How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far: 🤣 🖕 👌 👎

Happy 30th birthday to all Pokemons who like dancing to Enya

"Social media" is doomed.

My awesome colleague @kmullaugh.bsky.social and several College of Charleston alumni are featured in this article about lab waste / sustainability — check it out! #chemsky #chemchat pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Robots on campus @ougradsch.bsky.social at last! This wee Starships droidy is taking a nap at a charging port. Sleep well little fella!

Just watched #smallprophets 1st episode what a lovely whimsical comedy and just what’s needed as at times like this perfect antidote to news

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The new reagents don’t ignite or smoke in air, making them easier to handle and less prone to degradation on storage, while maintaining performance across a range of reaction types.

STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS

OOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

He's right, you know...

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Tom Baker is 92 today

Protecting the secrets of a #coldwar wreck – diving on HMS Coventry www.navylookout.com/protecting-t...

Fellow #lanthanide botherers, don't miss the new data on lanthanide transition and spectra published late 2025. This work superceeds the old experiments and has very nice creative-common licenced figures! #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Uh nope. Nopenope nopity nope. #chemchat

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

Some folks don't like fancy analytics. So here are some things I've seen on Science Bluesky: -People got jobs and grants based on postings they saw here -People collaborated on a research project after meeting each other here -People shared their work here and got media coverage

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

Opening titles for "Blake's 7" (first transmitted 02/01/78). Music by Dudley Simpson. In the future, Blake and his crew struggle against the totalitarian Federation... The series was devised by Terry Nation who had created the Daleks for "Dr Who". #sciencefiction #scifi #Blakes7 #1970s #horror

The Free Radical #chemsky #chemchat

Awimbawa Awimbawa Awimbawa Awimbawa In the ocean A frigid ocean

Ive a Christmas Eve tradition of reading ( or listening to )Fredrick Forsyth excellent ghost story The Shepherd. My late father read it to me when I was young BBC did a fabulous radio play we both listened to while having a wee dram on Christmas Eve. I raise a dram to his memory #aviation #story

On this date In the year 1981 the crew of the Penlee lifeboat, all 8 men from Mousehole, Cornwall, lost their lives in attempting a heroic rescue in hurricane force winds. In tribute to them we reproduce an article about the Newhaven lifeboat, first published in @sussexbylines.co.uk 2021

Physicist Leo Szilard, in a short science fiction story from 1948, describing how to retard science by making the funding application longer and harder than the proposed research - now called the ‘Szilard point’

🧵Teaching Students NOT to use AI So...I've tried to explain to my students why they aren't allowed to use genAI in MY class (even though the university seems to be encouraging them to) I've written this document to try to explain WHY it's a bad idea rather than just forbidden fruit. #AI #genAI

Following Sir Ian Chapman’s speech at the Innovation for Growth Summit about a renewed strategic direction for UK Research and Innovation, Dr Rebekah Smith McGloin (Chair) has made the following statement on behalf of UKCGE.

If my experience this morning of trying to deal with credit card fraud via my banking app is anything to go by I suspect the AI revolution is further away than some adherents would like to think.1/2

New trailer for ‘Fallout’ S2 ☢️ Premiering December 17 on Prime Video

This week’s free to read is comparing the three Axis navies… Is the Kriegsmarine the poor relation? open.substack.com/pub/jerijero... #history #ww2 #navalhistory

Which one is more English?

Even though I’m a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, this is the first time making it into Chemistry World. www.chemistryworld.com/careers/the-...

We're kicking off our 3rd Conference on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in PG Research today in Leeds with a welcome from Louise Banahene PFHEA MBE: Director of Educational Engagement and Student Success at University of Leeds. #ukcgeEDI

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

#weeangus is watching the rugby with me this afternoon #caturday #proofofcat

Rob Jetten (in English) about his triumph: "We've now shown to the rest of Europe and the world that it is possible to beat a populist movement if you campaign with a positive message for your country."

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

It's been one year since my blog on the closure of Hull, which kind of blew up. A thread with some reflections on what's happened since then. 1/ www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2024/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified. #DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

For my Year 1 lecture course this year, I used AI to produce an audio podcast to support student learning. I was amazed how listenable it was, and how broadly accurate it turned out to be. In this thread, I talk through the process I used to make the podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK36...

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵