usffan.bsky.social
Medicinal Chemist. Professor. Lover of nerd culture. Beaten down sports fan.
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"Sir, Liberty University is on line 1"
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I wish I could go back to 1986. And not just because I could corner the market on the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction, organocatalysis, photoredox and MOFs. In hindsight, Ronald Reagan seems quite progressive!
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Is he really a Texas Tech fan if he used a paper bag instead of a tortilla?
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Wow! I was proud of getting it in 3 and can't imagine what your first word was that would lead you to propose the answer in your second!
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Now I have Madonna in my head.
"Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my bowl bid
Ooh, I'm going to keep my bowl bid"
We need Popeye's to step up!
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Damn it, I have to search for that Excel spreadsheet of solvents to make my CHN numbers hit again…
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This demands a Blues Brothers sequel, where they realize Prevost was in the same orphanage (St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud in Calumet City) as Jake and Elwood, and they're now ALL on a mission from God to wipe out the Illinois Nazis. The script writes itself!
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Maybe he can hire the Blues Brothers for security. They too are on a mission from God.
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Signed, Brian
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Will look forward to hearing Touch-A Touch-A Touch-A Touch Me in Disney World’s next parade
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Ultimately there is no one perfect predictor of success as a faculty member. But there are usually a good number of highly qualified candidates and limited funds/time to interview them all, so each search committee weights different factors and does their best to ID/rank their top candidates.
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Yes, at any R1 university you hire directly onto the tenure track. And you use everything you can at your disposal. "Famous" and highly reputable are often synonymous (as is "infamous" for that matter) and can carry weight or at least a higher likelihood of seeing what it takes to get funding.
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For a faculty position in chemistry these days, the start up cost is enormous. Just as an example, we are hiring two new faculty this year, and the full start up cost (not counting faculty salary) is ~ $2 million for each of them. Can't justify spending that on a "technical test."
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With the cost of a start-up package and clearly unreliable letters from the direct supervisor of these candidates, it wasn't a gamble anybody could justify.
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I reached out to a mutual friend of this applicant and told them to let the candidate know they needed to identify a new mentor. Happy to say this candidate has had a successful career.
All to say, those letters are NOT indicative of what the future held. /fin
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Another candidate from a different lab had a letter from another well known chemist. This letter was clearly designed to prevent the candidate from landing an academic job. Made me sick to my stomach that they would undercut one of their students instead of just advising them not to apply… 3/
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The careers of each of those 3 have been quite different. A colleague reached out to the letter writer, who simply said “What can I say, I have an embarrassment of riches.” 2/
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In my first position in academia (IYKYK), I was on the search committee for a new faculty position. Three of the applicants were from the same lab - one of the biggest names in chemistry. They each had a letter from this big name proclaiming them “the best student I’ve had in my lab.” 1/
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CAN YOU SMELL (pause for dramatic effect)
WHAT @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social (pause for more dramatic effect)
IS COOKIN'?!?!?!?
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Plus the weird way he stands up wearing that Apollo sweater? At least Kubrick is winking at the audience, since it can't be an accident.
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And yet that scene with Danny and the arrangement of the toys gave me chills...
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Did you break out your inner TSwift?
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Which connotation of Number 2 are we using here?
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*that should read "NOT" trying to outsmart what the target is telling me works
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Then again, I am also amazed that Splenda doesn't covalently bind to every biological nucleophile it encounters...
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To this day I remain stunned that enzalutamide made it. Everybody I know would have dismissed that structure as a promiscuous PAIN. It's what helped me finally embrace the philosophy of trying to outsmart what the target is telling me works.
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Vaxxed?
(that was sarcasm)
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You failed to mention you woukd be podding with Bozeman! We need a House of Midnight pets pod!
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This is how I learned The Athletic hired @danwolken.bsky.social
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Pizza talk - Detroit/Chicago Deep Dish/Chicago Tavern/New York/Connecticut/St. Louis rankings?
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Do you think we're heading to the threatened reduction of high profile non-conference games, especially if the SEC goes to 9 conference games?
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How long do you think it will be before the SEC/B1G move to unequal revenue sharing? Seems inevitable that Ohio State and Georgia are going to be mad about giving equal revenue shares to Rutgers and Mississippi State...
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I need the video of the raccoons stealing the cameras like they mentioned
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If it morphs into "she came in through the bathroom window," I'm going to know Mike White was listening to The Beatles while he wrote this season.
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Well no WONDER they held him on every play(TM)…
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Have you had a sandwich on a dutch crunch roll? Life changing. Plenty of places in the Bay area (Little Lucca, Darby Dan's) I could recommend, but to make it more Oregon-centric, The Baker's Mark in Portland is a great option
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Having been an assistant professor a long time ago, I hope to God nobody ever becomes a permanent assistant professor...
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Do you think South Florida returns enough (with Byrum Brown) or rebuilt the OL enough to contend in the AAC?
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Wow, I used this so often as a grad student. Now, in the rare instance where I might, Google translate does the trick.
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I’m hearing pierogis are making a late push for an in home visit
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That last one looks like it’s trying to be a nanoputian