Adrian A. Lorenzana

Once again, one of the most revealing & utterly demoralizing aspects of the last year or so has been the very transparent eagerness of so many of our academic colleagues, administrators, & leaders to reveal just how completely they are uninterested in the actual projects of teaching & research.

Or, to change the metaphor slightly, professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole; so that each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom are looking at the problem from the same point of view. It is not a case of choosing those which, to the best of one’s judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those which average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practise the fourth, fifth and higher degrees.

Watching the timeline try to parse market reactions to Trump's Thought of the Day on Iran and reminding everyone that it's never not a good day to read Ch. 12 of Keynes's General Theory.

EPSRC DTP - Automated mechanistic studies in catalysis with quantum chemistry and machine learning at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EPSRC DTP - Automated mechanistic studies in catalysis with quantum chemistry and machine learning at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opening in Trujillo Group @manchester.ac.uk
Fully funded EPSRC DTP on automated mechanistic studies in catalysis!
Collab Dr Alegre-Requena (Zaragoza).
July/Oct 2026 start.

Details/apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#phd #catalysis #compchem #ml

You thought the Friends apartments were ridiculous? Wait until you see the college professors' offices in the movies & TV shows.

Allies fear Iran war will leave them without US weapons they bought European and Asian countries worry the Pentagon is burning through munitions so fast that it won’t have enough to send the weapons they have purchased.

One of the many costs in European and global security from the Iran war.

"American allies are watching in disbelief as the Pentagon reroutes weapon shipments to aid the Iran war, angry and scared that arms the U.S. demanded they buy will never reach them."

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I would Like to Hike to Mt Thor Someday (in summer)

NMR facility lead position at SDSU
careers.sdsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

I’ve lived in Michigan my entire life. Tornadoes in early March are pretty uncommon and certainly not of this size and scope.

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

🔭 🧪

What a contrast when comparing him to another person...

Archaeological excavation at the Birds of Paradise site, showing the tops of preserved wood posts. CREDIT: Timothy Beach

A Maya settlement in today’s northwestern Belize persisted past the abandonment of many contemporaneous Classic Period urban centers. The community used raised earthen, stone, and wood structures to access the rich resources of the wetland. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/JKA250Yq7n2

"That's one hell of an act you've got there. What do you call it?"

"The Kakistocrats!"

Grid-Snapped Drag & Drop Objects in Xogot - Godot on iPad YouTube video by Xogot

How do you implement drag-and-drop with grid snapping in Godot?

Jhello shows how to build a clean, reusable system using Xogot on iPad.

Watch the tutorial:
youtu.be/KYmGNF0501Q

Omg this is so cute and on brand

So proud of Dr. Pathiranage, and so grateful she took a chance on a new PI. She’s our fluorescent protein star, and off to continue her amazing work at HHMI!

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

Why Interdisciplinary Research is Important - Jennifer Doudna Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., shares her excitement with doing interdisciplinary research – and how it helped her win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She will deliver an address at ACS Spring 2026 as she…

Solving today's global challenges with science requires collaborative solutions. For Priestley Medalist and 2020 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna, chemistry is a strong foundation for any interdisciplinary work. Hear her speak at ACS Spring 2026 — register today! #ACS150

The next congress of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) will be held July 19–24, 2026 at USP São Carlos, Brazil (first time in Latin America!). It will feature advances in molecular design, catalysis and synthesis. See link below

zurl.co/oehB2

Scoop: Trump officials broker massive U.S.-Venezuela gold deal The arrangement shows the tightening commercial bounds between Venezuela and the U.S.

We're plundering Venezuela

Thinking of doing a PhD in synthetic inorganic chemistry? Apply with the Mehta group. UK students only. Email me.

"He's talking about a putative Pd(IV) intermediate! Get him!"

a series of folders, with eyes and nose and mouth glyphs on them, loosely resembling a face. loosely

a lot of you are hesitating to update to macOS 26, which is too bad, because i'm over here making my new best friend: foldy

Now we are all forced to use “woke” bulbs that use far less electricity and never burn out

Another successful K-12 outreach event led by WSU NOBCChE at UPREP Maths and Science. The volunteers led a hands-on demonstration of the classic lemon battery experiment. #wsuchemistry #wsunobcche #ChemSky #outreach

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So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

I need a mini vacation

great now i feel like i should obtain some too

“Imagine this fantasy”