To all who celebrate

Visualization of the COVID spike protein 6vxx with real-time shadows in Avogadro2 to give depth effects. All hydrogen atoms are hidden. Grey spheres are carbon atoms, red spheres are oxygen, blue spheres are nitrogen, and yellow spheres are sulfur atoms.

Screenshot from Avogadro showing a C₆₀ buckminsterfullerene cage with a translucent purple sodium atom inside

Screen rendering of a zeolite supercell showing shadows and depth blurring. Brown spheres are silicon atoms and red spheres are oxygen atoms

Rendering of a protein surrounded by a solvation sphere of water in wireframe view (using red-white lines to indicate the water molecules)

Avogadro 2.0's rendering was rebuilt for modern GPUs. Smooth even with tens of thousands of atoms.

Real-time shadows and ambient occlusion give depth and clarity — and a new layer system lets you hide solvent, toggle styles, and focus on what matters.

#opensource #openscience #compchem

"Use the personal moderation tools!"

"No wait, not like tha---"

Not ACS, but for fall ECS in Canada, I have 2 students who are submitting abstracts knowing that they may not actually be able to make the trip because of this.

Looks to be Pamela Buckles (www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-bu...) as confirmed by an accepted LinkedIn invitation in the Epstein files.

I wonder who this Pam person is.

Metal of The Day is Manganese

Symbol: Mn

Important for imparting strength and resistance to steel

Salts of Mn have been shown to be excellent oxidants and are effective in melting ice

We all appreciate Mn
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To be fair, that's just because they're not allowed within 500 feet of any schools per their registry status.

You'll never look back.

Please hit em with a copyright strike or something. Would be hilarious.

Image of character Mike Teevee from the original Willy Wonka movie.

Big Mike Teevee energy.

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Old meme of a white owl with a look of surprise and the text O R L Y (oh really?) in the bottom middle.

Still hard to believe "a taco truck on every corner" was viewed as a political insult/threat by some.

Oh no, how awful to get hot delicious food!

President's a pedophile. Pass it on.

Like a weird ass Pinocchio whose forehead extends with each divorce.

No unanimous consent.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Me!

I was sort of curious to see how ChatGPT would manage this task. So here's my prompt, and the robot's intro email:

Seems like a good opportunity for a reporter to ask him about what "he" says in one of the videos. Likely he'd start rambling as though it was real.

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Getting some weird nerd version of "I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids" vibes from this.

The National Dongument

Sounds like people are doing the RICO in sending you the RICO stories. A Matricosha doll, if you will.

"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.

Remarkable last words:

Audience member: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?

Kirk: Too many

Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?

Kirk: Counting or not counting gang members?

"You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. ... But I think it's worth it ... to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."