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Matthew Murphy

@mzchem-murphy.bsky.social
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Mass spectrometry, metabolomics, lipidomics. Wannabe cyclist. Views are my own and not my employer’s.

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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 7h
Can we please just shut these companies down already? They have yet to demonstrate any value that justifies the cost they inflict on people's lives. ChemSky is awesome, but I was good with mailing lists and web forums before that.
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KM Apothecary @apothcarysees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When I saw Ghost, the Pacific Giant octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific she was entering senescence and slowing down. I captured her color with airbrush, so now she has a portrait.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless.
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This central point really can't be emphasized enough. You don't need to soak up all the available capital on the planet to develop AI tools for research in math, biology, medicine, etc. You do, however, if you intend to be the gatekeeper.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026
The number of Memphis residents whom I am willing to give respiratory illness in order to solve the Riemann hypothesis is still zero, you absolute kneebiters.
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It used to be that you could make a lot of money AND be a human being. Funny how that’s changed.
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s just racism. That’s it. Everyone knows exactly what they are saying. They should put on your white sheets and be done with it. They’d be happier and we’d be done with the exhausting exercise in semantics.
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Atlantic continues to undermine its once eloquent and thoughtful contribution to political and cultural discourse.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/09/2026
Okay, this got me.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026
I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.
Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 30/08/2026
This morning's launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center was amazing! Roman is now on a million-mile journey to Lagrange point 2, where it will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets: go.nasa.gov/4qIa69I #NASARoman 🔭 Credit: J. Barrientes/STScI.
A rocket is launching into the sky from a launch pad, emitting bright flames and smoke. Trees are visible in the foreground.Crowd capturing a SpaceX rocket launch with smartphones, against a sunrise sky.A rocket launches into a cloudy sky, emitting a bright trail of light and smoke.A rocket with a fiery trail ascending into a clear blue sky, leaving a thick plume of white smoke underneath.
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The always fascinating octopus offers another unique feature.
smithsonianmag.com
Why Are Some Octopuses So Smart? The Answer Might Lie in a Never-Before-Seen Mutation That Helps Them Accurately Build Proteins
Scientists discovered a strange feature in certain octopuses’ ribosomal RNA, molecules that create a 3D scaffold for cellular protein factories. It was found only in shallow-water creatures that have ...
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think the ASCI artists of the 80’s and 90’s would have been excellent tile designers during the late 19th early 20th century.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You know it wasn’t Erdos because Erdos was a machine that turned amphetamines into theorems. Coffee just wasn’t strong enough for his god-tier ADHD.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If I were wrong 50% of the time I’d be in jail but sure why not use AI chatbots for your health www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
CIDRAP
“AI chatbots provide poor answers to medical
questions half the time, study finds”

Mary Van Beusekom, MS, April 15, 2026
Topics: Misc Emerging Topics
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century is heading for mass production. TB still kills 1.23 million people a year. WHO estimates a vaccine with this efficacy profile could prevent 76 million cases and save 8.5 million lives over 25 years. Reuters buff.ly/fI5mDxR #ShareGoodNewsToo
reuters.com
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/indias-serum-institute-partners-with-gates-mri-make-expiremental-tb-vaccine-2026-07-16/
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#chemsky #chemchat
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Can’t see the eclipse today? Someone has tacked all the locations of accessible webcams in the path of totality for remote viewing on a handy map. jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse...
jonty.github.io
2026 Total Eclipse Webcams
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ArchReactor, St. Louis’ first Makerspace/Hackerspace is hosting an open house Saturday Aug 12th, 4 pm to 9 pm. Come down, have a bite, try some liquid nitrogen ice cream, and tour the space. See what resources are available and what the members are up to. Visit the website for more: archreactor.org
A flyer advertising the ArchReactor open house on Aug 12th from 4 to 9 pm. Food, music, and good company. Hot dogs and burgers, liquid nitrogen ice cream, available. Tours and demonstrations including aluminum pouring
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Bouquet of zebrafish nasal epithelium. Credit to @inyoungj88.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday #SciArt 🧪
Rosette of olfactory epithelium in a zebrafish
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Kester Allen @kesterallen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵
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Jeff Foust @jfoust.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
From NASA's press secretary, an update on the Madrid DSN site. Wildfire damage is "primarily to pavement and surrounding vegetation, with no significant structural damage observed to antennas or buildings." x.com/NASASpox/sta...
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Bethany Stevens (@NASASpox) on X
On July 25, an initial onsite inspection by the NASA Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) emergency response team found wildfire damage primarily to pavement and surrounding vegetation, wi...
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of MAHA to think that experts can capture and steer it. The core of it is a rejection of expertise in service of pure egotism. These people will kill their own children to maintain the buzz they get from thinking they're smarter than the medical establishment.
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
convincing people that computers are smart was a huge mistake. computers are exactly as stupid now as they were in 1975, they're just much faster at stupid.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I haven’t seen *any* coverage of this and worry people have just become numb (or are too distracted by the World Cup, Knicks, etc.)
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Interesting story about a brazen incident. A dangerous mix of AI temptation and a succeed at all costs culture. Also another example of teachers again being undermined by administrators who see students (& the parents) as customers and education as product. english.elpais.com/education/20...
english.elpais.com
Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: ‘Academic integrity is at risk’
The renowned economist Roberto Serrano has ‘overwhelming evidence’ that his students cheated. He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher edu...
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is really cool. Until they can get radio telescopes on the far side of the moon, I imagine terrestrial radio signals will continue to eat into what’s observable to radio astronomers. Near to see them clawing back some of the sky.
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.
The Woman yelling at a cat meme, but the woman is now Gene Wilder's Dr Frankenstein ("Fronkensteen!"), his friend is Terri Garr's Inga, and the cat is now Igor ("Eye-gor!"), who is sitting behind the table with a big smile on his face. The table in front of him is taken up by a large glass jar with a brain in it. The label on the jar reads: "DO NOT USE THIS BRAIN! ABNORMAL". For the sake of argument, the massive hand resting on the chair behind him belongs to Peter Boyle's Monster. Although Mel Brooks does not personally appear in this image, it would not exist without him.
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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
You love to see it.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/06/2026
10/10. No notes. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Ping: @cwnewser.bsky.social
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piledhigherdeeper.bsky.social @piledhigherdeeper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Reflux at room temperature
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded
Getting results in Shanghai 

In China, it's a different story.

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing.

China is pouring huge resources into developing all sorts of biological research, including gene therapy, aiming to curb its reliance on the West and become an even bigger world superpower. This spring, the country pledged billions in additional science funding. Shu, who trained at Harvard Medical School and is working on solving the same problems as David Corey, has plenty of staff in his lab, all the supplies he needs and can just get more done. "My lab is growing bigger and bigger," he says. And it's far bigger than his lab when he was in Boston, training under Corey and his mentees.

For decades, the U.S. has brought the smartest people in the world — like Yilai Shu — to its shores. Many have stayed. Shu wanted to, but family and a scientific opportunity, with lots of funding, drew him back home. That decision was rewarded when his team had a successful trial on a single injection that can restore hearing.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
When an Eppendorf falls and you look for it under the -80
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/06/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
projects.propublica.org
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The regime tried to rip 900 scientific weather sensors out of the ocean to save a buck. This week, massive grassroots pressure completely forced them to surrender. Read how we won: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/slotkin-mo...
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.
ctvnews.ca
Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study
The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.
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puuuumpkin lemma @evpok.love · 18/06/2026
my students are currently interning at companies doing document classification and all their reports are like LLM: accuracy 60%, cost 2k€ BERT and SVM: accuracy 50%, cost 20€ Regex: accuracy 80%, cost 0.10€
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
crankgpt.com Genius
crankgpt.com
CrankGPT — Local Human-powered AI
A human-powered, fully local, fully private AI solution.
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Listen, whenever all this heart-rending soul-crushing chaos begins to get you down, treat yourself to a dose of @quantamagazine.bsky.social—the best website on the internet. This is such an incredible world, full of meaning. Easy to forget, but quanta can remind you
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Keb’ Mo’ @kebmo.com · 19/06/2026
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of their freedom. This monumental news came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and effectively marked the end of slavery in the United States. #juneteenth
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nationalize SpaceX. #NationalizeSpaceX Return zero dollars to the investors. It would be interesting to see how much illegal money has been laundered through Musk’s companies.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Every Scottish story out of Boston is so charming. "Scottish man plays bagpipes with bucket drummers." "Scottish fans sing full version of Proclaimers hit at Fenway." "Scottish fans enjoy notorious cop slide." "Bars run out of beer due to Scottish visitors." A shame this can't go on all year
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
1,000 New Yorkers won our lottery for affordable tickets to the World Cup. Today, we celebrated in the stands for the first NY/NJ game of the tournament. The beautiful game belongs to everyone.
Mayor Mamdani attends the match between Morocco and Brazil with some of the New Yorkers who won the World Cup affordable tickets lottery.
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Matthew Murphy @mzchem-murphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The early years when we read to our kids at bedtime are some of the greatest and most cherished memories I have. I get there is utility to a tool like this, we both work full time, but you know it’s aimed at the “grind” mindset folks. But, Echo? A CD player is cheap and a library card is free.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In case you missed this 2024 story: Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen. Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it. Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.
theguardian.com
‘Frog saunas’ could save species from deadly fungal disease, study finds
Australian scientists create brick refuges in greenhouses to help green and golden bell frogs survive infection
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