Reposted by Rob ScottLupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive. 2074533460
Reposted by Rob ScottPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables 723077759
Reposted by Rob ScottMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year 36859182
Reposted by Rob Scottc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly. 726488
Reposted by Rob Scottc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently... 7251109
Reposted by Rob ScottAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards 61362414
Reposted by Rob ScottJason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 24/12/2023I posted these stories on the bad place, thought i'd post them here for your entertainment (no gifs here unfortunately, use your imagination). Story 2: "My Worst Faculty Job Interview Ever" 2253
Reposted by Rob ScottTod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 25/09/2026Thinking of visiting the US? Consider it carefully, as they’re going to seize your phone and look at everything you have on it. 31307185
Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Walking around Alberta Legislature today. Depending on how you view it, Alberta is either proudly part of Canada or it isn’t… 020
Reposted by Rob ScottChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This Stanislav Petrov obit was particularly good: web.archive.org/web/20170928... ht @lizneeley.bsky.socialweb.archive.orgStanislav Petrov was declared to have died on September 18th“The man who saved the world” was 77 0112
Reposted by Rob ScottAndre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The details in this piece only add to the evilness that the headline introduces 244
Reposted by Rob ScottMatt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Be the change you want to see in the world 081
Reposted by Rob ScottAlejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This makes me irrationally mad 23387
Reposted by Rob ScottJason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If I won the Nobel I'd demand from my Uni a Universal Parking Pass. I can park ANYWHERE. On the grass. On the sidewalk. In the Dean's office. Anywhere. 2312
Reposted by Rob ScottMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“could” “risks” include… reduced critical thinkingreuters.comEx-Google safety chief warns AI could harm children more than social media didThe founder of the trust and safety team at Alphabet’s Google this week called for a slowdown in AI development, warning that the tech industry was repeating the same mistakes from the social media e... 187
Reposted by Rob ScottQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country. 14149392211
Reposted by Rob ScottCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/12/2023I fixed the headline. And I honestly don't understand how any journalist could write this story without mentioning the study author's own "extreme productivity". 629242
Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Decay Away Francium! Dilithium’s proper place as the 87th Element in the Periodic Table. 0101
Reposted by Rob Scottsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it 324271170
Reposted by Rob Scottsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow 21488311159
Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New Directions in Dynamic Carbonite Coatings: An In Situ Investigation 121
Reposted by Rob ScottSteve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on 4397281232
Reposted by Rob ScottDave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hey, that’s us! Cinnamaldehyde is a $5B/ year commodity, and derivatives with varying flavours & aromas can now be generated from benzaldehydes using #biocatalysis. Thanks and congratulations to my @usask.ca students for putting this idea into practice.pubs.acs.orgACS PublicationsACS Publications 2457
Reposted by Rob ScottJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Because of some attempts at phishing scams impersonating faculty, our provost has asked us to announce to our classes that we would never email them to ask for money or gift cards.static.klipy.comKombucha GirlAlt: Kombucha Girl 8699
Reposted by Rob ScottHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Whoa. The brain is actually two separate organisms that evolved independently www.thetimes.com/article/09fc...thetimes.comBrain made up of two distinct organs evolving independentlyScientists have discovered the brain is made of separate systems, solving a longstanding riddle and aiding research into diseases like ALS 4189
Reposted by Rob ScottMike Noble @mikenoble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ultimate Man shook my hand and then told me exactly how I was going to die. 2641626233
Reposted by Rob ScottDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Thread. The close personal details of how this government is pulling the plug on a generation of scientific progress. 28832
Reposted by Rob ScottThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, called the training of AI models the “largest theft of labor in human history,” according to a legal brief.washingtonpost.comMicrosoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records showThe quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI. 713866
Reposted by Rob ScottChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is the coolest #facultychemjobs positions I've seen in a long, long time: "Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader in the Chemistry of Wildfires", UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna, BC research.ubc.ca/media/file/i... Best wishes to those interested #chemjobscanada #chemskyresearch.ubc.ca 42412
Reposted by Rob ScottDave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#ChemjobsCanada Great opportunity for an atmospheric chemist. (Assuming the Okanagan hasn’t completely burned to ash in the very near future) 052
Reposted by Rob ScottTabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh no, Canada has disappointed Susan Collins.cbc.caRepublican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC NewsA long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union. 4923149
Reposted by Rob ScottMark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026Scientist 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. 9362145
Reposted by Rob ScottChemjobber @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 Rob ScottTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through. 845336811
Reposted by Rob ScottPZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Q: What's the large muscular organ in a woman's chest called? A: The heart? Q: I'm sorry, Bob. It's the SPLEEN. The spleen. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2... 2461008202
Reposted by Rob ScottDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026wtf kind of pets they got in there 1804129817
Reposted by Rob ScottSergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 14/09/2026Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr) 727697
Reposted by Rob Scottℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026pains me to celebrate a vile Boston Red Sock but an immaculate inning on 9 straight full-effort grunting fastballs is a Dudes Rock moment 3487
Reposted by Rob ScottNobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 13/09/2026"I've benefitted in my own lab from having a diverse lab of coworkers." Nobel Prize laureates Andrea Ghez and Carolyn Bertozzi speak about the importance of diversity. 113530
Reposted by Rob ScottJanet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It used to be common knowledge that 38% of statistical claims are made up on the spot. 3366
Reposted by Rob ScottDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 361742737
Reposted by Rob ScottAaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For those who didn't catch Jean Chrétien's remarks to the Gander 9/11 commemoration... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caJean Chrétien says ‘we bow to no one’ in stirring 9/11 speech in Gander, N.L. | CBC NewsFormer Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien drew thunderous applause on Friday during a fiery and patriotic speech in Gander, N.L, where many had gathered at a sports arena to commemorate the 25th an... 521988
Reposted by Rob ScottAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you're making cheesy chips, for the love of god please layer the chips and cheese. Those substrata chips are not going to cheese themselves. 621609130