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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Peace & love to Andrew Ranken. Randomly pulled up an old one where he’s a ghostly figure clobbering a couple of drums behind the rest of the band, who seem like they’ve been hitting the amphetamines more than the booze. youtu.be/CSj4Bzxi0lM?...
Pogues - Transmetropolitan - 1984
YouTube video by Cosmotype
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February 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Peace & love to Andrew Ranken. Randomly pulled up an old one where he’s a ghostly figure clobbering a couple of drums behind the rest of the band, who seem like they’ve been hitting the amphetamines more than the booze. youtu.be/CSj4Bzxi0lM?...
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This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
February 7, 2026 at 3:55 PM
This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
Trying to use the powerpoint accessibility checker to make slides more accessible and for no good reason setting something to the top of the Reading Order sends it to the bottom in Stacking Order. Moving the item back to the front sends it to the end of the Reading Order. What a feature!
February 3, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Trying to use the powerpoint accessibility checker to make slides more accessible and for no good reason setting something to the top of the Reading Order sends it to the bottom in Stacking Order. Moving the item back to the front sends it to the end of the Reading Order. What a feature!
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Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.
that miami qb could’ve done a more convincing king diamond tribute
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 AM
that miami qb could’ve done a more convincing king diamond tribute
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Making a pot of tea to prepare for my ritual reading of Letter from Birmingham Jail
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www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...
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www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...
January 19, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Making a pot of tea to prepare for my ritual reading of Letter from Birmingham Jail
(Reposting with better link)
www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...
(Reposting with better link)
www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...
Thank you @luca.run (and @hebagowayed.bsky.social for the posts).
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Thank you @luca.run (and @hebagowayed.bsky.social for the posts).
decided that parental duties required leaving a session at 2 pm to catch at least part of the kid’s radio show (on iphone speakers in a mostly abandoned stretch of the Honolulu convention center) #pacifichem streaming.radio.co/sf1c16c728/l...
streaming.radio.co
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
decided that parental duties required leaving a session at 2 pm to catch at least part of the kid’s radio show (on iphone speakers in a mostly abandoned stretch of the Honolulu convention center) #pacifichem streaming.radio.co/sf1c16c728/l...
Seems like this happens every time I try to go to #pacifichem
December 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Seems like this happens every time I try to go to #pacifichem
After noting a soggy forecast for #pacifichem next week, it was amusing to find that searching for “haole rot” on wikipedia takes you straight to the entry for Tinea versicolor
December 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
After noting a soggy forecast for #pacifichem next week, it was amusing to find that searching for “haole rot” on wikipedia takes you straight to the entry for Tinea versicolor
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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
the kid’s on WHRC again soon streaming.radio.co/sf1c16c728/l...
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the kid’s on WHRC again soon streaming.radio.co/sf1c16c728/l...
not sure I should be allowed to go to holiday craft market things if this is all I end up buying. a blue christmas indeed.
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
not sure I should be allowed to go to holiday craft market things if this is all I end up buying. a blue christmas indeed.
learning the building where I took AP exams in 1989 has become a place where my brother is going to see Jonathan Richman play in a few weeks makes me feel old, but wishing @stcauditorium.bsky.social the best & hoping to catch a show there one of these days
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
learning the building where I took AP exams in 1989 has become a place where my brother is going to see Jonathan Richman play in a few weeks makes me feel old, but wishing @stcauditorium.bsky.social the best & hoping to catch a show there one of these days
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
What better use of class time is there than to ask your class of students a few years out of high school & presumably mostly there to learn about what’s in the course description to accept your apology/explanations for past bad actions (while still retaining the capacity to assign final grades).
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What better use of class time is there than to ask your class of students a few years out of high school & presumably mostly there to learn about what’s in the course description to accept your apology/explanations for past bad actions (while still retaining the capacity to assign final grades).
Sunday mornings aren’t going to be the same
Jeff Sarge has announced that the last episode of his Reggae Schoolroom radio show on @wfmu.bsky.social will be the November 30th, 2025 one – ending the popular show's 41-year(!!) run.
#reggae #DJ #dub #WFMU #ReggaeSchoolroom #JeffSarge #music #photograph #portrait #environmental #radio
#reggae #DJ #dub #WFMU #ReggaeSchoolroom #JeffSarge #music #photograph #portrait #environmental #radio
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sunday mornings aren’t going to be the same
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Who’s a pretty boy then? 🦜🦜🦜
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Who’s a pretty boy then? 🦜🦜🦜
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Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition: cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
How preservation scientists are using chemistry to save sounds of the past
Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition
cen.acs.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition: cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
as somebody also born in Michigan with a chemistry degree from a PUI, I have to say I’m disappointed.
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
as somebody also born in Michigan with a chemistry degree from a PUI, I have to say I’m disappointed.
Listening to Silt Remembrance Ensemble in the car & keep glancing at screens saying ATTENTION !!! and worrying the car is about to break down. As long as the music kept going it wouldn’t be all bad. lukestewart.bandcamp.com/track/attent...
ATTENTION !!!, by Silt Remembrance Ensemble
track by Silt Remembrance Ensemble
lukestewart.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Listening to Silt Remembrance Ensemble in the car & keep glancing at screens saying ATTENTION !!! and worrying the car is about to break down. As long as the music kept going it wouldn’t be all bad. lukestewart.bandcamp.com/track/attent...
unexpected moment of parental joy listening to the kid play The Lung by Dinosaur Jr on her radio show (& then following it up with new Armand Hammer).
streaming.radio.co
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
unexpected moment of parental joy listening to the kid play The Lung by Dinosaur Jr on her radio show (& then following it up with new Armand Hammer).
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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)!