Dave Palmer
@davepalmerusask.bsky.social
Organic chemist, enzymologist, professor, cat dad. PEI ➡️ Queen's U ➡️ UIUC ➡️ USask. 🇨🇦✌️🙂 (he/him)
🦋🇨🇦 A tiny monarch butterfly tagged in Winnipeg has reached Mexico after travelling 2,300 km in just 40 days! CBC Manitoba is following 29 endangered monarchs fitted with miniature trackers to help researchers protect migration habitats. Have you spotted monarchs this year?
Good things happen when you go to chemistry class!
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 5h ago“This award is for all those children who are voiceless whose voices need to be heard.” On 10 October 2014 Malala Yousafzai was in a chemistry class when she received the news that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At just 17 years old, she became the youngest laureate ever awarded.
Received my Birds Canada 2027 calendar. Love October's Black-billed Magpie taken by @saskajanet.bsky.social Such a striking and interesting bird that sticks it out with us through the long cold winter.
Texas/OK announcer just said “Hollywood Smothers the Running Back” and it sounded like a cautionary tale about transitioning from athletics to acting
Betelgeuse rolling on a shopping bag while Atlas looks on in disbelief at the foolishness as he stands on a shopping bag like a reasonable and self-respecting cat. #Caturday
I'll bet the appendage started out as a different body part, and some killjoy made the potter change it
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d agoThree thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
We are about 6 months away from my book, RESONANCE & RADIANCE, being released into the world. (April 13th, 2027!) RESONANCE & RADIANCE is a narrative nonfiction book about spectroscopy—the field of science that studies how light interacts with molecules. I want to share this book’s origin story 🧵:
Why you keep the ikea doll bed long after your child is grown up
Always an exemplary use of alt-text for beetle moses's comics - they tend to work well to ensure no-one is left out of the joke, but they also quite often deepen the joke by the way they capture the details and the mood of the characters and situations in words
beetle moses@beetlemoses.bsky.social · 5mo ago
This year's #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded for research which helps chemists make just one of a molecule's pair of mirror images 🪞 It's useful in making medicinal molecules and gives insights into why biological molecules are formed from single mirror-image building blocks 🧬 #ChemSky 🧪
Today is #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 Did you know that octopuses have blue blood? This graphic looks at what makes it blue, as well as other blood colours seen in different organisms: wp.me/p4aPLT-Fc #ChemSky 🧪
"Seemed a curiosity at the time" Basic research at its best. We really don't know what's going to have legs. Do something fun and interesting and bizarre. Fund LOTS of work that is fun and interesting and bizarre.
Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 4d agoIt feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call.
In honor of the now-fired (seriously, what the fuck) Oriole Bird, please enjoy the greatest piece of Orioles-related art that will ever exist
It's #NobelPrize week! Here's a look at the composition of the medals given to the winners – and how to make them disappear 🏅 www.compoundchem.com/2016/09/30/n... #ChemSky 🧪
The Flintstones episode “Dr. Sinister” in which Fred and Barney are going to be thrown into a volcano.
Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · last wk.In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
Samuel Beckett plays, re-packaged in the style of Stephen King paperbacks from the 1980s:
I didn't know eagle cuddles were a thing and now I want some.
Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · 2w agoThe colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle
Neighbourhood cat is part Corgi! He or she was healthy, chill and friendly.
Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today
This a pretty niche group of people that would get this if so, you are my people
