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Rahad

@rahadr.bsky.social
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Avid reader 📚, cyclist 🚲 PhD in Chemistry 🧪. Scientist in Glasgow, Scotland. Enjoys board games, card games and video games. 🇦🇺 living in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mog is checking whether the book is palatable or not #booksky #cat
Mog the cat checking whether 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss is tasty
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
7 Wonders is my favourite board game, but it needs a lot of people to function properly. Or, two people can play three factions each! #boardgames #boardgaming
7 Wonders board game being played by two players, with each player controlling three factions each.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The 2026 password table is here! How fast can a hacker crack your password? Source: buff.ly/0ek2lRr
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
See you all on the far side because I'm about to tackle this behemoth by Adrian Tchaikovsky ( @aptshadow.bsky.social ). Thanks to the local libraries in #glasgow for getting it so quickly #booksky #scifi
Children of Strife novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Just finished Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social ) and it was a blast! There wasn't a single wasted word or sentence. Every sentence had a purpose, no filler - I was hanging onto every word. Looking forward to starting Alien Clay ! #booksky #scififantasy #books
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky, a hardcover novel
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The Bare Alternative @barealternative.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today is Earth Day 🌍 A reminder that our everyday choices really do add up. 92 million tonnes of textile waste goes to landfill in the UK every year. Around 30kg per household in Sheffield alone. It is not about being perfect. It is about making things last longer. Repair. Reuse. Rethink.
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Went out because it was sunny. Randomly started snowing. Now it's sunny again. #glasgow #snow
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just finished Spiderlight by @aptshadow.bsky.social and it felt like a tongue-in-cheek summary of the fantasy genre. Great read 😀 #booksky
Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky and a cup of coffee and biscuit.
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Had a great time at The Merchant's Guild in #glasgow replaying Splendor and trying out a new board game Wispwood. Hoping they add some others like Wingspan, Everdell and Root to their catalogue 😀 #boardgames
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Managed to hit my 50 book target for this year just in the nick of time. Thanks to #StoryGraph for being a useful tracking tool #booksky
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Shayla Love @shaylalove.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I went to a pop-up city on an island off the coast of Honduras, which bills itself as a hub for fast-tracking longevity drugs. I wrote about what I found there for @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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The Island Where People Go to Cheat Death
In a pop-up city off the coast of Honduras, longevity startups are trying to fast-track anti-aging drugs. Is this the future of medical research?
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The first of my PhD work has been published in @daltontrans.rsc.org, work done in the Barnard group at @limsltu.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social on using boronic acids as receptors for sugars (i.e. glucose) while using iridium(III) as a signalling unit. #chemsky #organometallic
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Luminescent iridium(III) complexes bearing boronic acid groups: potential sensors for carbohydrates
A family of eight Ir(iii) complexes of the form [Ir(x)2(L)]+ (where X = 2-phenylpyridine, 1-phenylpyrazole, 2-phenylbenzothiazole or 1-phenylindazole and L = 2-(pyrazole-1-yl)pyridine substituted with...
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The biggest column I've ever done (column volume of ~1L) to separate three, very close spots. Took half a day but was fully clean! #chemsky #purification #chromatography
Very large silica gel column chromatography to separate compounds with very similar retention factors
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My StoryGraph tells me I am devouring these books, one per week. The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio reminds me a lot of Dune and The Expanse #booksky #scifi
Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark and Demon in White
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I just finished the Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) and was absolutely engrossed. The writing was very easy to follow, the ideas were stunning in scope and the characters very fun. Definitely going to try some of his other books #booksky #scifi
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Cat sitting 7 Persian cats this weekend 😼 #catsky
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Managed 16,000 steps today walking across the chemistry department 5 times to get ice for this 5 gram Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction #chemsky #chemistry #organicchemistry
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Rahad @rahadr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Finally finished the main Dune series by Frank Herbert. What a rollercoaster ride of a series. Looking forward to what the next screen adaption will achieve #booksky #Dune
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