it's funny how in the You've Got Mail era Barnes and Noble was the bad guy and now i'm like "i love patronizing local, in-person, actually-book-focused business Barnes and Noble instead of buying books on Amazon"

I don't understand, where is Mordor on this map?

let me know if you need someone to visit Catalonia on the UC's behalf :)

Nothing like submitting your proposal the day the Federal Government shuts down!

congrats Emily!

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NSF proposal turned in to my Sponsored Projects Office for check, routing and (ultimately, hopefully) timely submission to NSF. Submitting proposals is hard under the best of circumstances... while also trying to 'Dean' it's God-awful. Reviewers, be kind, I tried my best to make it easy to read ;)

a cartoon character in a suit and tie stands in front of a fire escape ALT: a cartoon character in a suit and tie stands in front of a fire escape

I just called something "Keystone Cops" and got blank stares...

To all the staff, faculty, students, supporters and everyone really that have worked on this campus with one mission, to bring world class education and research to this community - a huge and heartfelt thank you! We remain, in the valley and for the valley! ❤️

I know that rankings don’t really mean much… but, I’m going to take a minute just to reflect on just all the good good stuff that had to happen over the last 20 years to get @ucmerced.bsky.social to this news… we’re ranked in the top 25 Schools in the country!

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As a general principle, self-serving, pompous and self-righteous preaching isn’t likely to win folks to your side.

“Pretentious” phosphine ligand affords small increase in yield over triphenylphosphine yet requires twelve step synthesis.

also, 5 stars for including "expeditious" in the article title... a most cromulent word choice!

Can anyone help out??

I’m reminded of an old bit by Bill Hicks, albeit in a US context, “we, your leaders, have misspent your money and now you, the people, have to start paying this back”… it’s never the leaders that seem to have to pay the bill 🤔

“Self nominations welcome” feels like the award version of “preliminary data not needed” for grants

What!? Michaelis Menten, Vmax all great stuff!

Stephanie Urbin (P&G) and Brooke Small (CPChem) all shared their resumes and @bagphos.bsky.social offered to zoom into the meeting to discuss! There are good people out there and our ChemSky community is still one of the things I am most thankful for in the hellscape that is social media! Thanks all

Things are hard right now - very hard. So I want to throw some positivity out there. This morning (great planning I know) I decided that I wanted to talk about resumes/CVs at group meeting this afternoon, but realized I needed examples from industry. In short order @bagphos.bsky.social (Pfizer),

IYKYK

I 25% promise to work on that manuscript you sent!

Saw this at the other place… here’s what worries me, “imagine how much money…” why would you need to imagine, it’s literally in the post you shared! 260,000 x $8 x days of operation… even scarier though? All the people writing nonsensically incorrect answers below the post!

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My colleagues (Billy Kerr, Nick Tomkinson, Craig Jamieson, Glenn Burley, Dave Lindsay, and Rebecca Beveridge) are looking for a total of FIVE postdoctoral researchers for a large collaborative programme of oligonucleotide research.

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🚨Call for Papers! 🚨

A new Special Issue of Inorganic Chimica Acta is now accepting submissions! Titled, "New Directions and Techniques in Organometallic Chemistry" see the link below for more details! #ChemSky

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I think you usually get a bit of time to learn / brush up though right? Intense classes in the summer before you start?