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JT Hendrix

@bmorechemistry.bsky.social

synthetic organic chemist / local ochem professor / sober / veteran / boxing evangelist / pibble dad / fresno forever

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JT Hendrix@bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 8h ago

This is tremendous thread on what I think is THE key issue of our time- accountability. humility. being human. writing, teaching, learning, living and most of all, science! these are all *human* endeavors. the mess is the point, not the noise.we must embrace it and keep passing it on, celebrating it

Debbie Gale Mitchell@heydebigale.bsky.social · 8h ago

What I’m trying to say—writing should be a human endeavor. There is no place for LLMs in ANY step of the process because these are tools that are built on theft of creative work. As scientists we should be rejecting the use of LLMs! We should be holding a higher standard because it’s right.

JT Hendrix@bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 3d ago

The real golden rule, batting 1000% in history, is that you will lose everything if you go with Trump. your dignity, your integrity and usually your position that you thought you’d have forever. kick rocks dirt bag.

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Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 7d ago

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

JT Hendrix@bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is the soil i know and come from ❤️❤️ was in the raisin yards many summers (almost all the fig orchards are gone now..)

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's raisin grape season in McFarland CA. It takes 12-14 days for the sun to turn grapes into raisins. Besides harvesting, workers walk the rows to ensure even drying, turning the bunches & folding paper sheets to protect the raisins overnight from moisture or dew. #WeFeedYou

It's raisin grape season in McFarland CA. It takes 12-14 days for the sun to turn grapes into raisins. Besides harvesting, workers walk the rows to ensure even drying, turning the bunches & folding paper sheets to protect the raisins overnight from moisture or dew.
JT Hendrix@bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 2w ago

as someone who owes a great debt for being alive today, this is a fantastic short read. and echoes the advice of my north star, st thérèse and the Little Way.. “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word."

Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here’s your Saturday morning read: “We’re all familiar with the Mister Rogers ‘look for the helpers’ talk. But it’s worth remembering that Mister Rogers was talking to children when he said that. And we’re no longer children.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

JT Hendrix@bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 2w ago

quick question for #chemsky does anyone have a connection to someone in the fragrance/chem division at Demeter? We have a ton of interest in flavor/fragrance/food chem and I’d love to touch base with a researcher there before the semester starts!

JT Hendrix@bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s the wholesale destruction of the American scientific enterprise. Game set and match. Take away the money then take away the top students. we’re already hemorrhaging research labs and the worst hasn’t even begun. Biggest own goal by a nation in history, all in service to ignorance

Tom ‘Beardo’ Hilliard@tomh4.bsky.social · 2w ago

The easily foreseeable catastrophes likely to result from the Trump administration's plan to limit international students to 4-year stints are nothing short of mind-boggling.