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Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. See research group at: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14636114/

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Matt Hartings@matthartings.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Seemed a curiosity at the time" Basic research at its best. We really don't know what's going to have legs. Do something fun and interesting and bizarre. Fund LOTS of work that is fun and interesting and bizarre.

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 4d ago

It feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2w ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don't need to say this, but it's obvious to me: this dramatic drop can be laid at the feet of the Trump Administration. The impacts, I predict, will be dramatic, bad and only visible 5 to 10 years from now at the earliest.* *it's falsifiable, but quite a ways from now

Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · 4w ago

#facultychemjobs weather report: ~equal of 2026 list year so far Today (9/15/26), there are 159 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching positions for the 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List. 9/16/25: 149 TT, 16 teaching (107%/81% of 2026 list) 9/17/24: 245 TT, 18 teaching (65%/72% of 2025 list)

Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · 4w ago

#facultychemjobs weather report: ~equal of 2026 list year so far Today (9/15/26), there are 159 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching positions for the 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List. 9/16/25: 149 TT, 16 teaching (107%/81% of 2026 list) 9/17/24: 245 TT, 18 teaching (65%/72% of 2025 list)

mcc@dryad.technology · last mo.

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...