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The ACS has deleted its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. And with that move, have shown they are worthy of none of the latter. People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it. www.acs.org/about/divers...

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

The US is an exceptional place to be a scientist for two reasons. 1. No country spends as much on research as the US (not even close); 2. It's less hierarchical than many places; hence, many opportunities to lead in academia, government, non-profits, and the private sector. Let's try to keep it.

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 48 days ago • 507 comments

Have any academic researchers started hearing about cuts/holds on federal grants from other federal agencies outside of NIH? I got a concerning message today about a grant hold, and it seems to be the same politics. Not surprising, but further worrying ... 😨

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 65 days ago • 378 comments

Physical organic chemists - is there a good (non textbook) collected series of graduate-level problems on pericyclic reactions? Looking for problems involving mechanisms, stereochemistry, and application of W-H, FMO, and Zimmerman methods.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Every paragraph of this classic Times obit of the heir to the Bovril fortune contains an absolute gem of the genre. Choose between the monkey peeing off the balcony, regularly taking 90 pairs of pants back to your mum to wash and the evisceration of Bruce Chatwin www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

🧪 Dear PIs: Don't work on weekends & holidays. And if you do, don't brag about it. It's NOT cool. It reflects a bad set of values that promote unhealthy work-balance practices in the team you lead. You're an example for your students and colleagues, live up to it.

submitted 89 days ago • 5 comments

A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

The only time I really have imposter syndrome is when reviewing fellowship/award applications from students (or junior faculty). It’s astonishing how accomplished these young folk are. All I did as an undergrad was study chemistry with occasional breaks to shoot my housemates in Quake 3.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

To celebrate finishing grading final papers, my favorite writing meme from over on the other site that–year after year–still applies. (posted there by a W. Andrew Barr)

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Today I wrote an email to myself and, reflexively, signed it “Best, Scott”. Feels like I’ve achieved peak academia.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I am endlessly behind on the literature, but read this immediately when I first saw it weeks ago. Well worth it.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve now written long reviews for the same manuscript three times in the last 2.5 weeks. I’m just (politely) arguing back and forth with the authors at this point. We have differences of opinion and the editor needs to make a call rather than wasting more of everyone’s time.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Latest paper published - chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

submitted 115 days ago • 289 comments

OK - since we're all here now. Any students interested in asymmetric catalysis / data science phd at leading European universities - with industry placements and lots of interaction www.tu-chemnitz.de/cataloop/ please share

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting. So RFK Jr does believe in childhood interventions to give people immunity to things, it’s just that at some point he mixed up “racism” and “the measles”.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Referee 1: Yeah, cups are fine, but can you do it with jars, mugs & glasses? Referee 2: You need to cite these 12 papers showing how to fill things (all ref. 2’s papers) Referee 3: You misspelled ‘container’ on page 6

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

If anyone needs me, my new hobby is reading AI summaries of Amazon reviews for mediocre whoopee cushions. In this case, opinions are “mixed” on the sound quality.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

submitted 119 days ago • 18 comments

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

submitted 120 days ago • 96 comments

OK, folks. It took less time than I thought - the Women in Chemistry pack is now full of magnificent ladies of #Chemsky. You can follow them (us) all by clicking the "Follow all" button.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky

submitted 120 days ago • 28 comments

It has happened. Confusing interaction with our admissions office. They had an applicant who kept insisting that the chemistry dept. (ie, me) was telling them conflicting information about admission reqs. Applicant was e-mailing admissions at Miami U. (Ohio) but dept. at U. of Miami (Florida).

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

submitted 129 days ago • 86 comments

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure, but I think I may have gotten my first email asking to join my research group where #AI was used to take the research description on my website and turn it into a summary of personal research interests. It is better written than usual but nonsensical. #chemsky

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMIY: a story about a phrase you probably hear all the time… 👇

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

this came to me in a dream #iTeachChem #ChemSky

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments

Well, the AIs seem to have irony figured out.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Aiders of the Lost Ark

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

I just don't understand why we need to spend hundreds of billions, steal decades of creative output, and wreck the environment all to build a machine that confidently gives the wrong answer to almost any question when mediocre men already exist.

submitted 198 days ago • 27 comments

Calm Down — Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World. “So don’t even worry about it.” [mcsweeneys.net]

submitted 266 days ago • 0 comments

Exponential Growth xkcd.com/2936

submitted 302 days ago • 9 comments

Even as Biden swings right and pisses us off on some issues, it would be sheer insanity to claim there's no difference. Biden may disappoint us—Trump will ANNIHILATE us.

submitted 308 days ago • 60 comments

As someone who’ll likely be sending a kid to college in a few years, I’m also paying keen attention to which institutions are trying to put a bullet into students. They will absolutely not get the chance to harm my kid.

submitted 321 days ago • 22 comments

I haven’t said much about the protests because I’ve nothing original to say. (I know, innovative approach.) But as a nervous-to-paranoid American Jew, I’m a lot more worried about the guys in the background than the woman in the foreground.

submitted 321 days ago • 46 comments

remember like 15 years ago when companies started selling "hoverboards" that were actually just regular electric scooters that caught on fire all the time? and every company started pushing "hoverboards" and they all sucked until they exploded and people stopped buying them? well a.i. is different.

submitted 342 days ago • 35 comments

This has officially made my week

submitted 370 days ago • 34 comments

Wins for Oppenheimer and Godzilla Minus One mean this is the first time a movie and its sequel both won Oscars the same year.

submitted 375 days ago • 50 comments

The most "keep that man's name out of your mouth" ever

submitted 403 days ago • 17 comments