Dave Palmer
@davepalmerusask.bsky.social
Organic chemist, enzymologist, professor, cat dad. PEI ➡️ Queen's U ➡️ UIUC ➡️ USask. 🇨🇦✌️🙂 (he/him)
@ulethbridge.ca is looking for a Canada Research Chair in Genomics! Please apply if you are interested in working at an outstanding institution with a very collegial environment and living in the amazing City of Lethbridge. share.google/9R0WWOWxlusH...
Posting: Faculty of Arts & Sciences – Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (Genomics in Precision Health) - Lethbridge (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Lethbridge | 12862139
The University of Lethbridge invites applications for the position of Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in the area of Genomics in Precision Healt...
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I am very sorry to all the Americans who didn't grow up with the House Hippo on TV
Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · yesterdayWhen the House Hippo first appeared on Canadian televisions, it seemed that everyone wanted one to appear in their homes. This commercial became a part of the Canadian cultural landscape and even today, the House Hippo is beloved by Canadians. 🧵 1/10
If you’ve got land that could be Loggerhead Shrike habitat, please consider planting/saving shrubs for shrikes. If you'd like to support habitat preservation, consider supporting Nature Saskatchewan, Birds Canada, or other organizations working toward preservation of grasslands biodiversity #birds
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Nature Saskatchewan has been dedicated to the conservation of Saskatchewan's natural environment since 1949. We promote appreciation and understanding of our natural world through conservation, educat...
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Surprise on our walk this morning: Bayyy beee Shrike! doo doo dodoo dodoo
I love how unpolished this is. There's no wagering strategy so everyone just fully shits the bed. Alex completely forgets to reveal the correct response. The audience is yelling at him. Incredible stuff.
Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d agofinal jeopardy in the second episode (bouncing around billionaire-owned social networks today, copying here for people who aren't looking at those)
June Foray and Bill Scott #BOTD the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle. "It was a special show for special people," said Scott, who also voiced Mr. Peabody and Dudley Do-Right and was the head writer and co-producer of the show (with Jay Ward). #TVSky #animation
Get The Word Out There
Alt: Idris Alba as Stringer Bell in The Wire saying “I want you to get the word out there that we back up”.
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Dave Palmer@davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Western Canadian Medicinal Chemistry Workshop is back! Come for a weekend in beautiful Saskatoon and share your work in pharmaceutical, bioorganic, biophysical and related areas of chemistry! #ChemSky
In case you haven't seen it, you might like this.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Chemist Stephanie Kwolek was born #OTD in 1923. She invented Kevlar, used in high-strength / low-weight applications like body armor and airplane parts. She also invented the Nylon Rope Trick demo! 🧪 👩🔬 Images: DuPont/Stephanie Kwolek
I apologize for interrupting your regular consumption of shitposts and angry retweets from this supposedly serious scientific account of a VERY SERIOUS SCIENTIST to post something important. A former MSc grad from my lab, Dr. Xiao Yu from my group is running a network for Asian women in STEM.
“That could be me" event RSVP
That Could Be Me is a virtual conversation series that brings together Asian women in STEM across different career stages through meaningful 1:1 conversations. Whether you're a student exploring what'...
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Dr. Michael Wozny, a structural biologist in #USask's College of Medicine, has been selected as one of the 2026 Canada @gairdnerawards.bsky.social Early Career Investigators - a prestigious honour celebrating their promising innovations. Congratulations Dr. Wozny! news.usask.ca/articles/res...
USask structural biologist selected as 2026 Gairdner Early Career Investigator - News
A University of Saskatchewan (USask) biomedical researcher has been recognized with a prestigious honour celebrating their promising early-career innovations.
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For local folks — two thumbs up for the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan production of “Julius Caesar”! 👍👍 There’s nothing like enjoying a classic on the shores of our beautiful river, where storytelling has happened for thousands of years shakespearesask.com
me: [sobbing] England, you can't just call everything a pudding J. J. Thomson: [points at atom] pudding
At an Ontario-Quebec Physical Organic Minisymposium (it’s real and it’s spectacular) Pierre Deslingchamps gives a talk about the anomeric effect. 1st “question” is from Mike Sinnott, who reads for 3 mins from a clipboard of notes he’s taken, beginning with “I just want to set the record straight”
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · last wk.Hey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses
I once asked an assistant professor at a conference mixer if he was a postdoc and he was SO offended. He’d grown a beard and everything.
In Preparation@inprep.bsky.social · 7d ago
