I am moderately fond of the attoparsec.

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And, for something completely different and yet still rather cool, my friend and colleague Sweta has a fully funded PhD on anti-cancer drug discovery:
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To quote an expert in these things I know, "If you want me to watch a video, you need to pay for my time."

From your lips to God's ears.

Years ago, during Covid, I asked IT for a how-to-for-colleagues for a key but obscure process, specifying no video. The twat sent a 5 minute video with a bloody 30s cover intro. I watched it, and then made a 3 sentence instruction with a small screenshot.

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I've got a fully funded PhD position in my group at Greenwich, doing some fun ligand design and main group (aluminium) catalysis with phosphazenes and ylids - please, share widely and drop me an email at e.clark@gre.ac.uk if you're interested.

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Aye, not too bad. Glad to have survived another term.

Very cool!

Would it be nice to have an authority figure speak freely? Yes.

Will it happen in the US or UK? When hell freezes over.

Given the orange shitgibbon's love of stochastic terrorism, she absolutely should.

I'm not arguing she's a saint, but (a) she's a professional politician who needs to appeal to American voters to have any power to do anything, and (b) American voters are, in aggregate, publicly puritanical.

Lovely!

On the one hand, absolutely. On the other, near as I can tell more USians are offended that he said fuck than that he promised to kill millions for failing to bow before him.
And if she responded honestly, she would be pilloried as hysterical.
Shit be fucked up.

Yes! PhD funding acquired for a fun project working with main group catalysts.

The advert will follow in a few days, but anyone who has an interested candidate, please tell them to drop me a line for a chat at e.clark@gre.ac.uk and I'll happily answer their questions.

There really needs to be a "I don't like this post, but I'm sighing in tired sympathy and acknowledgement" button.

Email can disappear, but the enshittification of search functions is also very real. If I search for emails from a colleague, my in-house system returns them in essentially random order, for instance. It's easier to find things from last year than last week.

If anyone has a final year student interested in a PhD in main group chemistry (namely phosphacation based fun), please could you get them to contact me at e.clark@gre.ac.uk for a chat.

It's one of those "need a name to put forward" things, you see.

(UK only, I'm afraid)

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Glycine is the only amino acid with knowing. The rest are just trying too hard, the posers.

Greengage is the one I remember from childhood. It was 30 years before I actually saw the real fruit.

I think it fairly safe to say that he doesn't consider democrats/non-whites/LGBT/etc to be Americans, and wouldn't see the issue if someone raised it with him.

Not that anyone with an original thought would be allowed in his presence, of course.

And Euston has once more taken a giant step backwards in terms of userfriendliness, and we're once more down to a single giant board at ow-my-neck-hurts above head height.

Wonderful, isn't it.

Almost as good as searching for files on your HD being broken too.

Manchester is east of bloody Edinburgh ffs.

I've had some luck with hexamethyldisiloxane when working with insanely lipophilic tetrylenes.

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The inorganic ones were (unsurprisingly) my faves - giving the axes for trends and core spacing for structures and bullets for lists meant you could make legible notes easily.

Of course, this was back when overheads were used, not the devil's anal wart that is Powerpoint. Kept everyone to task.

Thankfully, I didn't have that (though the prick who taught me stereocontrol was utterly useless in other ways). The organic ones were typically "here's the first bit all there, so I can show you where the curly arrows go, and we can work out the product together" (with a good in-front-of-you ref)

But yes, complete notes just encourage an assumption of spontaneous gnostic osmosis from .pdf to brain.

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was an undergrad, the best lecturers provided partial handouts with important bits missing. Meant you had to listen and take notes, but prioritised key points and you had e.g. scale references for images so they were all clear. Worked brilliantly for us.

At least they used the correct singular.

It's the *only* good point, but ...

Things you do not want to hear when you get to work: "The chiller failed and the X-ray tube shut down unexpectedly."

AAAARGH.

Thankfully, all is now well and working again, but I did not need the spike in stress, thank you very much.