I have a tea related plate, unsurprisingly

I had a colleague who had F19 NMR as a plate. Guess what he worked on?

Or one that references tea!

It was a great read, but yes, the chemistry was an unexpected plot point

Now I definitely can’t forget Runcorn!

Not hard SF but fantasy/horror, but a shoutout to @silviamg.bsky.social for Mexican Gothic which gets the chemistry bang on

Ah...my UK geography is spotty -thanks!

This is brilliant! But who, what, where is Runcorn?

Brilliant! Now impossible to forget how long to brew my tea: Four Orange Umbrellas (in) Runcorn..or is that Fixated (on) Owls Under Ripened??

Thank you - can't wait to read this one! My dad was a surfactant chemist, and I suspect would have loved this book.

Congratulations!

A unit of revolution Nature Chemistry - Michelle Francl wonders if it is time to rethink the naming of units.

Here’s a bit I wrote about units (including weird ones) a while back! rdcu.be/fdQmy

I’m partial to the hobbit and the scruple, but there’s also the perch.

4-panel SMBC comic update. A woman is teaching a man sitting at a desk. The man says "I get it! You write (equation)* and that tells you the superposition is some amount in the 0 direction and some amount in the 1 direction." The woman replies "now that you've got it, we'll use this easier form" and proceeds to write a much longer equation on the board. The man then says "this is why people become chemists" to which the teacher replies "do not use the c-word in my presence" *equation won't copy properly in the alt-text.

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I always want to see the original, too! But the data which feeds from sources like the RSC is reliable is what I have colleagues objecting to.

If it’s anywhere, it’s there! The planetary scientists brought us abstract in haiku, after all.

I take so much heat from colleagues for recommending Wikipedia for this sort of thing. I am totally puzzled by it.

upper right stack of dictionaries, upper left a wooden molecular model, bottom left a model onto of an open Klingon dictionary

Is this the first time Klingon has been used in a science journal? My latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis opens and closes in Klingon and looks at the language barriers in science. Chemists have tinkered with synthetic languages before! rdcu.be/fczV7 #chemsky

Chemistry in Song Pamphlet distributed to attendees of the 82nd meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Includes lyrics for 16 chemistry and ACS-themed songs set to the tune of popular melodies.

I am traipsing through old ACS accounts of meetings and been finding out which divisions have come and gone! (Varnish, Milk, but not one of Flatus). Though there might be song about it in this collection: digital.sciencehistory.org/works/pgebjw...

Talking water, the universe, and a bit about tea.

I ran 15 years of my own against a list of word "tells" for AI, will my esoteric vocabulary and my love of the em dash be my undoing? And yes, my writing was part of the training sets.

Same. And the growth is exponential.

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The potential of mRNA vaccines in a crisis...which the US HHS dismisses out of hand.

College depictions strike me about as realistic as the HS settings in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

So far my institution hasn’t called it. Lecture in person tomorrow (already prepped) or something more suitable for a virtual class?

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Opinion | Drink coffee to prevent dementia? It’s not so far-fetched. Why coffee and tea may protect your brain’s health.

Tea, too! Both caffeinated beverages also appear to be linked to a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease. Caffeine, not just fueling my students‘ late night study sessions. wapo.st/4rUaxwW