re-posting for Valentine's Day #chemchat

A beautiful day for a walk today, with sunshine and temperatures just above freezing! The chickadees at Beaver Creek enjoyed some sunflower seeds. 🪶 ☀️😎

My boys!

This is why I reject all their requests!

#Chemsky -- PhDs in Canada in chemistry--brief. Reskeets welcome. 🧵 Seeing that a lot of excellent US students are not receiving admission to PhD programs for...the obvious reasons...I want to make sure mentors, students, and advisors are aware that Canada might still be an option. 1/n

Using AI makes science communication worse. Period. AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity. But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

From the Insta account catsbeingweirdlittleguys

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

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Do read my article now published in Chemistry World, Royal Society of Chemistry. I've shared how bird photography made me a better chemist. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...

Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩‍🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women. Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #ChemSky 🧪

TICK BONESTEEL

In a series of notes. - So much more than a romantic comedy - Our dear friends were not finished yet, however. Marie Curie had a hunch pitchblende contained more ‘… as yet unknown, very active elements.’ #chemsky #chemistry #booksky

Working on a story for Science about cuts to Canada's government researchers and labs. If you are affected by this please reach out (either on here or via my website). Anonymity is an option. 🧪

Today is #WorldPulsesDay and kidney beans feature in this edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social on toxins in common fruits and vegetables - did you know that uncooked kidney beans contain a toxin that can cause nausea and diarrhoea? cen.acs.org/biological-c... #WorldPulsesDay#PeriodicGraphics#ChemSky 🧪

Another innocent learns why we call it The Roaring Game

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

100% this. This is a brilliant metaphor.

Seattle punter is the MVP

Hahaha OK that's pretty good.

Someone please tell Henderson that you can tell if he’s going to run by whether he has his mouth guard in. It’s been ALL YEAR

Halftime show was like West Side Story if it was all Sharks and no Jets… which makes perfect sense because there’s now way the Jets could make it to the Super Bowl 😜

Funny as always seeing comments on Super Bowl commercials we can’t see in Canada

“Math is for nerds”

Department social 🍻 event last night: the students assembled a quiz of 31 out-of-context quotes said during their classes, and asked you to guess which prof had said it. It was hilarious, and the profs learned a lot about each other! I was proud to be so quotable 😂

Let's talk about the time that an 18 YEAR OLD invented the COLOR MAUVE (I am not kidding) and completely revolutionized textiles, fashion & eventually cancer diagnosis. The teenager was William Henry Perkin, a bit of a prodigy, who at 15 began studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann at ICL.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

This is like the robot floor cleaner that roams our halls while a custodian stays nearby to keep an eye on it, only dumber

On #NationalFrozenYoghurtDay, check out how froyo compares chemically to other frozen desserts in this edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/95/... #NationalFrozenYoghurtDay#PeriodicGraphics#ChemSky 🧪

I’ve been on this site enough that when I saw this I thought “I hope the I’m-a-lectern guy saw this” (of course they did)

Today is #NationalFartDay 💨 Here's a look at some of the goaty, cabbagey and pungent compounds behind various body odours: www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/07/t...#NationalFartDay🧪

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Shirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.

I'm on the edge of my seat. You don't realize how much you miss the Olympics until they're back and you're huffing pure uncut curling on a Wednesday afternoon before the game have even started officially.

🔔Collabator Alert🔔 I’m putting together a project on UTIs and the urogenital microbiome and am looking for a collaborator with solid metagenomic sequencing/analysis experience. If you’d be interested in joining the work, I’d love to talk #MicroSky #UTISky

Margot Robbie as the elevator from The Shining

Oh, that show where two teenagers managed to come out of the closet over 5 seasons without ever using the word gay?

🎶 Crawfish walking in the hot sun

"but doctor, i am pagliacci!" "You’re right, I made a mistake. Sorry about that — I'll be sure to be more careful in my responses next time. Let me know if you want me to find any clowns nearby!"

Sticking with yesterday’s fruity theme, February is also #NationalCherryMonth 🍒 Here’s a look at how the chemistry of sweet and sour cherries differs: www.compoundchem.com/2016/07/21/c...#NationalCherryMonth #ChemSky 🧪

I've seen some crazy-amazing shit in Maui but this may be the amazingest! Apparently, it's a Miniature Melo. A marine bubble snail that seems impossibly cool. And it was tiny. TINY! #tidepool #marinelife #nature #amazeballs #love #snails #smallwonders #ocean #alien #colorful #goodnight #nokings

The movie Groundhog Day was made 33 years ago. I think it’s time for a remake. It should be a shot-for-shot remake, with exactly the same script, and all the same actors.

February is #NationalGrapefruitMonth – did you know that grapefruit and grapefruit juice can affect some medications? This graphic explains why: www.compoundchem.com/2014/03/07/w...#NationalGrapefruitMonth #ChemSky 🧪

No-hug bunny

The Rorschach approach

Fuck yeah Flukeman episode