Nick Chiappini 🏳️🌈🧪
@ndchiappini.bsky.social
Lover of weird rxns, reactive intermediates, hockey (mostly 🐧and🐙)and equitable sci. Asst Prof at UNCW. Queer AF. Ligand appreciator. Bird and space nerd. ChemSky. He/him
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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
January 2, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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
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"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.
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.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"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.
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.
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Cannot wait for my annual rewatch for Arthur Christmas. Complete with hot Santa Steve Claus voiced by Hugh Laurie and his elf assistant who is down extremely bad
December 24, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Cannot wait for my annual rewatch for Arthur Christmas. Complete with hot Santa Steve Claus voiced by Hugh Laurie and his elf assistant who is down extremely bad
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Updated with a pristine, HD copy courtesy of Leon Thomas
@renegadecut.bsky.social
Watch Inside CECOT now
@renegadecut.bsky.social
Watch Inside CECOT now
The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available.
Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...
Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...
The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...
Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...
The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Updated with a pristine, HD copy courtesy of Leon Thomas
@renegadecut.bsky.social
Watch Inside CECOT now
@renegadecut.bsky.social
Watch Inside CECOT now
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Workshopping mnemonics for teaching the orgo 2 crowd 13cnmr shift regions.
Current fave:
"Keys to the car aren't there, Alfonso, you bastard!"
For ketone/ald, other carbonyls, Arene/alkene, triple, alpha to F, O, N, S, boring
#chemed
Current fave:
"Keys to the car aren't there, Alfonso, you bastard!"
For ketone/ald, other carbonyls, Arene/alkene, triple, alpha to F, O, N, S, boring
#chemed
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Workshopping mnemonics for teaching the orgo 2 crowd 13cnmr shift regions.
Current fave:
"Keys to the car aren't there, Alfonso, you bastard!"
For ketone/ald, other carbonyls, Arene/alkene, triple, alpha to F, O, N, S, boring
#chemed
Current fave:
"Keys to the car aren't there, Alfonso, you bastard!"
For ketone/ald, other carbonyls, Arene/alkene, triple, alpha to F, O, N, S, boring
#chemed
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i just called the DC office of Sen Dick Durbin who is generally terrible and cannot be relied upon
202-224-2152
his staffer answered after the first ring and was unfamiliar with the bill. he has not taken a position on it.
if you live in Illinois, please give him a call.
202-224-2152
his staffer answered after the first ring and was unfamiliar with the bill. he has not taken a position on it.
if you live in Illinois, please give him a call.
NEW: Many Democratic Senators said they hadn't seen Marjorie Taylor Greene's anti-trans bill and didn't say if it would fail. The only one who gave a hard commitment? Greene's fellow Georgian Raphael Warnock.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democratic senators balk on vote against Marjorie Taylor Greene’s anti-trans bill
The bill would need seven Democratic senators to join Republicans
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
i just called the DC office of Sen Dick Durbin who is generally terrible and cannot be relied upon
202-224-2152
his staffer answered after the first ring and was unfamiliar with the bill. he has not taken a position on it.
if you live in Illinois, please give him a call.
202-224-2152
his staffer answered after the first ring and was unfamiliar with the bill. he has not taken a position on it.
if you live in Illinois, please give him a call.
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
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this has exactly as much scientific basis as their antivax garbage and is somehow even more directly aimed at killing people
fuck this absolute monster
fuck this absolute monster
I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
this has exactly as much scientific basis as their antivax garbage and is somehow even more directly aimed at killing people
fuck this absolute monster
fuck this absolute monster
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this really needs to be viewed as at the same level of science-rejection as getting rid of all the child vaccines
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
this really needs to be viewed as at the same level of science-rejection as getting rid of all the child vaccines
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"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”
Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it
Rep. Sarah McBride makes rare personal remarks in opposing anti-trans bills
“My biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain,” the congresswoman said on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday morning.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”
Question for the phys org people out there:
Are there estimates of rel. electrophilicity of say an acylium ion on the Mayr scale? My searching has come up dry
#ChemSky #AskChemSky
Are there estimates of rel. electrophilicity of say an acylium ion on the Mayr scale? My searching has come up dry
#ChemSky #AskChemSky
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Question for the phys org people out there:
Are there estimates of rel. electrophilicity of say an acylium ion on the Mayr scale? My searching has come up dry
#ChemSky #AskChemSky
Are there estimates of rel. electrophilicity of say an acylium ion on the Mayr scale? My searching has come up dry
#ChemSky #AskChemSky
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Super interesting. Seems plausible to me that as people believe they are benefiting from collective action regulation (rent controls) they are more supportive of other public interest action. This is also Berlin, so the policy feedback processes may be different there than the US or elsewhere.
Um, ok...
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.
This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.
And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Super interesting. Seems plausible to me that as people believe they are benefiting from collective action regulation (rent controls) they are more supportive of other public interest action. This is also Berlin, so the policy feedback processes may be different there than the US or elsewhere.
Jarry for Skinner?! Kyle Dubas what on earth are you doing, mama? Do we need to trade places with the new mayor and give him a whirl as GM?
The cosmic horrors of being a pens fan.
#penguins
The cosmic horrors of being a pens fan.
#penguins
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Jarry for Skinner?! Kyle Dubas what on earth are you doing, mama? Do we need to trade places with the new mayor and give him a whirl as GM?
The cosmic horrors of being a pens fan.
#penguins
The cosmic horrors of being a pens fan.
#penguins
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If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
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I mean, we are 100% all the way back to the original debate with Derek's 2015 "The End of Synthesis" post | it was a "'synthesis requires expertise' versus 'let us democratize synthesis'" debate back then, and now it is "the computers/robots will help us de-artisanize synthesis" in 2025
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I mean, we are 100% all the way back to the original debate with Derek's 2015 "The End of Synthesis" post | it was a "'synthesis requires expertise' versus 'let us democratize synthesis'" debate back then, and now it is "the computers/robots will help us de-artisanize synthesis" in 2025
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And here it is – Annulative Editing – aka The Monster Mash. What a super collab #PfizerChemistry & @sarponggroup.bsky.social
In 1 pot, activated pyrimidines with bis-nucleophiles like amino-pyrazoles & other small hets to deliver 6/5 hets and other useful products
#MyFirstJACS
#ChemSky #ChemChat
In 1 pot, activated pyrimidines with bis-nucleophiles like amino-pyrazoles & other small hets to deliver 6/5 hets and other useful products
#MyFirstJACS
#ChemSky #ChemChat
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
And here it is – Annulative Editing – aka The Monster Mash. What a super collab #PfizerChemistry & @sarponggroup.bsky.social
In 1 pot, activated pyrimidines with bis-nucleophiles like amino-pyrazoles & other small hets to deliver 6/5 hets and other useful products
#MyFirstJACS
#ChemSky #ChemChat
In 1 pot, activated pyrimidines with bis-nucleophiles like amino-pyrazoles & other small hets to deliver 6/5 hets and other useful products
#MyFirstJACS
#ChemSky #ChemChat
Obsessed with this man ordering ketchup on Amazon at the coffee shop. He's had like 12 different varieties of ketchup up
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Obsessed with this man ordering ketchup on Amazon at the coffee shop. He's had like 12 different varieties of ketchup up
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UNCW's Dept of Chem and Biochem is looking for four (4!) new members this cycle including:
Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem
Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️
Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem
Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
UNCW's Dept of Chem and Biochem is looking for four (4!) new members this cycle including:
Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem
Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️
Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem
Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Reposting this jobs threads bc 4 sep ones was a stupid idea lol.
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Reposting this jobs threads bc 4 sep ones was a stupid idea lol.
AU where everything is the same but tbqh means "to be queer and honest"
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
AU where everything is the same but tbqh means "to be queer and honest"