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Mark Schofield

@markschofieldphd.bsky.social
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I teach chemistry at The George Washington University and study the electronic structure of transuranic materials, homogenous catalysts, and green chemistry. I do not speak for GW. blogs.gwu.edu/mschofie

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Thiard News@F4F @newsen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Heather Pierce to Lead the Association for Human Research Protection Programs Starting January 2027 #USA #Washington #AAHRPP #AAMC #Heather_Pierce
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Heather Pierce to Lead the Association for Human Research Protection Programs Starting January 2027
Heather Pierce has been appointed as the new president and CEO of the AAHRPP, commencing her role in January 2027. A distinguished leader in research regulation, she comes from the AAMC.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pear Jam
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For anybody who doesn’t think that quantum fields are a thing, we finally have evidence that is impossible to ignore.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@davekarpf.bsky.social they heard you.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Damn it. Dr. Bunch is terrific.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
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Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
After a long journey, they will find the catalyst back where they started, in the Shire, in a Hobbit hole.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/08/2026
Julia Curlee devoted her life to serving her country. She briefed Mike Pence and served as a director on the National Security Council. But when her gender identity became public, she was told she was no longer needed.
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Fang Liu at Emory @fangliuemory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join us at ACS Fall 2026 in Chicago for “Machine Learning Meets Electronic Structure Theory”—three days at the intersection of quantum chemistry, materials & AI. 📅 Aug 24–26 📍 McCormick Place, W180 Supported by APL Computational Physics (AIP) and Electronic Structure (IOP). #ACSFall2026
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 05/08/2026
@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky www.ovid.com/jnls/pidj/ab...
One of the largest US studies ever conducted on the MMR vaccine and autism has just been published, analyzing more than 2.5 million children.  Researchers found no association between receiving the first MMR vaccine before age 2 and childhood autism.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
You should put an explanation of the joke in an appendix to boost sales.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What program? Somebody on bluesky can help.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 23/07/2026
One for the chemists… 😄
Photo of a screen that shows:

New Password:
H₃PO₄
Weak

New Password:
H₂SO₄
Strong
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GitHub @github.com · 20/07/2026
57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Black-and-white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing beside a nearly person-height stack of software listings produced by her and her MIT team for the Apollo program.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I was at home for a few years after my kids were born and I learned python from EdX (MITx 6.001). Consequently...
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I appreciate that people want passion ("you'll destroy peer review!"), but I think the proposed rule is crafted in such a way that responses like that will be dismissed/uncounted (literally). What the moment calls for is a clear analysis. AAMC's is a good example: www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
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AAMC Submits Comment Letter to Office of Management and Budget
The AAMC submitted a comment letter to OMB opposing proposed changes to the Uniform Guidance that threaten patient health and U.S. research integrity.
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Nature Nanotechnology @natnano.nature.com · 13/07/2026
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Mark A. Ratner (1942–2026)
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02223-zMark A. Ratner (1942–2026)
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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.
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AAMC @aamc.org · 10/07/2026
The AAMC urges the Office of Management and Budget to rescind its proposed overhaul of federal research grant regulations, emphasizing deep concerns about the potential impact on science, patients, and academic medicine. Learn more:
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AAMC Submits Comment Letter to Office of Management and Budget
The AAMC submitted a comment letter to OMB opposing proposed changes to the Uniform Guidance that threaten patient health and U.S. research integrity.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
True.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Michael Caine was great in Educating Rita, a film made before the advent of AI, CGI and all the other tools that currently plague us.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Yes, yikes, but also really cool and clear analysis of the problem.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Audiobooks.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I used to love the steak salad at the Berghoff back in the, um, early 90's.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Straight Man by Richard Russo is hilarious and captures university disfunction in case you haven't already read it.
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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Frontier Molecular Orbitals... Never underestimate the fear factor! #chemsky #chemchat #chemistry
Orbital diagram showing three key frontier molecular orbitals - the LUMO, the HOMO and the FOMO.  the FOMO seems stressed dudes!
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Before 6-7 was a thing, I was inspired by Nernst (who farmed carp because, with cows, you're "heating the universe at your expense") to write an entire quantitative analytical chemistry final exam on the analysis of fish oil and its derivatives.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"Hackers broke into the School of Engineering Canvas system, downloaded course documents by class, used ChatGPT to construct summaries and review materials, e-mailed resources to enrolled students and wrote 3 versions of the final exam with an optimized grading rubric."
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Aren’t you chair? Delegate! Actually, I think the buy-in is more important than the deployment. It’s either a good idea that people will embrace or…
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks for your comments. I'm thinking about graduate students as MIT's (and Caltech's) organic tutorials are for 1st year grad students as is the Berkeley Math Bootcamp (chemmathbootcamp.com).
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Math Bootcamp
A mathematics bootcamp for physical chemistry.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hey chem. peeps: Are you aware of research univs that have bootcamps (à la Berkeley Math for Physical Chemistry) or tutorials (à la MIT's month-long organic tutorial for entering students)? Looking at you @matthartings.bsky.social @andrechemist.bsky.social @geoffhutchison.net @profsje.bsky.social
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Just delete Microsoft Word and then, after you’ve done the update, reinstall it.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
That's about the energy required for ChatGPT to render a 2 second video. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Petrichor. Gotta love that.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Remind me when Animals House came out? I think I was in Junior High (before they called it "middle school" but after "new math" was just "math").
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Mad Max was 47 years ago.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/19/o... Having attended UMass Amherst, I can attest to the strength of the Five College system of which Hampshire plays an important role.
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It’s not too late to save Hampshire College - The Boston Globe
Hampshire College is vital to the educational ecosystem of the Commonwealth.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Cryptonomicron, Snow Crash, Baroque Trilogy?
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Very different from The Martian though full of technical analysis for problem solving. Seven Eves (Stephenso) is also terrific if you like space-oriented science fiction.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Such a great book!
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/02/2026
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding
The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hey inorganic people: Does anybody know what happened to the symmetry site at Jacobs university? I see that Jacobs has become Constructor. I'm wondering if the symmetry site - which was crazy useful - has been redeployed elsewhere. #inorganic #grouptheory #galois
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Really cool. Thanks for yet another excellent tool under the Avogadro umbrella.
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Good luck! Is there a course text that you use or are you supplying all of the course materials (since you're so facile with python notebooks, I'm guessing the latter)?
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Mark Schofield @markschofieldphd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A 2006 paper analyzes the public health response to the 1918 influenza pandemic not only validates the value of social distancing, but anticipates the consequences of relaxing those policies too soon. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
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