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A curated selection of out-of-context nonsense spoken and Slacked by the newsroom of scientists and science-adjacent punks at @cenmag.bsky.social. Any views expressed are those of a couple of chaos muppets on the science team, not our employer.

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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 16h
It's got that little scandalous feeling to it, so readers are interested
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 16h
I used the power of the crowd
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The cactuses will be your family in Arizona
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sarah are you sponsored by a tobacco company
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Beth gave me scabies
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watch out for Count Chocula Boo-Berry
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need more sausage, as they say
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There should be a prize where people have to go to Omaha
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Why are people so fascinated with skeletal editing?" "Halloween is coming up"
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's why Fred Kavli put up so much money to go "hey Norway"
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Asia's Next Top Molecule
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I thought the cheese was sacred!
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am practicing saying no
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I swear to god. I cannot stop accidentally making puns about this paper.
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'd rather hear from the guy who was on Blue's Clues
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We'll see if that's a more tractable sense of doom
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
God forbid someone uses a pun I don't like
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've never had a stress toy before but it found me at the right time in life
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
David remembering something off the top of his head challenge
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Windows are designed by the patriarchy
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I haunt the halls of Zoom
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This just in: Lady Gaga does not want you ugly & diseased
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can always go down a rabbit hole with Alex's analyses
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wonder what "edible" means
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We went from "not so bad" to "much worse" in very little time
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They didn't consult me 2000 years ago when they set the calendar
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I stole your sleep
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I just want to hear from my colleagues about what the hell is going on in South Dakota
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I miss the tingly feeling of the cancer water on my gloves (iykyk)
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yes, I know how linear time works
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Turns out MS Word online is the Death Note
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I just tried to imagine zesting a blueberry and that sounded like torture
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'underpants got eaten right up' is not something I expected to hear at work today
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Skeletal editing was mentioned, therefore the engagement numbers went up
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Max, please don't volunteer to get ebola for a clinical trial
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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Anyone who was at the session where this happened at #ACSFall2026, please get in touch. My colleague @laureloldach.bsky.social is working on something for @cenmag.bsky.social Thanks
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It looks stupid to me but it is reproducible
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think you can have explosive diarrhea *and* a solar powered home
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Who else just had a fever dream of a novel that's half Planet of the Apes and half The Mouse and the Motorcycle
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Life would be a lot easier if it was all helical
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sorry to come off mute and ominously go "kill"
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Tara Kahan @tfkahan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Reading a thesis that references nanospheres, which i keep reading as "manosphere." I therefore propose we start referring to people sucked into the manosphere as "manoparticles."
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The word of the day is "Narc"
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Also on my to-do list is "get better about my to-do list"
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Chinaceutical pharma industry
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I don't want to start the Wales whales discussion again
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Were you daydreaming about Canada again?
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Worth more than cow farts
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It would be fun to explode something sometime (ED NOTE: joke)
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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🎵🎵 Time and temperature, from Commerce Bank 🎵🎵
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