What is the point of learning from the lessons of the Holocaust if we are told that no other event since not only doesn't have any parallels with it, but that it's actively evil to consider any such parallels?

There is an entire field of scholarship dedicated to drawing comparisons between genocides. The entire point of genocide education is to draw parallels between genocides so that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Utterly absurd to pretend that is antisemitic.

Happy to share our newest preprint from Maynard Group where we demonstrate the ability to tune dearomatization energies to control amine release rates! Another example of the synergy that computations and experimentation can provide in your research🖥️🧪 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

This was a really fun collaboration with Felix where we learned a lot about synthesis and functionalization of anthraquinones. It was super exciting to see all the physical organic chemistry I've taught over the last few years come to fruition!

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Who are the women who inspire you the most? #IWD2024

because we’re here on earth to fart around

Rounding out the Garg Lab talks tomorrow is Ari, who will be discussing more strained intermediate chemistry as well as some DEI and outreach work! #ACSSpring2024 UCLA Chem & Biochem

Tried to read that piece in The Cut but decided this is not how Mary Oliver would want me to spend my one wild precious life.

OCDS General Meeting next Friday, April 5th at noon in Young Hall 4222C (the collaboratory) with lunch immediately following in Winstein. Please RSVP at this link: forms.gle/RyJEvqZPyK4XV7… or follow the QR code.

I was a third-year college student before this genocide started, but I'll never be able to finish my studies because Israeli occupation forces bombed my university and every other university in Gaza. Thanks to the brave college students who are protesting and advocating for us,

Do you not think this should have been in the headline?

Ask yourself why reporters would need to be arrested for reporting on what's happening at UCLA? What dont they want the public to know? Asking as a UCLA alum class of 1996

everyone under the age of 35 that doesn't simply turn on cnn or fox news and believes their framing knows that these protests have largely been peaceful and yet they got a larger police response than january 6. wasting more tax $$ beating students for the welfare state of israel

there are books behind books

Switzerland’s Nemo has won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code.” apnews.com/article/eurovi…

sometimes I wake up like holy fuck life is just meaningless suffering and nothing else and then my cats are just downstairs doing this and it feels like God just flicked me in the forehead

This poem is so good it jolts me every time to be honest. People love to post that one line from it whenever June hits, which I get, but why deprive anyone of the whole thing??

The final form of this article is now online Chemical Science ! pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…