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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

New blog post: An updated #pandoc letterhead template. Basically a guide to an arguably overthought customizable template for writing letters in #markdown. blog.hartleygroup.org/2026/01/31/a...

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An updated pandoc letterhead template – Tech, Chem, Scott

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The ACS has deleted its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. And with that move, have shown they are worthy of none of the latter. People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it. www.acs.org/about/divers...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The US is an exceptional place to be a scientist for two reasons. 1. No country spends as much on research as the US (not even close); 2. It's less hierarchical than many places; hence, many opportunities to lead in academia, government, non-profits, and the private sector. Let's try to keep it.

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Alex Huffman @alexhuffman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Have any academic researchers started hearing about cuts/holds on federal grants from other federal agencies outside of NIH? I got a concerning message today about a grant hold, and it seems to be the same politics. Not surprising, but further worrying ... 😨

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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Steve Zimmerman @steveczimmerman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Physical organic chemists - is there a good (non textbook) collected series of graduate-level problems on pericyclic reactions? Looking for problems involving mechanisms, stereochemistry, and application of W-H, FMO, and Zimmerman methods.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 06/01/2025

Every paragraph of this classic Times obit of the heir to the Bovril fortune contains an absolute gem of the genre. Choose between the monkey peeing off the balcony, regularly taking 90 pairs of pants back to your mum to wash and the evisceration of Bruce Chatwin www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

🧪 Dear PIs: Don't work on weekends & holidays. And if you do, don't brag about it. It's NOT cool. It reflects a bad set of values that promote unhealthy work-balance practices in the team you lead. You're an example for your students and colleagues, live up to it.

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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The only time I really have imposter syndrome is when reviewing fellowship/award applications from students (or junior faculty). It’s astonishing how accomplished these young folk are. All I did as an undergrad was study chemistry with occasional breaks to shoot my housemates in Quake 3.

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Andrew Gulick @amgulick-lab.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

To celebrate finishing grading final papers, my favorite writing meme from over on the other site that–year after year–still applies. (posted there by a W. Andrew Barr)

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Today I wrote an email to myself and, reflexively, signed it “Best, Scott”. Feels like I’ve achieved peak academia.

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I am endlessly behind on the literature, but read this immediately when I first saw it weeks ago. Well worth it.

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I’ve now written long reviews for the same manuscript three times in the last 2.5 weeks. I’m just (politely) arguing back and forth with the authors at this point. We have differences of opinion and the editor needs to make a call rather than wasting more of everyone’s time.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

OK - since we're all here now. Any students interested in asymmetric catalysis / data science phd at leading European universities - with industry placements and lots of interaction www.tu-chemnitz.de/cataloop/ please share

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Interesting. So RFK Jr does believe in childhood interventions to give people immunity to things, it’s just that at some point he mixed up “racism” and “the measles”.

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Referee 1: Yeah, cups are fine, but can you do it with jars, mugs & glasses? Referee 2: You need to cite these 12 papers showing how to fill things (all ref. 2’s papers) Referee 3: You misspelled ‘container’ on page 6

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If anyone needs me, my new hobby is reading AI summaries of Amazon reviews for mediocre whoopee cushions. In this case, opinions are “mixed” on the sound quality.

AI summary of whoopee cushion reviews on Amazon: Customers find the product fun for kids and well worth the laugh. They mention it's a great idea for parties and keeps them engaged with family for hours. However, some customers have reported issues with durability, seam quality, and hole size.
They also say it's hard to inflate and doesn't hold air.
Opinions are mixed on the sound quality, with some finding it awesome and perfect, while others say there is no farting sound.

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

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Father McGee 🍁 @drinksmcgee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

Sun flag looking like it's giving a boat captain a back rub.

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Ewa Pastorczak @ewapastorczak.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

OK, folks. It took less time than I thought - the Women in Chemistry pack is now full of magnificent ladies of #Chemsky. You can follow them (us) all by clicking the "Follow all" button.

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Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It has happened. Confusing interaction with our admissions office. They had an applicant who kept insisting that the chemistry dept. (ie, me) was telling them conflicting information about admission reqs. Applicant was e-mailing admissions at Miami U. (Ohio) but dept. at U. of Miami (Florida).

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Photograph of Olympic National Park, showing a road in the foreground winding into a background of distant mountains.

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Not sure, but I think I may have gotten my first email asking to join my research group where #AI was used to take the research description on my website and turn it into a summary of personal research interests. It is better written than usual but nonsensical. #chemsky

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13/11/2024

ICYMIY: a story about a phrase you probably hear all the time… 👇

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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 11/11/2024

this came to me in a dream #iTeachChem #ChemSky

A captcha with "select all squares with metals" and the section of the p-block which contains semimetals.

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Well, the AIs seem to have irony figured out.

AI summary of Amazon reviews, including “They also appreciate the writing quality, describing it as well-written and eloquently.”

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I just don't understand why we need to spend hundreds of billions, steal decades of creative output, and wreck the environment all to build a machine that confidently gives the wrong answer to almost any question when mediocre men already exist.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/06/2024

Calm Down — Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World. “So don’t even worry about it.” [mcsweeneys.net]

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/05/2024

Exponential Growth xkcd.com/2936

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Even as Biden swings right and pisses us off on some issues, it would be sheer insanity to claim there's no difference. Biden may disappoint us—Trump will ANNIHILATE us.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/05/2024

As someone who’ll likely be sending a kid to college in a few years, I’m also paying keen attention to which institutions are trying to put a bullet into students. They will absolutely not get the chance to harm my kid.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

I haven’t said much about the protests because I’ve nothing original to say. (I know, innovative approach.) But as a nervous-to-paranoid American Jew, I’m a lot more worried about the guys in the background than the woman in the foreground.

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Joe For America @makeitunclear.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

remember like 15 years ago when companies started selling "hoverboards" that were actually just regular electric scooters that caught on fire all the time? and every company started pushing "hoverboards" and they all sucked until they exploded and people stopped buying them? well a.i. is different.

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Michael @donohoe.dev · 15/03/2024

This has officially made my week

Screenshot of a tweet that by Laura Ansley reads "Update your lesson plans, we have a new perfect example for Oxford commas.".
Below is a tweet by Benjamin Dreyer that reads "The highlights of his waning administration include encounters with Rudy Giuliani, a healthcare disaster and a dildo collector."

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Wins for Oppenheimer and Godzilla Minus One mean this is the first time a movie and its sequel both won Oscars the same year.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12/02/2024

The most "keep that man's name out of your mouth" ever

John F. Kennedy urges polio shots for all in U.S.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

RIP Professor Willie Leigh, physical organic chemist and former Chair of Chemistry at McMaster University (and blues musician). Great scientist and terrific guy. #ChemSky

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

if you want to survive on here you have to establish yourself. you gotta look around, find the biggest, wokest account you can, walk right up to them and scold them for insufficient intersectionality

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/02/2024

Greenhouse Effect xkcd.com/2889

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Steve @walrus.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

As Spotify gives $250 million to the king of the dudebros, a friendly reminder that there are other streaming options besides Spotify, none of whom are perfect but almost all of whom pay artists better (not great, but better) & aren’t singlehandedly funding this nonsense

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Scott Hartley @scotthartley.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Reskeet with an animal picture you took that could be an album cover

Photo of a dog lying in sunlight from a window.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Excellent article on an American hero. wapo.st/47SXXDS

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