Raheem can still pound sand, but all credit to the Falcons for never giving up! 🐣🏈

There is quite a bit of AI skepticism on chemsky, and reasonably so - but it is very interesting to see /another/ chemistry AI startup (Excelsior Sciences) get bigtime funding ($95M): cen.acs.org/physical-che... by @cenmag.bsky.social's Aayushi Pratap #chemchat

Thoughts on enforcing significant digits in Chemical Principles II, in light of a compelling new paper by Britt and Weinrich. I want to get tougher on significant digits...but how to do so rationally? moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/t...

I swore I would not give Square Enix one red cent more for Final Fantasy Tactics, considering I've already paid for it twice. Alas, my son picked it out yesterday and I just couldn't resist. 😅 Here's my 2001 Greatest Hits copy next to yesterday's.

I don't like to do anything to discourage students from speaking up in class. But a CTL collaborator recently asked us if we should be teaching students "how to ask good questions," and that's been bugging me! Some thoughts. moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/h...

Do you need understanding to play chess? In the past, yes, nowadays, much less so. gmalexcolovic.substack.com/p/do-you-nee...

YouTube (Google) has decided that my playlists are now "Courses," which is cool, except that "Courses" seem to literally be playlists with no additional features?

One of the best explanations of s-p mixing I've seen on the Internet. Writing isn't great, but the diagrams are excellent. #CHEM1211K sypark-chem.me/general-chem...

Me counting down the minutes to our College's town hall on AI at 3.

Another historic meltdown from the Atlanta Falcons. Any other owner would’ve had a heart attack and died watching them; presumably Arthur Blank is literally a cyborg. 🤷‍♂️

Cool metaphor in the comments of hydronium as a hot potato: fine in a crowd, but get it by itself and it becomes highly unstable. www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/...

Whoa. This is a copy of the workbook I used in freshman English (high school) in 2000—exact same edition, just sitting on a table at the library. Memories.

Followed by Penix with a “you had one job” moment unaware that he’s the first person to touch the ball after a snap. Guys, please get blown out next time and save us all the trouble.

FALCONS FALCONING 🚨🚨🚨 Epic touchdown to get to 23 - 24 is immediately followed by missing the PAT 💀 4 mins to go in the fourth. Just pain. So much pain.

Words of wisdom! youtube.com/shorts/dBfZk...

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Blow Sop

Starch gummies are the best. Full stop.

Some thoughts from earlier in the term on teaching thermochemistry. moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/o...

Why am I working on Sunday? It's called "rage-working." I'm distracting myself from the embarrassment that is my city's football team.

The Atlanta Falcons. That’s it. That’s the joke.

Like shooting fish in a barrel. Ban sports betting. www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...

Another patzer's Daniel Naroditsky story. 😔 Rest in peace, Daniel. You will be sorely missed by millions of chess fans. Wishing I'd made it to Charlotte to meet you. moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...

Ian McDiarmid was younger than I am now when Return of the Jedi came out. 👴 xkcd.com/3157

I've been grading lab reports, and my dumb ass thought students were learning matplotlib to make graphs. 🤦 Nope, ChatGPT knows matplotlib and students are just feeding it their data. It's lazy but I can live with it. Never attribute "students being awesome" to what can be explained by laziness. 😅

good morning from no kings decatur

Duke fumbles on the GT 3 yard line; Tech recovers and runs it 97 yards for a touchdown. The Jackets are officially in the good graces of the football gods this year. 🙏🐝

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Fellow Georgians: here's a chance for a small number of voters to have an outsized impact on November 4. Public Service Commission elections - boring but important! as described in the linked video. @austinlouisray.bsky.social this seems like the sort of thing you might care to signal boost 🫡

Honestly, this is what it feels like teaching the quantum model of the atom this week. #CHEM1211K xkcd.com

To you that was a rather calm smooth 10 point win....Falcons fans are scraping themselves from the floor after asking how it was going to go wrong for the last 45 minutes

DIRTY BIRDS MADE A CLUTCH PLAY! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

”Bills were about to win until they blew it and lost.” God awful biased commentary. Come on, CBS crew. Anyway, caw caw. Eat it Buffalo. 🐣🏈

Crokonoid. lol pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I think the Nobel Prize for MOFs is great! They've long been on Nobel prediction lists. Huge breakthrough for functional porous materials. Less commercial application than quantum dots, IMV, but still have had a big impact. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Fundamental organic photochemistry still matters! The Rousseaux group at Toronto reports on cyclization of beta-boryl aryl ketones to give cyclobutanols, via a triplet (π,π*) state. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

No shit! "Gambling is bad—more at 11!" 😪 I can't stand sports betting. Not only is it terribly exploitative, but the advertising ruins the experience for those of us who just want to watch the game. news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

This is an incredible story. Researchers used a wax candle doped with metal acetylacetonates to create high-entropy nanomaterials on the cheap! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Some people" is basically the populations of 48.5 states. www.sbnation.com/college-bask...

"The world doesn't need to hear from 98% of humanity." Slashdot commenter with the cuttingly true comment re: problems with social media. That 2% of humanity worth hearing from does vary, so it's worth keeping an account...but bear in mind that you're probably not in the 2% today.

"That's an organic chemistry formula." –Catherine Zeta-Jones

Falcons fans to Younghoe “Wrong Way” Koo:

since the falcons aren't my team i typically only say "goddamn falcons" out loud four or five times every sunday

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."

GO FALCONS! CAW CAW! 🐣

Enjoying the transparent scoreboard and graphics on the Fox NFL broadcast. It worked in the 70s and it still works now!

As soon as I saw “C. Pennington” as the QB for Gardner-Webb, I knew I was about to feel old… …Yes, it’s Chad Pennington’s kid! 😭😂👴

Falcons my six-year-old son has met that I haven't: - Matt Ryan - Bijan Robinson Dang.

"I had to teach myself everything in his class." I don't hear this too often, but whenever I do, this meme comes to mind.

Well on our way to another disappointing season @gtfootball.bsky.social. 😪