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Dave Palmer
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Organic chemist, enzymologist, professor, cat dad. PEI ➡️ Queen's U ➡️ UIUC ➡️ USask. 🇨🇦✌️🙂 (he/him)
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Shirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.
February 4, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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I'm on the edge of my seat. You don't realize how much you miss the Olympics until they're back and you're huffing pure uncut curling on a Wednesday afternoon before the game have even started officially.
curling
February 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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🔔Collabator Alert🔔

I’m putting together a project on UTIs and the urogenital microbiome and am looking for a collaborator with solid metagenomic sequencing/analysis experience. If you’d be interested in joining the work, I’d love to talk

#MicroSky #UTISky
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Margot Robbie as the elevator from The Shining
metacritic.com metacritic @metacritic.com · 19h
February Movie Preview: www.metacritic.com/pictures/feb...
Feb 13 - Wuthering Heights
February 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
davepalmerusask.bsky.social
Oh, that show where two teenagers managed to come out of the closet over 5 seasons without ever using the word gay?
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d
Okay, so looking at the actual report this right-wing group put out... and... this is not at all what the story is "centered on."
Netflix original shows with an LGBTQ+ character in the main cast while 9.3% of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ+) is further evidence that based on the Oversight Project’s considerable investigative experience demonstrates the potential for Netflix’s content to normalize progressive values. B. Specific Examples and Techniques Stranger Things (2016-2025): This series is centered on a character's journey to coming out as gay.
February 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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🎶 Crawfish walking in the hot sun
laurelgale.bsky.social Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 1d
Ring-billed gull vs. crawfish.

(Spoiler: The gull won.)

laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/gul...

#birds #wildlife #nature
A photo of a gull and a crawfish standing on pavement, facing each other.
February 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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"but doctor, i am pagliacci!"

"You’re right, I made a mistake. Sorry about that — I'll be sure to be more careful in my responses next time. Let me know if you want me to find any clowns nearby!"
February 3, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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compoundchem.com
Sticking with yesterday’s fruity theme, February is also #NationalCherryMonth 🍒

Here’s a look at how the chemistry of sweet and sour cherries differs: www.compoundchem.com/2016/07/21/c...

#ChemSky 🧪
This infographic titled "The chemistry of sweet and sour cherries" breaks down cherry composition. It explains that anthocyanins like cyanidin-3-o-rutinoside provide color, with sour cherries having higher concentrations. It highlights malic acid as the source of tartness, noting sour cherries have a lower pH (3.1–3.6) than sweet ones (3.7–4.5). Amygdalin in seeds releases hydrogen cyanide during digestion, noting higher cyanide levels in red vs. black cherries.
February 3, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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I've seen some crazy-amazing shit in Maui but this may be the amazingest! Apparently, it's a Miniature Melo. A marine bubble snail that seems impossibly cool. And it was tiny. TINY!

#tidepool #marinelife #nature #amazeballs #love #snails #smallwonders #ocean #alien #colorful #goodnight #nokings
February 3, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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The movie Groundhog Day was made 33 years ago. I think it’s time for a remake. It should be a shot-for-shot remake, with exactly the same script, and all the same actors.
a man in a suit and tie is talking into a microphone while a crowd looks on .
Alt: Bill Murray in Groundhog Day saying “Again.”
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February 3, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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compoundchem.com
February is #NationalGrapefruitMonth – did you know that grapefruit and grapefruit juice can affect some medications? This graphic explains why: www.compoundchem.com/2014/03/07/w...

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of grapefruit. Grapefruit and grapefruit juice interact with a large number of drugs, usually resulting in adverse effects. These interactions are caused by a class of compounds called furanocoumarins, in particular the compounds bergamottin and dihydroxybergamottin. Furanocoumarins inhibit some forms of an enzyme, CYP3A4, responsible for breaking down drugs in the body. As the prescribed doses of drugs take into account how quickly the drug is broken down in the body, this can cause higher concentrations of the drug in the bloodstream, which in turn can result in unpleasant side effects. The colour of pink and red grapefruits is caused by the compound lycopene.
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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No-hug bunny
saskajanet.bsky.social Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d
trundle, trundle, trundle 😍
🌿
A close-up of a porcupine walking right to left across a snowy field.
February 1, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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The Rorschach approach
February 1, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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Fuck yeah Flukeman episode
A night shot with the chiron “Newark County Sewage Processing Plant” superimposed.
February 1, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Tell me five classes you took in college.

History of Popular Music- taught by a chauvinist 🐷
Archaeology- sigh, also 🐷
History of Chemistry- from a theoretician
Theoretical Organic Chemistry- from the SCARIEST prof
Introductory Spanish- from a grad student with a thick Liverpool accent 😅
chemjobber.bsky.social Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 4d
Tell me five classes you took in college.

Molecular Biology of HIV
History of the Civil War
Organic Chemistry (2.5X, lol)
Science Writing
Physical Chemistry (woof)
saavikford.bsky.social Saavik ‘Can I hibernate now?’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social · 4d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.

Physics 2 (whoa, FIELDS?!?)
Astronomy 2 (whoa, order of magnitude thinking/proportional reasoning?!?)
Origins of Life
History of WWII
Relativity & Cosmology
January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
#Caturday is for getting comfortable - whatever that means to you 😸😺
a silky grey cat with big green eyes looking up from his spot lounging on an oval wood table. This is Betelgeuse. A large silky grey cat is lying on a dark wood dining room chair with forearms dangling. Behind him is a bookcase. This is Atlas.
January 31, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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galaxykate.bsky.social
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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dansheehan.memyon.org
HISTORICIMAGES Multi-talented actress/comedienne Catherine O'Hara lends her speaking and singing voice to the animated character of Sally, a restless ragdoll who helps Jack Skellington in his misguided plan to "improve Christmas in Touchstone Pictures' stop-motion animated musical fantasy. Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas The film is directed by Henry Selick and based on a story and characters by Tim Burton. The adaptation is by Michael McDowell, and the screenplay is by Caroline Thompson. The film's producers are Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi.
January 30, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
jonchristian.net updog sinclair @jonchristian.net · 5d
not the Car Onion
Reddit post of "lost onion growing under my car seat"
January 30, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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compoundchem.com
Today is #NationalCornChipDay! The secret to a smooth nacho cheese sauce to accompany them is a compound with an appropriate chemical formula – one of four kitchen chemistry tricks highlighted in this edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...
Infographic detailing the chemistry behind four kitchen chemistry hacks. The first is slowing fruit browning. Fruits brown due to the oxidation and polymerization of phenols. Adding acids, such as lemon juice, wrapping the fruit in cling film or otherwise blocking oxygen slows browning by reducing the activity of the polyphenol oxidase enzyme.
January 29, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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My time to shine: newts have sex by the male laying down spermatophores and then waving his tail and head butting the female until she sits on one and takes it into her cloaca.
vaginamuseum.bsky.social Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 6d
On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?
Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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January 27, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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compoundchem.com
Today is #InternationalLegoDay! Here's a look at how the chemical make-up of the bricks has changed over the years, and some of the changes being made to make the plastic bricks more sustainable: www.compoundchem.com/2018/04/09/l...

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on what Lego bricks are made from. Present-day Lego is made from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). Dyes are added for colour. Polycarbonate polymers are used for transparent Lego parts. For leaves, bushes and trees Lego now uses polyethene derived from sugar cane.
January 28, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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If you could only choose one article of clothing...
whetmoser.com whet moser @whetmoser.com · 8d
[squints]
clothing label that reads "soffe's choice, medium pre-shrunk cotton"
January 27, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Today we celebrate the annual extension of abstract submission for the Canadian Society of Chemistry conference (this year in Toronto). Extended to Feb 10, 2026. Come to Canada! See our science! Buy me a drink!

Abstract submission:

www.xcdsystem.com/cic/abstract...
x2026 - Abstract Submissions
www.xcdsystem.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:22 PM