so i did not realize how much of an age gap there is between my dad's siblings - i apparently have a good number of cousins older than my dad

yoshi's first boat ride

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In Preparation@inprep.bsky.social · 6d ago

watched 給阿嬤的情書 tonight and i regret not bringing tissues 10/10, loved to hear teochew spoken out in the wild, wish i could've brought 婆婆 with us to see it

dairy is one of the biggest sources of iodide in the american diet, not because milk naturally is high in iodide... ... but because iodine is still widely used as a disinfectant in the dairy industry

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last wk.

Tell me a fun fact.

hmmmmmm what if i entered the tetris effect tourney at PAX tomorrow

this year's ig nobel prizes just dropped and there are some absolute bangers

........huh. apparently hep B immunity can fade with time, it seems my blood panel says i don't have antibodies for it even though i got vaccinated as a kid

first date... kinda nervous @gaygreengiant.bsky.social

the lab is 80 degrees right now and i am wearing way too much tyvek to be okay with this

i always get such a sense of satisfaction when phlebotomists say i have good veins for drawing blood

i can't believe mamamoo is having a concert just for my birthday

another orbit around the sun completed. personal growth is hard but i think i've done a good bit of it this past year

one if the worst stress nightmares i've ever had was during candidacy, where i dreamed that my advisor was moving me into a new project on making multimetallic carbide clusters, but with mercury instead of iron this one was jarring enough to wake me up lmfao

steve@stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · 2w ago

Any grad students reading this: do not synthesize dimethyl mercury. If someone asks you to do it, say “no” and call your school EH&S people, who will drop a piano on that person’s head (probably only figuratively)

one year later and i seem to have learned nothing. oops

jeremy, yarn yoshi stan@cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · last yr.

why the FUCK did i start a column at 4p on a friday

got too lazy to work up a reaction late yesterday afternoon and decided to just stuff the reaction mixture in the freezer and call it a day, then came back this morning to all of my product crystallized perfectly out of solution i love it when being lazy works out in my favor

me: why am i always out of item space in pogo my bag:

the deed is done

jeremy, yarn yoshi stan@cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · 3w ago

my new tv is making me give it a name, so what if i name it adenosine trivosphate you know because it's ATV

i continue to find tiny and questionably useful equipment in lab

my new tv is making me give it a name, so what if i name it adenosine trivosphate you know because it's ATV

my toxic trait is keeping the boxes for every single appliance i own

physical therapist said i'm almost back to full strength in my knee yaaaaaaay

why is it rotovap and not rotavap, when it's a rotAry evAporator???

E/Z bench isomers located.

it's been way too long since i've had a proper cantonese banquet feast, so i had an early birthday dinner this weekend with a bunch of friends :D

somehow managed to turn our teledyne into a solvent fountain so uh. i guess i'm not running a column today after all

this tiny lab jack is ADORABLE oh my god

at the point where i have like six different side quests and syntheses for my project that i'm tackling simultaneously and don't even mind it, man i almost forgot what it's like to be invested in my chemistry