Andre the Chemist

*claims it may or may not be intelligent

Noted leaker Oliver North

Sorry #Chemchat 🧪

“Some shit will tunnel out” is not the message I want to hear from a plumber

(that was laudatory, just to be clear)

Wow it's like it was your destiny to be a huge nerd.

Haha. I've known families that were generations of Catholic priests (until they met the right woman). Tale as old as Catholicism.

i’m in a volatile situationship with thf. i hate and love it like gollum and the ring.

Plumber and tanner (the leather-making kind, not someone who helps people darken their skin... people have been confused about that before)

In this house it's:
DCM
ACN
S.N.A.R.
IPA
Snickel
Tickel
And never Orgo

Seems to me all we have to do os divert all traffic onto Skyline drive. Easy peasy.

I think that ship had sailed while Harmon was still there. Maybe the turning point was when Tony left?

Can you place a bet on when the Polymarkets CEO will be assassinated?

Walked right into that one didn't I?

If you put 15 elements in the f block you are a monster.

What? No way, only rational scientific thinking here!

[rhenium walks in the door]

You sonofabitch...

Email: "We are emailing you because you taught at least one organic chemistry course in the past five years..."

Me: "Let me stop you right there."

[one week later]

Email: "We are emailing you because you taught at least one organic chemistry course in the past five years..."

I don't mind doing surveys about pedagogy for research projects but could you at least:

1) stop sending me reminder emails after I complete the survey
and
2) stop sending me reminder emails when I email you to tell you I do not qualify for your survey

Please and thank you.

Yes! It sounds like they are just pissed that they have to draw a pentagon. That makes total sense.

I've never taken a biochem course in my life. I know fuck all about amino acids. I still know proline is awesome.

It's such a cute little cyclic guy.

Look at it, catalyzing things. It thinks it's a transition metal.

Imagine hating proline, the clear best of the natural amino acids.

My grad email still exists. I've always been able to use it and often used it for signups where I need an email but don't want to clutter up my inbox.

In academic spheres, email addresses are so important. It os your access to so much and a form of credentialing.

Losing access to that, even for a brief period can be damaging professionally.

But really there should be better norms for institutions, particularly academic ones, where there are transitional periods where you either retain email access for X amount of time or where (as part of your exit process) you set up an autoreply/forwarding that runs for X amount of time.

The lesson learned that I now pass on to everyone who asks for job search advice is make sure that you use a personal email address for any important correspondence, not an institutional one.

At a visiting assistant professor position I was at, my email stopped the day after my last day – no forwarding of mail, no message to anyone emailing me. It became just a dead address.

I was in the middle of a few job searches and had to scramble to reconnect.

This resonates. It's silly little things, like seeing papers I want to read, and knowing I can no longer get through the paywall. Having to pick the "right" RSC journals to subscribe to on renewing my subs, when before it really didn't matter.
Fellowship proposals that want current affiliation.

Looks to me like you're making Mn(CO)₅Br

There's no fan at all (at least no working one) so after showering was a safety hazard with minimal visibility.

The only saving grace was the towel warmer which my kids now want in their bathroom (they'll probably burn the house down with it).