"Back when I was in college, I was a cool, virile twenty-two-year-old with washboard abs and a large group of friends. Students today would struggle to say the same, since I’m sixty-two, my kids hate me, and my doctor says I’m prediabetic."

Great article on a great scientist, Stefan Kilyanek! cen.acs.org/synthesis/c-...

Slightly diminish a book: Finite Jest

Slightly diminish a book 12 Well-mannered Men

"I'm hearing from scientists and doctors all over the country and they are in full agreement with me: pee is stored in the balls."

E-A-G-E-L Eagels!!!

Presenting PhD #1 from the Le Group: Dr. Dusty Cadwallader! (@dustyc94.bsky.social) Many congratulations on a successful defense 🎉 Wishing you all the best as you begin your NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship @chem.ubc.ca with Zac Hudson!

If this means a generative "AI summary" at the top of my search page then no thank you.

Six words: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

album covers but with muppets: thread

Oh man, too sad. Brent and Mastodon will forever be among the greats. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Well it’s chemistry of course. The reason why organic chemists historically make p-tosylates rather than the simpler benzenesulfonates is that p-tosyl chloride is a cheap byproduct from saccharin synthesis. The ortho isomer is used for saccharin. #chemsky 🧪

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

Okay men, it's time to clean up this town! Meaning what, exactly? You know, push people around, make ourselves feel big

Disclaimer xkcd.com/3126/

Got an ad for a $3300 "molecular hydrogen" "ocular treatment" that amounts to an electrolizer and some ski goggles, and, look, if you really want this you don't need $3300. You can blow your garage up with H2 for the mere price of a car battery and a mason jar.

about 3 x 10^21 (at least when alive. not sure what a couple centuries of decomposition do to the % weight of boron in the body)

Hello #ChemSky! We're the open preprint server for the global chemistry community and we're glad to be here. Follow along as we share exciting preprints and engage with the community. Learn more about us: chemrxiv.org

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Zeno's tariffs

The @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social have a chance to do the funniest thing right now

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar

The original Spinal Tap still has the greatest joke reliant on a unit conversion error. #Stonehenge

Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the now estranged bandmates are forced to reunite for one final concert in this trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. #SDCC

Ok who is going to be brave enough to be *that person* in their next group photo / GRC photo? #chemsky

With neighbours like these... I wonder if the Victoria to Vancouver BC ferry will be next to be boarded since it briefly passes through US waters?

Toad is all of us.

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll

ln(😅) = 💧ln(😄)

I agree: "Ocean Blindness" is the best name for a light lager I've ever heard.

The law is on your side! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_I...

this is a powerful piece, well worth the read

Congratulations all!!

To kick off our weekend, here is The Greatest Mascot in Sports. youtube.com/shorts/1rqvK... #phillies #phanatic #coldplay

There are hundreds of seismic recording stations in Canada & Mexico, while this model is only using USGS's data. So, please, don't specify "North America" as a reference, but only United States. Here's the Whitehorse one, in real time. www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/wf-fo...

Very cool animation, but something strange was immediately apparent to me: Where is all the data from British Colombia? And the rest of Canada for that matter? Contrary to at least one of the replies, we do have many monitoring stations: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pu...

Maaaa-aaaaa-aaaaaan-ganese!

The Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto is inviting applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Experimental Physical Chemistry. Competition closes September 10, 2025 - visit us to learn more! www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/employment-o...

Both, sir.

« It takes a special kind of belligerence to piss off the nicest people on the planet. With friends like us, who needs enemies? And if our enemies now include Canada, we probably don’t have any friends left at all. » #ElbowsUp nymag.com/intelligence...

Boring technical opinion, but I think it’s inaccurate to claim this about textbooks. Cobaltocene, a 19ve compound, is discussed even in *very* old texts such as Cotton & Wilkinson.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

I've got a rock that keeps tigers away.

Come in! And know me better man!

I’m really honoured to be the 2025 winner of the RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize. Thanks to my current research group, past students and postdocs, and collaborators and mentors who have made this possible @rsc.org #RSCprizes

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the pre-CSC Young Investigators Workshop bringing together ECRs in organic & bioorganic chemistry. We all gave chalk talks on our research - a fun & engaging way to share our work! #chemsky