Sean Elliott
@profsje
Professor of Chemistry at Boston University; Labradoodle wrangler; T1 Diabetic; friend of English Majors
Sorry I missed it! I had to go to a bookstore in Portland, only to find it closed by 4 minutes!
"Must get dopamine." can be chanted to the cadance of "We make holes in teeth" -- you know, just in case that might be useful to you as you power through your Friday.
You are still unfolding , becoming something you are supposed to be. (Says the Chair, trying to write the Grand Unifying Memo which will unleash chthonic joy…)
Congratulations Dr Shivam Kumar, whose PhD on PFOR redox enzymology was next level!
Number 1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go … so it should be , technically, “Halloween 2”, but I will take a Sunday’s Childe “Time Bandits,” please and thank you. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
The Resistance was real in little ole, rather bougie Newton; I can be hard on my town, but the love for one another humans was real today! With @drennanlab.bsky.social
Don't know if you caught the NIH-related news -- but if it holds, it's a major blow for universities and what they can afford to do. Science will crumble in the US. Full stop. Forget about having PhD students in the humanities. I am sorry - I am reeling. But also -- the animals who keep me....
I saw this elsewhere, and then lost it -- and so I remade it, and so I apologize for not reskeeting it with attribution. But, it sums how I'm doing.