Turns out microplastics are now sneaking into natural products, too. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #chemchat

-- Hollow Knight --

(S)-cargot (R)-cargot

Hey @berkeleyca.gov why do your officers think this is acceptable?

And if you are going to give me a lead time of LITERAL YEARS, for the love of science could you PLEASE update the delivery address for the order from my account info when you actually ship it so I don’t have to go look for it in a completely different city!

A note to chemical vendors… I don’t mind getting an out of stock email But-PLEASE-tell me more than “catalog number——- is out of stock”. Tell me what that compound is I just ordered 6 things from you now I have to go look up to see which one I’m not going to get #ChemSky #ChemChat

CJ on a roll with some pre-Thanksgiving chemistry facts* *Factual content has not been independently verified #ChemSky #ChemChat

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

“WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Dept of Transportation report revealed that it’s ‘actually kind of crazy’ that U.S. citizens are allowed to drive automobiles.” The Onion strikes again.

NMR acronyms such as COSY and DOSY are an elaborate cover story. In fact, all NMR spectra are made up by small, cute sprites who can be summoned by spinning liquids at a magic angle.

The reason atoms form an octet is because chemistry is ruled by communism and excess electrons are redistributed to the proletariat. Expanded octets are propaganda from the bourgeoisie This one is especially great to share after your politically dubious extended family are a couple drinks in

You have to buy different NMRs in the southern hemisphere because the nuclei spin in the opposite direction there

All Agilent HPLCs are designed to have 23 more leak detectors than required due to a gambling debt incurred by Bill Hewlett to an electronics magnate in 1967.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Happy #caturday from Morgana, who demanded compensatory chin scratches for her lost midmorning nap, rudely interrupted by my CO alarm’s low battery alert 🫠

I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal

Did you ever wonder where bromine come from? I never did. But it was still really interesting to read about! #chemchat

Magnetic resonance people are so wild for terrible acronyms, you gotta wonder if the magnetic field does something to our brains.

Someone needs to invent a device that can move me and my cats directly from the sofa to my bed without disturbing the cuddle puddle that has formed in my lap.

“Please, papa, won’t you turn on the furnace? My brother knows not the warmth of a lap and will surely perish if you work on the computer any longer.”

I think this explains #chemchat and #chemsky 🧪⚗️

I think Merlin and Morgana are trying to tell me it’s time to turn the heat on for the season. Personally, I don’t see the problem #catsky #CatsOfBluesky

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

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

I have recently added #ChemChat as a feed thanks to @stephy.bsky.social (and to @chemjobber.bsky.social for the concept) If that's your sort of thing, here it is: bsky.app/profile/did:... I warn you though, mere moments in and I'm considering bread concepts (again). Enter at your own risk.

"Postdoc in the job market"

You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%

The #caturday word is “BIRD” #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

Sad update: unfortunately, after the first round of prototyping, the colored component did not make the cut and we’re back in yellow chemistry territory.

Josef Zwanziger, @aaronrossini.bsky.social, and I published a rebuttal of a recent Nature Commun. paper claiming that enantiomers produce large differences in J coupling constants. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

We didn't want to pay $800 for a TLC plate cutter, so we built one of our own – here's how you can too.

It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.

Sgraffito with *laser beams*?!?!? youtube.com/shorts/4JzUR...

Every time people tell me, “You’re at 37.8°N, you should be able to see the aurora from your house!” Nah, we have light pollution and clouds/fog virtually every night here in the Bay Area.

featherless biped

everyone living around light pollution and clouds right now:

Ok, fine, I’ll admit it: This very tedious formulation prototyping project would be less tolerable if it weren’t so frickin’ PINK #realtimechem #chemchat

It’s time

SAVE the Date! The Science Ball is here! Dec. 5th in Worcester, MA The lab coat is more than a uniform. It is a canvas of curiosity where science and self-expression meet. Tickets are free (available soon). Check out the website to learn more. scienceball.atomic-lab.org

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

I made an apple pie today and fell down a Youtube rabbit hole that led me here. Now you, too, can enjoy this exceptional bit: youtu.be/72KADLQYfOM

I recommend this. I do, in fact, have this t-shirt and enjoy wearing it to work. I admit, I may be something of a special case for getting away with this.