Finally got a chance to try the chemical puzzle room that our awesome storekeeper set up.

Even the dinosaurs are getting into the holiday spirit here.

A Costa Rican way of expressing frustration (similar to “for fuck’s sake”) is me cago en todo lo cagable. It means “I shit on everything that can be shitted on.” I guess you could also translate it as “I shit upon all that is shittable.”

The #BEASTLab won second place in the departmental holiday decoration contest!

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

all i'm saying is that there were better options

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Can I just do a new policy? When Multi-Factor-Authentication logs me out in the middle of my work, that means I'm done for the day.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

100% Agreed. Can we please stop glorifying the richest people in the world. They're sociopaths.

Mrs. the Chemist is wearing a holiday sweater with "Ho Ho Ho" on it. So of course I asked my older child if they knew what "Ho" means. Kids: "Uh, it's a bad word." Me: "No, it's a chemical element, holmium. Do you know what the atomic number holmium is?" Kid: "No." Me: *smiles* Got 'em.

36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦

This is awesome, but really should be captioned: Sick children traumatize Freddie Freeman. Go Jays!

Oh, Adenine Why can’tcha be true?

some seriously artisanal Derek this morning #chemchat www.science.org/content/blog...

Since my brother-in-law is posting pictures of '70's station wagons, I'd like to post a picture (c. 1981?) to show that ACS bumper stickers have not changed one whit in the last 45 years.

Was walking behind two students and one was saying to the other "I want to major in biology but it turns out, I just don't really like my bio classes." Then they got kind of quite and looked a little embarrassed and said "I think I like my chemistry classes."

No assembly required.

(S)-cargot (R)-cargot

I had no idea that growing up playing those “find 10 things wrong with this picture” games in kids’ magazines would leave me with such maladaptive skills later in life 🫠

So, bad news and good news then?

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Both AM and PM commutes were dark today but there were some really pretty views to enjoy. Looking good, Saskatoon!

You've just died. 6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.

Oh please just fuck off

This is gold! (Made up chemistry facts)

Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing 100% FAKE chemistry facts to amuse/bore your friends and family. Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject! (Feel free to add your own!) #chemchat

Hidden metal hearts; Absorbing light, revealing Coupling’s changing shape. Do palladium clusters really retain their structures during coupling reactions? Glad to report our journey into following these reactions by X-rays is now out (1/2): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #chemsky

The world could use less artificial intelligence and more plain intelligence right about now.

I wrote about that! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/wher...

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

We seem to have a quockerwodger outbreak!

Change one letter and ruin a candy Hershey Pisses

Look if you had one ring with one Pd in it, and pull everything onto one thread in one moment. would you break it or just let it slip? Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Me: This is awesome! Also me: but the half life calculation is based on 0th order kinetics, thus is only useful for a given starting amount. Former grad student me: I wonder what the half life of spatulas and stirring bars are and whether they follow 0th order kinetics? #chemchat

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

It's that time again: @cenmag.bsky.social 's molecule of the year poll is now OPEN! Check out the contenders, lovingly curated by yours truly from past C&EN stories, and vote for your favorite by Dec. 11 #chemsky #scisky #moty2025 cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Had trouble with my phone charging for six months, finally take it in to a repair place and lo-and-behold, a giant piece of lint jammed in the charging port was the problem. (Size exaggerated for effect).

Still firmly on Team Stir.

I need the coffee in me before I can make smart decisions like this.

I am so tired of “full responsibility” that involves no action and “shame” that kicks in only upon public disclosure.

When you collaborate with proper organic chemists. #chemchat #chemsky

Huzzah. No mid-winter election!

One cool thing on living in Saskatoon is the free demonstrations of the thermodynamics of ice crystallization from the gas phase.

UVic Chemistry is hiring again! Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast! Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me). Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred. www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...