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Sean Elliott

@profsje.bsky.social
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Professor of Chemistry at Boston University; Labradoodle wrangler; T1 Diabetic; friend of English Majors

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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
6 days to register a comment on NIH Request for Information (RFI) on Changing Reporting Outcomes for Peer Review. They are proposing to hide the impact scores and percentiles. 🤔 funding decisions will not be transparent👎🏼. Register a comment while you still can rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...
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Request For Information
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!
Tintin cartoon
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I believe the tech term will be “snortable medsnot”… and I’m a chemist, so I bank all my cred on this statement
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From 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.
a graph of the normal growth rate of the Chemistry Faculty Jobs List, showing two deviations, the year during COVID (fall 2020-spring 2021) and the first year of the second Trump Administration (fall 25-spring 26)
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026
Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AS MR. CRANLEY SAYS, "I pray, should you ever sabbatibut during a sabbatibibble, you shall gladly sabbatibustle about your sabbaticattle." Amen and Sabbitellujah #Sabbaticalibus
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this is pretty wild if it catches on in the United States, waste costs for organic solvents will jump significantly
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AbiWail KaBooKer @akabaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
... and then the Dinosaurs? ... and then the Pirates? ... and then the ninja-pixies? (just hoping...)
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am very sorry to read all of this; but also vaguely cheered by the truth that my rather challenging day, with very little to show for it (not even accidental cake!) was not a solo effort. Here's a better day tomorrow.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And there it is. As rumored, and as predicted by YHN from the gitgo, enhanced triage of NIH grants will continue. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
grants.nih.gov
NOT-OD-26-114: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices NOT-OD-26-114. NIH
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What an unfair sadness. I am so sorry for your and Stu's loss.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And now is the time on Sprockets when we learn what happens in terminal 5 of JFK between 1 and 6am....
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So… “Backrooms” is Piranesi written for film by Clive Barker, yes? (Just watched it, yes it was very cool and thought provoking, also where did they find all of that late 80’s wall paper?)
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
> like I want to die doing something awesome like dueling a honey-badger kaiju sithlord, and not because of a sloppy operating system roll out.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When you’re a #T1D and you get an email from Tandem saying HEY ABOUT THAT NEW VERSION OF IOS THAT WILL LIKELY DISABLE YOUR LIFE ENABLING TECHNOLOGY — DON’T DO IT… something is going wrong in the tech space… I would not like to die b/c I can’t parse email fast enough >
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PRESENT
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The matter has been solved! Thanks for your suggestions!
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I should add: I am OK (for today, and, likely tomorrow), and I have a spare pen and needles as back-ups. But ... umm, I'd like my gear back for this week, or at the end of the week, things may get interesting.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Last night some left the LAX rental car shuttle with my bag! Clothes can be replaced, but my #T1D tandem mobi supplies cannot. Any Metro LA #diabetes patients with spare infusion sets & cartridges? Will be calling med tech suppliers today…. Please help if you can.
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Mary Munson @marymunson4.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Structural biology postdoctoral position open in my lab--apply now! For more information about the lab, see www.umassmed.edu/munsonlab/. Interested candidates should apply through the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School jobs portal (www.ummsjobs.com/job/11668/).
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Munson Lab | Home | BMB | UMass Chan Medical School
The Munson Lab researches the mechanistic basis for the regulation of spatial and temporal specificity in membrane trafficking in the Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology Department at UMass Chan Me...
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What is a Lottie to do with no Stream? Alas, alack and woe!
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Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Boston University Announces New Convergent Research Programs New funding opportunities and a cluster hiring push are the first projects to emerge from Task Force on Convergent Research and Education’s recommendations.
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Boston University Announces New Convergent Research Programs
New funding opportunities and a cluster hiring push are the first projects to emerge from Task Force on Convergent Research and Education’s recommendations
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"I remember the last time I saw my feral, tender childe -- he was crisp yet moist, yet none was more surprised than I when he grew his very own legs and ran to the hills, laughing through the night, swearing he would have revenge on the Colonel, damn his secret herbs and spices to Hell..."
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Possible dead batteries that you haven’t the heart to throw out
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I hope you are doing OK.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Painting by Gustav Klimt. ‘Tannenwald I’ Pine Forest I,1901. Oil on canvas. Size 90 x 90 cm.
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Thriveabetes @thriveabetes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
WHY I DECIDED TO USE AN INSULIN PUMP Hello I’m Gráinne from Thriveabetes. I’ve been pumping since 2010, and I wanted to share why I chose to use an insulin Pump and what the pros and cons of using a pump are. buff.ly/VpOvroc #SpeirGorm #T1D #Diabetes #HSE #NIDOC #InsulinPump #HCL
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I may sell a kidney to afford them!
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In case it wasn’t clear enough — they have come to murder our Science, and our academic system at large.
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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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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb47...
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The Muppets "Mahna Mahna" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
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Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
BU Schedules Informational Town Halls Regarding New Federal Cap on International Students’ Time in the US University focused on supporting community as it navigates new policy. Learn more ⬇️
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BU Schedules Informational Town Halls Regarding New Federal Cap on International Students’ Time in the US
University focused on supporting community as it navigates new policy
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Seems to work for me on my phone….
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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"Boston University biochemist Dr. Sarah Chen confirmed that she was packing for a version of herself who would wake up early, use the hotel gym, and make healthy choices at the conference buffet."
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Keep going with the deadline coming. Keep it going.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ACLU Comment on the proposed OMB regulation. They have some thoughts... It is 54 pages long! Well done! www.aclu.org/documents/ac...
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Big Book Huge Book
ALT: Big Book Huge Book
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John Lampe @jwlampe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hey science types! OMB has a proposed rule, OMB-2026-0034, which would be terrible for scientific funding. The comment period closes on Monday 7/13 - if you can, leave a comment opposing it. Here’s some info: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne... #chemsky
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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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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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
nature.com
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I cannot express my profound sadness at this … gaaaahhh. Heros and clay. Bleah.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
2nd grant rejected! Oh, it's not all sunshine and roses here, my friends.
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Amaze amaze amaze!
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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you see the word Syllabus enough times, I assure you it loses all context and meeting. Syllabus -> silly bus -> platypus -> syllabub -> cilla, Bub. I swear....
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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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