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Chemist, dad, husband, slow endurance athlete. Currently make/purify stable isotope compounds at MilliporeSigma. I like being with my wife and daughter, working out, traveling, hiking, broadway shows, rock n roll, tolerant joyful smart people.
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1183 comments

Why do I always want to capitalize the name of chemicals? E.g., “Do we have any L-Serine around here?” Am I the only one who has to fight this tendency? From where did I get it? Max Jr. also wants to know. 🧪 #chemsky

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

We're star-struck by the first images taken by the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Stay tuned for tomorrow's podcast to learn more! 📷 : NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

American Olympic champion sprinter Wilma Rudolph was born today in 1940. A polio survivor, she was a bronze medal winner in 1956 in Melbourne. Rudolph claimed three gold medals at the 1960 Rome summer games. Following her Olympic triumphs, she actively supported civil rights causes. She died 1994

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Queen City (Cincinnati) Triathlon. Well, it should’ve been a triathlon. The swim was canceled so it became a duathlon. (River too high/fast/dirty due to too much rain. )

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

No kings. Fund science. 🧪

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Fun fact: According to Reaxys, this has never been done. #chemsky 🧪

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is great.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know of a presentation/place/anything for a synthetic chemist to learn the PRACTICAL aspects of using ENZYMES in synthesis? It’s not my strength. 🧪 #chemsky These cicadas want to know too.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

submitted 19 days ago • 323 comments

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

submitted 25 days ago • 741 comments

If accurate, this is pathetic, and, it figures. 😒

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone used Chelex 100 (or similar) to *remove* Cu+2 (or similar) from an amino acid (or similar) mixture? And would be able to suggest a good procedure/publication? (Pic for no reason) #chemsky 🧪

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Kiss the Goat 10K. Hazard KY.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Spotted in the morning.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If some awesome scientist could email me this paper, you'd be my hero. 🤩 I don't have access to it. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #chemsky 🧪 (I can DM you my email address.)

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Made friends on the trail yesterday.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

😄

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

"If you wanna be cool like us and you wanna do quantum stuff...' Ei hitsi, nämä "Dance Your Ph.D." -vedot paranevat vaan vuosi vuodelta! youtu.be/LPrySGu0SOc?...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

I swear if I hear one more “Better Help” online therapy advertisement I’m going to have a mental breakdown. Max Jr agrees.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments