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Not sure how we got here. But here we are... www.popsci.com/health/is-mo...

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 2 days ago • 792 comments

The degree to which some people love to hear themselves talk never ceases to amaze.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

In academia we all want to be open minded but I think I’m going to stake out a position of 100% opposed to AI in all situations. This has been my cranky rant for the day.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Must read. Look forward to hearing more from students about this

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Great job everyone

submitted 19 days ago • 43 comments

The secretary is deliberately unwilling to read, learn and educate himself about his job. His is a slave to his own biases and perceptions.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

welp 🧪⚗️ #chemsky

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Kevin Stitt has this amazing ability to discern what is right so he can do the opposite. Oklahoma Gov. Stitt vetoes bill to bolster OSBI office for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples www.kosu.org/politics/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

submitted 12 days ago • 354 comments

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 11 days ago • 874 comments

funny how yall were like "a humanities degree?? so employable 🤭" and now you're explaining to me how a machine that can compose vaguely correct-sounding sentences is critical to our economic future

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Applications to Villanova are going to go through the roof next year.

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I once literally yelled at an episode of Blaze and the Monster Machines that my kid was watching because they didn't include units. An animated car on TV: "We need a torque of 7!" Me: "SEVEN WHAT, BLAZE??? A TORQUE OF 7 WHAT???"

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

My 15yo reports that while "the dumbasses" brag out loud in front of teachers about using AI for schoolwork, everybody else sees it as a crapbot fucking the environment and producing garbage. These kids are deep in anime and other communities directly adversely affected & they hate it.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Everything you wanted to know about #POGIL but were afraid to ask! I'm helping facilitate a virtual Fundamentals of POGIL workshop May 14 & 15. Other opportunities later in the summer. It will be fun. Come join us! pogil.org/2024-25-publ...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

submitted 16 days ago • 105 comments

Quick question for any polymer chemists out there: What's the best way to get homemade slime (made from Elmer's glue, baking soda, and saline solution) out of, well, everything? Thanks.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.

submitted 19 days ago • 55 comments

$9 billion a year for NSF is absolute chump change. It's nothing. And yet, cutting it will devastate American science for decades. God, we're led by a morons, empowered by idiots.

submitted 20 days ago • 120 comments

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

submitted 21 days ago • 84 comments

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

submitted 22 days ago • 778 comments

I've decided my final exam this semester is going to be 50% conceptual questions about the equilibrium constant and 50% quantitative questions about logarithms calculations. That's intro chem 2 in a nutshell.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has ramifications for long-term safety and security. NOAA’s climate modeling systems help the Defense Department not just operate but anticipate and prepare for emerging threats. By @abrahm.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 73 comments

Blunt letter to the editor on ACS: "If ACS won’t stand up now, it should stand down." cen.acs.org/business/Rea... #chemsky 🧪⚗️

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

The fact the markets go up every time Trump says he's not enacting his policies tells us the markets think the Biden economy was pretty good.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

Any college #GenChem instructors have something engaging you do to review second semester? #ITeachChem

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a research note about the recent publication of the MIRI/LRS spectrum of K2-18b. The authors had claimed the detection of potential signs of life. I find the data to be consistent with a flat line 🔭🧪

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

EP: And we’ll build a NEW Death Star, bigger and better than the old one. But it’s really all an elaborate trap for Luke Skywalker DV: Who’s this PL person on this chat? EP: That’s my cousin. All my relatives are on here DV: Just checking EP: What, you think I’d add Princess Leia by mistake?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

MY DINNER WITH ANDOR

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

I keep getting requests for surveys about AI and I’m about to just write a stock response about the existential threat to academia. And civilization.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Let the End Times roll

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

I'm begging science journalists to learn dose and concentration. "Detected" is useless information, there are atoms of heavy metals in everything. Dose = concentration x amount of toothpaste consumed The AAP recommends less than 1 ppb lead in drinking water. That means if you EAT a teaspoon...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

It's really hard to make videos about all of the cool science coming out all of the time. I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.

submitted 34 days ago • 111 comments

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

submitted 36 days ago • 64 comments

There is no good time for bad news and today is no different than any day in our recent time. Nevertheless, I write this thread to chemistry faculty job seekers in the United States. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

There’s an old joke about how a student has a conflict where the economics exam is at the same time as the chemistry or physics exam and that prof tells the econ prof to do the make-up exam because s/he can ask the same questions but change the answers and I feel like we’re all living in that joke

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t call them tariffs. Call them import taxes.

submitted 50 days ago • 1265 comments

NEW: “It’s chaos—absolute chaos,” said one NIH senior scientist watching the firings unfold. Some senior NIH officials given hours to decide if the agreed to be reassigned to jobs in Alaska, Oklahoma, and other states. | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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