I posted these stories on the bad place, thought i'd post them here for your entertainment (no gifs here unfortunately, use your imagination). Story 2: "My Worst Faculty Job Interview Ever"
Rob Scott
@saskchemprof.bsky.social
Prof @USask. Research includes nanochemistry, catalysis, and staring at X-rays. Dad of two teenagers and 1 cat, avid reader, and movie buff. Social introvert and lover of bad dad jokes.
Thinking of visiting the US? Consider it carefully, as they’re going to seize your phone and look at everything you have on it.
Walking around Alberta Legislature today. Depending on how you view it, Alberta is either proudly part of Canada or it isn’t…
This Stanislav Petrov obit was particularly good: web.archive.org/web/20170928... ht @lizneeley.bsky.social
Stanislav Petrov was declared to have died on September 18th
“The man who saved the world” was 77
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If I won the Nobel I'd demand from my Uni a Universal Parking Pass. I can park ANYWHERE. On the grass. On the sidewalk. In the Dean's office. Anywhere.
“could” “risks” include… reduced critical thinking
Ex-Google safety chief warns AI could harm children more than social media did
The founder of the trust and safety team at Alphabet’s Google this week called for a slowdown in AI development, warning that the tech industry was repeating the same mistakes from the social media e...
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But it’s the Bespoke AI line! Bespoke!
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2d agoWe live in a very stupid time
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
I fixed the headline. And I honestly don't understand how any journalist could write this story without mentioning the study author's own "extreme productivity".
Decay Away Francium! Dilithium’s proper place as the 87th Element in the Periodic Table.
John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 4d agoRight then, our turn What's your fake Star Trek academic paper
i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
New Directions in Dynamic Carbonite Coatings: An In Situ Investigation
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat’s your fake starwars academic paper
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
Hey, that’s us! Cinnamaldehyde is a $5B/ year commodity, and derivatives with varying flavours & aromas can now be generated from benzaldehydes using #biocatalysis. Thanks and congratulations to my @usask.ca students for putting this idea into practice.
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Enzyme Papers@biocat-papers.bsky.social · 6d agoBiocatalytic Synthesis of Substituted Cinnamaldehydes
Because of some attempts at phishing scams impersonating faculty, our provost has asked us to announce to our classes that we would never email them to ask for money or gift cards.
Kombucha Girl
Alt: Kombucha Girl
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Whoa. The brain is actually two separate organisms that evolved independently www.thetimes.com/article/09fc...
Brain made up of two distinct organs evolving independently
Scientists have discovered the brain is made of separate systems, solving a longstanding riddle and aiding research into diseases like ALS
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Ultimate Man shook my hand and then told me exactly how I was going to die.
Thread. The close personal details of how this government is pulling the plug on a generation of scientific progress.
Andre the Chemist@andrechemist.bsky.social · last wk.Yesterday I had a student cry in my office
Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, called the training of AI models the “largest theft of labor in human history,” according to a legal brief.
Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show
The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.
washingtonpost.com
This is the coolest #facultychemjobs positions I've seen in a long, long time: "Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader in the Chemistry of Wildfires", UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna, BC research.ubc.ca/media/file/i... Best wishes to those interested #chemjobscanada #chemsky
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#ChemjobsCanada Great opportunity for an atmospheric chemist. (Assuming the Okanagan hasn’t completely burned to ash in the very near future)
Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · last wk.This is the coolest #facultychemjobs positions I've seen in a long, long time: "Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader in the Chemistry of Wildfires", UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna, BC research.ubc.ca/media/file/i... Best wishes to those interested #chemjobscanada #chemsky
Oh no, Canada has disappointed Susan Collins.
Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News
A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.
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Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.
Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · 2w agoA deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...