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UMN ChemProf Emeritus. Army vet. MOOC vet. Cancer vet. Dad of 3(🙎)/2(🐈‍⬛). Chicagoan. Armed with a keyboard; eerily immune to shame. NOT speaking for UL Research Institutes here.

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2026-10-23 23:44:32 UTC

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oh, definitely ice cold, yes. I think it's better up but for those who like slow dilution of their drinks, on the rocks would likely not be bad. Good name would be: Chicago Hag's Taper

2026-10-23 23:38:12 UTC

3 parts Malört, 2 parts dry vermouth, 1 part elderflower liqueur.
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2026-10-17 01:27:37 UTC

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I'm obliged to nod to the Harry Truman lemma: "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit"

2026-10-17 00:22:52 UTC

It strikes me that the key to happiness is the gap you perceive between being "appropriately appreciated" (which never happens (especially for academics!)) and being "adequately appreciated". The difference either eats you, or you shrug it off.
I'm working on it...
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2026-09-30 21:53:31 UTC

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"only" one billion... 😂

2026-09-26 19:09:49 UTC

today was a pretty stunning day to put 4 lakefront miles on my Chicago running shoes! 🏃‍♂️‍➡️ 🌞 🌊
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2026-09-18 15:25:27 UTC

how was I never told how beautiful Central Park is??
[Bethesda Fountain in Autumn](https://static.klipy.com/ii/d7aec6f6f171607374b2065c836f92f4/ed/9b/yH6BieCu.gif?hh=340&ww=498&mp4=lZwchOOHY7RxR3k1Kra&webm=HequGmnCiWYasU5 )

2026-08-23 14:34:33 UTC

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in my case, I seem to fall in a small genetic minority that experiences the taste of saffron as VERY rotten fish, which tends to ruin my ability to appreciate any paella. happily, saffron is rarely used in fideuà!

2026-08-23 14:22:36 UTC

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I lived in Barcelona for a year and it was the food experience of a lifetime, to be sure. I hope you find a fideuà to compare to your paella -- I'm a big fan of the former relative to the latter...

2026-08-18 16:51:59 UTC

(enjoying this new game (credit to @npub1kyd…jltj))
I found a Rarity-83 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER.
SHARPSHOOTER · 846 points · 10 rare words.
7 finds no one else found today.
[playoutlier.com/s/JQBLJT](https://playoutlier.com/s/JQBLJT )
[OUTLIER · Day 90](https://playoutlier.com/s/JQBLJT )

2026-08-07 01:55:23 UTC

when you have a regular.
and when you tip in recognition of how much you value your regular.
in the best scenario you have a family...
#FeelingLucky

2026-07-17 23:43:00 UTC

me finally getting a chance to tell more than 100 K-12 educators at once that THEY are the giants upon whose shoulders we (erstwhile, in my case) university faculty stand when our own efforts help students continue in their learning journey...
#HigherEd
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2026-07-17 16:51:48 UTC

"Verify your age"
As a kid, I got to help fill in the dairy request sheet to be left in the metal box on the porch the night before and would get up extra early to bring in the delivery and get first crack at the eggnog during the season it was available.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lhyntcv7n3c6ar6reji35t5y/post/3mqu6w6ni6c27

2026-07-01 23:20:42 UTC

dammit, my bracket had Senegal making a run!

2026-06-23 00:36:45 UTC

<something something> darkest timeline
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#note1qu8…2r8x

2026-06-20 12:33:39 UTC

it’s an ill wind that…
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2026-06-14 19:04:05 UTC

do love it when my grappa glass celebrates the wave function! #ItaliaSempre
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2026-05-29 01:01:36 UTC

I... I need to get off Bluesky for a while and touch grass.
Later.

2026-05-28 00:54:32 UTC

Speaking truth to power 🙇‍♂️
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2026-05-27 01:46:09 UTC

Chicago resident, and former Minneapolitan, keeping New Jersey folks in my thoughts as they rise next to confront ICE atrocities.

2026-05-09 22:31:21 UTC

Am I the only one who still uses underscores in all file and folder names because 100 years ago spaces were not allowed?
[two muppets are sitting in fro...](https://media.tenor.com/0lQ3YgXqWEUAAAAC/laughing-lol.gif?hh=284&ww=498 )

2026-04-30 00:39:25 UTC

yup. at the Boss’ concert in the United Center tonight. Fuck ICE. Rock and roll!
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2026-04-26 21:36:35 UTC

Oof. Got invited last fall to give the (departmental) commencement address to Illinois' chemistry graduates next month. Put off trying to write something until today. All I have going for me is, having sat through 40+ awful such addresses in my day, I'm well armed in all the things NOT to do!
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2026-04-26 02:32:16 UTC

People, I have been searching for 5 years to find Surly Darkness in Chicago. This evening, I stumbled across it, ON TAP, at a small Irish pub in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood.
I did indeed savor the end of the quest in a most satisfactory fashion...
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2026-04-12 22:14:39 UTC

I DON'T NEED YOUR GODDAMN HELP TO WRITE A 9 WORD EMAIL YOU STUPID, SYCOPHANTIC AI PARASITE!!!

2026-04-02 12:59:53 UTC

Cool. I can have confidence in the humanity of my fellow attendees at his Chicago show, then.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/post/3mij6mifrvk2a

2026-03-31 01:54:03 UTC

today was an up at 4 to catch a train at 6 sort of day.
tomorrow is an up at 3 to catch a plane at 6 sort of day.
if I didn't like what I do so much, I might complain about getting a little old for this sort of sh*t... 🥱

2026-02-05 21:56:25 UTC

Well THIS is sure to make the end of faculty recruiting season a little more interesting... #HigherEd
[www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...](https://www.chronicle.com/article/tenure-will-be-eliminated-at-most-of-oklahomas-public-colleges-governor-says )
[Tenure Will Be Eliminated at M...](https://www.chronicle.com/article/tenure-will-be-eliminated-at-most-of-oklahomas-public-colleges-governor-says?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_16783185_nl_Breaking-News_date_20260205&sra=true )

2026-01-01 20:49:20 UTC

dunno about “Imperial” at only 8.5% ABV, but otherwise an altogether delightful local artisinal brew here in Bologna! #BeerSky
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2026-01-01 01:18:21 UTC

Welcome 2026.
Be better.

2025-12-13 22:15:28 UTC

Preparing for #Pacifichem is always such a burden…
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2025-11-22 00:34:43 UTC

Happy holidays from #Chicago and Millennium Park, y’all. Fiat lux.
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2025-11-03 15:38:27 UTC

My annual post of Millennium Park in #Chicago glowing in the autumn sun with a slash of red foliage backing The Bean and the blue, blue Lake Michigan, harbor now free of boats, extending to the horizon.
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2025-10-18 19:12:09 UTC

Ah, the unbridled joy of the 6-year old protestor (domestic terror tot?) asked to shout back to the speaker, along with the rest of the crowd, at the top of his little lungs, "I fucking love #Chicago!!" #NoKings

2025-10-18 17:17:40 UTC

Mayor Johnson now speaking. #Chicago #NoKings

2025-10-18 17:14:47 UTC

#Chicago #NoKings
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2025-10-16 12:08:37 UTC

Sunrise over downtown #Chicago with a cloud shelf over Lake Michigan and Millennium Park's Bean shining silver in the foreground.
Just another day in the #Hellhole...
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2025-10-07 23:58:29 UTC

Heavy police presence in the Loop. A pair of officers on every platform at the 3 El stops before I got off the train.
Hoping everyone stays safe, tonight.

2025-09-08 20:30:15 UTC

that moment where it's only after having tried 3 times that you realize you can't hit Copy on the keyboard of your personal laptop and then Paste on the keyboard of your adjacent work laptop and expect to be successful...
[a little girl in a pink dress ...](https://media.tenor.com/HGzfQWQIVIIAAAAC/duh.gif?hh=270&ww=360 )

2025-09-06 00:09:43 UTC

Department of Bone-spur Bellicosity 🙄

2025-08-09 16:00:10 UTC

Any other fans of David Brin's Uplift series out there?
I've been pondering the similarity between the breathless hype about AI nowadays and the reliance of the other Galactic civilizations in that series on "The Library".
Still feeling proud to be a wolfling, tbh.
[two dolphins are swimming in t...](https://media.tenor.com/Aa5lU13b8oYAAAAC/dolphin.gif?hh=278&ww=498 )

2025-08-08 00:24:25 UTC

file under “decidedly interesting” #beer
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2025-07-30 11:37:17 UTC

"'It's a computer bag, not a cat bed'? What the hell does that even mean??" #CatSky
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2025-07-19 00:19:29 UTC

full transparency: I’m not on the list 😅

2025-04-19 01:47:38 UTC

🤡🤡🤡
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2025-04-16 19:42:32 UTC

that seems ... bad
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2025-03-20 12:21:55 UTC

I was the UMN VPR who assembled funding to help jump-start Mike Osterholm's work on CWD 6 years ago. The threat keeps growing, unfortunately, with insufficient attention from policy makers. In any case, suffice it to say that I haven't touched venison since...
[www.theguardian.com/environment/...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe )
[‘Don’t call it zombie deer dis...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/chronic-wasting-disease-spread-zombie-deer-global-us-aoe?utm_term=67dc036ea988834ac3c8fb5c27818f4f&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email )

2025-03-18 10:08:01 UTC

Well, perfect. Because all Americans, especially, say, nonagenarians, have no trouble at all getting online and uploading all the documents and authentication needed to access the Social Security website...
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2025-03-15 23:07:51 UTC

In between doomscrolling, I figured I’d work on something I CAN fix all by myself, so I made a wicked Salade Niçoise for [@gagliardilaura.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/gagliardilaura.bsky.social ) 😄
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2025-03-07 22:51:11 UTC

Sweet mother of god, the record shows that Bhattacharya actually referred to indirect cost payments as "a tip"??
I mean, we've already established that no nominee given a hearing will be voted down, but, but... how can...?
#NoWords

2025-03-07 22:24:42 UTC

I was already a darn loyal customer, but once my barber put my book up on his wall, I pretty much signed up for life... 🥰 #ChemSky
Also hey, #Chicago, 7th29 Barbershop at 30 N. Michigan has my FULL-throated endorsement... 💇
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2025-03-04 03:59:21 UTC

Reminded tonight that the greatest moments of my professional career have all involved reflecting on the wonderful people with whom I have been privileged to work. #Team

2025-03-01 02:01:02 UTC

One of those nights where you just have to accept that saving the planet is hard, but at least your shrimp, peas, and zucchini risotto made your wife happy. #OneGoalAtATime

2025-02-28 23:29:33 UTC

Slava Ukraini, no lie

2025-02-22 02:19:15 UTC

(sigh) reposted one of our job postings today on LinkedIn -- for a managerial position requiring at least 6 years post-PhD experience -- immediately got 50+ connection requests (80+% grad students and postdocs, so not eligible) and multiple CVs in DMs. Must be a lotta anxiety out there, no lie...

2025-02-05 00:34:01 UTC

I played a lot of Risk®️ as a kid. I'm struggling to remember a time when I thought Eastern United States, Western United States, Greenland, and Gaza Strip was a winning position...

2025-01-30 03:56:34 UTC

y'know, never felt the need to add my pronouns to my signature blocks before, "christopher" being reasonably unambiguous.
just added "(he, him, his)" to all of them. sorry to be slow.

2025-01-27 18:45:14 UTC

Chatting with my daughter and realized in 2025 she'll be 27 and I'll be 64. Which is to say, 3³ and 4³, respectively!
And then I thought about the odds of getting to 5³...
So now I'm thinking I'll just crush on 8², instead -- still some headroom with that exponent...

2025-01-24 15:31:27 UTC

"...that doesn't break"
yup, really, how hard could that possibly be? 🙄
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3lgfxctmup225
#note1a3y…p8nl

2025-01-06 18:20:34 UTC

My semi-annual PSA that if you're taking undergrad Thermo and it's got a stat mech/molecular focus, you may find my free online videos/materials useful. #ChemSky #SciSky 🧪
(n.b.: pollux only lives these days in the Wayback Machine, but it IS there!)
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2024-12-31 22:34:32 UTC

In Italy (where I am visiting family) one eats lentils on New Year’s Eve to bring wealth in the New Year. With as many as I ate, I’m HOPING to become fabulously rich, but I guess the consolation prize is to be ridiculously regular for the next 72 hours or so.
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2024-12-29 19:18:19 UTC

languages 🙄
“cod” is bacalao in Spanish
“hake” is merluza in Spanish
I ordered “merluzzo” in Italy
I got cod, of course…

2024-12-26 21:18:08 UTC

I see the STEM vs Humanities rigor trope is making the rounds again. I was a Math/Chem double major 🧪. Topology? Thermo? Damn, they were hard. But I also worked my ASS off in Shakespeare, Greek History, and Anthropology of Sex Roles, for which my profs set VERY high standards for analytical rigor.

2024-12-22 01:52:23 UTC

I do, honestly, love the winter solstice. My spouse has departed (to be with her parents for Christmas, while I stay here, with mine); the lights are low — I've lit candles, everywhere; the cats want to be close to their only human; the brief peace of the holiday season is nigh. Pagans, y'know? 🙇🏼‍♂️
[a painting of a woman holding ...](https://media.tenor.com/OCU3BYuMI4wAAAAC/happy-winter-solstice.gif?hh=373&ww=498 )

2024-12-21 02:35:26 UTC

I mean, the world may be going to sh— but I just learned you can get a cider to 10.8% ABV, so for the next hour or so, I’m chill…

2024-12-16 11:54:35 UTC

That happy day when THIS year's number of citations on Google Scholar exceeds LAST year's number...
[a man in a green elf costume i...](https://media.tenor.com/cY2ZzOqFqb4AAAAC/holidayclassics-elf.gif?hh=256&ww=212 )

2024-12-15 22:49:16 UTC

Gracious, #ChemistsWhoCook, it has been SO long since I've made dinner for 6! First course is roast vegetable frittata over baby greens with heirloom cherry tomatoes, feta chunks, and balsamic vinegar.
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