Slightly diminished a band Nine Inch Press-Ons

Well. That’s not very smart

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

This would make me so happy

Nothing prepares you for how rapidly you accelerate between these three states #chemchat

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

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

The NIH grant cuts in 2025 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ce papier de Annalisa Fico est scandaleux. Pas de mention d'accord éthique pour l'expérimentation animale et des tumeurs représentant 20 à 30% de la masse de l'animal, imaginez ce que ça fait en termes de souffrance animale merci @elisabethbik.bsky.social et forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s... 🔽🔽🔽

“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025. Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”

the further you get into the epstein emails, the more it feels like global elites were actually kicked in the head by a mule

We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.

new trolley problem just dropped: Elon vs. 10^58 randomly chosen people. let's see what Grok has to say

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. THE LAST TIME HHS, AS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY RFK JR., CONDUCTED A “COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT” OF THE CAUSES OF AUTISM THEY BLAMED TYLENOL AND THEN, BECAUSE IT WAS BULLSHIT, HAD TO WALK IT BACK.

I had a great time speaking at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, this week. Halle an der Saale is a beautiful city (it was hardly bombed!), and my host, @frederikhaase.bsky.social, showed me some mind-blowing stuff he's doing with COFs. #ChemChat #ChemSky

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

crazy IG em_clarkson

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

ChatGPT is such a great teacher…

Now that the legal question of assault by sandwich is settled, we need to ensure we’re on the right side of the law @chemjobber.bsky.social: Burritos and tacos are legally sandwiches. In Indiana (as of 2024)it is now legally required that you order a “taco sandwich” natlawreview.com/article/indi...

This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...

Huh. Conservative/Reform Voters in the UK are more racist than MAGA voters in the US. By quite a bit…

The Outrage Machine, Oh, the Outrage Machine, Most fiendish contraption that’s ever been seen. It buzzes and whirs and it hums through the night, it feeds on opinions and shits out a fight. But still it keeps spinning, so vivid, so keen Oh, cursed and beloved, the Outrage Machine.

Whoa…NPG has jumped the shark.

Autism advocates in Canada say more resources are needed in the health-care system to provide people with timely diagnoses for autism, because that can lead to financial, mental-health and educational support.

This is the last weekend to register for the Chemical Science symposium on the chemistry of imaging, biosensing and diagnostics on 18-19 November in London! Join us in person or online to hear from our expert speakers and the 2025 Lectureship winner next month: www.rsc.org/events/d... 🧪

"motivated by notoriety over ideology" is in fact an ideology, shared frequently among terminally online shooter losers. At this point it would be good to acknowledge that. They're performing for each other.

~20% of Texans are allergic to mountain cedar pollen (Juniperus ashei), including ME. Among people WITH allergies, 90% show an allergic reaction TO cedar pollen. There are whole industries devoted to getting rid of them, so when I say that we NEED these botanical blights, I do so *under protest*.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

This was my first MOF paper, and the first paper I published with Omar and Fraser. (I published a second first author paper with both of them in JACS the next year on CO2 sequestration) I dined out on these papers for so long. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

✨🥳🎉 Heartfelt congratulations to Humboldtians Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi on winning the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2025 which they share with Richard Robson for the development of "metal-organic frameworks"! We are truly honoured to have supported a step in their exceptional journey! 💚

Great pick. MOFs are certainly a thing that people do.

That’s a weird. They spelled MG Finn wrong and have some other guy’s photo above it.

It’s #chemnobel day. For me, and for quite a few other people who spent time in the Stoddart group, it will hit somewhat differently this year. Seems the right time to share a couple of passages from the eulogy I gave at Fraser’s funeral earlier this year.

If you've been wondering about the status of the AutoOptimize interactive optimization in Avogadro2 - coming later this month 👀

Some researchers are declaring the death of DFT – but it is also a beginning.

If you see this, post a bridge

These people are so gross. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Oh, @deanbaccarelli.bsky.social is on Bluesky. So, can I ask you some questions about your paper? I was curious how your analysis, which lacked a meta analysis, was used to show Tylenol was linked to autism. Not being a dick, as a researcher I’m just curious

Talking at BBPore in Graz today on how the metals in MOFs can be used in immunology.

I’ve spent about 10€ on healthcare that cost me about $6,000 out of pocket, with a PPO last year. It is also going to take two weeks to go from consultation to procedure whereas in the US it was about six. We are being screwed.

The most alarming news story of the day is hardly being discussed: 'Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told parliament it was "the closest we have been to open conflict since World War Two"'

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated. They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

The weight-loss industry, with its coaches, products, books, herbs, and supplements is worth $200-400 billion dollars right now. The whole C-suite should be fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

It had to think about this for 12 seconds before coming to the completely wrong answer. I’m 100% going to fuck up the first AI drive-thru I find.

not my experience... 🧪⚗️#chemsky