Jesse Kroll

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

Certain air cleaners may remove some VOCs but create others Devices that oxidize VOCs could be contributing by-products such as formaldehyde

New research suggests that air cleaners that oxidize VOCs may transform ethanol into by-products such as formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Paula...is one of six active MIT faculty members elected to all three National Academies, in sciences, engineering, and medicine."

In happy news, my home institution, MIT, just announced that the amazing Paula Hammond will be the next dean of the School of Engineering.

That's great, but this is a pure flex:

Not gonna lie: it's great working with so many folks so much smarter than me.

11 days until the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans.

Annual repost

why isn’t our kids learning
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how dare you educate our kids

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

My dream is to have one of those college football coach jobs where a college administrator tells me that I’m fired but also they will pay me 50 million dollars as long as I promise not to come to work

Well yeah, but for most atmospheric chemists' usage of the word, the proper spelling is actually "isomerization"

Hopefully the New Yorker will someday run an article on atmospheric chemistry, just so we can read about the photoöxidation of cycloöctane

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

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I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Another terrifying article about Stardust, with (what I think is) some new info:
- they claim they'll finally release info on their secret particles starting in early 2026
- they plan a first atmospheric test in 2027
- they've been funding academic research (with one PI named)

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

If you work on sources and impacts of VOCs (biogenic or anthropogenic) from measurement to modeling perspectives please submit an abstract to our atmospheric organics session at #EGU26! Our invited speakers are @dbm.bsky.social and @jacquirickard.bsky.social See you in Vienna! tinyurl.com/55vda8u7

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

PostdocAd-FarmFlux Postdoctoral Associate: aircraft-based measurements of atmospheric ammonia Join our team! The atmospheric chemistry group at the University of Minnesota (UMN) seeks applications for a Postdoctoral A...

Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements

Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.

See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Portraying Larry Summers | Harvard Magazine Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy

“a shining example for all of us to emulate”

www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/10/jhj-...

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So we've been working through tariff-exemption paperwork so we can purchase a Swiss-manufactured instrument. The tariff (and hence the instrument cost) just went down by $13K ... because the Swiss basically bribed Trump. Yay?

The Patriotic Blonde on Twitter writes: "People are posting this all over social media. What a sad end to something we all worked so hard for. I never thought it would end this way." Attached are four photos of people burning their MAGA hats.

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math