I am that I am?

I’m sure you are right.

This sucks. One of the best experiences our department had in the last decade was hosting a CUWiP conference in 2017. I'm going to see if I can learn more about this decision-making.

“Peculiar thing about this document - it wasn’t notarized!”

Louis Brus.

Ahh. Gotcha.

Isn’t that game on 11/22?

I’m pretty sure (99%) that AuH4 and PdH4 are not stable. Seems like one could augment this work by some calculations of enthalpies of formation and get some ideas pretty quickly about what might be stable.

You know NSF: super low tolerance for any deviation from deadlines or formatting, etc.

Ia Ia Cuomo fhtagn!

I don’t know which came first. I was told that Grue was a play on grusome, and that the GUE came later, but I’m no expert.

So, this must do wonders for the morale of all the non-US citizen faculty, postdocs, and staff at FL universities.

It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

State politics here are so hopeless that this is a mild distraction

Thanks. I guess my wording was chosen to emphasize that at least now we are living in an era where asking almost exclusively "does it make money/enhance shareholder value" is driving decisions like these. Not meant to prognosticate about future economics.

Senator, are you and your colleagues considering what to do if it looks like Johnson simply never calls the house back into real session?

On a completely unrelated note, BlueSky needs a sarcasm font.

I'm as big a fan as anyone of all the great science writing on Bluesky, but there is no effective societal substitute for competent science journalism that reaches true mass audiences.

It took about 3 years for our place to recover from switching to the competing Oracle product. It is truly amazing how no one does this well, how it *always* transfers more work onto dept faculty and staff, and how these are always business tools poorly wrenched into academic environments.