@jaygforsythe
Analytical chemist and teacher in South Carolina. Interested in astrobiology, mass spectrometry, undergraduate education, sports, dogs, sad 00s indie music. Husband, dad. Opinions my own. He/him https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1041-1113
Furman is going dancing!!!#MarchMadness
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
Every academic:
Proud to have contributed to this virtual special issue on undergraduate research! Lots of awesome work in here. #chemsky
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I needed this too.
I get it
Glad to hear — I hope this is the norm but doubt it. I have heard multiple administrators speak openly about using AI to write sensitive documents and emails.
Timely — discussed academic performance reviews with colleagues at a conference dinner yesterday.
A classic example of higher ed administrators putting the burden on us faculty to do their own work for them. We spend (waste) so much time on reviews and receive so little substance in return.
Chemical Imaging with a Spaceflight LDMS Instrument for Planetary Exploration #IJMS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
While “big soccer” continues to pursue greed and partnering with bad actors (e.g. our president), it is so important for a prominent person in the game to say this.
As a Liverpool fan, Kompany broke my heart a few times but he is a great man and leader — every soccer fan should watch
Christians who call out white Christian nationalism and advocate for things like loving one’s neighbor and separation of church and state are a real threat to this administration and they know it
![The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6435lftcmpvxasbkrtsw22i7/bafkreicpbthbsbsmlfm3fjysre3sbt3gyu2gjxmacrnofhibatrts2xwga)
The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days
My awesome colleague @kmullaugh.bsky.social and several College of Charleston alumni are featured in this article about lab waste / sustainability — check it out!
#chemsky #chemchat
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“…if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sort of ammonia and phosphate salts — light, heat, electricity present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes…”
- Darwin (1871)
Less of a “big if” today! #DarwinDay
But her emails.
How many lives lost/destroyed, decades of slow, hard-earned progress, and trillions of dollars will it take to just get back to where we were before this administration existed?
Need to be writing a grant report but I cannot NOT think about this.
Yes. 100% correct.
“You Get What You Give” is the best 90s one-hit wonder.
Waiting to read this until tonight so I don’t break down in tears at work
I miss the Super Bowls where the Eagles defeat hall of fame QBs who are very easy to dislike
I’m not crying you’re crying
Who else is watching the Philly Special 30 for 30 on ESPN right now #PhillyPhilly
Academic freedom forever
As someone who works at a non-R1 public institution (also in a red state), it is insulting that research would not be valued and evaluated. I do research with undergraduates and (1) stand by the quality of our work and (2) know that research is teaching too.
Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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Nice to see that grade inflation and "back in my day school was difficult" was a trope back in (checks notes) 1663.
