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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Such an iconic photo, further immortalized in Lego form. Goodbye to a legend.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The brutalist frog on the Boston Government Service Center disapproves of your choice:

Weird and wonderful frog on the exterior of Paul Rudolph's brutalist Boston Government Service Center

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Recognizable to fans of the “Spy x Family” manga:

Damien Desmond sitting in Mackintosh’s chair

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As both a typography nerd and a musical theater nerd, I can say with authority that this is the greatest thing on the internet:

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60 years of #StarTrek! In honor of Gene Roddenberry's show, I figured I'd dust off my blog post about the time he filmed the pilot of another (slightly less famous) show at UC Riverside: groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2019-...

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Did you ever get to meet her, Peter? I can probably count on one hand the number of "celebrities" that I'd really want to meet, but she would have been at the top of that list.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The South has a lot of problems, and I don't often feel like a Southerner. But I will always be proud that I grew up right down the road from where Dolly grew up.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's been nine years since I investigated the fake "California South University," which clumsily stole its history from the real University of Alberta: groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2017-... Imagine the fake university they could make today using generative AI to steal from hundreds of real universities.

A satirical graphic I made reading "Proud graduate of California South University" around a mortarboard hat with the Latin placeholder text "Lorem ipsum"

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m struck by how similar these are to electronic orbital shapes:

Diagram of orbital shapes from libretexts

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Alex Guseman @alexguseman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Come be my colleague! We are hiring a structural biologist. I have thoroughly enjoyed starting my career here and both department(s) are full of exceptional scientists. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04589

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor in Structural Biochemistry

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

OK I'm intrigued - I'll admit I've never tried Cheezies but Old Dutch Ketchup Chips are the pinnacle of snack food for me so I can't imagine anything better. But I'll give Cheezies a try next time I'm up north.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ketchup chips would like to have a word...

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

While we're venting about Adobe: I love having price tags in the menus... 🤬

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Seriously, look how the new People Mover tracks (top) and walkway (left) go out of their way to *avoid* the Theme Building. If the Theme Building can't be a restaurant again, I wish the new transit infrastructure could have utilized it somehow, instead of avoiding it like it's a leper colony.

Satellite view of the LAX Theme Building with the People Mover track and pedestrian walkways curving around it.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The weird emptiness of the Theme Building will be even more acutely evident when (if?) the People Mover opens. It'll be right at eye level for train riders.

The Automated People Mover, LAX’s 2.25-mile electric train system, runs without passengers during a series of testing at LAX. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Jean Tinguely, Meta-Mécanique, 1954 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Reminds me of stumbling upon a construction site in Somerville MA in 2011 that was being paved with (presumably unused!) pieces of military cemetery headstones:

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

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The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Clavicle fractures on the shoulder of Orion. I watched kidney stones glitter in the dark near the bowels. All those moments will be lost in time, like barium in an esophagus..."

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I recently went through US customs at IAD and a team of researchers were collecting nasal swabs for a "CDC study" and any other time in my life I would have happily participated but this time I thought "no way in hell I'm telling RFK Jr. anything about my body."

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Most of the 5-star reviews have a little "Received free product" disclaimer.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thanks for the report on the show! I have fond memories of seeing them about 30 years ago at the Gorge Amphitheater in WA. I can't imagine the pressure of filling Neil Peart's shoes - sounds like Anika is the right person for the job.

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STAT @statnews.com · 26/05/2026

STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science. www.statnews.com/careers/stat...

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STAT, Reporter, Trust-in-Science

About STAT In November 2015, STAT was launched as a new national media brand focused on health, medicine, and life sciences. Since then, we have grown to

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you happen to like pens and stationery, hit up Ginza Itoya. Also Hands is like the greatest weirdest department store ever. Also eat okonomiyaki! (sorry for the blast of unsolicited recommendations but I love Japan...)

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Hey Bluesky geologists 🧪, we've had about 60 earthquakes over the past few weeks in a pretty small area in the hills between Riverside/MoVal and Redlands (including a few >3.0 that I've felt in Riverside). Is there anything interesting going on here?

Screenshot of USGS website showing recent earthquakes

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I like to imagine a parallel universe where Pullman's work got the fame it deserved and I can walk around "Lyra's World" at Universal Studios...

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Pullman's "His Dark Materials" books (1995, 97, 00) were contemporaneous with the first three Harry Potter books (1997, 98, 99) and arguably in the same genre, and Pullman's were vastly superior to Rowling's (to me at least), but Pullman's books attained a tiny fraction of the fame of Rowling's.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Gratitude to @greatdismal.bsky.social from whom I learned about Tokyu Hands

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If anyone needs me, I'll be in...

Selfie on the stationery floor at the Hands department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, with a bilingual Japanese/English sign in the background reading "the Pen Section."

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Interesting. I made an animation that switches between your Feb Instagram version and Trump's version of this (despicable) image. It looks like the whole top ~5% of the image was changed, not just the horned beast. Maybe the original image was cropped then extended using AI? Regardless, weird.

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Dr. Julian Lozos @seismogenic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

⚒️🧪 Got an @earthscope.org email saying that the #ArtemisII re-entry shockwave may be audible in coastal southern California between 17:00 and 17:15 PDT or so today! If you're in this area, fill out a USGS felt report with details of what you do (or don't) hear! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"All the President's Men" is my all-time favorite movie. Lots of interesting tidbits and trivia about the movie in this thread:

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I've got one! After learning from @who.int about the global problem of substandard and falsified medicines a few years ago, I made it a priority in my research lab to develop low-cost and easy-to-use tools for identifying fake drugs: groverlab.org/fakes/ #WorldHealthDay #StandWithScience

A montage of pills we tested using Disintegration Fingerprinting.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This is batshit crazy... So just to make sure I understand, was the Facebook-AI-generated copy suggested for you to use in an ad *you* would pay for to promote your article? Or is someone else paying Facebook to generate ads like this and Facebook was getting your OK to link the ad to your article?

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The paper is at pubs.acs.org/articlesonre... and if you have any problems accessing it, an identical preprint is at www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... All data, source code, and CAD designs are freely available at open.groverlab.org. [4/4] 🧪

pubs.acs.org

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We used DF to test pills from 32 different drug products and found that it correctly identified 90% of these pills. Even when testing pills from 33 different manufacturing lots of two similar drug products, our technique still correctly identified 100% of the pills. [3/4] 🧪

Disintegration Fingerprints for three pills (orange, blue, and green) of each of 32 different drug products. While each product’s DFs are relatively similar, DFs of different products are strikingly different.

Average Disintegration Fingerprints for the 32 products tested

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The technique converts the disintegration and dissolution of a pill into a digital fingerprint that can be compared to other pills' fingerprints to find a match and determine the authenticity of the medicine. [2/4] 🧪

Our prototype Disintegration Fingerprinting apparatus. (A) A servo drops a single pill into a water-filled cup atop a magnetic stirrer. The pill begins to disintegrate into particles (B), and an infrared optical sensor on the side of the cup detects the light reflected by individual particles as they pass the sensor (C). As the particles disintegrate and dissolve further, the number of particles detected changes (D). A plot of peak count versus time (E) serves as a “Disintegration Fingerprint” for this pill.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Our latest out today in the journal Analytical Chemistry: "Disintegration Fingerprinting" uses a $4 optical sensor (meant for use in toy robots!) to identify substandard and falsified medicines, which are a massive problem in many parts of the world. [1/4] 🧪#chemsky

Photo of the Disintegration Fingerprinting hardware and a sample Disintegration Fingerprint from an aspirin tablet.

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William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Very cool work. When life gives you layer-line lemons, make microfluidic lemonade!

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