just one boring pangram is a crime

Cherry nougat. So easy and so delicious!

Fortunately the letters are tacked on, not etched

These are the year’s computational revelations.

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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble published the first* measured distance to a 'spiral nebula' (NGC 6822) using Cepheid variables. It was well outside the Milky Way, therefore a separate galaxy. Wendy Freeman discusses this discovery and its implications for cosmology. 🔭🧪⚛️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"I worried no one would believe me." Our latest Working Life essay is a deeply personal story that explores how a scientist felt—and continues to feel, decades later—after a mentor made unwanted sexual advances. @science.org @sciencecareers.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

For those of you who aren’t Pacifichem’d out, we’ve got a great paper in @science.org this week from Vic Pike, Wei Liu and collaborators on putting 11C or 18F into PET tracers using copper-activated fluoroform 🧪chemsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Anyway as Churchill famously said, I think this is the end of the beginning, and it gives me some hope we aren’t completely dooming my daughters’ generation

No joke, my 10yo gets very stressed and upset about climate change, and it’s hard to calm her down because, well, she’s right to be stressed and upset! Last night I was heading home from Pacifichem and my wife called about her being upset again and I said “Show her the cover story in @science.org !”

This is a very hopeful way to close out the year—give it a read.

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

Jesus Christ that Marla Maples quote. And everyone’s just going to go on with their day….

I had a little dreidel I made it out of clay Said a Kabbalistic blessing And it got up and walked away

Here's @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @science.org "The environmental and societal benefits of the breakthrough accrue to all countries. But the economic benefits are enjoyed by China, which unambiguously leads the world in prospering from improvements in technology." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

The National Center for Atmospheric Research is facing threats from the White House. https://scim.ag/4pIZfei

Anyway Ecclesiastes is a good read right now. Highly recommend.

And I hated all my toil that I toil under the sun, that I should leave it to the man who will be after me. And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish. And he will rule over all my toil that I have toiled and that I have gained wisdom under the sun; this too is vanity.

The casual disdain underlying the NCAR dismantling effort is hitting so hard. Just bottomless grievance wielding a buzzsaw. No curiosity. No forethought. וְשָׂנֵ֤אתִֽי אֲנִי֙ אֶת־כָּל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁאֲנִ֥י עָמֵ֖ל תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ שֶׁ֣אַנִּיחֶ֔נּוּ לָֽאָדָ֖ם שֶׁיִּֽהְיֶ֥ה אַֽחֲרָֽי וּמִ֣י יוֹדֵ֗עַ הֶֽחָכָ֤ם יִֽהְיֶה֙ א֣וֹ סָכָ֔ל וְיִשְׁלַט֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי וְשֶֽׁחָכַ֖מְתִּי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ גַּם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל

Williford et al. have used the Perseverance rover on Mars to investigate rocks around the rim of Jezero crater. They find igneous intrusions that were later modified by liquid water with dissolved CO2, producing carbonates. ☄️ #planetsci #AGU2025 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

Threading a few of the countless scientist posts about NCAR here for folks who might not know just how influential the lab is bsky.app/profile/mich...

The outpouring of scientists sharing stories about their time at NCAR or collaborations with researchers there really tells you all you need to know about how central an institution to climate and weather research it is. It feels like every scientist I know (and hundreds I don’t!) have a connection

The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise

Great talk from François Lévesque at Merck that, among other things, discussed optimizing yellow food dye as a convenient actinometry standard for flow photochem apparatus (they measure temp change stemming from cis/trans photoisomerization) #Pacifichem #chemchat

Here are some more ducks!

Come for the horse on roller skates, stay for the truffle pig dying of a seizure😂

Alexandria leaders show support for Jewish community after Hanukkah mass shooting

Mixed? In my day we just said Mix Anyway 19/20 I never had an aol address

Also the Pfizer crowd called @bagphos.bsky.social an “influencer” 😎

It makes me so sad that Elon killed ChemTwitter. I mean, not in the top 100 bad things happening right now (possibly including the terrible overpriced drinks at this Hilton). But still so sad.

This was a terrific talk and back in the day I’d have live-tweeted it. Serious overview of the ways photoredox has helped medchem in industry, spanning library synthesis and lead generation. The entire photoredox session @coreystephenson.bsky.social & @tehshik.bsky.social put together is fantastic!

There are 6 chemists on Bluesky and just 3 of them are here😭 Gonna walk around the conference with a sign tomorrow that says “Get your maitai at Monkeypod”

If you’re at Pacifichem, do yourself a favor and walk over to Monkeypod in the Outrigger and get a maitai. You won’t regret it. Especially if you’re currently getting maitais at the Hilton😐 Sat at the bar with the airforce chaplain and he said “maitai, wings, ahi tacos” and he wasn’t wrong

Hattie Yayla from Pfizer! @bagphos.bsky.social she’s talking about photoredox difluoromethylation. Appended an ester to the CF2 so it wouldn’t overreact, replaced Ir with carbazole organic dye. #Pacifichem #Chemchat

NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...

Hearing Cody Ng from Corinna Schindler’s lab give a great talk following up on this paper, including scale-up and detosylation advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I mentioned back in August that meeting discourse on here is a little hopeless but fwiw Pacifichem talks have been outstanding!

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

Haven’t seen a zillion people make this point yet but Reiner was just scandalously snubbed by the Oscars. Almost every one of the classics he made was more enduring than whatever beat it.

Hey chemsky #chemchat is anybody I know at Pacifichem going to the ACS 150th anniversary event tonight? Just arrived in Honolulu @pacifichem.bsky.social

On the other hand, walking on the beach in the rain when it is 70 F is quite pleasant. Enjoy your time there!

I’m shoveling snow in CT

Posted several hours later because I had to finish scrubbing cooking oil off every surface of my kitchen

Happy Hanukkah!