Barney Grubbs
@barneygrubbs.bsky.social
chemist
he/him
north central long island
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he/him
north central long island
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Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
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"Once these platforms are in place on CUNY campuses, they can license them at cost to SUNY, to NYC Public Schools, potentially to any educational institution who chooses them over the always overpriced, often enshittified, ever-extractive for-profit EdTech platforms."
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"Once these platforms are in place on CUNY campuses, they can license them at cost to SUNY, to NYC Public Schools, potentially to any educational institution who chooses them over the always overpriced, often enshittified, ever-extractive for-profit EdTech platforms."
Great to visit the kid on her new home turf this weekend & meet some of her new friends & see some old friends (& white knuckle through two exciting baseball games in unsympathetic territory)!
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Great to visit the kid on her new home turf this weekend & meet some of her new friends & see some old friends (& white knuckle through two exciting baseball games in unsympathetic territory)!
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OK lads, the new @lankumdublin.bsky.social is about to drop and I can not prepare you adequately for Lankum doing techno, you have been warned:
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
YouTube video by LankumDublin
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
OK lads, the new @lankumdublin.bsky.social is about to drop and I can not prepare you adequately for Lankum doing techno, you have been warned:
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
should’ve made the prop bet that the game would last longer than the two sessions of western regional acs talks I sat through today
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
should’ve made the prop bet that the game would last longer than the two sessions of western regional acs talks I sat through today
Last Javits water bottle report for a while—co-instructor tagging in.
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Last Javits water bottle report for a while—co-instructor tagging in.
Special Organic Chemistry Exam 2 Engineering Building lost water bottle & extinguisher obstruction report
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Special Organic Chemistry Exam 2 Engineering Building lost water bottle & extinguisher obstruction report
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Anyone else think it’s sort of funny how AWS laid off 40% of its DevOps staff in July because AI made them “redundant” and then it suffered a catastrophic outage?
AWS Laid Off 40% of Its DevOps Staff — What They’re Using Instead Will Shock You
- By Sandesh (5 + Years of DevOps | CI/CD | AWS | k8 | DevSecOps)
aws.plainenglish.io
October 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Anyone else think it’s sort of funny how AWS laid off 40% of its DevOps staff in July because AI made them “redundant” and then it suffered a catastrophic outage?
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I had a coworker whose daughter needed neonatal heart surgery, the before insurance cost was close to a million dollars.
Pre-ACA she would have blown through her entire lifetime quota of healthcare *before even being born* in multiple ways.
Pre-ACA she would have blown through her entire lifetime quota of healthcare *before even being born* in multiple ways.
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I had a coworker whose daughter needed neonatal heart surgery, the before insurance cost was close to a million dollars.
Pre-ACA she would have blown through her entire lifetime quota of healthcare *before even being born* in multiple ways.
Pre-ACA she would have blown through her entire lifetime quota of healthcare *before even being born* in multiple ways.
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If you're looking for an action to take tomorrow that can help protect millions of people regardless of their immigration status, call your governor to demand a ban on utility shutoffs this winter. Every state has slightly different policy– we got you covered.
Here's your guide to fighting utility shutoffs this winter. W/o the gov't open, few to no states will have funds for emergency bill payment program LIHEAP. This doc has scripts, state context, contact info for governors & commissions, everything you need. Please call! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
NO UTILITY SHUTOFFS scripts by state
🚨 WE NEED AN EMERGENCY BAN ON UTILITY SHUTOFFS DUE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN 🚨 TAKE ACTION: ONE E-MAIL OR PHONE CALL! ⚡ Hello! Welcome to our crowdsourced effort to campaign for ending util...
docs.google.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you're looking for an action to take tomorrow that can help protect millions of people regardless of their immigration status, call your governor to demand a ban on utility shutoffs this winter. Every state has slightly different policy– we got you covered.
got a little worried when a guy at the rally this morning walked up to a pickup with trump flags in the back & was talking them, then was amused to see he had successfully bummed a smoke
October 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
got a little worried when a guy at the rally this morning walked up to a pickup with trump flags in the back & was talking them, then was amused to see he had successfully bummed a smoke
Favorite sign from this morning says something about my age & how much TV I watched in the late 70s/early 80s.
October 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Favorite sign from this morning says something about my age & how much TV I watched in the late 70s/early 80s.
WEEK 8 Javits lost bottle report. Up to 14 bottles but holding at two umbrellas.
October 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
WEEK 8 Javits lost bottle report. Up to 14 bottles but holding at two umbrellas.
Usually the surprises this campus offers up are not particularly exciting, but running into an outdoor Ozzy tribute concert on the way back from class is totally rad
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Usually the surprises this campus offers up are not particularly exciting, but running into an outdoor Ozzy tribute concert on the way back from class is totally rad
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Hey, so, um, who's monitoring oysters for Vibrio right now? Because the folks I know that test out here are furloughed.
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hey, so, um, who's monitoring oysters for Vibrio right now? Because the folks I know that test out here are furloughed.
If you are using Firefox & the slow-loading "Ask an AI chatbot" menu item keeps making you click "open on new window" rather than "open in new tab" it fortunately seems easy to disable (hover over the menu item & click "remove AI chatbot"): www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you are using Firefox & the slow-loading "Ask an AI chatbot" menu item keeps making you click "open on new window" rather than "open in new tab" it fortunately seems easy to disable (hover over the menu item & click "remove AI chatbot"): www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...
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Right after Prince died, D'Angelo went on THE TONIGHT SHOW and performed "Sometimes It Snows In April" with Princess. It remains one of the most beautiful, emotionally raw things I've ever heard. RIP.
(Audio-only at this link, but it's still worth hearing.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeV7...
(Audio-only at this link, but it's still worth hearing.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeV7...
October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Right after Prince died, D'Angelo went on THE TONIGHT SHOW and performed "Sometimes It Snows In April" with Princess. It remains one of the most beautiful, emotionally raw things I've ever heard. RIP.
(Audio-only at this link, but it's still worth hearing.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeV7...
(Audio-only at this link, but it's still worth hearing.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeV7...
After a couple of weeks off, week 7 Javits Lecture Center lost bottle report
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
After a couple of weeks off, week 7 Javits Lecture Center lost bottle report
ancient geographical allegiances have me happy for the dodgers, but I feel real bad for Kerkering—know from multiple sports how time pressure from a minor flub can make you go with the play you are looking at rather than trusting the play you have to turn to see is the right one
October 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
ancient geographical allegiances have me happy for the dodgers, but I feel real bad for Kerkering—know from multiple sports how time pressure from a minor flub can make you go with the play you are looking at rather than trusting the play you have to turn to see is the right one
Excited that the kid is doing her first show on WHRC—MONKEY DISCO tonight at 7 pm east coast time. Streamable here: whrc-radio.com
WHRC
student-run community radio streaming 24/7
whrc-radio.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Excited that the kid is doing her first show on WHRC—MONKEY DISCO tonight at 7 pm east coast time. Streamable here: whrc-radio.com
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Come be my colleague! Tufts Chemistry is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor working on materials with energy applications. We have a fantastic, supportive environment for you to start your research career. Send questions to me or @chemysl.bsky.social
apply.interfolio.com/175284
apply.interfolio.com/175284
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Come be my colleague! Tufts Chemistry is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor working on materials with energy applications. We have a fantastic, supportive environment for you to start your research career. Send questions to me or @chemysl.bsky.social
apply.interfolio.com/175284
apply.interfolio.com/175284
Clean trip to the dermatologist—back on the annual carcass inspection plan!
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Clean trip to the dermatologist—back on the annual carcass inspection plan!
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When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety
Who knows what will happen now
Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )
Who knows what will happen now
Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )
a cartoon of donald trump with the words be prepared above him
ALT: a cartoon of donald trump with the words be prepared above him
media.tenor.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety
Who knows what will happen now
Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )
Who knows what will happen now
Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC
(europepmc.org )
As much as I don’t need a reason to listen to The Minutemen, it’s disturbing how often one comes up youtu.be/0lguvLMuQeI?...
minutemen "the punch line" 1984
YouTube video by wattfrompedro
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
As much as I don’t need a reason to listen to The Minutemen, it’s disturbing how often one comes up youtu.be/0lguvLMuQeI?...