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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Made some science books for kids #worldbookday

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That's my first paper as a doctoral candidate woohooo!! 🧪 #chemsky

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tell your spectroscopist friends!! I think I might have solved automated identification of Cosmic Rays in Raman! 👀 Hope this helps people who do dynamic #SERS. Try it out⤵️! I'm open to feedback! doi.org/10.1039/d6ra... github.com/jasonMal42/m... #chemistry #chemometrics #analyticalChemistry 🧪

Graphical abstract of the aforementioned article.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This study conducts a Fourier analysis of the wave contours in five paintings by Bridget Riley, in order to estimate the extent and character of their harmonic distortion. github.com/golanlevin/r...

Bridget Riley standing in front of her painting, Cataract 3.

A diagram showing the cross-correlation of the sine waves in three of Bridget Riley's paintings.

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I loaded my first and last roll of Plus-X in the travel MX to capture the region my father grew up in. Felt appropriate. #Kodak #Plus-X #analoguePhotography #filmIsNotDead #ThisOneIsntMadeAnymoreThough

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Perspective paper for #chemsky to read: pubs.rsc.org/su/article/4... YEAH that's literally my situation. No financial education, mom isn't a neurosurgeon and dad isn't an attorney so I have no $ buffer, and yes student debt. I have a concept for a suschem start-up with little means to start it.

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Last 35mm film developed in my 70's can of Microdol-X; Fomapan 100, shot at 50. Interesting result I think, smooth gradation and somewhat sharp but also slightly fuzzy? Who also uses superfine grain developers? #filmisnotdead #betteronfilm #filmphotography #blackandwhite #fomapan

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Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

You've never met a single chemist motherfucker #chemchat #chemsky

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Last Wednesday I did a presentation at the Canadian Society for Chemistry #CSC #CSC2026 #x2026 in Toronto on using hyperspectral #infrared #photography to help teach concepts in analytical chemistry. The audience seemed engaged! 😊

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Not that I ever took it personally when I was in the lab. #chemsky #chemchat

Inside the mind of an organic chemist: 1H NMR of a failed reaction. Two scenarios. The first scenario: What happens: shows a FT, it is transformed via a Fourier transform, and it generates a messy spectrum with a forest of peaks in the resulting spectrum. There is no product here. The second scenario: What we see: Shows the same FID, the same Fourier transform, but this time the spectrum has a flat baseline. The only signal is a hand coming off the baseline holding up its middle finger. It's mocking us....always mocking us.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

As the end of the semester looms on the horizon, just keep reminding yourself to put one foot in front of the other until you reach that finish line.

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My actual #fridayFavourite photo of my sole roll of @ilfordphoto.com #FP4+ for the #FP4party. Could be the lines but usually urban scenes do it for me. #betterOnFilm #believeInFilm

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Come by the poêle à bois and "pull yourself a log" as we say here. Last #FP4party post this year. There were good vibes at the sugar shack event that I hope come through. #fridayFavourites #believeInFilm #filmPhotography #blackAndWhite I'll have to get more FP4+ @ilfordphoto what a great emulsion!

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"Follow me to the underworld" in this first #fp4party post. These aren't incredible... I don't have much time for photography this year and this is my single roll (and second ever) of FP4+ for the event. 35mm. #BelieveInFilm #BetterOnFilm #fridayfavourites Lighter-themed images in the next post!

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

After years of decline, photography film is again rolling off manufacturing lines, through cameras, and out of processing machines at a steady clip. Read more: cen.acs.org/business/spe... #chemsky 🧪

Film photography is coming back. Can manufacturers keep up?
by Craig Bettenhausen.
35 mm photo film emerges from an automated developing machine.

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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 05/04/2026

Simulated "Mars lightning" (electrostatic discharge) converts simple salts and CO2 into minerals that have isotope signatures matching the Curiosity rover's observations. This suggests that dust activity may chemically reshape the Martian surface! 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A conceptual model of the Mars global contemporary surface-atmosphere Cl cycle and air-borne carbonates that is consistent with the results of the linked paper.

1 & 2) The HEC induced by dust-driven ESD partially decomposes the surface chloride mineral.

3) HEC produces volatile ClI* (37Cl-depleted) from chlorides; along with 13C- and 18O-depleted species CO2+ CO* and O* from CO2; and minor amounts of (per)chlorate, carbonate, and activated oxide are also formed by HEC reactions but with lower conversion rates than the volatile species.

4) The atmospheric HEC products (with depleted 37Cl, consistent with mission observations) are deposited onto the surface, forming new (per)chlorate, chloride, and carbonate mineral deposits having isotopic depletions in 37Cl, 18O, and 13C, consistent with mission observations.

In addition, there is a possibility that the Cl-bearing products deposited on the Martian surface could lead to the formation of Cl-salt rich brines that may percolate below the subsurface and flow out in the form of (7) RSL (recurring slope lineae) that generated the modern Cl-deposits (6).

As chloride salt rich deposits are modified by ongoing dust-driven HEC, the progressive depletion of 37Cl would continue, leading further towards the negative δ37Cl values observed in surface Cl-bearing minerals by SAM-Curiosity on Mars.

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Development is complete for my single roll for the #fp4party and I cannot wait to see the scans with the developer I chose. Glad that the metal can did its job wonderfully to keep the powder from oxidation! Maybe we should bring them back 🤔 #believeInFilm

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Only 5 more frames of Lucky Color 200 before I load @ilfordphoto.com FP4+ in the LX for the #fp4party. I should be able to shoot a dozen frames today, with the rest uuuhhh... At some point! TBD! Since I started to bulk load Foma and Lucky films, 36 exposures can feel a little daunting 😣

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🍄Mushroom Guy🍄 @mycotae.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Canadians! Tired of dudebros in large trucks blinding you? Take this survey and maybe (just maybe!) Things might improve!

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Dana Lashley @drlashley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

When spring break is about to be over:

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

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Richard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Was just pulling up to our rental place when the light did this.

Some mountains lit with shafts of light through low cloud

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/11/2025

Beam Dump xkcd.com/3168/

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.

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Jason @nanojason.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Finally my first first-author article is in its final form! We're making DFT-backed Raman accessible: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... If you're a DFT veteran, you'll find a simple algorithm tuned to compare quantum-generated Raman spectra with real ones; if you're good with Raman, learn DFT! #chemistry

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Towards routine organic structure determination using Raman microscopy

Raman microscopy can reveal a compound-specific vibrational “fingerprint” from micrograms of material with no sample preparation. We expect this increasingly available instrumentation to routinely...

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