Salvage pieces and commission the art department to make a memorial piece for display outside the lab. It’s the only reasonable alternative. Give it a few years and you have the Hall of Emeritus Instruments.
I’m on the ACN side. But I switch it up for my class worksheets and assessments, so they are comfortable with both.
✋I volunteer for this experiment
I am well versed in the difference between a drip and a flood. And every level of water damage in between.
Mrs. the Chemist is wearing a holiday sweater with "Ho Ho Ho" on it.
So of course I asked my older child if they knew what "Ho" means.
Kids: "Uh, it's a bad word."
Me: "No, it's a chemical element, holmium. Do you know what the atomic number holmium is?"
Kid: "No."
Me: *smiles*
Got 'em.
-ate is such a weird suffix in chemistry. Brominate is a verb but silicate is a noun. And oxygen is element eight. #chemchat
No accidents that I know but good example of miscommunication. We had a biologist come to train three chemists on a new instrument.
B: “Ideally start with a lyophilized sample you can weigh accurately”
C: “uh, we usually dry under high vacuum”
B: “can you lyophilize it?”
Repeat for 5 minutes.
A plus in my opinion. Cookie selection also depends on the beverage. Oreos only work in cold milk.
A great suggestion. 😁
Greatest dunking cookie, Oreos or Tim Tams? #chemchat
*Resonance! 😭
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Today is shaping up to be a real “professor yells at cloud” kind of day. And the cloud is mostly AI.
Why would anyone need so many magnets if not for mind control?
Two possibilities, methyl is shorter than methylpropyl so comes first alphabetically. Or, methyl has the lower locant number. Both seem to be supported by IUPAC alphanumerical ordering. Which, I had to go look up. 😁
I estimated the pKa for sarcosine’s CH2 at 33.4 from calculated proton affinity. This should be in the ballpark 30-35 pKa. You might deprotonate it with LDA or another very strong base.
Teams is great for education. I love it. {with so much sarcasm} But you might be able to create an email list in outlook then add that to teams. 🤷♂️
Baking soda, no way. Sodium bicarbonate, must be for chemistry lab stuff.
Cluster of six pink bulb eggplants on a vine, still green and unripe.
Small raised garden bed that is overflowing with a cornucopia of eggplants in three different varieties.
Garden is doing great. I may have planted too many eggplants this year. Oh well!
I’ll take a Menard’s over a Buc-ee’s. 🤣
Bruker Icon Automation will not accept ‘ in sample names. The sample just fails. I am shocked that students have to learn this lesson every year.
What does a PI do? Purchasing and Ideas.
I stock the lab with supplies and crazy ideas #chemsky
Even that one is suspiciously metallish.
I ran out of pots and there’s still a tray of seedlings left to transplant. I may have started too many vegetables again.
Hi #chemsky #scisky folks--I'd love to collect some community responses to this cut-back on GRFP awards for @cenmag.bsky.social story. If you have thoughts about the situation, please please get in touch--and share with your network!
My DMs are open, and I'm also reachable by email or Signal :)
Should a science resume be cut to one page for undergraduate internships or research technicians? Or for grad school. What resume advice would you give for a new scientist? @chemjobber.bsky.social #chemsky
Close up of a paper towel folded up and stuck under the foot of a very expensive instrument.
A+, and here is the paper towel shim to prop up our wobbly SampleXpress cassette.
It’s metal time for me. I can’t spend all day screaming but my playlist can.
Hasn’t happened in a while. I’m checking on the building air supply next. Pressure on the main line was dropping with the eject air running, which didn’t seem right. 🤷
