Nate DeYonker

my 10 year old wanted to be Rumi for Halloween at 7 PM last night and then was sullen about not wanting to be Rumi for Halloween at 8 PM last night. Women, am I right?

Learn to say no
Don't be afraid to ask "am I allowed to say no?" If not, then don't say no.
Invite yourself to stuff (workshops, conferences, seminars, residencies) shamelessly
Invest in good furniture
Personally meet anyone you expect to recommend as a reviewer for your biggest grant proposals.

I did this for the first time a few weeks ago with new PhD students, and now I wish I had been regularly doing it 7-8 years ago. @fionachembot.bsky.social I can send you my slides if you want! this was also a very good template: www.caitlindavislab.com/group-expect...

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda for better access to federal money A document sent to the universities encourages them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses, with commitments to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s sports, free...

Academic freedom and meritocracy will be finished. Our scientific institutions will be no better than China or Russia. Leveraging science against Humanities/Social Sciences/Fine Arts. Where have we seen this in our history books?
Tenured professors should strike nationwide if this happens

2015 self: Hey 2025 self, who's going to be the Democratic forerunner after Elizabeth Warren's been POTUS for 8 years? Wait, what? *excuses self to make a list of available faculty positions in Canada*

I feel like AI is going to make earning a C in college classes go extinct. There will be four types of students
1) Those who do the work and get As/Bs
2) Those who cheat, don't get caught, and get As/Bs
3) Those who cheat, get caught, and get Fs
4) Those who don't do the work and get Fs

I ate at a hot dog at the roller skating rink last night and it changed my life. In the sense that my stomach has been aggressively bubbling ever since

Had a group meeting to tell my new grad students that I have choice paralysis and am really not sure what they should work on and that it's a very stressful challenging time to start grad school, but we quickly pivoted to brainstorming and then both of them getting exciting first projects.

Trump's White House denounces Drexciya-inspired Smithsonian exhibit · News ⟋ RA The exhibit, which closed in 2024, highlighted the Detroit duo's vision of an underwater realm populated by the descendants of enslaved women who drowned during the Middle Passage.

The enemy of Drexciya is my enemy
ra.co/news/83167

came here to post this but you beat me to it

Yay, @dwappett.bsky.social is finally here posting a great accomplishment made while working in my lab! Here's to many more, and for her to find an awesome next job (that she is going to be looking for soon because of funding or lack thereof)

Domi (left) and Saghar (right) showing off their certificates stating that they won the ACS Division of Chemical Information’s Scholarship for Scientific Excellence

What an awesome @acs.org meeting for the University of Memphis’ comp chem postdocs - we won 2/3 CINF division scholarships for scientific excellence! #ACSFall2025

whenever I see this album cover I ALWAYS think it's Phil Collins

Maybe Alex Jones himself used it!

Do yall remember that republican lawyer who cataloged instances of police brutality on twitter during the BLM protests and then disappeared after the number of videos hit quadruple digits? I thought that was going to be rock bottom

Does Djrum count??? If so, fear me!

I've mentioned you and the ensemble that sandy ewen has w my denton buddy Sarah (who is the person that first introduced me to april) to the organizers. I can be more persistent if you ever want to come visit

Although you should really come play the yearly memphis experimental music festival. There's been some great stuff this year and the crowd would love your jams. Then I'd never bother you again I promise

I would never ask you to play a concert.

We listened to this today!

Deltarune!!! (Even though it could probably run on a pentium 4)

I had a good time reviewing this :)

lollllll

Oh I wish someone would modernize this book. It's so close to being incredibly useful, but filled with such non-transferable code

A diagram of a cartoon about modern creative chemistry types with the personality types and characteristics of each type of chemist

Found this old chestnut while cleaning my desk today #chemsky

(I have no idea of its origins and it is a modification of a Matt Groenings cartoon about ‘modern creative types’)

Oh you

VcvRack is the thing I'm least interested in

We watched part 1 last night. Such a creative genius. Kinda bummed we won't get to binge pt 2 tonight cause we're driving back from a fairly late hike rn :<

Keyboard kapers!

DAIGLE LAB Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology

A friend of mine in UMemphis Biology is looking for a postdoc! daiglelab.org The postdoctoral fellow will lead efforts to develop novel machine learning models for integrating omics datasets with relevant molecular pathways to further improve these capabilities. workforum.memphis.edu/postings/43981