Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol

Here's a better look at the beautiful, mature, oxygen-producing, carbon-storing trees that were sacrificed for a strip mall. I went over for one last look, as heavy equipment was already at work demolishing the old police department.

Saunieindiego@saunieindiego.bsky.social · last mo.

They chopped down these beautiful mature trees, and about 25 more, when they tore down the old police station and built an InAndOut burger place. I spoke with the mayor and developer. Neither would be of any help in saving the trees by designing around them. It was heartbreaking. #TreesMatter

🔴ÚLTIMA HORA | Mariano Rajoy habla del polémico comentario sobre la selección francesa. "Yo no escribo esa columna, esa columna la escribe M. Rajoy". Ha declarado el expresidente del Gobierno.

Última Hora El País

ALT: Última Hora El País

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Mitch is alive and well... and in perfect hibernation 🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema

Great @in2ub.bsky.social workshop yesterday, with contributions from my group MolNanoLab and new group photo!

I want to read @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Mirrored heavens .... its in my list for this summer!

Dear potential editor, please take this missive as my most enthusiastic affirmation that I will buy the shit out of anything Mistress Hurley writes. Effective immediately, and to perpetuity.

Occasionally I'll think "Don't I have any relatives left who have money and could suddenly die and leave some to me?" ...and the answer is no.

Patricia Mauceri: You're On Your Own

ALT: Patricia Mauceri: You're On Your Own

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Wow.... Looking at this photo I just realized that the backward bending knees of aliens and robots in Sylvain Neuvel's Themis Files were actually not so unnatural! #scifi vs. Nature

E.C.Teodoro Photography - Nature’s Living Light Images@natureslivinglight.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The shoreline settles into quiet. Ripples gather their calm. A graceful presence holds its place. Stillness shapes the moment. Nature carries everything. #photography #snowyegret #egret #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Want to stay close to science, but you've decided the lab isn't right for you? Have you considered a career in editorial? Well, if you have a background in biomedical engineering or biomaterials (or materials science more generally - see linked ad) then your next job could be at Nature Materials!

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Everything ready for Thursday's SustainableNano workshop at @imdeanano.bsky.social where I will talk about sustainable synthesis of 2D nanomaterials via #mechanochemistry and #microED @in2ub.bsky.social

AT the end of the year I will be in Leipzig speaking at the workshop for the Kepler Prize workshop of the Euroepan Aacademy of Sciences, take a look! From molecules to devices! www.eurasc.eu/kepler-prize...

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

This October, I will be teaching crystallograohy in Chile with Antonio Galdamez, as a satellite school to the XXEQI in Viña del Mar. Join us! dqi.cl/curso-satlit...

Ever wonder what it was like to help create a new field of chemistry? Wonder no more... #ozchem #MOFs #BraggYourPattern The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize - now published in CrystEngComm pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize

Nathaniel Rosi, Shuhei Furukawa and Stuart Batten share their experiences of working on MOFs in future Nobel-winning laboratories.

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The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

It's a mathematical probability engine. Not a thinking machine. The fact that everyone just keeps saying it's an thinking machine when it's just a spicy predictive text machine is the biggest marketing win of the century. youtu.be/0vvVo0Um1HY?...

Amazon is regretting AI

YouTube video by Mo Bitar

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Today I am very happy to announce tha I have been promoted to Full Professor at @ub.edu ! Thanks to all collaborators, colleagues, mentors, advisors and most of all, all the students I have mentored obver the years! This would have impossible without you!

Very obnoxious: reactions in outlook. Awful.

Just give me something to read in place of a video. Pretty much every single time.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What’s your most old-coded opinion? Mine is that the Apple Watch is the least value added product* on the market today. It’s like what if you had a Fitbit with a bunch of apps you never used and you have to charge it twice a day? *over something like a basic Fitbit

Some Laurie Anderson for Friday morning. “When my father died, it was like a whole library burned down.” very strongly in the past few years I’ve started to feel myself becoming a library. The role of a middle-aged person as a repository of the community’s knowledge. youtu.be/ellDld2zAZY?...

World Without End

YouTube video by Laurie Anderson - Topic

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“I did everything” “We’ll figure authorship later”

“For the first time, we can directly compare the results from a quantum computer to a complex experiment,” says Alessandro Curioni, vice president of IBM Europe and Africa and director of IBM’s research laboratory in Zurich. #chemsky 🧪

Quantum prediction versus real lab experiment

Study sets computational benchmark, but classical simulation works better

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Now online: Article by Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Aditya D. Mohite & co-workers Exciton diffusion beyond 2 μm enabled by maximum symmetry in two-dimensional perovskites www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($) #Chemsky

Exciton diffusion beyond 2 μm enabled by maximum symmetry in two-dimensional perovskites - Nature Synthesis

Two-dimensional (2D) metal halide perovskites exhibit efficient photoinduced emission at room temperature, but control over charge carrier transport remains limited. Here formamidinium-based layered 2...

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And so it begins

I can relate.