Folks have been asking me what impacts the county is likely to face if the shutdown drags on. This is the big one. (Johnson County Public Health administers WIC locally.)

And on the (very personal) cost of NIH funding cuts share.inquirer.com/dnDg69 3/3

This is incredibly beautiful, and the fact that the resolution is sufficient to follow the path of DNA spooling inside the virion head and through the tail is amazing

199 years after the last one, way to string along your fanbase, Ms. Shelley

Toad friend from the garden!

mood

Echinopsis pachanoi ‘San Pedro cactus’ with spectacular blooms in my front yard. Flanked by a grafted ‘mermaid tail’ cactus and a gnome 🌵

Carleton students running from the Northfield PD after housing liters of Hamm’s.

Spooky Science

I believe economists refer to this as “fucking bonkers.”

apologies to Bob Griffin for the grubby, dusty handshake I subjected him to while running around looking for fuses and a multimeter at 4:45 p.m. on a Friday #nmrchat

when you have off on a fall Friday

Tis the season 🎃 (circa 2013) @fredaperras.bsky.social

Exact simulation of quadrupolar line shapes in solids u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2012/06/exac... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

Have you guys heard of a band called My Chemical Romance?

Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social Announces Orders for NIH- and NSF-Funded NMR Systems from New York Structural Biology Center, University of Delaware and Northwestern University ir.bruker.com/press-releas... #NMRnews #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

This October I’m drawing one molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social Day 2/31 Prompt WEAVE N-terminal domain of a Fibrion - a building block of silk fiber produced by silkworms. Pdb: 3UA0 Next prompt is CROWN and I would love your suggestions!

Medieval sandal, from 14th century, found preserved in vultures nest on a cliff in southern Spain, a rough sandal woven from grasses and twigs I'm not saying that vultures might also steal single socks from your laundry basket, but y'know...? www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

D830,795 - issued in 2018 for a design for a "hot dog spiral cutter." #DesignPatents

thank u @daveamp.bsky.social for reskeeting this, I’d expect nothing less

He invites u to the forest. Do u go

FROGGY FRIEND ON MY JADE PLANT!!!! The leaves are the perfect little scoopy hammock. Omg what a delight. 🐸

Happy October! For Science Bookclub, we are reading V IS FOR VENOM by Kathryn Harkup this month. 🐍🧫🧪 If you’re interested in joining let me know! We have a discord server and also meet via zoom at the end of each month 🤓 This month is perfect for the #chemsky crowd! #booksky

This is metal as hell and they should send it out as a scream emanating from the mouth of a demon

I went on a quest across Massachusetts to find the best cider doughnuts in the state. Here are my findings. www.masslive.com/destinations...

A friend traveling abroad sent a photo of this, and now I can't believe I've never seen it before in every Car Guy's liquor cabinet

It’s time to get witchy! 🧹✨ #art #traditionalart #kirby

Still a magnet, although we’ve had two fire alarms in the building in the last hour while trying to configure the autosampler. Finished the nitrogen fill just as the second alarm went off. #NMRchat

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money. - @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

“It started in a pub in Ireland, like all good ideas.” @rowanwalrath.bsky.social talks to Jack O’Meara about his new #biotech start-up, Aerska, for @cenmag.bsky.social

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Engaged in the time-honored art of department seminar kintsugi, and found this old friend I haven't seen in a while

The Saskatchewan Bird of Paradise glamming up my yard #birds

Today, we’ve learned something AND we’ve had a good laugh. But, remember, kids, there’s nothing funny about unauthorized fruitlegging.

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

Fun fact: fruit cultivars can be patented and names can be trademarked, but once the patent expires on the cultivar, lots of “generic” cultivars that are the same will pop up. But they can’t use the name if they don’t pay a licensing fee goodfruit.com/patents-and-...

New magnet for me, last day of magnet-ing for @dbfulton.bsky.social! Retiring from ISU after 38 years. #NMRchat

Charging! #NMRchat

Link for your students/postbac/grad students: forms.gle/GCZht2pDVPh4...

Attending SACNAS conference? Sign up -> 10th Annual SACNAS 1-on-1 Mentoring Workshop. Need 100+ mentors. Oct. 30th, 5:30 - 7:00 PM, N. Short Ballroom Mentors Link (Faculty/Postdocs/Staff): 1 min to fill out forms.gle/daTSoT8yniJ8... Each mentor is assigned 1-2 students.

Got 40 mentors & 47 students signed up so far. Need more of both, but particularly students. Typical year, we get ~125 mentors & 250+ students. I know this year will not be typical.

In 2023, we distributed a bunch of bar coasters with facts about jersey shore animals on them to dive bars in the neighborhood. This project was SO fun. I wanna try something similar this year, but with pint glasses. I want to give cool/punk branding to environmental action.

I don’t know how I managed to get past the infernos, but here I am getting ready to indoctrinate impressionable students to the commie pinko ways of nuclear magnetism. 🧲

So happy this piece is finally out! A tremendous collaborative effort of colleagues and friends from 8 institutions all over Europe. Thank you! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Photochemistry and photophysics in a single crystal @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @cleracr.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com

The sword fish from North America... guess that's a gar @solomonrdavid.bsky.social Source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5902520...

Sciences I considered before somehow landing on chemistry: 1. Meteorology 2. Geology 3. Ornithology 4. Geo/chemical/engineering

21 years in Iowa and I learned the town of What Cheer is pronounced “WAH-chear” - one word, not two discrete words, emPHAsis on the WAH I am shook

Sunflower inspector

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.