The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry beginning July 1, 2026. Applications will be accepted until March 9, 2026 | 11:59pm. For more info: careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... @chemjobber.bsky.social

Thanks to @andrechemist.bsky.social, I've been thinking of movies with epic scenes that feature compressed gasses. Going to add to this thread as I remember them. Please add your faves in the replies! chemchat

@stephenmarche.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com: “America might be pointing a gun at you, but it can be made to behave if you point a gun back.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

If Buck Martinez is not added to the #BlueJays' Level of Excellence, I'll climb up there and paint it on myself.

it's unbelievable to me that someone could actually be a trillionaire. i think most of us have trouble internalizing how much money that truly is. let me put it in simple terms for you: a trillion dollars is three million dollars

I particularly like the middle finger inset in the retention time plot.

Welcome, piles of slop filling up the journals with clouds of useless wordy garbage. Case in point:

My name is Rob, and it's been over one year since my last purchase from Amazon.

Would you say that about chemistry tho? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsole

* as written by an organic chemist.

crossword puzzle maker #altchemjobs #chemchat

The journal @nature.com has corrected a highly-cited study about a robot chemist producing new materials from scratch — but some questions remain unanswered. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... @robertpalgrave.bsky.social #ChemSky

I really love that change, so I updated all of my course materials to call them RICE tables. I was telling my 14 yo daughter about this and she said, "well that was a missed opportunity. You should've called them F-ICE tables (Formula, Initial, Change, Reaction) #chemsky

The time has come, The College said, To empty your own trash. It's now ev'ry professor's job, For we are low on cash. There will still be a custodians So don't have any fear That you will have to mop the floors At least until next year.

Metal of The Day is Manganese Symbol: Mn Important for imparting strength and resistance to steel Salts of Mn have been shown to be excellent oxidants and are effective in melting ice We all appreciate Mn #ChemSky #ChemChat

omg #chemchat #teamms

For decades organic chemists have used 1,2-dibromoethane to activate zinc metal. What if it’s not actually doing anything?

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

so like.... that's just pollution then

Uh nope. Nopenope nopity nope. #chemchat

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

reading a book on process development and the chapter on analytical methods describes 13C NMR as "used under duress"

They should invent faculty that don't hate the students they teach.

Look at this lovely catalytic cycle generated by Gemini (2026 version). It is so beautifully laid out. #chemchat #chemsky #gemini I commented that it was completely wrong and the response was “The image generated contains several chemical inaccuracies…. !” Odd, it doesn’t check its own work??

Two years ago I downloaded this image, which I’m calling “extracted boyfriend meme”. I did not note who posted it, so if this is yours or you know whose it is, let me know so I can give credit when I use it in class.

First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:

OTD in 1958 at 4:35 PM MST at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, experienced chemist Cecil Kelley, 38, stood on a step ladder peering through a viewport into a 1,000-liter stainless steel tank holding what he believed to be dilute aqueous and organic plutonium solutions as he switched on the stirrer.

Nothing prepares you for how rapidly you accelerate between these three states #chemchat

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."

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