Nick Chiappini 🏳️🌈🧪
@ndchiappini.bsky.social
Lover of weird rxns, reactive intermediates, hockey (mostly 🐧and🐙)and equitable sci. Asst Prof at UNCW. Queer AF. Ligand appreciator. Bird and space nerd. ChemSky. He/him
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend."
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
@mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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I love a good complex natural product. This one has two α-tropolones, 10 asymmetric stereocenters, and a a labile hemiketal. After a longstanding effort, chemists in Seth Herzon's lab have made (–)-gukulenin A. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
A guide to making gukulenin A
3-component assembly builds a natural product that could fight cancer
cen.acs.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I love a good complex natural product. This one has two α-tropolones, 10 asymmetric stereocenters, and a a labile hemiketal. After a longstanding effort, chemists in Seth Herzon's lab have made (–)-gukulenin A. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
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The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The bigger fight? Buddy, I die without health care and your pals in the Senate — none of whom will ever go without access to lifesaving medical care — told me they were gonna fight so my premiums don't go up 50%. And then they folded.
"Frankenstein’s failure was not ambition but abandonment—a pattern that science repeats whenever discovery outpaces reflection. Contemporary biotech institutionalizes this dynamic... Scientists do the initial work, whereas the moral labor is subcontracted to ethicists, policy-makers, or the public."
Frankenstein and the problem of abandonment
A new adaptation of the cautionary tale is an opportunity to reflect on scientific stewardship
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"Frankenstein’s failure was not ambition but abandonment—a pattern that science repeats whenever discovery outpaces reflection. Contemporary biotech institutionalizes this dynamic... Scientists do the initial work, whereas the moral labor is subcontracted to ethicists, policy-makers, or the public."
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Truly generational levels of hatred. Remarkable.
Curtis Sliwa says he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out of the NYC mayoral race and work for Andrew Cuomo.
Give me candidacy or give me death: GOP nominee holds firm in NYC mayoral race
Curtis Sliwa said he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out and work for one of his rivals.
www.politico.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Truly generational levels of hatred. Remarkable.
Tonight's exam night joke:
What did the Wicked Witch of the West say to the alkene?
I'll get you my pretty, and your little sp, too!
What did the Wicked Witch of the West say to the alkene?
I'll get you my pretty, and your little sp, too!
September 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Tonight's exam night joke:
What did the Wicked Witch of the West say to the alkene?
I'll get you my pretty, and your little sp, too!
What did the Wicked Witch of the West say to the alkene?
I'll get you my pretty, and your little sp, too!
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Do I know anyone who has applied for/been awarded a K18?
September 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Do I know anyone who has applied for/been awarded a K18?
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rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️
September 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️
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No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...
September 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...
wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...
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The anti-trans and anti-abortion contingents are united on a variety of tactics/bigotries, but one of their top ones is about turning Big Brother into Big Neighbor (or, in this case, I guess ~ Big Student ~). The goal is to make everyone with an ounce of knowledge or compassion afraid to show it.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The anti-trans and anti-abortion contingents are united on a variety of tactics/bigotries, but one of their top ones is about turning Big Brother into Big Neighbor (or, in this case, I guess ~ Big Student ~). The goal is to make everyone with an ounce of knowledge or compassion afraid to show it.
IT'S FINALLY TIME! BakeOff is BACK. You know what that means ChemBakeOff reaction/meme thread.
September 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
IT'S FINALLY TIME! BakeOff is BACK. You know what that means ChemBakeOff reaction/meme thread.
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two thoughts. 1) this prose is *rough*. 2) describing weiss as possessing a “shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition” is evidence you’ve suffered a brain injury
You can start getting ready for CBS News guided by Bari Weiss of the Free Press. This is from Dylan Byers. [Paywall likely]
"I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."
"I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."
September 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
two thoughts. 1) this prose is *rough*. 2) describing weiss as possessing a “shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition” is evidence you’ve suffered a brain injury
New Carly Rae Jepsen to bless the first day of classes....SUBLIME.
AND we're getting EMOTION-SideC? shaking honestly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Jm...
AND we're getting EMOTION-SideC? shaking honestly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Jm...
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YouTube video by Carly Rae Jepsen - Topic
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August 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New Carly Rae Jepsen to bless the first day of classes....SUBLIME.
AND we're getting EMOTION-SideC? shaking honestly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Jm...
AND we're getting EMOTION-SideC? shaking honestly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Jm...
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT @jeflip.bsky.social / @lipshultzsbu.bsky.social out in ACS Catalysis, feat. my rockstar undergrad Celeste Barefoot who worked in this during her REU!
She's applying for PhD programs this fall!! 🔗below
She's applying for PhD programs this fall!! 🔗below
August 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT @jeflip.bsky.social / @lipshultzsbu.bsky.social out in ACS Catalysis, feat. my rockstar undergrad Celeste Barefoot who worked in this during her REU!
She's applying for PhD programs this fall!! 🔗below
She's applying for PhD programs this fall!! 🔗below
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In addition to basically serving as genocide apologia - because this is what this is, and make no mistakes - they also put it under the topic of 'Israel and Antisemitism.' They believe that fighting antisemitism means denying a genocide, and this makes everything more dangerous for Jews as well.
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In addition to basically serving as genocide apologia - because this is what this is, and make no mistakes - they also put it under the topic of 'Israel and Antisemitism.' They believe that fighting antisemitism means denying a genocide, and this makes everything more dangerous for Jews as well.
Running a little Hajime Ito group chem to cook up some silyl boronates! GC looking good so far 😎 #RealTimeChem
August 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Running a little Hajime Ito group chem to cook up some silyl boronates! GC looking good so far 😎 #RealTimeChem
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"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives."
--Mamdani, in this interview:
--Mamdani, in this interview:
“The Nation” Interviews Zohran Mamdani
New York's Democratic mayoral nominee shares his views on the city's affordability crisis, the new media landscape—and how Democrats need to stand up for what they believe.
www.thenation.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives."
--Mamdani, in this interview:
--Mamdani, in this interview:
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COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO DRY
GPT-5 probably suggesting something like drying your aqueous layers with MgSO4.
Call me fucking Sarah Connor bc 🚮
Call me fucking Sarah Connor bc 🚮
August 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO DRY
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When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws.
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.
www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart
Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.
www.politico.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.