Marc Lennon
@marclennon.bsky.social
Chemistry PhD candidate & Sturgeon's Law fundamentalist.
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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Also in @science.org this week, Christopher Reilly and co-workers showcase quantum interference in methane scattering from a gold surface
chemsky 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
chemsky 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Quantum interference observed in state-resolved molecule-surface scattering
Although the dynamics of collisions between a molecule and a solid surface are ultimately quantum mechanical, decohering effects owing to the large number of interacting degrees of freedom typically o...
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Also in @science.org this week, Christopher Reilly and co-workers showcase quantum interference in methane scattering from a gold surface
chemsky 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
chemsky 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.
Really? I guess the guys couldn't wait to get rid of this.
www.space.com/the-universe...
#womeninscience #science #histsci #philsci
www.space.com/the-universe...
#womeninscience #science #histsci #philsci
Scientists alarmed as Rubin Observatory changes biography of astronomer Vera Rubin amid Trump's push to end DEI efforts
"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular are not going to take these threats lying down."
www.space.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.
'Putrid' and 'turpid' are both anagrams and synonyms (taken in the sense of 'morally depraved'). Very satisfying!
January 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
'Putrid' and 'turpid' are both anagrams and synonyms (taken in the sense of 'morally depraved'). Very satisfying!
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It's crazy that for ebooks and papers piracy usually beats the proper way of getting things on UX instead of just price
January 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's crazy that for ebooks and papers piracy usually beats the proper way of getting things on UX instead of just price
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Here are the most appalling clichés of modern political economy writing, that it's possible to read everywhere all the time.
1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/
1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/
December 26, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Here are the most appalling clichés of modern political economy writing, that it's possible to read everywhere all the time.
1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/
1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/