Have you been to Blackwell's Books? If not, it's just around the corner and is indescribably wonderful.
Can we pass a law requiring government agencies to post emergency info on their freakin' WEBSITES and not just on Twitter?!? (I'm looking at you, TVA, which was tweeting about the imminent failure of Nolichucky Dam in TN last night while posting no updates on their official website)
Fellow chemists: read @michellefrancl.bsky.social’s lovely ode to the beloved CRC Handbook. I worked in a bookstore as an undergrad and remember being WAY too excited about getting a good deal on my very own CRC thanks to the employee discount… Still using it three decades later. 🧪
Ever wonder why there a table of the physical properties of whiskers in the CRC? Or wonder what the heck the CRC is and what it has to do with chemistry? or House of Dragons? or turgid guinea pig urine? Read my latest for Nature Chemistry and find out! rdcu.be/dVakl
Nature Chemistry - Before the internet, chemists used references books to find necessary information. Michelle Francl takes us on a journey through the weird and wondrous world captured in the most...
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I love the ones with a little fly-sized hole - “give the fly a chance”!
I love their spiky trunks. They look like something that a brontosaurus might nibble.
For a specific example of this pollution, read Philip Shapira's "Delving into 'delve'":
If scientific authors use ChatGPT in writing their papers, it is likely that common ChatGPT words will appear.
Sounds like pre-2022 text will be the "low-background steel" of linguistics research:
This database of word usage frequencies in different languages will no longer be updated because text generated by AI LLMs has irreversibly polluted the data sources. 🧪
And it's not just California - other states have similar databases you can search: