I'd mind the fundraising text pleas way less if they weren't all five paragraph essays of guilt-tripping and hyperbole. Give me a tight two sentence sell. Isn't this what you pay all that money to consultants for?

Drag queen called Mrs. Kasha S. Rule - "There's ALWAYS time for an absorption"

Drag queen called Molly B. Denim whose catchphrase is "You're telling me this nitrogen is ace?"

This housane is a homeane

2+2 =4 cyclobutane Really nice work from Kevin Brown and Co at Indiana out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Densely functionalized cyBu with handles for additional derivatives - good dr as well. Nice job by all #ChemSky

Reenvisioning the De Mayo Reaction: A Boron‐Enabled Cycloaddition Approach

An oxa-boracycle conformational lock strategy enables photocatalytic [2+2] cycloaddition to afford densely substituted cyclobutylboronates. The conformational constraint suppresses triplet relaxation...

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Yumm. A smoken salmon crêpe is absolutely what I needed today

So we all know acid can remove a BOC… What if you have acid labile groups? Check out this #PfizerChemistry #JOCasap using HFIP and low eq acid to remove PGs - shorter rxn times and cleaner profiles Oh you’ve got a PMB? Check! CBZ too! No hydrog needed #ChemSky

Sulfonic Acid Promoted N-Boc-, N-Cbz-, and N-PMB Cleavage in 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-Propanol (HFIP) and Application to Acid Sensitive Substrates

We report on the mild, sulfonic acid promoted removal of N-Boc, N-Cbz, and N-PMB protecting groups in 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol (hexafluoroisopropanol; HFIP). According to this method, the typ...

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Pool season is here!!!

I interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time. We discussed cosmic wonder, the mythology of genius, Deep Space Nine, and thinking beyond false narratives and manufactured inevitabilities. If your brain is stuck in the churn of bad news, you'll want to check this out.

“We Don’t Know Most Things”: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on Curiosity and the Cosmos

"We have to be curious and imaginative about how we might get out of this," says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.

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I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining Bryn Mawr College as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Chemistry in January 2027! I’m excited to teach Bryn Mawr students, build the Brann Astrochemistry Group, and continue mentoring and empowering women and gender-diverse students in STEM. 🚀🌟

Was extremely happy to come home to this today! I've got my weekend reading locked in 😎 @chanda.blacksky.app

The moon was still out when I awoke today & I stood in my living room grinning at it for awhile-I mean, can you believe that yesterday, the Artemis crew was RIGHT THERE? My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on the awe-inspiring mission as a crucial reminder of the value of investing in science. (🎁)

Artemis II’s Awe Reminds Us of Science’s Fragility and Importance

Three words uttered yesterday from Mission Control to Reid Wiseman, commander of Artemis II, perfectly capture the groundswell of emotion many of us have experienced over the last week as a team of as...

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The fact that all software switched to subscription rather than license model is a fucking crime. "Sign into revitty signals to use your ChemDraw." What if, and I know this is crazy, you just STICK TO THE ACTIVATION SYSTEM YOU'VE HAD SINCE THE BEGINNING. Seething rn.

Request: PAA stain that doesn't go to complete dogshit in like a week on the bench even when protected from light

Where are my fellow jazz band kids at? Is it just me or does Bruno Mars new song sound like Oye Como Va?

Today at #ACSSpring2026 we’ve got @ndchiappini.bsky.social in Academia 101 : Launching Your Lab talking about how to apply and interview for a faculty position and get ready to teach - stop by and hear from all our young faculty

@chemfunman.bsky.social encounter!!! Love ACS!

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.

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HTE setups realizing they're being used for a Buchwald-Hartwig screen for the 1,286,712th time

It's honestly impressive how infuriating to use OneLan digital signage is. Forget user-friendliness, this is user antagonism

A peek at my non-chemistry picks! Sociology of Science Fiction Deconstructing the Darkness of German Fairytales American Art History Modernism in Art and Music Italian Political History from Unification to Present

Saavik ‘Impaired Ankle’ Ford@saavikford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Physics 2 (whoa, FIELDS?!?) Astronomy 2 (whoa, order of magnitude thinking/proportional reasoning?!?) Origins of Life History of WWII Relativity & Cosmology

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

@chemrxiv.org Is there an RSS feed for the new host? I can't seem to find one via Feedly or the new site. (sorry for the double post, wasn't sure which platform was checked more often)

Black-body radiation is something we’ve understood for over a century, I teach it in my undergrad astrophysics classes, and it’s how the quantum revolution kicked off en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-b...

Black-body radiation - Wikipedia

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Potentially ignorant question: When a small molecule synthesis paper mentions using "GPC" for purification....what does that mean operationally? GPC immediately is like neon sign for POLYMERS and ANALYTICAL in my head. #chemsky

people keep voluntarily impaling themselves on the "you should all stop being mean to AI because it is BIG and STRONG and my FRIEND" stake, and I'm politely asking them to stop because it's embarrassing

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.