@jkurutz
NMR Facility Manager, University of Chicago Chemistry. ACS Chicago Councilor, Historian, Secretary, Web backup; ACS Chemists With Disabilities comms. PhD Biophysics, BS Chemistry. Opinions here are my own, not institutional.
Covefe!
It’s surely available at the local public library … unless other people have also wanted to do their Frankenstein homework and checked it out already
🖋️ “Demand OMB Release Appropriated Science Funds and Hold Vought Accountable” hit 250 signers!
💬 Text SIGN PYTADC to 50409
In addition to the 3/7 rally, there’s a 3/13 meeting of the @chicagoacs.bsky.social w/ hybrid talk “Trust in Science” by Dr Judy Giordan. She made this issue her focus when Pres. of the @acs.org. All welcome. See chicagoacs.starchapter.com/meetinginfo....
Worse, the staggering 10K number doesn’t even factor in their many centuries of experience.
“The departing employees accounted for 106,636 cumulative years of federal service between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, 2025…” (from the public part of the article)
Not much “we” in this one, though
If they can’t do the time, they shouldn’t have done the crime
4/ Are there helpful guidelines for acceptable dB levels of noise in a lab environment? Office environment?
OSHA guidance seems geared to avoid hearing damage, which isn’t a danger here. I’m more concerned about focus, distraction, ability to have a conversation, and think about complex issues.
3/ Personally, the lab is currently so loud - with NO equipment - I wouldn’t want to work in there myself and I don’t want to subject anyone to the environ. But removing the noisy &unnecessary chilled water lines is expensive and would be overbudget. HVAC is less noisy but may be trouble, too.
2/ NMR labs are normally a little noisy bc of console fans & some have chirpy helium cryogenics. But some researchers need to work there for hours, and a noisy environment could be distracting. I worry in particular about neurodivergent researchers and overstimulation.
White noise in an analytical core lab #NMR - how much is acceptable?
I’m moving 2 NMRs, and the new space has noisy pipes and ducts in it. My phone app dB meter shows “inside of a car” levels w/o even any equipment in it. I worry about distraction and spectrum noise. 1/
#NMRChat #DisabledInSTEM
Tell that to the neighbors she’s actively helping around her office on Clark St
Isn’t collective punishment against the Geneva Conventions and other international humanitarian laws?
guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/arti...
Irresponsible. Remember: “The Department of Defense (DOD) is the only federal agency that has never passed a financial statement audit.”
www.csis.org/analysis/fix...
At the polls, I’ve accepted a library card as a valid secondary form of ID
Curiously, a library card can be a valid ID for voting, or a secondary ID when registering to vote
That’s unfair to Shrek!
Consistent with a mission of eugenics
AOC’s high school science project was so good an international astronomical society named an asteroid named after her.
“My research won 2nd place globally in Microbiology at @intel ISEF (Intel International Science and Engineering Fair).”
Not dumb.
www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-o...
This looks like a pro-eugenics move. The ghouls may aim to kill off those they consider weak.
This makes more sense if they’re adopting a pro-eugenics posture. In that case, every mass-death event is an opportunity to “purify” the species of people who are weak (according to the ghouls who promote these things)
Maybe if we just snorted cocaine off toilet seats we’d be OK
An old room reservation calendar hosted on a Linux box in the facility. Seeking a real cloud solution that the university already pays for to support other labs.
EPR uses FACES from Univ of Georgia (U.S.)
I’m surprised that he’s also advocating for medicine-assisted therapy, like using naltrexone and methadone. That’s great, especially since so many programs exclude people who use it. But privileging faith-based programs is too likely to substitute Jesus for actual medicine.
March 16 (six weeks from yesterday) should heretofore be known as “Groundhog Accuracy Evaluation Day”
Oh my gosh, I forgot:
AIDS: A Modern Plague
Taught in 1987 or 88 by a Philosophy prof w/ a Biochem PhD, it was a discussion course exploring the scientific and social aspects of AIDS when it was still a death sentence, held terrible stigma, and few were seriously addressing it
Agreed that it’s so important to have room for classes that aren’t one’s major focus. One of the great things about my undergrad curric was the diversity of *unit size* of classes. It was pretty easy to squeeze in a 1hr/week journal club or low credit-hr specialty class.
Tell me five classes you took in college:
Perceptions of the Body in History
Afro-Caribbean Literature (taught by an author in the genre)
Organismic Biology (basically theory and engineering of invertebrates)
Fencing
Journalism (weekly review of the campus newspaper we produced)
