David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.

Logan’s Run (1976)

I asked ChatGPT for a good metaphor for using ChatGPT

Set Phasers on Yum Deep Dish 9 Spock & T’pring’s Pon Pho The Smorgas Borg

… and Samwise Gamgee, who did NOT die…

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

During his lifetime, Claude Monet painted more than 250 water lilies paintings, seemingly never stopping to say, “Enough. Enough for now.”

Time to tackle the big year-end crossword! 🙄😅

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

ONLY YULE

A selfie on the way back from our lab lunch came out like a Christmas card! Happy holidays from the Palmer lab ☃️🧪

It's Christmas Eve and the final day of #ChemAdvent! We're finishing off with Christmas pudding and why you shouldn't hide a coin in the mixture as was customary in the past 🪙 #ChemSky 🧪

USask dinosaurs are in the festive spirit 🎄

Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day Kali ma shakti de

Guilty 😆

Every lab protocol

Does anyone know of any Canadian glassblowing suppliers? I'm looking to get a set of BoroTruView 3.0 Lampworking Glasses 33 and a National 3A-B torch, and some accessories, and all the suppliers I can find are in the US or don't ship to Canada #Glassblowing #Lampworking #Torchworking #beadmaking

Day 23 of #ChemAdvent! Prawns turn red-orange when cooked as astaxanthin is revealed 🟠 Bells are made from tin bronzes, with trace elements improving the material properties and sound 🔔 Guess the very tenuous, silly, and non-chemical connection that led me to pair these ones? #ChemSky 🧪

This commentary on our society could also be about television shows, I suppose.

Keeping warm on day 22 of #ChemAdvent 🔥 Winter fire smells come from smoky syringol and guaiacols. Herring under a fur coat doesn't actually involve a fur coat, but a layer of beetroot and vegetables over pickled herring #ChemSky 🧪

I don’t know if any of you have heard, but apparently there are now even more jackpots

Three days till Christmas and if you haven’t managed to find chemistry themed Xmas cards then I have your back. Some labels too🙂 These printable downloads will see you right! #chemsky #chemchat thechemscrapesshop.etsy.com/listing/4389...

hey check it out: i suck at parenting

Bringing bell bottoms back! 😉

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? That should work out in the end after assorted wacky hijinks

Terpenes unite the graphics for day 21 of #ChemAdvent Menthol in candy canes is responsible for the cooling sensation in your mouth when you eat one ❄️ The muddy flavour of carp is dominated by the compound geosmin, another terpene 🐟 #ChemSky 🧪

In a shocking twist, my hamfisted attempt at a coverup has only drawn attention to my crimes

Twas the #Caturday before Christmas… time to find your stocking!

Haven't posted this on here yet

Cracking chemistry for day 20 of #ChemAdvent! First up are Christmas crackers, taking advantage of friction-sensitive silver fulminate to deliver a big bang 💥 For tamales, preventing cracking of the corn husk wrapping is the aim, so they're soaked in water to make them flexible 🌽 #ChemSky 🧪

Well I will NOW

Physicist Leo Szilard, in a short science fiction story from 1948, describing how to retard science by making the funding application longer and harder than the proposed research - now called the ‘Szilard point’

😂 Same student, giving the correct answer to a challenging problem #chemchat

I cannot stress enough how much PIs appreciate hand written notes from graduating mentees. I cherish each one, & many are hanging in my office. Related, if you left a while ago & have good news, we love to get emails from former mentees! Let us celebrate with you! Today I was lucky to get both 💜

It’s not until you grade the final exams that you learn who your favourite students are 😅

Should you not poison your family?

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 🎥

now I’m annoyed with myself for not looking at the chemscrapes shop sooner www.etsy.com/shop/TheChem...

Raise a glass to Eugene Levy on his birthday. #BOTD

Very contrasting smells for day 18 of #ChemAdvent! Olibanic acid isomers contribute to the fragrance of Frankincense, traditionally associated with Christmas. The aroma of hákarl, fermented Greenland shark, is a much less welcome one, dominated by ammonia and other pungent compounds. #ChemSky 🧪

“What made you so mad?” “I’ve been mad ever since I met you.” “Most people are.”

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

When lab freezer defrosting is long overdue and it just happens to be Christmas season 😄

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Decorations and wrapping for day 17 of #ChemAdvent! Baubles were traditionally silvered using the reduction of silver nitrate with glucose - a chemical test used in classrooms to detect aldehydes. Wrapping paper and tape are both cellulose-based 🎁 #ChemSky 🧪

Somebody pointed out that this is literally the plot of Wag the Dog, which makes me wonder if David Mamet called to suggest it