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Dad. Senior academic professional at GT Chemistry and Biochemistry. Organic chemistry "expert"; armchair biochemist and photochemist. “Sassiness, youthful energy, and earbuds.” On a journey to improve at chess in 2025.
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One of the coolest parts of academia is seeing alumni doing amazing things years later. Mike is all grown up! 🥲 youtu.be/Be-vVFLuGzE?...

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For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

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"You keep TALKING...I'm so BORED!!!" Oh, the joys of playing Magic with an eight-year-old. "Anyway, as I was saying, my two 5/5 dragons with flying hit you for 10." 😂

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Chess is frickin' impossible, man. #chesspunks moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/i...

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Threw a Commander deck together from my Foundations Magic cards to play my eight year old’s fresh-out-the-box FF7 deck. He absolutely destroyed me. 😂 Some of the equipment and other synergies in this deck are obnoxious! But yes, amazing. Every FF fan should look at these. youtu.be/iiROmusVXeM?...

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The student was using a template (an obnoxiously over the top template) from an advanced lab in another department that shall remain unnamed. 😂 Just a misunderstanding at the end of the day, really. Effective communication solves 95% of the world's problems, as a colleague of mine likes to say.

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A First-year Chemistry student (graduating and with one foot out the door) is rasterizing his (obnoxiously long and wordy) lab reports due to moral opposition to AI detection. (Which we're not using.) The report includes a referenced paragraph at the end explaining his position.

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An absolutely evil endgame problem from Dvoretsky. White to move and win—and there is only one winning move. There are at least two moves that draw. #chesspunks Think about where you want the white king to be. lichess.org/study/ZVl04u...

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great news, folks: we got a new How I'd Fix Atlanta essay coming on Thursday it's written by @ruwaromman.bsky.social and i'm so excited to share it with you do me a favor and tell everyone you know to subscribe right now hurry go go go: how-id-fix-atlanta.ghost.io

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Slashdot went on an "AI is destroying higher education!" kick recently. 🙄 Commenters (mostly fortysomething software developers, in my completely unscientific estimation) offered some interesting "solutions." My thoughts. moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/p...

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A tale of two French defenses... First, here's yesterday's tragedy. #chesspunks lichess.org/study/uSaP45...

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A cleverly designed aminoxyl catalyst with a pendant peptide is selective for the more hindered alcohol group in unsymmetrical diols. Beautiful work! youtu.be/ZZ70kmXlVIk?...

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Interesting thoughts below. If every auto manufacturer used the same engine company, an auto company bragging about its engine would just be blowing smoke.

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There should be a chess rule that if your kid suddenly runs into the room and starts shouting her hunger games fan theory at you and it causes you to lose an online blitz game on your phone, it doesn't count. That's just not fair.

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MRW it's a rest day for #NorwayChess

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I am now an open Naka fan. His streams are intolerable, but recaps are amazing. Today, he took down the world champion. Capture toward the center! #chesspunks

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Check out this modern-day mechanical Turk. 😂 it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/...

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OMG Hikaru played a 4…a6 QGD in today’s Armageddon game. My favorite line! 😍 #NorwayChess

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In today’s game against Gukesh, Nakamura mixed up opening preparation in a position that required more careful thought. Chess can be brutal! #chesspunks youtu.be/Mx0Vy_UXNoQ?...

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A Ruy for the ages. Nakamura v Carlsen, Norway Chess round 2! #chesspunks lichess.org/broadcast/no...

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Watching Hikaru against Magnus like

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Be like Missy. Have the fearlessness of an idiot! Happy final season of Big Mouth.

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Really cool study here of an inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction leading to amino alcohols. Great mechanistic work, too! youtu.be/8VmtIfe0KJA?...

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Swindle! White to play and mate in two. #chesspunks

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Holy mate in two! #chesspunks Black to play and put the white king out of his misery.

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Facile Access to Hindered Ethers via Photoinduced O–H Bond Insertions | #ACSCentralScience #DiamondOpenAccess @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Good morning #chesspunks! Are you following @chesspuzzlebot.bsky.social? If not, you should be! Black to play and mate in two.

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Incredible variations in tonight’s game. I played 39 Rc4, still good enough to win, but there was a more forcing move: 39 Bxf8! #chesspunks 39…Kxf8 40 Kf6 and f7 goes down, but if 39…Rxf8 40 Kf6! Zugzwang! The f7 pawn must fall! lichess.org/study/uSaP45...

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Exhausting 10+5 game against some Russian dude today. I'd blundered, but black blundered right back with 45...Kb7??. How does white maintain equality? #chesspunks It's not so much the complexity here, but the need to find this tactic after 45 grueling Ruy Lopez moves. 😓 lichess.org/study/uSaP45...

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Still playing chess. Black to play and win! #chesspunks lichess.org/dv0u1YHc/black

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People who play the Scandinavian without 3...Qa5 or 3...Qd8. Why?! #chesspunks lichess.org/study/uSaP45...

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LydiaViolet is absolutely possessed by the spirit of Tal against Filian! #pogchamps6

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I'm nominating @andrechemist.bsky.social for the first.

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