Unstable Isotope

In the world where Portland is a war-torn hellscape and windmills cause cancer, I’m sure it makes sense to see that the president is getting his second yearly checkup in 6 months.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

A Chemistry Nobel that many had anticipated: metal-organic frameworks! Writeup coming on the blog later this morning:

A Chemistry Nobel for the invention of MOFs! Here’s a great article on what these materials are and why they’re now being used to eg harvest water and suck up carbon dioxide. Congrats to Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi! #ChemNobel
By @kms163.bsky.social | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Omar Yaghi strangling me in 2017…

Time to break out this pic of me being strangled by a future #Nobel Laureate in 2017… #Chemsky #chemnobel…

The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Here’s a @science.org review Omar Yaghi published about 10 years ago

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

Toxic formalin or something else? Shining a light on the University Museum’s mystery jars Chemist Wesley Browne came up with a way to figure out which of the University Museum's wet specimens have been preserved in toxic liquid.

Nice!
@wesleybrowne.bsky.social used Raman spectroscopy to check if old samples are toxic

ukrant.nl/magazine/tox...

For the first time in about 70 years, net immigration to America could be zero. Beneath the noise of tariff and budget fights, migration may well be the biggest economic story of 2025.

My latest for @economist.com: Welcome to Zero Migration America

Link: www.economist.com/finance-and...

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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

This is brilliant

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer: working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now" "I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.

Quantum tunnelling trio win the 2025 physics Nobel John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis get the award for demonstrating quantum mechanical effects at the macroscale

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.” Stay tuned for the full story to come!

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Where is our wallet? Is our wallet coming back? Where does mommy go when she covers her eyes? | Analysis

3 2-week-old kittens on a cat bed. One is gray tabby pattern, 2 are black tabby pattern. The 2 black ones are snuggling/wrestling

Astrokittens are now 2 weeks old! My parents are surprisingly enjoying being kitten grandparents but the kittens are not chaos goblins yet. New pic - 3 of the 4. One of the gray ones (the fiestiest one according to my mom is elsewhere)

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Guy in his fifties who looks like he’s in his 50s

Why do we keep seeing this guy? I have no interest in him

This dovetails well with my own gut feeling, which is that as much as I may feel that I was simply born trans and it's a private medical matter, the more persuasive arguments for trans acceptance in the current moment will focus on freedom, expression, individuality, and creativity.

The generals are calling them fat man and little boy because of how badly they bombed.

File under "Fuck, I Wish I Thought of That!"

If the Urgent Trump-Hegseth Address to the Military Had Been an Email THIS IS NOT SPAM.

a piece exploring this concept www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Mamacat Vega (tortie) picks up gray tabbie kitten while black tabbie kitten escapes

Gray and black kitten showing his face to the camera. He’s got cute roundish ears

Black tabbie kitten on wood floor

Astrokittens day 11 - they are breaching containment

I don’t think there’s enough white guys who work out 2 hrs a day to fill an army.

No one hates Americans more than Trump.

Navy ships need more gold paint. Maybe some glitter too. We want the to pop.