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It will be okay. It will be okay. It will be okay. I will tell you until you believe it.

FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

I found out during our department DEI committee meeting today that the major federal granting agencies (e.g., NSF, NIH) now have "lists of banned words" that, if found, can cause your grant application to basically go into the shredder.

Among the words the government really hates is "transition" (because RaDiCal GenDEr IdEolOGiEs!). Our committee members are all chemists. If you want to study liquid-vapor phase transitions, you're screwed. Transition states in a chemical reaction? Nope.

I'm a mass spectrometrist. My little corner of the analytical chemistryverse uses a technique called "multiple reaction monitoring", where your instrument is simultaneously monitoring a precursor ion and a certain fragment. That specific-combination-of-ions is called a transition.

...I literally can't even talk about fucking mass spectrometry.

But hey, some trans girl in Iowa can't play badminton anymore! Victory! Yeah! Cheaper eggs! Make America Great Again!

Hey, I know it's a new year and things are pretty scary at the outset.

But I'm here to tell you, of all the things in this world that are gatekept, hope is one of them too.

Just because you're not hearing hopeful news doesn't mean it's not happening.

I have subscriptions to several specialized science magazines via institutional access, and I wake up every day to articles in my email like "We've just figured out how to catalyze the destruction of PFAS [forever chemicals] into harmless byproducts. Now we're just trying to take it to commercial scale." (Real story I read last month and sent to a friend who has deep anxiety about PFAS!!!).

For every big scary problem the mainstream news is capitalizing on through fearmongering, there are people behind the scenes, many of them scientists, working to ~~~ and succeeding at ~~~ solving them.

The news of the solutions are just often behind a paywall, whereas you're free to consume as many stories of tragedy, crisis, and impending doom as you want.

fun shark fact

its ok

itll get better

you are loved

Rb if you were/are a gifted kid I wanna see how many of us ended up here

Today hasn't been very good. Reblog to cover prev in blankets and tell them everything is going to be okay and they're loved.

Not to be dramatic but this is a massive fucking deal and I legitimately hope every single politician dies.

Outlive the motherfucker. That's what you're going to do. Survive and thrive out of sheer spite if necessary. Live for the day that nature takes it's course and you wake up in a world that no longer has them in it.

Apply where applicable. Repeat as necessary.

anyway, [peels a mandarin and gives u half]

We can find out together🐱💕🐱

NEW MEME JUST DROPPED THAT MY FAMILY MEMBER MADE AND IM SO PROUD

Y'all. The meme potential. Please reblog this. I am begging you.

Context: my family member (won't say how we're related but we are related) released a Nature article (link below) and it includes this absolutely AMAZING graphic:

Have sex and die.

Here's the article btw it's insane what they're doing

Nature

Recombinant venom proteins in insect seminal fluid reduce female lifespan - Nature Communications

Current methods for genetic biocontrol of insect pests (e.g. gene drives) take generations to reduce harm. Here, authors engineered male fru

reblog to take the person you reblogged from to the aquarium

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would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

Visualization of the Rubik's cube

LISTEN UP MOTHER FUCKERS

SEE THIS WEBSITE? 

ITS CALLED WOLFRAM ALPHA

THIS IS THE BEST GODDAMN WEBSITE FOR ACADEMIC SHIT. FUCK GOOGLE. 

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WILL LET YOU SEARCH “HOSPITAL BEDS IN CHAD VS. IRAN” 

AND IT GIVES YOU A STRAIGHT GODDAMN ANSWER 

MAYBE YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED IN DOCTORNESS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES COOL SHIT 

HAVING TROUBLE WITH MATH?

HOLY SHIT

OR MAYBE YOU WANNA DICK AROUND

WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff” – Carl Sagan