The cat does not approve of 3rd octave flute practice. He has found a new place to glare at me even though I’m finished playing and I’ve moved on to cleaning out the instrument.
Lisa McElwee-White
@mcelweewhite.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Crow Professor. Amateur flutist. Weekend trail rider.
We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!
Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · last wk.With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
$21 here. While running A/C in the Florida summer.
Elon Green@elongreen.bsky.social · 2mo agoif you're wondering about the benefits of solar, my last electricity bill was $28.
The annual backyard blueberry explosion has begun. Even with letting our grandkids run rampant through the bushes last night and leaving all the low ones for them to pick tonight, this is what happened today. Those few blackberries are a bonus.
Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo agoRemember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
I got a flower for Mother’s Day…but it was from the cop on gate duty at Gators baseball.
Kind of a shame that more universities, which were once instrumental in the infrastructure of a decentralized internet, don't host their own instances of stuff like Canvas.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.
Sporting my UF Department of History T-shirt at Gators baseball. See, @elizabethrdale.bsky.social, what happens when your folk set up a merch table right outside my CHM 6225 class.
Thanks for your support #ChemSky! Coming out of the Council meeting at ACS Atlanta, I am one of the two remaining candidates for 2027 ACS President-Elect.
There are still things to love about universities. There was a History merch table outside the classroom where I was teaching Chem 6225. I bought a T-shirt after class.
Occasionally input from a consultant can have value. This is not a general principle.
Jim White@jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis was…an adventure. It took hours and consultation by @mcelweewhite.bsky.social who snatched my phone after word four. Wordle 1,709 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I know this is a cheap shameless plug for my own paper but this is really cool. #chemsky advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Self‐Organized Metal‐Carbon Multilayers Formed by Ion Beam Induced Deposition from Trimethyl(methylcyclopentadienyl)platinum(IV)
Ion beam induced deposition (IBID) of MeCpPtMe3 using low-energy Ar+ and H2+ generates self-organized multilayers of Pt and C, in marked contrast to the homogeneous deposits created by typical IBID a....
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It is time to nominate Organic Chemistry Assistant Professors to speak at the Academic Young Investigator’s Symposium (YAS) held at the Fall 2025 ACS Meeting. Nominations are due Feb 16th, 2026. Use the form via the link or QR code below. zurl.co/DotxD
Do you know an innovative up-and-coming Organic Chemistry professor? Nominate them for the Academic Young Investigator award Go to www.organicdivision.org @organicdivision.org #ChemSky #ChemChat
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Organic Division of the ACS@organicdivision.org · 6mo agoIt is time to nominate Organic Chemistry Assistant Professors to speak at the Academic Young Investigator’s Symposium (YAS) held at the Fall 2025 ACS Meeting. Nominations are due Feb 16th, 2026. Use the form via the link or QR code below. zurl.co/DotxD
When the students are gone, the campus (non-human) wildlife comes out!
Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
I-75 Scientist@flscitriguy.bsky.social · 7mo agoNo cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet (Last pack photo)
I haven’t posted from my #horse for a while but we’re still out there. Happy Holidays from the neighborhood bear statues!
Your Saturday afternoon timeline cleanse. There is something very zen about riding down a long empty road. #horse
We are the morning crew for the pledge break @wuft.org for UF’s public radio station. Support public radio!
Buncha 19 year old girls are gonna learn the hard way that financial independence is important when they're stuck in shitty marriages and have no ability to enter the labor market and support themselves.
Ej Dickson@ejdickson.bsky.social · last yr.“We’re done pretending that a cubicle is more empowering than a countertop”: inside the TPUSA Young Women’s Leadership Summit, where abortion is murder, trans people are dangerous, and teen girls are encouraged to drop out of school, get married, and have babies www.thecut.com/article/turn...
Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse. Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺