Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026today 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. 292
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 13/09/2026wow this academia stuff is really tough sometimes. who would have thunk. 020
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 22/08/2026your email find me quite burnt out and demoralised, actually 011
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 22/08/2026we live and we learn (PI is NOT thrilled with me rn) 010
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026normie friend judged me for the citric acid and monosodium glutamate in my spice cabinet. normie friend brought up walter white. i laughed along. 110
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 10/08/2026the One Ring is a clathrate with gold as the host and the spirit of Sauron as the guest. 010
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026all my favourite pieces of lab equipment was made in west germany and will outlive me 020
Reposted by Ligand ChefLigand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 05/12/2024My most real and relevant wizardpost 011
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Lawrence Olivier’s Henry V (1944) is the coolest thing i’ve watched all month 100
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 02/08/2026i would low key love to go on an elongated vacation to norwegian prison 100
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 01/08/2026the ACS asking me my dietary restrictions like i’m gonna eat what they cater. it’s chicago there’s quite literally thousands of places i’d rather get food. 130
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 01/08/2026the age old question of synthesis: did i not do it right or does that not work 000
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 31/07/2026i’m actually doing an oxymurcuration i never though this day would come. 442
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026oh god nowhere on the internet is there a guide a decent guide on how to dress for chemistry conferences. what the hell is business casual anymore. 310
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 26/07/2026“Odyssey spoiler” it’s been out for over 2000 years there’s no such thing 010
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 21/07/2026people are talking about the new sperm whale language research and get all exited. how? all i feel is horrible. humanity hunted them industrially for 400 years. there are whales alive today who probably remember their families getting slaughtered by exploding harpoons. i want to cry. 111
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 20/07/2026at millennial burger joint. just put the truffle fries in the newspaper bro 000
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 20/07/2026if the cycle of reincarnation is real, i’d like to be one of those sea slugs with the chlorophyll. 100
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 10/07/2026it is your civic duty to bully people for wearing meta glasses 020
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 14/06/2026thank you summer break for reminding me i can still read and that i still love books 020
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 26/05/2026is it just me or do a disproportionate amount of chemists consider cooking a main hobby 460
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 23/05/2026when my uncle says something about seed oils and cancer so you just gotta hit him with the gen z stare 020
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 10/03/2026i miss watching curling i wish it was on every winter or year round 020
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 08/03/2026*small child voice* tell me again: what was chem twitter like? #chemchat 5241
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 06/03/2026wish i could go :( cant spare the travel expensesfight2win.standupforscience.netStand up for ScienceStand up for Science 110
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 04/03/2026i should mayhaps maybe perhaps perchance possibly work on my ACS fall ‘26 abstract. maybe idk 020
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 28/02/2026i, a staunch atheist, find my self becoming increasingly devout when putting a bumpy solvent on the rotovap 020
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 30/12/2025#chemchat the crystals are so much better and it’s just less pieces of equipment to turn on. i would never do a column when recrystallisation is an option. 3131
Reposted by Ligand ChefThe Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Entry 4: The Wine Schlenk. We need some more entries in the ad-competition folks, 75% of the ads so far were made by the editor. New deadline for submissions is the 10th of January. Here are the guidelines: www.reddit.com/r/Immaterial... 083
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 23/12/2025it’s been a week since break started. i sit inside my home, broken hearted. my reagents stand lonely on the shelf; my ligands will not make themself! the nmr calls my name. i wonder if my rotovap feels the same? it’s been some time since i’ve run a column, i look outside my window, solemn. #chemchat 021
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 24/11/2025helped a little cousin with math. still cracked a high school geometry. 010
Ligand Chef @butadiene.bsky.social · 18/11/2025anyone want me in their lab? i have great Shlenk line technique and i smile 100