Metal of The Day is Manganese Symbol: Mn Important for imparting strength and resistance to steel Salts of Mn have been shown to be excellent oxidants and are effective in melting ice We all appreciate Mn #ChemSky #ChemChat

My podcast “No, I have not ALWAYS been a scientist” has 2 episodes posted now! Here is the first one, with Dr. Capri Price 😄 #ChemSky Give it a listen, and if you would also like to share your story, please send me a message! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

President's a pedophile. Pass it on.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

I was sort of curious to see how ChatGPT would manage this task. So here's my prompt, and the robot's intro email:

From Fraunhofer and Siemens to EnerSys, Pomega, and PHENOGY AG, CIBI is proud to be building the future of batteries alongside industry leaders. Watch the full episode here: open.spotify.com/show/4eTqzcz...

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

Remarkable last words: Audience member: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years? Kirk: Too many Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years? Kirk: Counting or not counting gang members?

"You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. ... But I think it's worth it ... to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Sellers and Harbor were robbed on that TD.

If you missed @gricechemistry.bsky.social's talk today, you can also find it on Youtube: youtu.be/X9sA_eVsbqo 🧪 #chemsky #openscience #engrsky #litreview #reproducibility

Stream has started! Come join us as Dr. Kyle Grice talks about identifying and fixing mistakes in the chemistry literature at www.twitch.tv/open_science! 🧪 #chemsky #engrsky #openscience

Happening tomorrow! Make sure to stop by :)

It's been a hot minute, but Open Science Presentations is back! If you're on #chemsky 🧪 or #engrsky and interested in fixing mistakes in the literature, make sure you check out the talk by @gricechemistry.bsky.social! August 29th, 12:00 PM EST, at twitch.tv/open_science. All are welcome!

Anybody on #chemsky using Rowan cloud services for comp chem? Was doing the math on the cost per credit on different plans and wondering how that is working for folks?

Extreme rookie question, but our lab just had a power outage and now our #Orbitrap Exploris 240 is not acquiring any data. Here's what our HeLa digest standard looks like before and after outage. Anyone know what might be going on? #teammassspec #proteomics #chemsky #scisky

#chemsky, have you used a Wisconsin Photoreactor? I designed them and will soon defend my PhD. I’d like to include photos of Wisconsin Photoreactors in use by other chemists in my defense. Please share (reply to this post or DM me) a photo of your photoreactor in action! doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Note how the Washington Post shrugs about whether it’s a slur AND accepts Trump’s frame that bankers are unscrupulous. If Trump dropped an n-bomb the Washington Post would say “Trump Uses Term Viewed As Slur To Describe Black Criminal Class”

This is someone who has said "m'lady" unironically.

New article from our group on the economics of the state-of-the-art aqueous HCl electrolysis process and an anhydrous version we demonstrated experimentally a few years ago. We find that the anhydrous process should be better long term: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪#chemsky

Yay! J. Chem. Educ. paper out on removing DCM from teaching labs! It was a delight to work with Dr. Vosburg and his students, especially because I graduated from Mudd, which is where David teaches now (he started the year after I graduated so we didn't overlap). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Radical involves a wall and a ditch.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Anybody on #chemsky 🧪 that knows of a good tutorial/explanation for setting up a gas chromatograph for in/online product measurements? Nothing crazy--just H2, O2, and maybe hydrocarbons like CO. General GC operation isn't a problem, just how to incorporate real-time measurements.

"Vladimir, STOP!"

[Report for 🧪 feed] A trusted editor has asked if I can identify a lab or PI or research team who have lost funding/shut down a project, whose loss will help narrativize the current moment for an everyday reader. Is this you? Or someone you know? Would love to hear recs or be in contact.

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

happy confederate surrender day to all

In totally unrelated news, for more than two centuries, the president was understood to not be a king above all laws. A mysterious change occurred in 2024, and nothing else was affected at all.

Any editors who see this interested in an editorial from two NIH-funded physician researchers on the dismantling of science and public health in the US? It’s clear and compelling, if I do say so myself.

USC and Siemens are working together to innovate in battery manufacturing and education. Check out the USC Case Study on the Siemens website! www.siemens.com/us/en/indust...

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

going back in time to tell myself this image is going to end the human race

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Anybody on #chemsky 🧪know a place a guy could get some stickers/art with something like "This lab scares/kills fascists"? Probably needs to be easily removed for certain situations.

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Friendly reminder that kicking a Nazi's ass is always good.

Make Nazis Scared Again.

Democrats: How can we go viral? (a pastor goes mega-viral for calling Trump a bigot to his face) Democrats: What if Tim Kaine made a BLT on Instagram Live

Really stoked at the possibility of allocated funding vaporizing. Big hearty fuck you to everyone who voted for Trump. I wish all the bad things for you in as long and slow-suffering a way as possible.

I keep this tweet from @kenwhite.bsky.social at the ready for this very thing.

🔋More news! PhD student Nate Cooper had a system-level paper about batteries published at AIAA SciTech 2025 titled “Data Assimilation in a Modelica Framework for Optimizing Battery Longevity in Electric Aircraft.” Congrats to him! #AIAASciTech #BatteryResearch

Any experts on retinal arteries in rats here, please? Some images in PMID: 30695730 look unexpectedly similar to me. The author claims these arteries are expected to look so similar. What do you think? pubpeer.com/publications...

I'm a believer in smart policy, but all the finger-pointing in the LA firestorm about hydrant flows and LAFD budgets seems like arguing about the adequacy of Hiroshima's 1945 building code standards. It's a way to evade the big questions.