Dr. Joel Walker
@chemwalker.bsky.social
Process chemist, baking hobbyist, fantasy novel devourer, baseball lover
Anyone on #chemsky have thoughts or insights into fully remote jobs that still live in the process development chemistry realm? May potentially need to transition to a remote position next year and trying to plan ahead
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Anyone on #chemsky have thoughts or insights into fully remote jobs that still live in the process development chemistry realm? May potentially need to transition to a remote position next year and trying to plan ahead
@borderlands.2k.com Will Borderlands 4 eventually add support for being able to buy a copy on PC and be able to play the same saves/characters from an Xbox or other console?
September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
@borderlands.2k.com Will Borderlands 4 eventually add support for being able to buy a copy on PC and be able to play the same saves/characters from an Xbox or other console?
much like drugs it's unfortunately only a temporary fix
The only thing I find therapeutic about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is watching people shouting at him as they call out his lies to his face.
September 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
much like drugs it's unfortunately only a temporary fix
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If the troops were sent to march through MacArthur Park to film propaganda videos, I hope the new "they got Capone for his taxes" becomes "they got the fascists for not having film permits"
July 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If the troops were sent to march through MacArthur Park to film propaganda videos, I hope the new "they got Capone for his taxes" becomes "they got the fascists for not having film permits"
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Tens of thousands of Americans will have died (literally) from Medicaid cuts by the time Hersheys removes nontoxic synthetic dyes from their high-calorie, low-nutrition candies
July 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Tens of thousands of Americans will have died (literally) from Medicaid cuts by the time Hersheys removes nontoxic synthetic dyes from their high-calorie, low-nutrition candies
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"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries
June 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries
Anyone have insights on translating an organic chem PhD and 7+ years of process dev chem experience into a remote job field? Staring down the potential of moving to an area (for 4 yr) where the closest process dev joint will be pretty much out of commute range.
June 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Anyone have insights on translating an organic chem PhD and 7+ years of process dev chem experience into a remote job field? Staring down the potential of moving to an area (for 4 yr) where the closest process dev joint will be pretty much out of commute range.
SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THEY WERE MISLEADING WHEN THIS KERFUFFLE ORIGINALLY CAME OUT AND THEY SAID "DON'T WORRY GUYS WE'RE WORKING ON IT NOTHING TO SEE HERE, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN" ?? ? ?
Just for no reason comparing the topics in the Inclusivity section of the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication from 2024 to the current ACS Inclusivity Style Guide (since technically the Inclusivity section was removed to a separate source).
June 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THEY WERE MISLEADING WHEN THIS KERFUFFLE ORIGINALLY CAME OUT AND THEY SAID "DON'T WORRY GUYS WE'RE WORKING ON IT NOTHING TO SEE HERE, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN" ?? ? ?
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I have a PhD in chemistry and I do productive work with my hands all day. I use a pallet jack like once a week. I haul around dewars of liquid nitrogen and gas cylinders. I was emailing someone about a gantry on Monday.
Educated people often miss the fact that many people want to do productive work with their hands. It is a real problem that we don't have many desirable jobs that use those manual skills.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I have a PhD in chemistry and I do productive work with my hands all day. I use a pallet jack like once a week. I haul around dewars of liquid nitrogen and gas cylinders. I was emailing someone about a gantry on Monday.
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Yet another extremely stupid and destructive move appears to be underway. Those people who advised me to calm down, that everything was actually going to work out fine, know what they can go do with themselves.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
March 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Yet another extremely stupid and destructive move appears to be underway. Those people who advised me to calm down, that everything was actually going to work out fine, know what they can go do with themselves.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
They should have accepted this at least 10 years ago
Democratic leaders must accept you can’t appease a fascist authoritarian. When the political purges start, perhaps they can compromise by only being half-arrested in the middle of the night
March 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
They should have accepted this at least 10 years ago
Well you're certainly delivering on Goal 2...but not in a good way.
ACS is using the language from our core value of inclusion and belonging. We invite others to do the same. Learn more here: www.acs.org/about/strate...
March 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Well you're certainly delivering on Goal 2...but not in a good way.
Ditto.
Though I have most mugs through C. But my membership lapsed and I have no interest in re-upping
Though I have most mugs through C. But my membership lapsed and I have no interest in re-upping
I slightly regret removing my recent comment about @acs.org.
To reiterate, I remain glad to no longer be an ACS member, I will not rejoin for a very long time & unless their attitude to inclusivity changes, I will not attend or speak at ACS meetings either, and they never sent me mugs other than H!
To reiterate, I remain glad to no longer be an ACS member, I will not rejoin for a very long time & unless their attitude to inclusivity changes, I will not attend or speak at ACS meetings either, and they never sent me mugs other than H!
March 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ditto.
Though I have most mugs through C. But my membership lapsed and I have no interest in re-upping
Though I have most mugs through C. But my membership lapsed and I have no interest in re-upping
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Our HHS secretary and Health Czar, sitting in a fast-food restaurant and praising their new beef-fat French fries, while telling us that the measles vaccine actually kills people or makes them sick. As measles cases appear in state after state.
RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."
March 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Our HHS secretary and Health Czar, sitting in a fast-food restaurant and praising their new beef-fat French fries, while telling us that the measles vaccine actually kills people or makes them sick. As measles cases appear in state after state.
SURVEY SAYS: DELUSION!
‘There’s a huge opportunity with this administration, I think to ... unleash much more of our intellectual capacity in this country through regulatory reform’ said meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier, who served as science adviser during Donald Trump's first term.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/trumps-...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s former science adviser urges universities to seize moment for regulatory reform
White House is 'very keen' on rolling back administrative workload and that could serve researchers well, Kelvin Droegemeier claims
www.chemistryworld.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
SURVEY SAYS: DELUSION!
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If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.
February 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If you support any of this, you’re honestly just a terrible person. People’s lives are being upended and destroyed. For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die—yet some are celebrating.
Yet another reason to be glad I dropped my @acs.org membership
Rarely have I been less surprised than I am by the move of the American Chemical Society to delete its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect.
The organization that has never taken a stand on anything has continued that trend.
The organization that has never taken a stand on anything has continued that trend.
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Yet another reason to be glad I dropped my @acs.org membership
Important: left justify your text with a reaction arrow (clean, allows you to draw the arrow to correct length) or center align (chaotic)
December 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Important: left justify your text with a reaction arrow (clean, allows you to draw the arrow to correct length) or center align (chaotic)
What kind of excel sheets do other process chemists use? and where did you figure out what you wanted and how to set them up? @bagphos.bsky.social @drlcsquare.bsky.social thoughts?
November 21, 2024 at 8:48 PM
What kind of excel sheets do other process chemists use? and where did you figure out what you wanted and how to set them up? @bagphos.bsky.social @drlcsquare.bsky.social thoughts?
