Scott Hartley
@scotthartley.bsky.social
Organic chemist at Miami University (the one in Ohio). Views my own, of course.
Mastodon: @hartley@mas.to
Website: www.hartleygroup.org
Blog: blog.hartleygroup.org
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5997-6169
Mastodon: @hartley@mas.to
Website: www.hartleygroup.org
Blog: blog.hartleygroup.org
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5997-6169
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The ACS has deleted its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. And with that move, have shown they are worthy of none of the latter.
People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it.
www.acs.org/about/divers...
People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it.
www.acs.org/about/divers...
www.acs.org
February 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The ACS has deleted its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. And with that move, have shown they are worthy of none of the latter.
People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it.
www.acs.org/about/divers...
People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it.
www.acs.org/about/divers...
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The US is an exceptional place to be a scientist for two reasons. 1. No country spends as much on research as the US (not even close); 2. It's less hierarchical than many places; hence, many opportunities to lead in academia, government, non-profits, and the private sector. Let's try to keep it.
February 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The US is an exceptional place to be a scientist for two reasons. 1. No country spends as much on research as the US (not even close); 2. It's less hierarchical than many places; hence, many opportunities to lead in academia, government, non-profits, and the private sector. Let's try to keep it.
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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
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Have any academic researchers started hearing about cuts/holds on federal grants from other federal agencies outside of NIH? I got a concerning message today about a grant hold, and it seems to be the same politics. Not surprising, but further worrying ... 😨
January 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Have any academic researchers started hearing about cuts/holds on federal grants from other federal agencies outside of NIH? I got a concerning message today about a grant hold, and it seems to be the same politics. Not surprising, but further worrying ... 😨
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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
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Physical organic chemists - is there a good (non textbook) collected series of graduate-level problems on pericyclic reactions? Looking for problems involving mechanisms, stereochemistry, and application of W-H, FMO, and Zimmerman methods.
January 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Physical organic chemists - is there a good (non textbook) collected series of graduate-level problems on pericyclic reactions? Looking for problems involving mechanisms, stereochemistry, and application of W-H, FMO, and Zimmerman methods.
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Every paragraph of this classic Times obit of the heir to the Bovril fortune contains an absolute gem of the genre. Choose between the monkey peeing off the balcony, regularly taking 90 pairs of pants back to your mum to wash and the evisceration of Bruce Chatwin www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
January 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Every paragraph of this classic Times obit of the heir to the Bovril fortune contains an absolute gem of the genre. Choose between the monkey peeing off the balcony, regularly taking 90 pairs of pants back to your mum to wash and the evisceration of Bruce Chatwin www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
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Dear PIs: Don't work on weekends & holidays.
And if you do, don't brag about it.
It's NOT cool. It reflects a bad set of values that promote unhealthy work-balance practices in the team you lead.
You're an example for your students and colleagues, live up to it.
Dear PIs: Don't work on weekends & holidays.
And if you do, don't brag about it.
It's NOT cool. It reflects a bad set of values that promote unhealthy work-balance practices in the team you lead.
You're an example for your students and colleagues, live up to it.
December 21, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Dear PIs: Don't work on weekends & holidays.
And if you do, don't brag about it.
It's NOT cool. It reflects a bad set of values that promote unhealthy work-balance practices in the team you lead.
You're an example for your students and colleagues, live up to it.
Dear PIs: Don't work on weekends & holidays.
And if you do, don't brag about it.
It's NOT cool. It reflects a bad set of values that promote unhealthy work-balance practices in the team you lead.
You're an example for your students and colleagues, live up to it.
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A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.
December 19, 2024 at 9:02 PM
A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.
The only time I really have imposter syndrome is when reviewing fellowship/award applications from students (or junior faculty). It’s astonishing how accomplished these young folk are. All I did as an undergrad was study chemistry with occasional breaks to shoot my housemates in Quake 3.
December 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
The only time I really have imposter syndrome is when reviewing fellowship/award applications from students (or junior faculty). It’s astonishing how accomplished these young folk are. All I did as an undergrad was study chemistry with occasional breaks to shoot my housemates in Quake 3.
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To celebrate finishing grading final papers, my favorite writing meme from over on the other site that–year after year–still applies.
(posted there by a W. Andrew Barr)
(posted there by a W. Andrew Barr)
December 15, 2024 at 2:24 PM
To celebrate finishing grading final papers, my favorite writing meme from over on the other site that–year after year–still applies.
(posted there by a W. Andrew Barr)
(posted there by a W. Andrew Barr)
Today I wrote an email to myself and, reflexively, signed it “Best, Scott”. Feels like I’ve achieved peak academia.
December 9, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Today I wrote an email to myself and, reflexively, signed it “Best, Scott”. Feels like I’ve achieved peak academia.
I am endlessly behind on the literature, but read this immediately when I first saw it weeks ago. Well worth it.
This was published a little while ago in @naturechemistry.bsky.social, but has just popped up in my issue e-alert. This is a delightful correspondence about fonts and chemistry; very much appealing to my inner chemistry nerd 🤣 #Chemsky
The font of chemical knowledge
Nature Chemistry - The font of chemical knowledge
rdcu.be
December 3, 2024 at 11:59 AM
I am endlessly behind on the literature, but read this immediately when I first saw it weeks ago. Well worth it.
I’ve now written long reviews for the same manuscript three times in the last 2.5 weeks. I’m just (politely) arguing back and forth with the authors at this point. We have differences of opinion and the editor needs to make a call rather than wasting more of everyone’s time.
November 27, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I’ve now written long reviews for the same manuscript three times in the last 2.5 weeks. I’m just (politely) arguing back and forth with the authors at this point. We have differences of opinion and the editor needs to make a call rather than wasting more of everyone’s time.
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Latest paper published - chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Designing and Controlling Transient Supramolecular Gels
Designing highly dynamic materials is of great interest to broader systems chemistry. Here a transient gel system which has predetermined changes in state is altered by varying both trigger and tempe...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Latest paper published - chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
November 26, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.
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OK - since we're all here now.
Any students interested in asymmetric catalysis / data science phd at leading European universities - with industry placements and lots of interaction
www.tu-chemnitz.de/cataloop/
please share
Any students interested in asymmetric catalysis / data science phd at leading European universities - with industry placements and lots of interaction
www.tu-chemnitz.de/cataloop/
please share
www.tu-chemnitz.de
November 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
OK - since we're all here now.
Any students interested in asymmetric catalysis / data science phd at leading European universities - with industry placements and lots of interaction
www.tu-chemnitz.de/cataloop/
please share
Any students interested in asymmetric catalysis / data science phd at leading European universities - with industry placements and lots of interaction
www.tu-chemnitz.de/cataloop/
please share
Interesting. So RFK Jr does believe in childhood interventions to give people immunity to things, it’s just that at some point he mixed up “racism” and “the measles”.
Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr.:
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
November 24, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Interesting. So RFK Jr does believe in childhood interventions to give people immunity to things, it’s just that at some point he mixed up “racism” and “the measles”.
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Referee 1: Yeah, cups are fine, but can you do it with jars, mugs & glasses?
Referee 2: You need to cite these 12 papers showing how to fill things (all ref. 2’s papers)
Referee 3: You misspelled ‘container’ on page 6
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Referee 1: Yeah, cups are fine, but can you do it with jars, mugs & glasses?
Referee 2: You need to cite these 12 papers showing how to fill things (all ref. 2’s papers)
Referee 3: You misspelled ‘container’ on page 6
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Chemist: Why are we using Imperial measurements instead of metric?
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Chemist: Why are we using Imperial measurements instead of metric?
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Law professor: No cups in the park
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Law professor: No cups in the park
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Referee 1: Yeah, cups are fine, but can you do it with jars, mugs & glasses?
Referee 2: You need to cite these 12 papers showing how to fill things (all ref. 2’s papers)
Referee 3: You misspelled ‘container’ on page 6
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Referee 1: Yeah, cups are fine, but can you do it with jars, mugs & glasses?
Referee 2: You need to cite these 12 papers showing how to fill things (all ref. 2’s papers)
Referee 3: You misspelled ‘container’ on page 6
If anyone needs me, my new hobby is reading AI summaries of Amazon reviews for mediocre whoopee cushions.
In this case, opinions are “mixed” on the sound quality.
In this case, opinions are “mixed” on the sound quality.
November 23, 2024 at 1:04 PM
If anyone needs me, my new hobby is reading AI summaries of Amazon reviews for mediocre whoopee cushions.
In this case, opinions are “mixed” on the sound quality.
In this case, opinions are “mixed” on the sound quality.
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Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
November 22, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
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Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.
November 21, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.
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OK, folks. It took less time than I thought - the Women in Chemistry pack is now full of magnificent ladies of #Chemsky. You can follow them (us) all by clicking the "Follow all" button.
November 22, 2024 at 2:08 PM
OK, folks. It took less time than I thought - the Women in Chemistry pack is now full of magnificent ladies of #Chemsky. You can follow them (us) all by clicking the "Follow all" button.
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Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
It has happened. Confusing interaction with our admissions office. They had an applicant who kept insisting that the chemistry dept. (ie, me) was telling them conflicting information about admission reqs.
Applicant was e-mailing admissions at Miami U. (Ohio) but dept. at U. of Miami (Florida).
Applicant was e-mailing admissions at Miami U. (Ohio) but dept. at U. of Miami (Florida).
November 19, 2024 at 1:43 PM
It has happened. Confusing interaction with our admissions office. They had an applicant who kept insisting that the chemistry dept. (ie, me) was telling them conflicting information about admission reqs.
Applicant was e-mailing admissions at Miami U. (Ohio) but dept. at U. of Miami (Florida).
Applicant was e-mailing admissions at Miami U. (Ohio) but dept. at U. of Miami (Florida).