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Andre the Chemist

@andrechemist.bsky.social
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Noted rhenium hater and **undefeated** youth soccer coach (total of one game coached). Virginia, USA. He/him.

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Make Money - Do Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1h
If you don’t work in higher ed, you probably aren’t familiar with the Clery Act, which requires universities to report the date and location of violent crimes. In the past 24 hours, we’ve received two Clery notification emails, both sexual assaults, one at a fraternity and one in a residence hall
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 4h
The same type of process that decides potatoes and water coolers are the optimal package deal for consumers also decides whose job application gets considered and whose does not, or whose mortgage gets approved and at what interest rate.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 8h
#chemchat check out the post that this is a response to for full appreciation of the joke
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enervate.bsky.social @enervate.bsky.social · 16h
Mountain Deuterium
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 9h
Argument from authority (excerpt from the Evans pKa table)
A table of pKa values in water and, in parentheses, DMSO. The section header says "Alcohols" and listed are the following:
HOH  14.0 (31.2)
MeOH 15.5 (27.9)
i-PrOH 16.5 (29.3)
t-BuOH 17.0 (29.4)
c-hex₃COH 24.0
CF₃CH₂OH 12.5 (23.5)
(CF₃)₂CHOH 9.3 (18.2)
C₆H₅OH 9.95 (18.0)
m-O₂NC₆H₄OH 8.4
p-O₂NC₆H₄OH 7.1 (10.8)
p-OMeC₆H₄OH 10.2 (19.1)
2-napthol[sic] (17.1)
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Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 10h
today we mourn the loss of my favorite shlenk flask. i do not know where or when it came from, only that it is no longer with us now. I would like to take a moment reflect on all the good work we’ve done together, and know that your legacy will continue through other, inferior pieces of glass.
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Lily K-Evans @lilyke.bsky.social · 10h
ChemDraw whale :-)
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 10h
Actually "educatots" feels like an apt description of higher ed faculty sometimes (also I low key like it when CJ gets angry and unleashes some righteous fury)
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16h
I strongly believe that exposing America's future military leaders to civilian educatots is a good thing and it will really disappoint me to exclude those schools from the Faculty List, but I will.
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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 15h
As someone who was a chem major at USNA with a great, entirely civilian, department- to have this- THIS- done on top of all the other damage to Academies in general. No senior officer who ‘followed orders’ to allow all this should have any career or pension, hell they should lose citizenship.
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SleepyNeutrons @sleepyneutrons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So I finally did it. Critical Thinking: What a Senior Reactor Operator Wants You to Know About Nuclear Power a.co/d/03WLoA7L
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Critical Thinking: What a Senior Reactor Operator Wants You to Know About Nuclear Power - Kindle edition by Wooster, Bryan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Critical Thinking: What a Senior Reactor Operator Wants You to Know About Nuclear Power.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21h
There's a lot to teach in chemistry classes, and even more to teach in chemistry labs (buy a lab instructor a coffee sometime and ask them what they are tasked to cover) Some things we cut out is not because it wouldn't be good for students to know, but because we just don't have infinite time...
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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I got a guy arguing that alcohols and phenols are distinct functional groups, to the extent that calling a phenol an “alcohol” is incorrect. What say you, #chemsky?!
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
oh fuck it seems i unintentionally waded into the discourse of the day
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Dr Craig 'not Creg' Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chemistcraig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New profile pic. A fresh attempt to start being active on here again 😅 🤞🏻
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
today's breakfast was mini pancake breakfast sandwiches with sausage, egg, and cheese
A plate with raspberries, a hash brown, ketchup, and two mini breakfast sandwiches made from two mini pancakes, a round sausage patty, and cheesy egg
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The biggest challenge with education (all levels and types, but specifically *public* K-12, college, and university) is that long ago the idea that education is an important public good, necessary for a strong, flourishing society, was seemingly abandoned
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
for the first time in several years the local liquor store had chartreuse that was a pleasant surprise
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's just the two of us this weekend so the youngest kid got to pick both dinner and tonight's activity so it was thai food and a movie
A 9 year old eating a plate of pad thai at a restaurantDrs. Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant looking in awe at something (dinosaurs) in the movie Jurassic Park
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pro-tip: if you shake (at 2-3 Hz) your iced coffee right before your job interview it will transform into a drink that's okay to bring with you
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el camino acid @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026
the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms
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Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*brings durian to job interview*
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
haha my feed is a bunch of "Lost should not be on the list" posts and one "Lost needs to be much much higher"
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The details in this piece only add to the evilness that the headline introduces
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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Better a pig than a fascist.
Marco Pagot (Porco Rosso) in his plane giving the thumbs-up.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It was today, September 24, over one month before Halloween, when I saw my first Christmas commercial on tv So there's that
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think a big problem with computer tech is that, in the name of making everything more "user friendly", they have made it difficult or impossible for you, the user, to understand what is happening
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 24/09/2026
my kids are so much better than ai; they don’t even need to be told to “ignore all previous instructions”, they just do it
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some folks just lament that the chemistry community on bluesky is dying while others (the author of the paper) actually try to do something about it
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Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
100% wrong is really something
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Okay @mircosoft.bsky.social Word®, let me just type "5."
Screenshot of a Word document with "5." on it and nothing else
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Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.) @shorterpearson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I asked questions and made provocations at the front side of the talk about how we feel pressure from limited computing resources, how our students feel parallel pressure, and how we know the realities of letting particularly cloud and GenAI resources grow in use unchecked (or, at least, we should).
Opening question: How do you experience computing resource limits? - Are your email constraints as paltry as mine? - How modern are your personal and institutional computers? - What size of file can be uploaded to your LMS? - What internet speeds are accessible to you? - What limits of this sort do your STUDENTS experience?
Opening provocation: How do your practices consider resource limits? - If our students can’t utilize the computing resources we put in front of them, we haven’t served their needs - If we put excessive burden in front of our IT staff, their resources and energy aren’t available for urgent tasks - If we don’t think about where our computing resources come from, we create burden on machines, cooling systems, and THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENTOpening provocation: How do our practices consider environmental impact? - We’ve known for TWO YEARS that data 
center usage is reversing positive trends towards curbing fossil fuel usage and carbon impact; we continue to make decisions as a society that accelerate the fossil fuel usage and water consumption that data centers require in order to function; can we consider a better way?
(Associated: image with AP headline entitled "Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI" - publication date July 2, 2024
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Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.) @shorterpearson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I gave a talk this morning at Appalachian College Association Summit. It's a substantial departure for me, but one that I've had many conversations about over the years.
Talk by Chuck Pearson of Tusculum University entitled "Minimal computing: challenging unchecked use of resources in academic technology."
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i love trader joes instructions: "cook on stovetop over medium heat for 5 minutes, serve hot" what are you talking about i'm 10 minutes in with high heat and i've still got ice chunks in there
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Marie van Staveren @chemdrv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I will never stop being thankful for good TAs
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
my family would not let me go to Taco Bell when we were in Ireland 😤 so I cannot comment on this
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 23/09/2026
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Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Joe Roth quietly played his senior year at Cal with cancer, dying 3 months after his final game. He became a campus hero w/ a memorial game named in his honor. Now, 49yrs later, Cal is trying to profit off his legacy, to his last living brother's dismay. My latest: www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
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Cal sure seems to be cashing in on the tragedy of Joe Roth
Joe Roth died three months after playing his senior season with melanoma.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What’s your favorite thing being an adult? Mine is selling uranium to global terrorists
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Could a far-future planet in a distant galaxy have more than a single biome? A theoretical study
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think the way they show pH paper being used in Reacher season 4 affects me the same way the biologist-types were by the centrifuge scene in Project Hail Mary
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
kind of fascinating to me how many people, who know that i teach at a college, seem to want to tell me how useless they think a college education is
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"It's healthy for men to cry, except in this particular circumstance, in which case it's pathetic and embarrassing."
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's a shame no chemist ever came up with the idea to say "I'm working on something that might kill all of humanity, so please give me several billion dollars so I can stop myself" That feels like something that should've been right up our alley
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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A chemical look at the clashes famous London calling album cover. Instead of a guy smashing a guitar into the ground, there are a bunch of instantaneous dipoles . The name of the album is London Forces
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