Jesssssssssssssss
@jesstheligand.bsky.social
HTE at the University of Delaware. Ligand gremlin and xantphos evangelist. They/she. 🏳️🌈
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Analytical chemistry has become extremely automated in the last 25 years, and yet shit continues to break in new and befuddling ways that AI can’t possibly parse. The “datasets” for it to learn instrument repairs from exist in the minds of experts and are significantly vibes-based.
A fair question is how much of a day's work could be outsourced to a machine? As I've become proficient with AI tools, I find that much of what takes me time (but not deep cognitive effort) can be automated. PhDs are hired, at least in part, for their thinking skills. Not all jobs require them.
November 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Analytical chemistry has become extremely automated in the last 25 years, and yet shit continues to break in new and befuddling ways that AI can’t possibly parse. The “datasets” for it to learn instrument repairs from exist in the minds of experts and are significantly vibes-based.
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Being in an era that relishes negativity, we want to positively celebrate the myriad success of organic chemistry and organic chemists so we are launching #AmplifyOrganic. Share your stories with the hashtag. See link for suggested questions to answer
zurl.co/1FGeG
zurl.co/1FGeG
August 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Being in an era that relishes negativity, we want to positively celebrate the myriad success of organic chemistry and organic chemists so we are launching #AmplifyOrganic. Share your stories with the hashtag. See link for suggested questions to answer
zurl.co/1FGeG
zurl.co/1FGeG
Great speaker selection at this GRC
July 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Great speaker selection at this GRC
Summer of climate change fiction is going well 👍
July 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Summer of climate change fiction is going well 👍
Bird parade! Cross stitch dapted from art by @illufinch.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Bird parade! Cross stitch dapted from art by @illufinch.bsky.social
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#chemsky, have you used a Wisconsin Photoreactor? I designed them and will soon defend my PhD. I’d like to include photos of Wisconsin Photoreactors in use by other chemists in my defense. Please share (reply to this post or DM me) a photo of your photoreactor in action!
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Versatile Open-Source Photoreactor Architecture for Photocatalysis Across the Visible Spectrum
Adoption of commercial photoreactors as standards for photocatalysis research could be limited by high cost. We report the development of the Wisconsin Photoreactor Platform (WPP), an open-source phot...
doi.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#chemsky, have you used a Wisconsin Photoreactor? I designed them and will soon defend my PhD. I’d like to include photos of Wisconsin Photoreactors in use by other chemists in my defense. Please share (reply to this post or DM me) a photo of your photoreactor in action!
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
This is such a disaster
As someone who has greatly benefited from the NSF MRI program, I'm sad to see that the 2025 submission window was canceled. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program:
www.nsf.gov
July 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is such a disaster
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the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it
full stop
full stop
June 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it
full stop
full stop
How is it 6 yrs since I graduated grad school?
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
How is it 6 yrs since I graduated grad school?
I went and listened to Silent Spring because of this and it's such incredible prose. Book I wish I had read years ago for how much it would have changed how I thought about synthesis.
I feel like I'm always talking about how good American Experience documentaries are, but this one on Rachel Carson was quite incredible youtu.be/mFDh9c34XX4?...
June 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I went and listened to Silent Spring because of this and it's such incredible prose. Book I wish I had read years ago for how much it would have changed how I thought about synthesis.
A salad with pan seared shrimp is the perfect dinner for summer
June 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A salad with pan seared shrimp is the perfect dinner for summer
"the ice of Antarctica falling on the heads of the children who melted it"
May 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"the ice of Antarctica falling on the heads of the children who melted it"
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#Eurovision is tonight, and here's a hilarious fun fact about it: Israel has started a massive offensive against civilian populations in Gaza with the explicit aim of conquering the entire territory and ethnically cleansing its population, and Eurovision has aggressively refused to give a shit.
May 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#Eurovision is tonight, and here's a hilarious fun fact about it: Israel has started a massive offensive against civilian populations in Gaza with the explicit aim of conquering the entire territory and ethnically cleansing its population, and Eurovision has aggressively refused to give a shit.
I feel like I'm always talking about how good American Experience documentaries are, but this one on Rachel Carson was quite incredible youtu.be/mFDh9c34XX4?...
May 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I feel like I'm always talking about how good American Experience documentaries are, but this one on Rachel Carson was quite incredible youtu.be/mFDh9c34XX4?...
Hooting and hollering whenever Oregon place names show up in the Lathe of Heaven
May 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hooting and hollering whenever Oregon place names show up in the Lathe of Heaven
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Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants
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Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.
May 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.
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The wizard ponders his orb.
April 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The wizard ponders his orb.
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Here's a preview of some of the li'l tea friends I will have available in the upcoming Tea 4 T trans rights fundraiser tomorrow at 12pm PT!
Bookmark the shop and find more information here: tea4t.bigcartel.com
#art #pottery
Bookmark the shop and find more information here: tea4t.bigcartel.com
#art #pottery
April 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here's a preview of some of the li'l tea friends I will have available in the upcoming Tea 4 T trans rights fundraiser tomorrow at 12pm PT!
Bookmark the shop and find more information here: tea4t.bigcartel.com
#art #pottery
Bookmark the shop and find more information here: tea4t.bigcartel.com
#art #pottery
I need a baseball cap that just says "Oceans are Battlefields"
April 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I need a baseball cap that just says "Oceans are Battlefields"
After TSA has been staring at my bag for a few minutes
"Is that a recorder?"
"Yes!"
"You know I've never seen someone try to bring a good recorder through security?"
"Is that a recorder?"
"Yes!"
"You know I've never seen someone try to bring a good recorder through security?"
April 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
After TSA has been staring at my bag for a few minutes
"Is that a recorder?"
"Yes!"
"You know I've never seen someone try to bring a good recorder through security?"
"Is that a recorder?"
"Yes!"
"You know I've never seen someone try to bring a good recorder through security?"
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i am so SICK of random techie shitheads going "gosh all the anger around AI is so overblown, it HAS USES!" and completely ignoring the myriad of ways that LLMs are being used to make people's lives worse
i dont care if it helps you code or helps sort data real good, look outside for fuck sake
i dont care if it helps you code or helps sort data real good, look outside for fuck sake
April 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
i am so SICK of random techie shitheads going "gosh all the anger around AI is so overblown, it HAS USES!" and completely ignoring the myriad of ways that LLMs are being used to make people's lives worse
i dont care if it helps you code or helps sort data real good, look outside for fuck sake
i dont care if it helps you code or helps sort data real good, look outside for fuck sake
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reminds me of this A+ tweet, which is 100% true
April 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
reminds me of this A+ tweet, which is 100% true
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👇🎯💯
All of it, but especially this:
All of it, but especially this:
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
👇🎯💯
All of it, but especially this:
All of it, but especially this: