After much careful thought and analysis I have determined that there are two types of chemists. You're either an ACN chemist or a MeCN chemist.

Meet the Minneapolis Punks Fighting ICE People in the DIY music scene are using the community organizing tactics they learned by putting on shows to battle ICE.

In the greater story of Minneapolis’ resistance to ICE, one chapter absolutely belongs to the punks organizing at every level. They’re observing, fundraising, running supplies, opening their spaces, coordinating, etc.

A story for @rollingstone.com. Thanks to everyone who spoke on the record.

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

American biomedical science in 2026 Where we are, how we got here, and what to do next

“Sustained, strong science, as with all public goods, requires government investment if it is to deliver long-term societal benefit.”

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/american-b...

I'm just tired and angry

www.vox.com/health/40268...

Efficacy and Toxicity Analysis of Selective BET Bromodomain Inhibitors in Models of Inflammatory Liver Disease BET bromodomain inhibitors demonstrate significant promise as anti-inflammatory agents. However, clinical data demonstrated that nonselective BET bromodomain inhibitors led to significant dose-limitin...

And its finally out! Check out my recent article investigating the role of BRD4 in inflammation. But what excites me the most: we explore the safety side of things, and reduce the risk of BET side effects by >50 fold through more selective molecules.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#chemsky

Share with US students who had their offers of admission withdrawn for PhD programs:

Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.

I know some of my relatives think this shit. Fortunately they’ve been at it for years and I already blocked them on everything blockable.

Graduate programs ceasing admissions in the US due to funding being cut off is going to cause a really interesting predicament for private industry when companies want to hire trained researchers in 4-5 years.

Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.

This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.

(Even better: Tesla will hate this)

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

Watery Grave painted after Sir John Everett Millais's 1851-52 work 'Ophelia'.

This site specifically

This is where I really miss bookmarks. Just spent 15 min sorting through and trying to find the helpful post on recrystallization. Can’t find it for the life of me #chemsky

I’m Canadian so I respect that I’m steps removed from all this, but if you’re a US elected official, coming on here to post, “AND he’s also done THIS horrible thing!”

…if your post does not then CONTINUE with, “and I’m doing THIS about it,” then just fuck off.

I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.

techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/m...

Can we talk people out of donating to Salvation Army entirely, please!

They force their charity recipients to attend religious conversion sessions as part of receiving assistance.

AND they're wildly transphobic and homophobic!

Fund better charities!

Check out some of our latest work in the style of Wes Anderson! We love recycling in any form 🐥♻️ #wesandersontrend #recycling #chemistry #chemsky

Getting into painting again, so posting some old work here for inspiration :) #mtg #mtgalters

Hey Bluesky. Newest piece.

Efficacy and toxicity analysis of selective BET bromodomain inhibitors in models of inflammatory liver disease BET bromodomain inhibitors demonstrate significant promise as anti-inflammatory agents targeting a variety of inflammatory disorders. However, clinical data has demonstrated that the administration of...

Officially made the migration, so I’d thought I’d start off with some shameless self promotion. Wanted to share the preprint of a great collab with the Mayo Clinic, where we examine the role of BET selectivity in inflammation.

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...