Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D.

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?

Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

This post brought to you by me eating a salad for lunch and pining for chapli kebab

I went to an Afghani restaurant downtown with an Iftar buffet last night and, boy howdy do they know how to break a fast!!! So good. My only complaint was that the kids cleaned out their desserts before I could get some, but that was a tactical error on my part.

Not intended to critique the technology, just that the headline is misleading because it doesn’t test the thing it says it does!

Self-discharge rate does not prove it is not a supercapacitor. The difference between a batter and a supercapacitor lies in the charge storage mechanism, and both are possible to engineer with low sef-discharge rates.

My completely baseless hypothesis is that cuisine from the Indian subcontinent makes people happy.

What an odd choice of image, a old-fashioned manual chromatography column, for a cutting-edge topic! Consider updating the alt-text to better reflect the image

Sadly my German is very, very limited :(

To Combat Climate Change, Electrification needs Compact Cities for Full Impact The research is clear: without aggressively tackling rising global temperatures, there will be catastrophic global consequences within the coming decades. This year, reports have indicated that to kee...

“Electrification has been touted as a silver bullet: an easy solution that alleviates the GHG burden from car owners worldwide. This isn’t the case. Extensive vehicle electrification only lowers emissions by a portion of what’s needed.” Via @wrirosscities.bsky.social
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What was #ChemTwitter like…

Hell yeah cool rocks gang bsky.app/profile/skug...

I Tried Riding A Penny Farthing (And It Taught Me About Feminism) YouTube video by J. Draper

A fun romp through the shared history of bicycles and feminism! #bikesky

youtu.be/j7C9YUwPtGk

A selfie of Stephen riding a bicycle, wearing a blue cap under a bright yellow helmet, smiling against a blue sky marked by the faintest whispy clouds.

A poor attempt to photograph two panniers full of groceries over my shoulder while riding down the street on my bike

Way too nice out to not take the bike out today! Even made it to the grocery store on the way back.

#bikesky

Taking it for a spin for the camera:

Aaaand it’s finished! Really pleased how the glaze layering turned out, especially around the edges.

#ceramics #CeramicArt

An orange Home Depot bucket sits atop a large ceramic-top hotplate stirrer, a teensy vortex seen in the surface suggesting that stirring is somehow happening.

Prepping 2x20kg of an aqueous formulation base when you usually outsource to a kilo-lab is NOT fun! My experience prepping buckets of ceramic glazes certainly came in handy.

You CAN stir 5-gallon buckets on a magnetic stirrer if it’s big enough, but I don’t recommend it.

#chemchat #RealTimeChem

As Bike Cars Overflow, Caltrain Bans Large Bikes and Panniers - Streetsblog San Francisco New rules heavily restrict the types of bikes Caltrain users can bring on board. Years ago advocates warned Caltrain that they weren't allotting enough bike space on the new trains

This need to be called out at perpetuating sexist policies that privilege bikers without child carrying, errand running responsibilities. Caltrain would never consider banning kids from trains, why is it ok to make it impossible for parents who travel bike to use the system?

Meet an animal that makes even me shudder: Cone Snails. #LetsChangeThat

There is so, so much to bemoan about this iteration of our federal government but I am glad to be represented by Rep. Simon who understands the brief

One was a physician (allegedly [one of?] the first to bring modern EKG practices to Berkeley, CA)

The other was an electrical engineer in radio electronics (initially SIGINT surveillance equipment flown in U2 spyplanes over the Eastern USSR, later as a domestic telecom tech company founder)

My first paying job was mixing colors of gray and brown paint to match the façades of the brownstones of the Upper West Side

And the final dip for the top coat of Koke Green!

After drying, pouring the inside, and peeling the tape:

First dip of two: a foundation of Koke Black

A geometric clay vase sits on a table at Kollektiv Clay Studio surrounded by plastic ready to cover it for a slow dry.

The same geometric vase after the first firing, with blue tape placed along the vertical edges as a resist for the glaze application.

Really excited about my latest project. I almost never make vases, as my cats chomp any plants they can get at!

The form is a stretched dodecahedron, so I made a custom slab bevel cutter to help the faces cleanly meet at the edges with a 116° dihedral.

#ceramics #pottery #ceramicart

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Adding Up What Urban Highways Really Cost A new report maps the economic toll that downtown freeways exact on 142 US cities — and tallies up what that land could be worth if it was developed for other uses.

“Looking at a 3-mile radius from the downtowns of 142 US cities, roughly 66,000 acres are consumed by highways — land representing an untapped development potential of more than half a trillion dollars…that fallow land equates to about $5.2 billion in foregone property tax revenue every year.”

😂

And those who write CH3CN?