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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 4h

As someone who makes/purifies exclusively l*beled compounds, this is pretty freaky.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026

There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A bit ago I couldn’t remember the word “thermometer.” Could only say “temperature probe.” Sheesh. 🧪 #chemsky #chemchat

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just did one of our endless online “learnings” and I *think* it was about *how to do* the learnings. I think? 🧪 #chemsky

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyone know how to wash/clean the charcoal out of this funnel? Happens in ground glass joints too. 🧪 #chemsky

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)

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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bike ride is better and beer is tastier when you’ve played hooky from work to do it.

Me, having a beer at Little Fish Brewing Co in Dayton, Ohio

Me, stopping for a pic while biking on a bridge.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hard to avoid feeling much of this.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oh, outstanding. Well then. What about Ass Radium? "for rectal use, by men" "For restoring sex power" My research has some odd encounters/we did some in retrospect not great idea stuff (i mean at the time questionable)

A white box with faded gold label for 15 day course Vita Radium Suppositories as labeled and "guaranteed to contain real refined radium to be perfectly harmless"

Ad text for Vita Radium suppositories on gold paper that reads "for restoring sex power vita radium suppositories for rectal use by men, are [tonic?] restorers of sex and energizers for the entire nervous, glandular, and circulatory systems" and continues in that vein.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/08/2026

Dr. Fauci lead our nation through a public health crisis. Now, House Republicans are harassing Fauci to undermine the credibility of Public Health Experts. We are fighting back. Sign your support for our experts here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/fau...

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Stand up for Science

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026

Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

1. A transaminase can catalyze the reverse of a reaction catalyzed by a dehydrogenase. 2. Yet, either enzyme could be used to make Phe. Are both statements correct? If so, is it easier to use a transaminase or a dehydrogenase? (New w/enzymes here.) Thanks for any help/clarification! 🧪 #chemsky

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I need some chemistry “safety questions” to ask my colleagues as part of our safety awareness. Anything. Can be deep/serious or simple/easy/trivial or a bit funny. I’ll give some examples I’ve recently used below. #chemsky 🧪

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 09/08/2026

Join me in signing this petition, thank you @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social for leading the way 🙏

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Looking for anyone who has done this as a large scale (>10 g) preparation of L-Glutamine. I can't get it to work well. (Yes I've scoured the literature and have considered the inhibitory feedback mechanisms and have varied all the variables I can, but continue to get poor yields.) #chemsky 🧪

Conversion of L-Glutamic acid to L-Glutamine using Glutamine synthetase.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When I was a kid and toothpaste tubes were metal (yes they were youngins!), we had little devices to scroll them up to get all the toothpaste out. Need that now. 🧪 #chemsky

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Max Jr says Happy 4th of July.

My cat’s white paw with red and blue caps.

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Woohoo my alma mater still holding strong. At least in the US. 🧪 #chemsky

News that UC Berkeley is top school in US and in top 3 in chemistry.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Any prep-HPLC experts? I must isolate 20-40 g of a fatty acid ester by HPLC. RP column. So, many injections. I can make solutions that are 1 g material in 4 mL mobile phase. Is this a crazy (e.g., bad) concentration to use? It does *seem* to be working. 🧪 #chemsky

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This dude appears to know his stuff.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I got one! Coworker made it and we dig it. Our new lab mascot. Believe I first saw this from bsky.app/profile/simo.... 🧪 #chemsky

Capybara NMR tube holder. With top hat and monocle.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Using a balloon feels old school and fun. 🧪 #chemsky

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In 2 days, a scientist wrote a whole paper and it was accepted. That was back in 2020. By now I assume you just feed in some data and AI converts it to a paper and minutes later it’s accepted by AI editors. 🧪

Copy of a paragraph from Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward (1980).

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If there exists a 6-month to 1-year PhD level position in synthetic organic chemistry in the Seattle area, please let me know! (Yeah I know the odds are low.) Why this picture? I don’t know - but I can do chemistry! 🧪 #chemsky

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I kind of like getting a whiff, just a whiff, of ammonia. I don’t hate the smell in small doses. It makes me feel clean, or awake, or something. 🧪 #chemsky

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In case you were wondering what’s in here. 🧪 #chemsky

Label on bottle of HCl with a notice that it contains…HCl.

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JAMA @jama.com · 19/05/2026

Suicide mortality among adolescents and young adults declined after the launch of the #988Lifeline, with fewer deaths observed than expected based on pre-2022 trends. ja.ma/4djJxCT

Line graph titled "Suicide Mortality Among Adolescents and Young Adults After Launch of a Suicide and Crisis Lifeline." It displays suicide deaths per 100,000 person-years from 2010-2026. An orange line indicates observed deaths and a blue line indicates expected deaths.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Twice I have tried and failed to get into the lottery for this. Question: are there any other similar types of interesting natural phenomena like this to see? I think there are the bats exiting caves in Texas. Other stuff? Anything. 🧪

Advert for the Great Smokies synchronous firefly lottery.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Apparently Wheaton (or anyone?) does not make these desiccators any more - the ones with the gaskets. I like them much better than the ones you have to grease, and require force to pull the lids off. Do you know if these are sold anywhere? (Besides eBay) 🧪 #chemsky

Large and small desiccators with gaskets between base and lid.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What do the SPACE SHUTTLE, ICE RINKS and your SEX LIFE have in common? Let's talk about it. In the 1970's, an engineer was working on active cooling systems for NASA's Space Shuttle program. There were already freon-based closed loop systems, but they took time to cool & circulate.

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Space Shuttle Launch: To The Moon Take Off

Alt: Space Shuttle Launch: To The Moon Take Off. It's a lot of flame shooting out the back of a launch vehicle with the space shuttle mounted to it.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is what happens under fair maps—and why they gutted the Voting Rights Act. Get it? This is why generations marched, organized, and mobilized. And so must we. 📈

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Harold Urey was born on this day in 1893. He discovered deuterium in 1932. Willie Nelson was born on this day in 1933 (same year as my mom). Urey got the Nobel Prize in 1934. Are these events connected? Here’s a New Ales Post Mow Lawn German Kolsch 4.2% to them. Willie is still with us! 🧪 #chemsky

Harold Urey, a deuterium atom, Willie Nelson, and me holding a beer.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Every time I see someone shame-post about how people should give up driving and bike to work, it’s a picture of someone on a completely flat road in the middle of the city. Not on hilly country roads for 30 km on icy roads in the dark with cars 2 cm from them. 🚲

Just me in my bike shirt, having a beer. 🍺 🙃

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

They should make these in funky colors and designs. 🧪 #chemsky

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.

Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

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Nature @nature.com · 09/04/2026

A woman with an ultra-rare combination of three autoimmune diseases has had no symptoms since receiving a single dose of engineered immune cells go.nature.com/3PYWqsG

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One woman, three autoimmune diseases: CAR-T therapy vanquishes ultra-rare disease trio

Fourteen months after treatment with engineered immune cells, the recipient has no symptoms and doesn’t need to take medication.

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Tim C. Smith @chemsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Been firmly opposed to the anti-decency (and anti-science) party for a long time. 🧪 #chemsky

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