Nathan Seifert

asst prof in PChem @UNewHaven; teacher; spectroscopist; music addict; lifelong leftist, but my mom says i'm just a smartass. all opinions are utterly my own.

[Seton Hall Student @sacketology]

Jar Jar Binks calling someone a bitch

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

"Classical" in the 2020s just means white Christian fascism. Take it from this actually classically trained student -- there's plenty of proficiency visible in this country.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

Ok, so the classical school movement in the US is fake, since most graduates are not proficient in Greek and Latin upon graduation. Got it.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

@ZigZagToTheMoon @SpaceAce_69 also true, catch the xXSeverusXx 360 no scope unforgivable curse compilation on wizardtube

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

@SpaceAce_69 @ZigZagToTheMoon Snape noclips Dumbledore out of reality on page 667

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

lord of the rings lmao

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

If schools and universities refuse to teach the great books of the West, we will do it ourselves.

We started an independent group to study the Great Texts of the Western canon, together.

...and we are now 600 members strong! 🙌

What should we add to our reading list??

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

actually, this is quite an accomplishment of Norman Rockwell, an artist seriously underestimated in his time; but better appreciated after the publication of Deborah Solomon's excellent study of Rockwell's work & life. here, the "mere" illustrator has created a most engaging & visually beautiful abstract painting; & his connoisseur is seriously puzzling over it, like much of educated America at that time.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

Soulless lizard men confusing the necessity to eat with the necessity to goon, more at 11

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

@NaOHBartfield Insane pull, grats

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

The criticism of Emily Wilson's translation continuing is insane -- have you read her beautiful and critically researched introductions? A delight for academics and hobbyist readers alike; with those intros she could have done it in Esperanto for all I care.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

In a world with the Unicode standard there's 0 reason to be salty about idiosyncratic or even radical translations of ancient texts. They're all publicly available in the original, and if you *really* wanna really read Constance Garnett do Dostoyevsky, just fucking open Google.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

I had lunch with Pevear & Volokhonsky in college, and they told us we shouldn't look down at older translations of Russian texts, that there's nothing fundamentally inferior in Garnett. It's that translation is a conversation between languages, like that between two spouses.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

Discourse about ideology in the academy always disregards the elephant in the room, which is that old faculty are being replaced by people radicalized by the Iraq War. That's a good enough reason to never want to hear another conservative say anything ever again.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

There aren't a lot of chances for rampant public misogyny in the classics to be fair, gotta get a whole generation's worth of patriarchy disguised as collegiality out of their system

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Are all of you suffering under some form of wizard’s curse that compels you to still talk about Emily Wilson’s Odyssey

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Vaccine Anti vaccine
research research

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

Hell yeah

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Not only have conservatives become vanishingly rare in academia, so have centrists. That’s how complete the left’s dominance is: Even moderates are now a fringe group in academia.

https://t.co/3TCZW5YzIF

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

That cursed bicycle, democratizing the booty call

[The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh]

Going out on a limb here, but I don't think the phones did it.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

Agreed, it should have been Song of Solomon #2

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

The Guardian’s panel has chosen the 100 greatest novels of all time and has put BELOVED second. That is among the most ludicrous aesthetic judgments in the annals of Western culture. Embarrassing tokenism.

[JoeI @whitefeelimgs]

Countless America deliberately earn no more than $15,000 a year so they can give their brat kids thousands of dollars worth of fish knowledge on the tax payer’s dime

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

I wish I could get paid to pretend I actually use my degree

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Physicist Michio Kaku suggests dark matter isn’t matter at all. It is gravity leaking from a parallel dimension.

[Nathan Seifert @kookychem]

tall bois be goonin

[James L. Nuzzo, PhD @JamesLNuzzo]

The relationship between body height and grip strength in 4,816 individuals (51.2% male) aged 6–19 years in the U.S.