Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings. 36030
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it. 1452718476
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialLaurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026you know what, maybe the cicadas are right. endless screaming is the way forward 313335
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.sociallilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊 6449481403
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself 4135181022
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialeileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...fnl.mit.eduLament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter 551526684
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2026yeah, my “millennial anthem” was just Night Ripper, which i listened to obsessively in 2005/2006 4586931
jkath.bsky.social @jkath.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Since I got my early scientific training I’m DNA polymerase biochemistry, something that has stuck with me and I still find strange is that it’s a evolutionarily critical class of protein that doesn’t have an obvious single evolutionary origin around the time of LUCA 100
jkath.bsky.social @jkath.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Find yourself someone who loves you as much as molecular biologists love finding central dogma caveats 000
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialScott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I have an NMR joke and I can’t wait to give you a peak 0102
jkath.bsky.social @jkath.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Tell me five classes you took in college. Introduction to Statistical Mechanics Biochemistry Boundary Value Problems and Partial Differential Equations Japanese IV Catholic Social Ethics (Traina) 002
jkath.bsky.social @jkath.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I’m already preparing to do this in a decade or so, but from the biology side. Restrictions enzyme cloning Only Sanger sequencing, Illumina was for genomics Ammonium sulfate precipitation and ion exchange chromatography (often no His tag!) Phenol/chloroform precipitations Westerns in the dark room 020
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.social@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Illinois grad here. Andreesen's fortune is built on research funded by the NSF at the UIUC super computing lab (NCSA). So on top of the vile racism, he's a hypocrite. "NSF awarded a large grant to NCSA specifically for Mosaic development, enhancement and support." www.nsf.gov/news/mosaic-....nsf.govMosaic Launches an Internet RevolutionIn 1993, the world's first freely available Web browser that allowed Web pages to include both graphics and text was developed by students and staff working at… 871988733
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Subject for another time, but *living* outside the US, for at least 6 months at a stretch but preferably 1 -2 years or more, is incomparably enlightening. In many cases more "affordable," because longer stays usually involve some kind of job, an exchange program, etc. (About 14 yrs total for us) 2845733
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialMichel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025There would be no Google Deep mind Nobel prize for Alphfold in 2024 without these people. Either Google Deepmind, EMBL, ERC or Sanger-Wellcome centre should step up… this is a rare example of true incremental arc of scientific progress with a massive payoff for biomed. 1115
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialTami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Our paper demonstrating that within-species warfare interactions are ecologically important on human skin is now published in Nature Micro! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comIntraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes - Nature MicrobiologyAbout 15,000 pairwise interactions within S. epidermidis from 18 people in 6 families reveal the antagonism and molecular trade-offs that shape the skin microbiota. 1022197
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 09/05/2025not good www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fda-m... 2186
jkath.bsky.social @jkath.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Unconscionable. Sarah Fortune is an amazing researcher doing critical work. 010
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 14/04/2025There is no good time for bad news and today is no different than any day in our recent time. Nevertheless, I write this thread to chemistry faculty job seekers in the United States. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️ 17530
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialMalinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.eduharvard.eduHarvard UniversityHarvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally. 11269491487
jkath.bsky.social @jkath.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Maybe it’s just because Easter is close, but this reminds me so much of the biblical passage, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Diseases of course have risk factors, but a lot of it is random and the “cruelty of nature.” 120
Reposted by @jkath.bsky.socialChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Approx. 5 bullets on what I did this past week: - singlet or triplet state - C-H insertion - cyclopropanation - ylide formation - Wolff rearrangement 3315
