I can’t think of any better way to support research than via direct institutional support of scientists: Money to pay salaries and buy reagents. Not new buildings, not admin restructures, not big packages to attract OS scientists. Money. It’s as difficult and as simple as that.

1/2 Ok #ozchem community. Get your act together. Having taken the pulse from a few junior DP applicants it seems that there is plenty of chemistry ARC reviewers that think their main job is to criticise ECR lack of experience. How can you have "long" experience if <5y from PhD?

Scary and sad. PhD students struggling with intellectual challenge and financial hardship on the verge of homelessness. Skipping meals and neglecting their health to save some money. PhD is becoming again a "gentrified" environment. #AcademicChatter theguardian.com/australia-news…

Aaron Rupar i too CANNOT BELIEVE that msnbc didn't use the oxford comma.

Truly, one of the best decisions I made since getting a real job was a gin subscription.

"Thank you ,V... Than... Thank you, Vice Presid... Thank you... Thank you, Vice President."

Preparing my DECRA atm. The amount of money moved to Linkage (and presumably cut from Discovery) is coincidentally about the same amount of overspend on the Sydney Airport land scandal. At this point it's not ignorance or incompetence, it's just garden variety callous cruelty.

Analytical chemistry is undertaught and organic chemistry is overtaught in the median chemistry department.

This is the greatest legal analysis/turkey recipe thread I have, or ever will, read.

In light of recent evidence, I would like to recast the PM of Australia as Jack Black #ScottyFromPhotoOps #ScottyFromMarketing

Damning.

First author and last author

after a year of covering nyc restaurants during the pandemic era, this is still my favorite discovery while researching for a piece

@drenth_sarah @HkarterKarter This at my local shopping centre today. Too good.

karl marx failed to consider how afternoon naps hit different on company time

@JBuriak