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Jay Forsythe

@jaygforsythe.bsky.social
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Analytical chemist and teacher in South Carolina. Interested in astrobiology, mass spectrometry, undergraduate education, sports, dogs, sad 00s indie music. Husband, dad. Opinions my own. He/him orcid.org/0000-0003-1041-1113

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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So excited to get my heart broken again
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The violence of seeing this the day before I turn 40
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Miss you Jurgen Klopp. The people’s champ
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to @hannah-richter.bsky.social, '24, for landing a first place NASW Science in Society Journalism Award in the Science News category. You can her award-winning entry from @science.org here: www.science.org/content/arti...
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In red states, many academic researchers feel fear–and resolve
State-level mandates prompt changes and small acts of resistance at universities
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Emails from former students who went off to do amazing things are THE BEST
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Someday I will read this pile of printed papers on my desk.
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Not Today Arya Stark
Alt: “Not Today” Arya Stark
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OMG Vandy
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can attest that my home airport is great! www.postandcourier.com/business/tou...
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Charleston’s airport named No.1 mid-sized airport in North America on its first try. Here’s why.
Charleston is used to No.1 rankings, but the region’s airport is taking the spotlight. Charleston International Airport didn’t just make its debut in a major airport satisfaction ranking — it took the...
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You know what makes grading lab reports better? NFL Redzone.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Drive-By Truckers, Handlebar (RIP), Greenville, SC, 2006
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every now and again they say the quiet part out loud.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don’t use LLMs and have multiple concerns with it: copyright infringement, environmental impacts (particularly on those who do not use it), workforce impacts, educational atrophy, etc. That said, shaming others who have tried it before is not the way forward.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Justice for Western Michigan
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.
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Susan Ferrari @srferrar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Striking and worrisome data from NSF: compared to all institutions, emerging research institutions showed bigger drops in funding rate and # of new proposals funded over the past few years. Really curious what’s going on here.
Line chart data on NSF funding, comparing all institutions with a subset of emerging research institutions. ERIs show bigger recent drops than all institutions in funding rate and # of institutions funded.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Blasting The War on Drugs during our six-hour Quantitative Analysis lab
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Now the Nancy Grace Roman telescope is in space!
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reminder: application review begins on Sept 10th! Please feel free to contact my colleague Dr. Tim Barker if you have any questions (email in link).
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Welcome to the College of Charleston, a public university
Discover the College of Charleston, a dynamic public university offering diverse programs, rich student life and a culture of innovation for over 250 years.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Spoon is (are?) amazing — one of my favorite bands for 20+ years. Really enjoyed this podcast.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Super excited to read this
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Jesus: it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God Dolly Parton:
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Éowyn: I Am No Man
Alt: Éowyn: I Am No Man
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a perfect album from the 00s: Sufjan Stevens, Come On Feel the Illinoise aka Illinois (2005)
Album cover for Sufjan Stevens “Come on feel the Illinoise” aka Illinois
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
University professors generally do not make very much relative to our training levels. Most of us, especially in STEM, could make a lot more in industry (and deal with a lot less bureaucracy). Grant money mostly goes to paying students, postdocs, and staff, and is heavily vetted and scrutinized.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Re-upping this today. Know there is a lot BS going on but refuse to keep quiet while they destroy Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Re-upping this today. Know there is a lot BS going on but refuse to keep quiet while they destroy Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
LS-AMP has been a critical support system for multiple students in my group. It was created by Congress in 1991 under a GOP admin. Claiming a program for underrepresented students in STEM to be racist is both stupid and evil. (You should’ve seen the words I chose for the first draft of this post.)
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Go Phils! #FieldofDreams
Field of Dreams baseball game: Phillies vs Twins
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That moment when you make up a catchy song for your toddler and then regret it because they ask you to sing it again 500x in a row
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Solidarity with the Vanderbilt faculty and their AAUP chapter. Vandy is a special place to me and my spouse.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Didn’t have time to go through that pile of research papers on my desk over the summer but somehow I’m going to read them during the semester. Right? Right?
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The Office: Jim Halpert Says 'Hmm. Doubt It.'
Alt: The Office: Jim Halpert Says 'Hmm. Doubt It.'
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Weighing Fauci's legacy - and finding so much to be grateful for and no serious basis for condemnation. An evidence-filled article that should be read by all. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Why MAGA Is So Obsessed With Fauci
In the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I don’t know who invented the splash pad but THANK YOU x1000 - every parent of a toddler
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vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
You cannot speak for a community without consulting its members. You cannot declare “first principles” for a university without faculty participation. The Vanderbilt faculty did not draft or “adopt” this. www.vanderbilt.edu/declaration/
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Declaration
The University and Its Purpose: A Declaration of First Principles was adopted by the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust in June 2026. The declaration is organized around three core purposes: Pathbre...
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Every time I get an email from NSF like this I think about how many normal research grants will not be funded
Email from NSF about new research centers
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Cool opportunity to work with the AAAS Dialogue on Science and Religion. I was a science advisor for a couple of years — great program, great people. recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bad news: proposal was not funded — competitive score but just not good enough. Good news: ice cream.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It was never about Balogun, it was always about this.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Yeah, this book is amazing.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s.
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998), Lucinda Williams
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Guess I should start this book now that LeBron is a Sixer.
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Texas created an outcomes-based funding model for community colleges. Students and colleges outperformed expectations, so now the state wants to change the rules so they don't have to pay what they promised. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/22/t...
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Texas may limit community college's incentive funding
A formula designed to reward colleges for student success generated larger payouts than budgeted. Now, Texas’ higher education agency may limit how schools receive such funding.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Jay Forsythe @jaygforsythe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This sounds like an advertising ploy to boost the “our AI is so good it’s conscious” narrative
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