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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

Mr. Pope, I'm not a religious worm, but could you ask God if we could trade Stephen Miller to get Jane Goodall back? Thx.

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Gareth @gawuffy.co.uk · 10d

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 2

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.

Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

EU Must Cap SUV Hood Heights Urges Report. Crash Test Body Says Not As Simple As That

Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians and cyclists are struck, says new report. EuroNCAP says more complex than that.

www.forbes.com

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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 18d

All the good organic chemistry was done in the 60s in Russian language journals

José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19d

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 28d

Prof. Emily Mane: "If university and college chemistry departments want to retain their talent, the community needs to ask what comes next and how we can take responsibility for building a healthier system."

#chemsky 🧪⚗️

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 28d

The scientific community must value mentorship, enforce accountability, and make graduate students’ well-being central. cen.acs.org/education/Op... #chemsky 🧪

Opinion: Exploitation persists in academic science—here’s what we can do

The scientific community must value mentorship, enforce accountability, and make graduate students’ well-being central

cen.acs.org

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Rob Roy (he/him) @robertroy.bsky.social · Sep 8

A better choice

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 6

These people make more in a day, an hour, even in a minute than I do in a year.

But never in my 30+ year career have I had to do something a thousandth as degrading as what you see here.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 6

Simpering cowards one and all.

This is almost unbearable to watch.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 6

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · Sep 6

#Chemsky, there is a famous #MinCup25 competition for the best mineral and now it is a chance for organic chemistry to show its power with coronene.
And I have only one argument - REVENGE - look how these geologists draw it! And formula "C2 H"!

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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · Sep 5

"I'm hearing from scientists and doctors all over the country and they are in full agreement with me: the 2-norbornyl cation is perfectly described by equilibria between classical ions."

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · Sep 4

Skip the fume hood, get brain damage and Nazi vibes. #ChemSky 🤯

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Screen capture with the initial paragraph of The Atlantic piece: “The story we got about world war ii is all wrong,” a guest told Tucker Carlson on his podcast two weeks ago. “I think that’s right,” replied Carlson. The guest, a Cornell chemistry professor named David Collum, then spelled out what he meant: “One can make the argument we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin.” Such sentiments might sound shocking to the uninitiated, but they are not to Carlson’s audience. In fact, the notion that the German dictator was unfairly maligned has become a running theme on Carlson’s show—and beyond.”

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · Sep 3

@pepman.bsky.social para tu asignatura de vacunas 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Olalla Vázquez @olallalab.bsky.social · Sep 1

🎉🎉My birthday present🎂came early! 🤩🤩Our work on
#photoswitchablepeptides for conditional stabilisation of #HIF-1α is highlighted as Hot Paper & Cover in #Angewandte
Huge🙏🏼to Marco for fantastic 1st author, amazing collaborators, @glowsticks.bsky.social for 😍 cover & @unimarburg.bsky.social #ProfLife

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👑 Spectral Nullen, Macrame Overlord. @nullen80.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · Aug 29

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MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

publichealthpolicyjournal.com

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here's a @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon #science #scientists #laboratory

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Given the state of our long-term planning, this'll register like a fart in a hurricane, but also it kind of is, because in this scenario, we will already be experiencing so many other catastrophic systems failures that there won't be much of human civilization left.

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Aug 29

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · Aug 27

Bluesky is now the platform of choice for the scientific community.

From @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social on @arstechnica.com

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · Aug 27

In 2016, Jeremy, another left-handed snail, also became famous for looking for love. Two potential matches were found, Lefty from the UK and Tomeu from Spain, but they liked each other more than Jeremy 🐌❤️🐌, who remained single until his death.

Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead. His Offspring Are All Right. (Published 2017)

www.nytimes.com

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · Aug 27

The search Ned’s left-handed soulmate 🐌❤️. Or how chirality defines your love life (if you're a snail). #ChemSky

New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned

Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned the snail’s left-spiralling shell results in reversed reproductive organs – a barrier to mating

www.theguardian.com

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Fantastic!! Beautiful! It reminds me the work of Radivoj V. Krstić.

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · Aug 23

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · Aug 20

🧪 Novel Therapeutic Frontiers in #Fibrosis: Advancing Treatment for #MyhreSyndrome & Beyond

Meet the "Drugs for #RareDiseases" Project, by @maciaslab.bsky.social at #IRBBarcelona.

Read more here ➡️ https://shorturl.at/rHLbA

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Aug 19

I love this, it's so broken, an inconceivably small unit combined with an inconceivably large unit to produce a unit that is easily understood by itself yet has no practical significance and does not help you understand the scale of either of its components.

yellowstoneten @yellowstoneten.bsky.social · Aug 19

There is a tongue-in-cheek unit of volume called the Hubble-barn, equal to the volume of a cylinder with cross-sectional area of one barn (100 fm^2 - about the size of a uranium nucleus) and height of one Hubble length (14.4 billion light years).

It works out to three and a half gallons.

Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19

Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?

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