March comes at you fast...

The consistent mediocrity of the restaurants on the Corner may be our town’s greatest culinary achievement. How did so many people get together and agree to misuse salt at the same time?

Mike Bloomberg literally has Gordon Gekko's endorsement. mobilize.us/mikebloombergv…

. Bernard Moon Post pandemic I’m going pick 7 Labs to visit .. let’s also explore some opportunities from our perspective.. I have an idea about creating “localized culture” pushing these Chemist more towards entrepreneurship.Deep dive on their patents potential.Let’s discuss

Now up: Osvaldo Gutierrez shares his experiences of being undocumented, his dreams of attending college, and the mentors who helped him along the way. Read his profile in C&EN at bit.ly/3kIQlMU #cenT12 #FutureofChem

VA candidates for U.S. House - check your emails for the Virginia Leading Through Science Survey 2020! #VA05 Dr. Cameron Webb @GoodForCongress #VA06 Ben Cline @VoteForBetts #VA07 SpanbergerVA07 @NickForVA #VA08 Don Beyer @JeffJordan2020 #VA09 Morgan Griffith

Check out this new leaderboard (coming soon) for voter participation in my department! My lab helped test it -- we have high early turnout! If you'd like one too, I'm happy to share the template. It's in Google Forms and Google Sheets. #ScientistsVote #Vote2020

Hey #sciencetwitter, call to action TODAY!! We found serious issues with water quality control plans for a major natural gas pipeline, & wrote a public comment. Can you review the comment, & add your name *by 8pm EST* if you agree? docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… details in thread 👇

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If you have students from Afghanistan or Haiti, now would be a great time to check in on them, offer resources, but most importantly let them know you care.

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#PrincetonU will increase graduate fellowship and stipend rates by an average of 25% to about $40,000 for doctoral candidates during the 10-month academic year. It is the University’s largest one-year increase in graduate student stipend rates. bit.ly/3IzeArZ

Check out the latest from our lab on C–H hydroxylation. Nice job by Philip (@twitt3rlessphil), Jared, Yubo, Kevin in bringing a long-term effort to fruition: Amine Organocatalysis of Remote, Chemoselective C(sp3)–H Hydroxylation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… guess whose beautiful brilliant talented sexy labmates published a paper YEARS in the making!!!!! (mine)

Look, Purdue fans, I knows this hurts a lot right now. But as long as you win the title next year, everything will be fine. If you don’t win the title immediately after losing to a sixteen, who knows. That’s never happened.

HB448 (Delegate Chris Obenshain) would set a presumption of intoxication (while driving) for at least .004mg of delta-9 per liter of blood. I'll be curious to hear some testimony from the science community on this--AFAIK there's no accepted standard. lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp60…

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