Notices by Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social)

Since I haven't seen any posts about it yet (maybe I just missed them?) today's Nobel prize in chemistry went to

Susumu Kitagawa
Kyoto University, Japan

Richard Robson
University of Melbourne, Australia

Omar M. Yaghi
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“for the development of metal–organic frameworks”

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/press-release/

@RamenCatholic I always get the mental image of a fondue pot with that expression.

@ai6yr @MsMerope Didn't you say that the most space you got was when you were riding around with a rusty pitchfork on your rack?

@skinnylatte Used a bathroom on campus I hadn't been in before today and there was a sign posted inside that said "lights are on a motion sensor and turn off after 15 minutes". In the basement of a chemistry building. You know grad students have gone in there to cry and ended up in the dark.

@skinnylatte If you think you'll have time for a train trip into the suburbs specifically for what I consider the world's best bagels (though I haven't had them in close to 10 years now) let me know and I'll give you the address. It's down the street from a commuter rail station, so unlike much of NJ you can take transit to/from it. (egg & cheese on a fresh bagel is so, so good...)

@futurebird Did you also read Jessie Singer's There Are No Accidents recently?

@superball There might be textural changes, but I don't think there are problems from a food safety perspective as long as it was kept frozen and hadn't sat out before hand and is eaten immediatly?

@ysengrin Do you mind if I mooch over here tonight?

Supervisor's annual BBQ got done early (fewer guests than usual, so we all ran out of conversational partners I guess?) and I'm home in time tonight after all!

(might dip out due to mom call, but her phone isn't picking up so...)

#Monsterdon

I have rounded up all of the laundry, but every time I look outside I just cringe away from the sun like a vampire. It has to get done today unless I want to be doing laundry at 6AM tomorrow because I'm out of non-smelly bike clothes to go to that BBQ in.

@morgan @Fragglemuppet For a modern bike one (I know, I know I already submitted a site!): https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/about

It is literally some guy who worked out a way to test the various properties of bike tires and rates every one he can get his hands on along a 5 point web diagram.

@RamenCatholic I dunno, the commute would be a little far for me...

@skinnylatte I wonder if this happens with other non-roman alphabet languages too and it just doesn't get around as a meme so much? Like sanskrit, I bet people get stuff tatooed wrong in that...

Realized a chapter into this book that I've read it before but absolutely can't recall the ending (or any of the plot for that matter). Anyway, currently reading Robert Jackson Bennet's Foundryside.

I wonder if the next two books in the trilogy just weren't out when I read it the first time? Or if I disliked it enough to not continue? Or if those will have the same palm-hitting-forehead moment...

@RamenCatholic Curse you for sending me down this rabbit hole, now I want expensive toys I absolutely do not need.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/planet-earth-and-moon-in-orbit-42179

ETA: wait no, the moon doesn't also rotate on it's axis (just around the earth), nevermind that's trash.

@RamenCatholic What you need is a really nifty thing called an orrery, which has gears and turns the moon around the earth and the earth around the sun. It's much easier to see what's going on if you have access to one of them.

Also: pink floyd has a lot to answer for.

Side note: there is a science fiction story* set on a crawling city thing that moves along the mercury terminator (day/night divide) in order to keep the temperature regulated, it's a neat idea, but metal stresses different at different temperatures seem like it would be a serious barrier to making it work

*apparently there is more than one with this idea

@RamenCatholic You do realize the moon rotates, right? There isn't actually a "dark side" that's dark all of the time. It's just that a day takes 2 weeks (from sunrise to sunset).

@hollie Going to mooch over here tonight if you don't mind. Not sure If I'll post much.

#Monsterdon

AHH!!! I was not expecting the raven to talk in that absurd voice. It was very startling.

#Monsterdon

Wait, so what happened to her mother? Did he ditch her for the step mother?

(sorry I missed the first few minutes and maybe some crucial background)

#Monsterdon