I’m remembering hanging out in the laundry room of our apartment building with our Icelandic neighbours while the tornado sirens sounded.

Surprise lily! How very Saskatchewan 😊

Your shipment that clearly indicates that it contains glass will be fine because it’s also marked *fragile*!

My @chemscrapes.bsky.social coffee mug arrived!!!

On July 3rd, 2016 Carole King and her band performed the album Tapestry in its entirety, live for the first time to an audience of 65,000 in London's Hyde Park. To celebrate the 10th anniversary we are re-releasing the full concert film on Carole King's Youtube Channel starting July 3rd.

Graduate Research Assistant in Food Microbiology Dr. Yuan Fang's lab is in the Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. (agbio.usask.ca/faculty-and-...).

Unexpected chemistry content in tonight’s movie, A Kiss Before Dying (1956)! A YOUNG Robert Wagner slips into the lab to help himself to some arsenic (in an unfathomable plan to help Joanne Woodward out of his life).

Canada Day is always a good day to look for cactus blooms here in Saskatchewan!

Immortal life advice

Chemistry professor switches jobs to one that comes with less criticism and a healthier attitude toward women in the profession

Epic Canadian content for #CanadaDay - Catherine O’Hara, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy and John Candy - SCTV Pre-Teen Telethon performance by the Recess Monkeys! Gotta love this 1981 Chilliwack classic song 😂 youtu.be/ZaHfWqmC18A?...

A grey day on the river made interesting by circling giants: osprey above, pelican below #birds #yxe

Many of us are relying on the welcome chill of air con during historic heatwaves 🥵 Here's a look at the chemical compounds keeping us cool in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/95/... #ChemSky🧪

Happy Pride!

Another DIY project comes to its natural conclusion 😑

“Whatcha doin’?” #Caturday

You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event

Hey #chemsky you can use the link below to access 20% off everything at the ChemScrapes Shop on Etsy. Single use. Valid till end of tomorrow (27th). thechemscrapesshop.etsy.com?coupon=JUN26

Farewell to Ann Blyth (1927-2026) who was a force of nature as a death row diva in Douglas Sirk’s THUNDER ON THE HILL (1951). She'll be remembered for her Oscar-nominated role opposite Joan Crawford in MILDRED PIERCE (1945), but her talents were vast and varied. #FilmSky #TCMParty

Grand Moff Tarkin: "I think Palpatine's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Alderaan happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story."

#chemjobs #chemjobsCanada

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

*Monocle drop* >> *mic drop*

Our manuscript describing a new 2nd-year laboratory experiment using #biocatalysis in organic chemistry is now available on ChemRxiv! Here's a little thread about the experiment, and how we developed it from work in my research lab. #ChemSky 🧵 /1

Canada remains an option for these students. We are probably too late for a September 2026 start, but most of us do rolling starts and admissions, and for example, I will be admitting (and am still looking for) students for January 2027 and May 2027 starts.

Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

This is Lady and Piper. Lady really loves playing fetch. Maybe even enough for the two of them. 13/10 for both (TT: rachaelsteinle)

New avatar for my birthday 🤓

Apparently the ACS server is overrun with bot-like activity and now I can't submit a manuscript to one of their journals, like I don't have enough external and self-inflicted barriers to publishing. 🤦‍♂️

It was brief but intense… back with the guys who wisely remained on the sofa

Went out for a little midday walk since the sun was shining. Now standing under the entrance to some apartment building waiting this out 🤷‍♂️ 🌧️ 😅

I can't log in to my @acs.org account at the moment. Anyone else? (Is this problem me, or ACS?)

OTD in 1979, THE MUPPET MOVIE opened in theaters across the United States. Jim Henson noted (with typical understatement) that its reception was "Great!" and it was one of the most profitable films of the decade. But getting the Muppets to the big screen in the first place was hard work.

COSTCO

The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is looking for a new communications editor: We are looking for someone who knows their way around social media and has an interest in all things #chemhistory

Happy Summer Solstice one and All! 🌞🖤 The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Walking down an alley behind a restaurant in Boston in the late afternoon years ago, and two waiters are out having a smoke. One asks the other “What’s the pasta of the day?” He replies “Sun-dried tomatoes with artichoke hearts.” It was Boston accent heaven.

Can't resist this one:

Okay but I’m walking around all day thinking “Are we Cuban, or are we Cancer?”

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [dreamye lute riff] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

Goals.

Goal.

Goal.