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UMN ChemProf Emeritus. Army vet. MOOC vet. Cancer vet. Dad of 3(human)/2(feline). Chicagoan. Armed with a keyboard and eerily immune to shame. NOT speaking for UL Research Institutes here.
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I'm Chris. I'm a theoretical chemist who, as an academic, also took an early interest in online education. Traveling the admin path, I was privileged to serve as VPR for UMN for 3 yrs. Now I'm a higher-ed expat in Chicago thrilled to serve as CRO for non-profit UL Research Institutes. #SafetyScience
does anyone else get totally maudlin on overseas airplane flights? ponder the fleeting character of our existence and the good fortune of one's most meaningful relationships? weep at the fragility of it all? (I'd like to believe it's oxygen deprivation, as opposed to just me...)
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
No to MONOACID??
#SpellingBee woes...
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Oh, c'mon, no to BIVARIANT?? 🤬 #SpellingBee
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I know I'm boring, always posting the same shot, but the endless variations (today: snow cap on the Bean, seeming Mount Doom cloud-wreathed on the horizon) just keep me coming back, darn it!
#Chicago #Sunrise
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Stella, purring under my left arm on the couch in our usual morning coffee ritual, deeply, DEEPLY offended by today's Phrazle...
#CatSky #SpoilerAlert
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I had no idea that those goofy things are called "mobile lounges"
A mobile lounge carrying passengers crashed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday, injuring more than a dozen people and causing some damage to the terminal.
Mobile Lounge Crashes at Dulles Airport, Causing Injuries and Damage
More than a dozen people were hurt and will be evaluated at a hospital. Air travel has been hampered in recent days by the government shutdown.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Zohran Mamdani was the first NYC mayoral candidate to win more than one million votes since John Lindsay in 1969. Plus Zohran won 70% of voters under 45. Yes 70%! Yet we see some trying to gaslight us into saying Zohran did not win a mandate. What Zohran did is what a mandate looks like!
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
sooooo... awesome, then?
I should have known better than to click on this 🤦🏻‍♀️

“The pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized. And that, in a very literal sense, our institutions have gone woke because there are more women in them than there used to be.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated!

My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.

🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Getting new details on this now:

As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.”

Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In the believe it or not category:
The 3rd edition of Essentials of Computational Chemistry is, lo these 20 years later, under contract... 😮
(Here's hoping my co-authors, to whom I shall afford anonymity until the revised draft is delivered, survive what they signed up for! 😬)
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
What a great paper from Stefan Grimme's group describing a new and improved database of solvation free energies and partition coefficients. And, so nice to see SMD still holding its own, lo these 16 years later... 😄 #ChemSky #CompChem
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM