If there was ever a perfectly good reason to have a drawer full of just random stuff that you're not sure what its for or what it does or just for sauce packets, this is it. You've validated it's exisistence.

This random o-ring has been floating around the garage and now kitchen for months…but you can’t throw it away because what if it’s a CRITICAL O-RING

Happy Helium Remembrance Day to all who celebrate #ChemChat #NMRChat

Sounds like, for a brief moment, Pizza Hut tried to outpizza the Hut.

When the geometry word problem meets the calculus word problem meets the physics word problem

Lovely, intricate map of all the rivers in the US (lower 48). [kottke.org]

As much as I love making bread it’s One More Thing in a weekend of making many things. Ya girl is basic and loves brown and serve rolls, and Hyvee was prepared for that with this giant display right inside the door.

When you join a lab to do some voltage imaging

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

Southern Hemisphere NMR spectra

windy af

Tapping the sign again

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.

Hydrogen is actually spin two and a half, but only on the Tuesday before Daylight Savings and only in the Western Hemisphere. Graduate students are often confused.

I took a look at the blue fabric dye RFK Jr, Joe Rogan et al have been chugging: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All Aldrich packaging is not only biodegradable, it is also edible. During Hurricane Katrina, one NMR facility head survived on the packaging from 200 small bottles of deuterated chloroform they had stored away.

lol

"What is Genesis?"

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

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Define “too many plants”

cc: @sararah.bsky.social

@sararah.bsky.social does anyone ever come into the store and ask you this

Daily bunny no.3148 will be done in time for Christmas

TMW you put a 4500 lbs iron-core electromagnet in a freight elevator with a 5000 lbs rating #NMRchat #chemchat

NERVA Nuclear Rocket Engine

crab-bage patch kids: thread

The french horn case they look in has 6-7 pounds of rhodium metal. That's like $800,000 of rhodium, if my calculations are correct. (this is a corrected calculation; my initial calculations were, indeed, incorrect)

Institutional knowledge is incredibly vital! So vital and under the radar that it’s usually undervalued. Does anyone have the time and resources to document institutional knowledge so LLMs could understand it? For just one institution/building/room? No.

More rain today. 🖼️ Freya Hartas

I wrote about that! www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/wher...

A GOP lawmaker in South Dakota admits the truth: agriculture is a major source of water pollution, and “voluntary conservation” isn’t solving it. Something you can’t get Illinois’ Democratic supermajority—or many environmental groups—to admit.

Iowa State University Department of Chemistry Expands NMR Resources with Automated AVIII HD 300 MHz NMR System @sararah.bsky.social www.chem.iastate.edu/news/2025/is... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

tired: mike lombardi doesn't know how to recruit kids. wired: mike lombardi recruits kids by getting their parents drunk at THE CRUNKLETON

Halting clinical trials is setting America’s investments in the future on fire. It’s waste, fraud, and abuse

JCO burned him so bad that he had to turn his robot to “maximum sycophancy”

Holy crap, guys, the Kryptos auction broke $400K with two hours to go!

Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/

I think about "listserv of crows" a lot

I’m sure it’s a NMR experiment Acronym Bonds ALigned ON Experimental Y-axis

wait i made a meme for this back in the day

I've had this argument with so many people. Absolutely exhausting to have non-technical people think that they can some how fundamentally solve hardware issues

I don't think AI can handle the transdimensional portals and demons that come out each time a student mistunes the NMR so badly. We know the battles NMR facility managers fight to keep us safe from evil. Thank you. No AI can replace that.

(The room air flow shifted. Did I lose my negative? I hear a hiss. What’s leaking? Why is the counter chirpy?)

Realizing that there's a noise missing that should be there is still the scariest thing from grad school. Is the glove box down? Someone's pump for their hood?

Putting your ear next to each of the 5 different pumps in a room to figure out which one changed the frequency of the combined hum.

"Why did topshim give me this 'no data in map region' message?" well, could be you chose the wrong lock nucleus OR bad ELCB OR probe not inserted all the way OR spontaneous 2H detune with no change in lock OR your tube broke and that's just the ones I've seen the last two years