Radium monofluoride could help physicists investigate the standard model, owing to radium-225's unusual pear-shaped nucleus.

One year ago, I dressed as an amine for Halloween (source of my profile picture)

me: yeah, so it turns out you can't really turn lead into gold medieval alchemist: Ah, oh well. me: we can turn coal into diamonds though medieval alchemist: what.

I've come to realize that most of my activity here is quite negative 🥲 My life isn't all doom and gloomy, just the career-searching part of it. I get to hang out with my dogs in-between my part-time work shifts. I'm persisting.

The current job market for science and research is absolutely depressing. I've been applying since December. With my specific research/career interests, it just seems like there's no way to land anything without a higher degree - not even guaranteed to get because of funding cuts. Awful all around.

Five years ago, a very close relative died of a glioblastoma brain tumor at the age of 13. Today would have been his 19th birthday. And now comes news that an mRNA vaccine is being trialed to treat this very (incurable) malady. Fingers crossed. mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...

Abandoning the vision of liberal arts education is at the heart of how fascism has come knocking. Scientists speaking of abandoning humanities have not learned the core lessons of our history - and by our history I even mean THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Science is never separated from society.

Contrast agents hate to see me coming (I will find better ones and make them unemployed) (I too am unemployed)

Mentally conceiving of jobs that could exist the same way Kekule dreamed up the structure of benzene

Academia is so funny. You read enough papers and you start recognizing names. You notice the beef between scientists. You start looking at some as celebrities. ESPECIALLY in some more niche divisions. Very silly despite all the anguish.

Has the post-grad job search always this bad? :/

Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...

Organic Syntheses invites submission of articles incorporating video

This job search is just miserable.

Job market is rough, as you all know. If you have any leads on jobs in the Philadelphia area (closer to the city, the better. I depend on public transit). Please let me know if there's any opportunities like this. Looking for work in radiation safety, radiochemistry research, radiology research, etc

No kings. No I.C.E. More chemistry. #chemistry

I am officially a stay-at-home college graduate.

Okay, now what?

Today, after a difficult four years, I'm graduating with my bachelor's in chemistry, cum laude. I've made it through a concussion and various mental and physical health challenges but I made it. I'm a first-gen, disabled, queer student graduating from an Ivy League. My heart is full.

Released 40 YEARS AGO Today Raspberry Beret (1985) Prince & the Revolution

Last week, I participated in Lavender Graduation- a nationwide event to celebrate queer achievement. I'm here because of those before me. Every gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer scholar is why I am who I can be in 2025. Queer joy and success is resistance to hate. 💜

If the places I'm applying to could stop having a hiring freeze (because of the government), I'd really appreciate it.

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

I know I'm getting old when I'm getting excited by job postings I find.

I might have better luck becoming the next Pope than getting hired within the next month

I am begging for a job that lets me work with organic molecules, or radioactive stuff that aren't weapons. Please. I will lose my marbles more and more with every rejection.

If autistic people will never pay taxes, then I want the IRS to return all the money I've had to pay them due to owing money from filing taxes.

Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.

Life is soup, I am fork. Life is column chromatography, I am test tube full of product that accidentally got discarded.

Horrifying! Got this in class today 🥴

Being so deeply interested in radiochemistry and becoming a radiochemist while simultaneously taking a class surrounding the victims of living in the atomic age has truly messed with my mind. Being pulled in so many directions - how do I do my part using this science for good...

My first semi-viral post here. I'm so back

RIP quantum mechanics, you were too woke for this world #chemsky 🧪

Did I acquire my own graduated cylinder and 3D print a graduation cap for it in preparation for my own graduation photos? Perhaps. Being a chemistry major is serious business.

checked the signal group and it's now a spirit halloween wth

Signal HQ today

Just realized I never shared here this publication that came out last month, the first publication I'm on!! Super fun project, go check it out :) Was a little beacon of light for me in this current hellscape doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

I just need 1 job or postbacc to accept me. ONE, PLEASE. Preferably in a city, state, or country that doesn't hate gay people.

I'll never forget my week in Japan and all the lessons I learned surrounding radiation 💜

More white coats, less white robes! @eddpasquier.bsky.social #standupforscience #standupforscience2025

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️ Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

Deciding to do a gap when it comes to getting a PhD seems to have been a good choice just considering... the world. But now I gotta find a job and science is still under attack. Irish pharmaceutical companies/locations please hire me.

Country may be collapsing but I just survived Trader Joe's on a weekend, can I get an amen

Hello College Hall

Vaccines work, and we at C&EN have a part to play in scientifically informed policy based on the expertise and needs of chemists everywhere. What will you do to help? cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... 🧪

NYC Union Square

Elon Musk is a terrible president.