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Nessa Carson

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Digital chemist & chemistry automation nerd | Lives in a historical canalside cottage | "Aggressively sciency" | Views are mine | She/they. Macclesfield, UK


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I will give you that!

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I stg people think it's funny or cool to make up BS on LinkedIn and package it as "advice" for worried job seekers

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๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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Does anyone remember the fever dream from about 2 years ago, when people you had previously thought were fairly ordinary declared Rishi Sunak a physically attractive figure, and he started getting called "dishy Rishi"? Like...???

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I see! I'm definitely out of the ordinary, because we don't use LaTeX in my field. But I also work at the edge of "my" field so I've had to use it only with collaborators who consider it an everyday thing. Hopefully academic institutions will pay up?? And beyond that, I dunno....

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Oh wait... I guess if the owner (only) pays up it's fine. This feels fairly reasonable? Maybe??

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Oh no :O I'm glad my projects on there are over for now... I don't know how easy it would be for me to get it back (money isn't the problem). It's a great platform. I'd be happy to support it, but I don't use it enough to justify the subscription prices from my own pocket, last I looked anyway

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I worry that I can guess... I hope I'm wrong!

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Theobromine - one of the many interesting molecules in chocolate. Here's hoping that summer warms up a little to make this pic a little more seasonally relevant!
#SciArt #SciComm #Science #ChemSky ๐Ÿก๐Ÿงช (and at a push #CompChemSky, I did build the structure in molecular modelling software after all๐Ÿ˜€)

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Actually good point; what am I saying. Tacos are delicious. Never waste a taco. ๐ŸŒฎ

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I feel like you could have thrown the taco because one naturally throws a projectile in a downward arc, so depending on the difference between you, you would likely have missed in the absence of gravity.

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HOW are there people who don't believe in GRAVITY? What do they think is happening to all of us, all of the time?! Or are we actually all floating aimlessly and the world is just a projection or simulation?

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Yet another from Labour today - four total - and finally one from the Greens and one from that bunch of Brexiters. Promising that they will give us only nice, respectable doctor immigrants who will be delighted to live here knowing that they are only welcome based on their undergraduate degree

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My friend just came back from there and he had an amazing time! Ok I've GOT to go ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿˆ

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WHERE IS THIS HOTEL I do not care which city it is, I literally have to stay there

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Every time I see "scientists say", I just think of any time I can get just one of my friends to agree with me. Scientists say pizza is delicious, scientists say the lime ones are the best Starburst, scientists say cats are perfect beings.

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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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We're taking over ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿค–๐Ÿค–

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Man, it broke my brain so much I lost the ability to words

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That can't be real. Is it it?!!!

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Well, Lipinski, Leeson, and Lovering apparently... at least I broadly agree with those choices if I had to pick 3. I don't think it's going to happen though...

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I hope I'm still young then! Think I could give it a good bash now ๐Ÿคฃ

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Reminds me of my friend and I having a pizza eating contest and declaring a draw after 3 large pizzas each I don't understand why on earth eating lots of food at once is impressive or we have an impulse to perform these feats, but god damn it is and we do ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿคฃ

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๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿคฃ

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Oh, at least it's not just me. A super tame fox came close to us a few days ago and I talked to it the way normal people talk to actual babies.

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As known deadly toxins go, I'd say it's more than snack sized. All I conclude is that this guy likes having data even more than I do.

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Two neptunium phosphides! (Np(III), Np(IV))

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Ashley M. Gjรธvik's avatar Ashley M. Gjรธvik @ashleygjovik.bsky.social
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๐Ÿงต In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. ๐Ÿ’€ โฌ‡๏ธ

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Now you could still do exactly that with multiple papers rather than a book, plus I think you have to add a novel blurb. It's a PhD by Special Regulation and Cambridge (and some other UK unis) offers them to alumni & current staff. Rarer but possible elsewhere is to award them to others

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Correction to the alt text: metal phosphiDes. Thank you, autocorrect.....

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๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™ On behalf of the rest of the world, thank you!

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That's quite funny. I worked with a prof in USA who insisted on being called Professor ___ in conversation, and that definitely made people uncomfortable in a different way!

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โ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธ

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I don't know what I expected to find when I expanded the "phosphorus compounds" box on a Wikipedia page, but it wasn't this! Not a carbon in sight ๐Ÿคฃ

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I did not know all this! Wow, thank you.

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This is what I've been up to in the past week! - Had the best time attending & presenting at Future Labs Live in Basel - Took the long way back via London & gave a talk at the Institute of Cancer Research; met many of their amazing researchers - Then a queer science show at the RI on my way home ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

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Well there are some places you can do this for a year's fees, a PhD by Special Regulations. That doesn't mean it's dodgy or the papers are bad. If they are they presumably would not allow the student to pass. Often those people are staff scientists and their doctorates are as valid as all yours

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In the last week, I've had one more leaflet from the Conservatives, one from the Lib Dems (to add to one from a while back), and... three from Labour (two just today!). They're really pushing...

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Oh ScheiรŸe ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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The absolute joys if it were ๐Ÿคฃ

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I would pay good money for this anti-Magibook

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He's in the little house! ๐Ÿฅบ Bebby hasn't been in the little house in ages!

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Hahahahahaha oh my god Thanks but no thanks, Meetup Hope those 2 attendees are perfect for each other

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Huh?!!!!!!! (Maybe if they're very dilute solutions I could condone?)

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