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allaboutchemist.bsky.social
Quantum mechanic & machine learner. Senior principal scientist at Schrödinger, Inc. Sometimes a professor at The Cooper Union. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0950-7775
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It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

Giving ChatGPT a chance to rearrange one of my old comics from one-column to two-column. The result is not accurate, but still funny.

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

I endorse the construction of the Jimbo Stevenson Bridge at the earliest opportunity.

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

The end of the American era in science has begun. Only we can stop the slide, but only if we act up.

Scientists have never been good politicians, but we need to be out explaining this.

Heartbreaking, cruel and stupid. The one thing this administration turns out to be good at is finding (relatively) little-known institutions that perform great services and destroying them.

I regret to say I have gotten old enough to tolerate oatmeal.

This is what America needs. The deference and amiable resistance to primaries between mainstream Democrats has done too much damage already.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.

This is such a good example of "turn every page" journalism - nothing less fun/glam than clicking through every footnote. And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.

I have some bittersweet news: I won't be starting my faculty career in the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Come Sept., I will be joining the School of Chemistry at @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Ad Astra Fellow and Asst. Prof. of "digital chemistry". #ChemSky #CompChem

"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person: