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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 6h

This was a favourite in our house.

Children’s book called the dot. Anybody can make art, even if it’s just a dot.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate!

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Mark W.B. Wilson @markwbwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am _thrilled_ to make it official that we are looking to hire a new colleague in Experimental Physical Chemistry (broadly defined) here at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

University of Toronto: Experimental Physical Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Chemists winning the Chemistry Nobel prize - has the world gone mad?!?

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 07/10/2026

Today is #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 Did you know that octopuses have blue blood? This graphic looks at what makes it blue, as well as other blood colours seen in different organisms: wp.me/p4aPLT-Fc #ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on the chemistry of the colours of blood. Human blood is red due to haemoglobin, which is also red when deoxygenated - not blue! Spiders, crustaceans, and molluscs including octopuses and squid have blue blood due to haemocyanin, which contains copper instead of iron. When deoxygenated, haemocyanin is colourless. Some segmented worms, some leeches and some marines worms have green blood due to chlorocruorin, which is light green when deoxygenated. Marine worms including peanut worms, penis worms and brachiopods have purple blood due to haemerythrin, which is colourless when deoxygenated.

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Martin Stoermer @martinstoermer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

19 hours til metal-free Suzuki couplings wins the 2026 #Chemnobel 😜 #ChemSky #ChemChat

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently I was "neither in the numerator nor in the denominator" (for quorum) in a meeting today. I think that's my new motto.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

A fun bit of trivia about today's physics Nobel Prize: Francis Halzen won it for envisioning and leading the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, but apparently he's never actually been there! WFH FTW. (To be fair, it is rather... remote.)

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't understand how you can build a cool place like that and never go for a visit!

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A PN adamamtane for MOFs! Our 1st foray into MOFs. Conceived + executed by student Pinelopi Tsami. Larger, flexible, e-rich (10 lone pairs!), PNMR active vs adamamtane tetrabenzoic acid. Happy to ship you some! Details: doi.org/10.26434/che... @mofpapers.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what do you mean? there's just one season of Westworld

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

The stat I remember from Francis Halzen's talk was that you have, on average, one neutrino hit in your body in your lifetime. (Likely based on scaling down a neutrino detector & only counting interactions that would be detected.) When he gave this number, he quipped: "The second one kills you."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

I attended a seminar by freshly minted Nobel Laureate Francis Halzen many years ago and something he said stuck with me, but it takes some explaining, so this will be a (short) thread. The talk was about neutrino telescopes, and he started by explaining how rarely neutrinos interact with anything.

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you win the Nobel Prize, you should earn a superhero name. Professor Neutrino is right there for Halzen. Plus he already has his Fortress of Solitude.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Dirk Trauner @dirktrauner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am thrilled about the Nobel Prize for Optogenetics! And I’m happy that the Nobel committee correctly portrayed the role Chemistry played in the development of this field: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026...

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, we’ve a case upstairs from a shopping run. CaCl2 added.

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ah, thanks. TIL! Pretty sure Canada similar to US on that, but will check.

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’d always assumed that Ca was a must for tomatoes to prevent blossom end rot. If European tomatoes have less Ca, what’s the workaround?

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me too! I actually think that is one of the more valuable skills I have.

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Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A heron takes heed

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They cannot "run" a program, because they don't have legs

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𝔏𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔏𝔬𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢 @fleurkenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I wish all passive aggressive people a 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Huh. Not much difference between Republican governance and a literal plague.

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 30/09/2026

One week today, let's see if I (kinda) go 2 for 2 on #chemnobel...

A screenshot of my Bluesky post about the ChemNobel last year, that reads:

#NobelPrize week starts tomorrow & the #chemnobel is Wednesday… used to be so much Nobel chat on Tw*tter, but that is not replicated here, alas. Anyway, for the record, I think MOFs will win at some point (maybe this year maybe not). Balasubramanian & Klenerman a good bet for next-gen sequencing too

Post was published 18:37 on Oct 5th

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yikes on 25 years. Y’all better have named your first born children after them!

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

I posted these stories on the bad place, thought i'd post them here for your entertainment (no gifs here unfortunately, use your imagination). Story 2: "My Worst Faculty Job Interview Ever"

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 25/09/2026

Thinking of visiting the US? Consider it carefully, as they’re going to seize your phone and look at everything you have on it.

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Rob Scott @saskchemprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Walking around Alberta Legislature today. Depending on how you view it, Alberta is either proudly part of Canada or it isn’t…

Alberta Legislature proudly flying Canada flag from river side.

Just the Alberta flag visible on downtown side of Legislature

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The details in this piece only add to the evilness that the headline introduces

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Be the change you want to see in the world

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This makes me irrationally mad

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I won the Nobel I'd demand from my Uni a Universal Parking Pass. I can park ANYWHERE. On the grass. On the sidewalk. In the Dean's office. Anywhere.

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