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Associate Chemistry Professor at Dalhousie University. Focuses on sustainable organic and main-group chemistry, and asymmetric catalysis, with phosphorus, nitrogen, and sulfur compounds. Camper, plant hoarder, and Victorian house enthusiast.
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I love how my e-mail will just sometimes sign me out, with no notification, and no visible change in the software. Thought I was having a quiet afternoon, turns out nothing was reaching me.

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Finished reading a book, and I got surprisingly sad when the characters died at the end. It's been bugging me all day. Dunno if that means I'm not reading enough books, or have a overactive empathy apparatus.

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Has anyone ever bought a regulator for N2 from Amazon? There is a substantial price different compared with scientific suppliers, and I am wondering if it's a "you get what you pay for" case...

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What is the worse piece of software, and why is it OneDrive? I'm insistent on keeping my files on my computer, as well as the cloud. I got a new computer, and restored it from the image of the old. Everything looks in order, ie all the files are in place, and the HDD usage is about right. (1/n)

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After this stretch of very nice weather, I got excited to see an 11 in the forecast, only to notice it was -11, not +11 😆

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About every 2 years, I break a coffee cup. I started with 8, and now have 2 left. There was nothing special or that was distinguishable about the 2 left when I bought then. Somehow I think there's a good analogy in there for nuclear decay.

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"Now with Vitamin R"

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Conferences are expensive! Running into the "fraud alert" notification on my online banking as I book registration and travel.

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Some photos popped up from 5 years ago, where I could see where things were headed, and threw a few non-perishable items into every food shopping trip:

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Miller, Urey, and Sagan would be annoyed:

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Annoyingly it would have been a panagram too:

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Funny story: my parents used to live in a fly-in community, and Edmonton was the nearest hub. So that's where they would go when they needed the dentist, etc. I was born in the Maritimes, but the had recently moved, and would talk about Edmonton a lot. One of my earlier memories is (1/n)

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Never forget "the incident":

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I spent some time engaging with a LLM, and I am astounded at both how "well" it answered my questions, and how inaccurate some of the answers were. I won't share my prompts in exact detail, but I first asked it to describe some key players in my field of expertise (diazaphospholenes) (1/n)

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Congratulations to Angela Crane who got the Margaret-Ann Armout Award for Early Career Chemistry Education. This award is presented to an early career educator who has made a contribution to undergrad education primarily.

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Follow Dalhousie's Chemistry Department on here! bsky.app/profile/dalc...

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What does it say about me that I miss words on SPELLING BEE that are absolutely basic (or today maybe the opposite) to my job, yet often come up with the most obscure entries?

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"What work have you been doing?" "Well, I was in the middle of transporting a nuclear warhead" /s

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Yesterday's lecture about olefin metathesis:

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Photo from 2 years ago, the genesis of a project! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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You could also cross out "nuclear" in the headline, and everything after "know" in the subheading and get an equally accurate report on the current happenings.🤷‍♂️

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