iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Samuel Beckett plays, re-packaged in the style of Stephen King paperbacks from the 1980s:

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon and good afternoon! You’ve seen this bridge from both sides now 🎵

A view of the University bridge looking toward downtown.

A view of the University Bridge looking from downtown.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 30/09/2026

I didn't know eagle cuddles were a thing and now I want some.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Neighbourhood cat is part Corgi! He or she was healthy, chill and friendly.

A marmalade cat who looks very healthy but has abnormally short legs.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Patrick Singletary @psingletary.com · 28/09/2026

This a pretty niche group of people that would get this if so, you are my people

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another symposium in the books. Great presentations & posters, so much diversity of every kind, but the best part is interacting with the trainees attending their first conference and seeing a bunch of people excited about what they do. Love organizing these, but now to sleep…

My Western Canadian Medicinal Chemistry Workshop name tag on a lanyard lying on a wooden table.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"My hope is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here." Jim Henson (1936-1990) was born on this date.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Never before has a turtle turtled this hard. Zoom in and appreciate The Foot

A fantastic painted turtle stands on a snag in a stream. Turtle has a smooth black carapace with bright red edges. Its neck and legs are a glorious riot of yellow racing stripes. It has its neck fully extended staring at the sky and the back right leg and foot are completely extended. This is an epic pose by a creature at the peak of its powers.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Western Salamander strolling the habitat at the @usask.ca Natural Science Museum today. Seeing these guys always makes me feel like it will be a lucky day. 🦎 #herps

A dark green salamander with black flecks walks across red rocks.

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Selective inhibitors targeting midichlorian glycolysis can prevent early-onset Jediism in pre-adult Tatooinians.

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Kathleen Farley @kafarley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Excited to see this collaboration with Bruker BioSpin in print! @NMRchat @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/amclct/artic...

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 21/09/2026

Did you know the wasabi in most sushi restaurants isn't wasabi? Or that a chemical synergy between dried seaweed and raw fish enhances sushi's savoury flavours? Learn more about sushi science with this infographic, as requested by my sushi-mad seven-year-old 🍣 wp.me/s4aPLT-sushi #ChemSky 🧪

This infographic titled "Sushi chemistry: nori, wasabi and sticky rice" explores the science behind sushi. It features three main panels with illustrations, chemical structures, and explanations. The left section explains how amylopectin in rice creates stickiness and how acetic acid from vinegar aids gelatinisation. The middle panel covers umami flavours from glutamate, inosinate, and guanylate found in nori and raw fish, displaying their molecular structures. The right panel discusses allyl isothiocyanate in wasabi and horseradish, along with gingerol and shogaol compounds in pickled ginger (gari). Photos of six different sushi rolls line the bottom.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 22/09/2026

"Moo's Next"

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey, that’s us! Cinnamaldehyde is a $5B/ year commodity, and derivatives with varying flavours & aromas can now be generated from benzaldehydes using #biocatalysis. Thanks and congratulations to my @usask.ca students for putting this idea into practice.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Your daily affirmation: If the universe is infinite, then that leaves a lot of room for your nonsense and tomfoolery.

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026

I would kill for Tino

I'm fostering Tino, who was feral-trapped last week. He has strong feelings about domestication, me, and the horse 1 rode in on.

Image: an adorably grumpy Siamese cat being held upside down on a pair of crossed legs and glaring up

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Nature Canada @naturecanada.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

More than 80% of Canadians believe governments have a responsibility to prevent species in Canada from going extinct. @mark-carney.bsky.social

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ChemjobsCanada Great opportunity for an atmospheric chemist. (Assuming the Okanagan hasn’t completely burned to ash in the very near future)

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If NFL owners aim to leave Macklemore with only $20 in his pocket, he actually has a plan for that

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Birds Canada @birdscanada.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Birds Canada is protecting the birds we love by engaging people through science. Together, we’re working towards a future where all bird species will thrive in healthy habitats. We’re excited to share what’s next, and we hope you’ll come along for the journey.

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Dana Menard @shufflersunite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's never a bad day to repost this one.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RIP Bob Mackie. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/s...

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Organic Division of the ACS @organicdivision.org · 14/09/2026

Mark your calendar! The next Virtual Symposium ft. Prof. Rob Paton (Colorado State Univ.) and Prof. Jolene Reid (Univ. of British Columbia) is Weds Oct. 14th at 12noon ET! Watch Free! Youtube: orgn.link/watch Zoom: orgn.link/vs-zoom Many thanks to @BeyondCCHF

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you sabotage the construction of a data centre in my province, no you didn’t, you were having lunch with me at the time.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The street beside my house is being destroyed/rebuilt by a backhoe, two steamrollers, and a guy with one of these. The whole house shakes, annoying all residents. I asked my very disgruntled cat “Do you feel like Captain Sensible?”

A road worker in a reflective vest and a hard hat operates a handheld gas-powered thing that stomps down dirt to flatten it, like the aggressive steroidal cousin of a floor buffer.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#Caturday is serious business

Silky grey cat with green eyes named Atlas is relaxing on a bed. This is a head and shoulders portrait. He looks calm and serious.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m just so tired of this stupidity

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/09/2026

April 1805. Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him. It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As we are all back to school, I would like to boast about my former students! Two (2) (yes, two (2)!) of PhD graduates from my lab have been hired into faculty positions in Canada!

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Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson, getting choked up with pride.

Alt: Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson, getting choked up with pride.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Junior goldfinches weathered yesterday’s intense rainstorms! #birds #yxe

The fuzzy grey heads of two goldfinch nestlings visible above the rim of a nest surrounded by leaves in a tree branch.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

the old "drunk octopus wants to fight" photo of a two-pronged metal coathook, whose screws look like off-kilter eyes of an octopus putting up two of its eight dukes

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is truly an all-purpose response!

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Help me find Alexandra who wrote me the loveliest note in 2017 when she was ten! That note really cheered me up on a particularly tough day. Clue: she was a member of the 12th Toronto Girl Guides and likes turtles!

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You might make fun of a football player using the "E-Flux - electric wave, full body flush", but this technology, also known as the electro-who-cardio-flux, has been used since the 1960s

Image of the electro-who-cardio-flooks from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (1966).

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s #WorldShorebirdDay and this Greater Yellowlegs is celebrating with some interpretative dance! #Birds 🪶

A Greater Yellowlegs lands in a very shallow marsh. The water is very calm so there is a reflection, and the yellowlegs looks like it’s running with its one leg up and its wings out for balance. The water is green and yellow as it reflects the colour of the early Fall reeds on the shore.

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The terrifying visage turned to me, opened its mouth and spake a single word:

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