USFFan
@usffan.bsky.social
Medicinal Chemist. Professor. Lover of nerd culture. Beaten down sports fan.
Fast forward 44 years, transitions from academia to industry back to academia, the good fortune to have discovered a number of clinical candidates and a few approved drugs, I’m now the chair of a Department of Chemistry where I get the privilege of hearing from unhappy people every day! 🙃
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Fast forward 44 years, transitions from academia to industry back to academia, the good fortune to have discovered a number of clinical candidates and a few approved drugs, I’m now the chair of a Department of Chemistry where I get the privilege of hearing from unhappy people every day! 🙃
Please don’t give politicians any ideas…
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Please don’t give politicians any ideas…
Hats off to you - you would have had to drag me kicking and screaming from gorging on pintxos or basque cheesecake to even find a bookstore there!
October 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hats off to you - you would have had to drag me kicking and screaming from gorging on pintxos or basque cheesecake to even find a bookstore there!
And they're all potential elimination games!
October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And they're all potential elimination games!
Agreed, but the title of the argument was “your favorite team.” What if my team is Tulane? And my main point, that a school banning obscenities is not Congress establishing a law, still stands.
September 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Agreed, but the title of the argument was “your favorite team.” What if my team is Tulane? And my main point, that a school banning obscenities is not Congress establishing a law, still stands.
The first amendment says that Congress can’t create laws abridging free speech. It’s already a stretch to equate a public school with Congress, but it’s impossible to do so for a private school.
September 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The first amendment says that Congress can’t create laws abridging free speech. It’s already a stretch to equate a public school with Congress, but it’s impossible to do so for a private school.
I thought of this movie every day as I drove over the San Mateo Bridge. Also any time I hear the word “validate.”
September 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I thought of this movie every day as I drove over the San Mateo Bridge. Also any time I hear the word “validate.”
Did Falwell, Jr. watch?
September 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Did Falwell, Jr. watch?
Was the Lightning team that also won two cups and made it to three consecutive Stanley Cup finals from 20-22 (the 3 years prior to this Florida "dynasty") also one?
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Was the Lightning team that also won two cups and made it to three consecutive Stanley Cup finals from 20-22 (the 3 years prior to this Florida "dynasty") also one?
"Sir, Liberty University is on line 1"
May 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Sir, Liberty University is on line 1"
I wish I could go back to 1986. And not just because I could corner the market on the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction, organocatalysis, photoredox and MOFs. In hindsight, Ronald Reagan seems quite progressive!
May 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I wish I could go back to 1986. And not just because I could corner the market on the Buchwald-Hartwig reaction, organocatalysis, photoredox and MOFs. In hindsight, Ronald Reagan seems quite progressive!
Is he really a Texas Tech fan if he used a paper bag instead of a tortilla?
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Is he really a Texas Tech fan if he used a paper bag instead of a tortilla?
Wow! I was proud of getting it in 3 and can't imagine what your first word was that would lead you to propose the answer in your second!
May 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Wow! I was proud of getting it in 3 and can't imagine what your first word was that would lead you to propose the answer in your second!
Now I have Madonna in my head.
"Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my bowl bid
Ooh, I'm going to keep my bowl bid"
We need Popeye's to step up!
"Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my bowl bid
Ooh, I'm going to keep my bowl bid"
We need Popeye's to step up!
May 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Now I have Madonna in my head.
"Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my bowl bid
Ooh, I'm going to keep my bowl bid"
We need Popeye's to step up!
"Papa don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my bowl bid
Ooh, I'm going to keep my bowl bid"
We need Popeye's to step up!
Damn it, I have to search for that Excel spreadsheet of solvents to make my CHN numbers hit again…
May 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Damn it, I have to search for that Excel spreadsheet of solvents to make my CHN numbers hit again…
This demands a Blues Brothers sequel, where they realize Prevost was in the same orphanage (St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud in Calumet City) as Jake and Elwood, and they're now ALL on a mission from God to wipe out the Illinois Nazis. The script writes itself!
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This demands a Blues Brothers sequel, where they realize Prevost was in the same orphanage (St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud in Calumet City) as Jake and Elwood, and they're now ALL on a mission from God to wipe out the Illinois Nazis. The script writes itself!
Maybe he can hire the Blues Brothers for security. They too are on a mission from God.
May 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Maybe he can hire the Blues Brothers for security. They too are on a mission from God.