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Steve Fletcher

@stephenfletcher.bsky.social
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Prof of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. loves Ruben sandwiches and complex chemical systems. Canadian, father, synthesis, chirality

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
[sees a guy eating a sandwich] nice to meet a fellow bread head! yeah, i can’t go a day without a slice or two haha. got a pretty sick toaster setup at home, thinking about upgrading to four slots – heard good things about breville’s 2026 lineup. entry-level marg is so tasty now,
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am also almost sure that happened
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Perhaps most importantly, we have achieved a long-sought scientific “holy grail”: the direct conversion of mechanical shaking energy into chemical form
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
mindflakes
@mindflakes.bsky.social
Me: A sandwich is a book made of bread that tells the story of the ingredients

Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*
5:14 PM • Feb 12, 2025
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🇨🇦 Crafty_Girl 🇨🇦🌻🇨🇦 @craftygirl58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just in case you were wondering..this is what a true Hero looks like...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Researchers Identify Gene Responsible For Visualizing Murder After Touching Missing Person’s Sweater theonion.com/researchers-identify-g…
Researchers Identify Gene Responsible For Visualizing Murder After Touching Missing Person’s Sweater
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The ice cream is fantastic however
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
that’s the stuff!
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You’ve now got 8 months to train!
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Zn, if you don't mind a bit of fire
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Structures with bullet points is probably the ideal method of communication
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
@dubbin@friend.camp on mastodon
@robdubbin
MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g -
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail
11:50 AM • 2019-07-28
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@stephengdavey.bsky.social
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The government has until about 2030 to work out a sustainable way to fund higher education
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I've finally found it. The most painful science montage in movie history. Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009) Yes, Gen X, that is singer Debbie Gibson as oceanographer 'Emma MacNeil'. But the important thing is: she's keeping an accurate lab notebook.
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Linked in is >50 Toxic Positivity
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/08/2026
Is YOUR Child Secretly Texting About the Second Run of Columbo Episodes (89-03)? Look For These Acronyms: LOL: Looking Old, Lieutenant OMG: Oh…McGoohan’s Geriatric FFS: Featuring Fisher Stevens NSA: No!! Shatner Again?!
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sandra Newman
@sannewman.bsky.social
Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew.
3:40 PM • Jul 5, 2026
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Walliams
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Watching an old (stupid) movie- its weird how much John Larroquette and David Williams look alike - if it wasn’t for the 25 years I would’ve thought they were the same person
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
inpreparation.substack.com
White House Intervenes To Reinstate Researcher Banned For Eating Big Mac At Lab Bench
WASHINGTON—A University of South Carolina postdoctoral researcher who had been banned from his laboratory for eating a Big Mac at his bench was reinstated Tuesday after President Donald Trump…
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
pretty gutsy - right during the disco - there were people everywhere
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Another Oxford cargo bike theft!! Mine is customised by having a lot of stickers and nail varnish my kids did on it. Stolen on Meadow Lane at 18.30 today locked to a Sheffield stand. Please LMK if anyone sees it for sale. Probably in Cambridge. ;)
Cargo bike. tern GSD. Green one.
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
why does it need to be "frequent"?
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I wish Calgary would embrace other themed costume weeks like it does Stampede. There should be a week where we dress up like magicians. Another where everyone is now a zebra. It would be good.
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Masamuni?
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not available in the uk….
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Holy shit - I forgot!
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 22/06/2026
I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
yep, I also thought about sending something there....
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Got any other slides might like?
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
That’s interesting- where’s the slide from?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/05/2026
“Putting a perfect GPA in reach of so many students perversely deters them from taking classes that could threaten it,” Harvard professor Joshua Greene argues. “We should liberate our students from the tyranny of the impeccable transcript”:
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Harvard Needs a Cap on A Grades
“Putting a perfect GPA in reach of so many students perversely deters them from taking classes that could threaten it,” Joshua Greene writes. “We should liberate our students from the tyranny of the impeccable transcript”:
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/04/2026
For more than a decade, a seventh-grade math teacher used technology in his classroom. This year, he took the Chromebooks away—and quickly learned how the computers were holding his students back, Jenny Anderson writes.
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What Happened After a Teacher Ditched Screens
Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them.
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
AI detection systems - its AI, why would anyone concerned about AI trust these?
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I see Jesper...
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Organic Chemistry Portal @organicportal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
www.organic-chemistry.org/abstracts/li... A Rh-catalyzed asymmetric reductive Heck reaction of aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl boronic acids and phenyl pyridine-1(2H)-carboxylate provides 3-substituted tetrahydropyridines
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Is that Jack?
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right? The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬 But how does this even work? Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).
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OxfordChemistry @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Congratulations to the prize-winners from our recent Early Career Researcher Symposium and Poster Event in Organic Chemistry & Chemical Biology, sponsored by Pharmaron. Pictured are poster prize winners Stanley Oppong, Oskar Ford, Sara Borghi, Nandini Guzman and Maddison Lovell.
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The bottom half of a sublimation device?
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josieproc.bsky.social @josieproc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Banbury gets this, and we get.. more lab space. CITY CENTRE PLAYGROUND WHEN, @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social ?! Maybe we should #bemoreBanbury Bit of imagination?!
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. What does the TLC look like?
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
That’s a good question-i‘ll get back to uou
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My undergr supervisor was writing an organic chemistry text in Esperanto before he died
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Mark Lautens @marklautens.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A colleague asked me if anyone can identify this glassblowing tool. From the collection of a distinguished long gone colleague. Happy to hear thoughts.
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
no, I went to a liberal arts college
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
organic chemistry IV art history the new German film society and freedom contemporary myths
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Steve Fletcher @stephenfletcher.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It’s Ollie!
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