When I give people advice I like to end the conversation with, “Boom. Mentored.” Just so they know they’ve been mentored. #mentorship

I support going out on your own terms with assistance. My dad chose this. Having been there through the entire process, my only conclusion is that when it is time, thats what I want too.

Everyday in every way this person is contacting me asking me if I want to buy their...various products. The answer has sometimes been yes. I do want 150 kg of this chemical. Can go great, receiving stuff in >99% purity at a price which I can only call "pumped out the back of the factory"

Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · yesterday

If being approached by a woman who has a PFP like this is worthy of a NYT headline, according to my LinkedIn invites, I should have my own section of the NYT by now

Drawn: A weird circular orbit metastable radical right before it collapses onto the oxygen radical to make hydroxide. I guess protons can pop out of existence though.

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 4d ago

Forms of Water xkcd.com/3315/

Celebrating Canada's new status as Europe-adjacent...I just did the most European thing possible. I voted on a Eurovision song entry for Canada without thinking very hard about it, and entirely on vibes. I am, however, completely sober, so I might not be doing this right.

When thou countest the number of sp3 carbons in the ring, thou shalt count to 6! Directly to 6! Thou shalt not stop at 3, nor unholy 4. Though mayest rush to 5, but only if thou shalt proceed to 6. Thou shalt not advance to 7. And 8 is right out! Stupid medium ring.

Julian R. Silverman@manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don’t know much about them but cyclobutane rings weird me out.

There is no way this career retrospective of one of the hottest current bands is 23 years old. I will take no further questions.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 4d ago

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If the markets like fascism so much, it isn't the anti-fascists who are the problem. It's the markets that are working against the betterment of mankind. Like, if Brazilian stocks are suffering, then that says that "we prefer murder squads and corruption to higher taxes!" Which is, frankly, insane.

Markets are dismayed by Lula’s surprise win—and for good reason

The pressure is on Brazil’s re-elected president to avoid an economic slump

economist.com

Me: Do you want daddy to play with you? R: No! I want daddy to go fix my toy!! I am now the guy who wields the superglue. It is my primary role in life.

Starting to think that men around the world in democracies should perhaps not have the vote. I'd surrender my vote if it meant that the rest of my gender couldn't vote for fascism at every opportunity like it was 1932.

Share when you get it #chemsky #chemchat

Ontario local elections in LaSalle: dont love how incumbents have run the town. All challengers though are having temper tantrums saying taxes MUST fall...and that is the opposite of the problem we have in why I dont like how the incumbents are running it. Sigh.

I love art and Salvador Dali is one of my favs. This is a chemical homage to him. The temptation of prostaglandin F receptor. #chemchat #chemsky

Reminder: The lifecycle of carbon capture and storage is inconsistent with thermodynamics. Without removing all fossil fuel generation as an energy source, ccs will produce more carbon than it removes. And it removes it very badly and inefficiently. Entropy is a bitch and always wins.

Dan Ilic@danilic.bsky.social · last wk.

For decades we were told that this plant could exist because “carbon capture and storage” was going to sequester carbon in bedrock — Dear Reader, they told that lie so they could sell gas.

#Chemsky So, if you see a protocol that says they used KHMDS as a base, and the reaction was conducted in DCM... Thoughts? Mine are, Holy Fucking Carbene Batman! But am I overreacting? Is this normal?

I have a REALLY simple solution. Don't use AI for anything. There. Done. Problem solved.

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · last wk.

“On ChatGPT, rating a response with a thumbs up or down can make the entire associated conversation eligible for training even if you’ve opted out” Most importantly: “If it’s really sensitive, consider not using AI” www.science.org/content/arti...

Uh, so.... I vibe-coded an entire replacement for ChemDraw that works with AI agents. It was about 8 months of work, and the goal is just open-source-stop-dependeing-on-american-paywalled-software. It has a plugin API, it comes with claude/codex skill docs check it out: jgassens.github.io/ChemDraft/

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

As a practicing scientist with a strong track record in doing high quality science, I know that there is no such thins as a "natural instinct for science." Science does not care about your feelings or intuitions. Nature eats those for breakfast. It only cares about the rigorous analysis of data.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh, honey . . . You don’t even know how to close that umbrella.

I would like to run this experiment. This year, Pfizer can provide me with 1M unrestricted. Next year, Merck. Then AZ. Then NN. Then GSK. After 5 years, we will run it again at 5M/year. I will report on the results of this very important study and you can judge how my science was affected.

Ale[Jason]x F.@multiphasic.bsky.social · 2w ago

This sounds needlessly moralistic but it's grounded in research. Even unrestricted monies--even nominal honoraria!--distort decisions and results.

Im deeply confused. They claim discovery of crystal structures but dont actually make crystals or show they exist? Like...wtf? You dont have a crystal if you dont have a crystal. We predict shit all day everyday, but I dont claim it is real and publish in Science without way more evidence.

Dalmeet Singh Chawla@dalmeet.bsky.social · 2w ago

Google DeepMind's latest version of the AI crystallography GNoME database still flooded with near duplicate entries and unrealistic compounds — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... #ChemSky

Kill Bill for tax purposes. Then in the following tax year, Kill Bill Vol 2 for tax purposes. This was all a horrible mistake. My tax attorney told me assassination was a write-off. They MEANT it was a bad idea. How was I expected to know? If they had filed online, we would have skipped vol 2.

Scott Bagley@bagphos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Who Framed Roger Rabbit for Tax Purposes

Dressing a bit formal today with @trantteam.bsky.social.

Today was Fall convocation. This means that I have been doing my work since then (meetings) in a combination of 1950s academia (suit and tie) and 1650s academia (formal robes and hood over suit and tie). It's...a thing.

Am now officially a noted AI hater: Good piece on AI in the chemistry classroom, and what we need to think about. I note that I see uses for responsible AI use. Just like I see uses for responsible use of complete answer keys to exams being released before the exam.

Colleges grapple with AI use in the STEM classroom amid uncertain impacts

Educators are experimenting with the technology to help students while mitigating potential harms to critical thinking skills

cen.acs.org

With electrostatic attraction, With my dipole induced, Sigmatropically rearranged,

John Trant@trantteam.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rapidly decaying from a high energy state,

Rapidly decaying from a high energy state,

Scott Bagley@bagphos.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Covalently”

Rapidly decaying from a high energy state,

Scott Bagley@bagphos.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Covalently”

With all the NHL injuries, the 2027 NHL playoffs will be ECHL teams lining up against each other.