R. David Britt
@rdavbritt.bsky.social
Chemistry Professor, UC Davis
that's gonna take a lot of hamsters
Cruella de Ville is a piker compared to this.
When I was little I checked out a "hamster care" book from the library on repeat, and the first 2/3rds of it was normal pet stuff, but the last chunk was how to raise hamsters for the fur market (it was probably from the 70/80s)
December 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
that's gonna take a lot of hamsters
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🎁 It’s Day 24 of ChemSci Advent! Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “A Tetraazanaphthalene Radical-Bridged Dysprosium Single-Molecule Magnet with a Large Coercive Field” by Selvan Demir et al.!
Read it for free here: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5SC05358G
Read it for free here: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5SC05358G
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🎁 It’s Day 24 of ChemSci Advent! Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “A Tetraazanaphthalene Radical-Bridged Dysprosium Single-Molecule Magnet with a Large Coercive Field” by Selvan Demir et al.!
Read it for free here: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5SC05358G
Read it for free here: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5SC05358G
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Ah! Yeah had we not gotten a dog we had considered getting an Argentine tegu. A few years back we got this little guy!
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ah! Yeah had we not gotten a dog we had considered getting an Argentine tegu. A few years back we got this little guy!
Hi Grace, had a savannah years ago. she was indeed very mean! so yes. But I can't really have a big lizard now cause of the big furry beast that roams the house!
While people insist that bigger is better, a nice 12” monitor is best for first timers. Maybe the ackie variety and avoid the savannahs.
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Hi Grace, had a savannah years ago. she was indeed very mean! so yes. But I can't really have a big lizard now cause of the big furry beast that roams the house!
I keep asking for a 35in monitor for christmas. maybe this is the year?
December 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I keep asking for a 35in monitor for christmas. maybe this is the year?
Breanne of Tarth prepared for rainy Berkeley weather...
December 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Breanne of Tarth prepared for rainy Berkeley weather...
is it taught in the Walter White Center?
Just stumbled across this and found the title of the RSC advertised course slightly ambiguous...
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
is it taught in the Walter White Center?
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My quote of the day
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.
Kenneth G. Wilson
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.
Kenneth G. Wilson
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My quote of the day
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.
Kenneth G. Wilson
Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.
Kenneth G. Wilson
HEY! stop that
Update: @canklin.bsky.social has corrected the situation.
December 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
HEY! stop that
for some it is drinking beverages with little umbrellas Sven, so you are missed
Not too sad I missed the "Hawaiian-themed activities" tbh
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
for some it is drinking beverages with little umbrellas Sven, so you are missed
Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues. just saying...
Haven’t seen a zillion people make this point yet but Reiner was just scandalously snubbed by the Oscars. Almost every one of the classics he made was more enduring than whatever beat it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues. just saying...
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Meet MIT's newest Dean of Engineering: Paula Hammond. explorers.com/paula-hammon... Photographed for @nationalacademies.org.
December 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Meet MIT's newest Dean of Engineering: Paula Hammond. explorers.com/paula-hammon... Photographed for @nationalacademies.org.
Any EPR/DNP folks at Pacifichem. This X-band phased array kinda has us all beat. easy to spot in Honolulu now
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Any EPR/DNP folks at Pacifichem. This X-band phased array kinda has us all beat. easy to spot in Honolulu now
prepping to submit a new Nature/Science manuscript...
December 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
prepping to submit a new Nature/Science manuscript...
very moving Arizona memorial visit before Pacifichem
December 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
very moving Arizona memorial visit before Pacifichem
lucky you!
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
lucky you!
Congrats to Carlito Lebrilla of UC Davis Chemistry for election to the National Academy of Inventors this year. The whole impressive list: academyofinventors.org/wp-content/u...
academyofinventors.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Congrats to Carlito Lebrilla of UC Davis Chemistry for election to the National Academy of Inventors this year. The whole impressive list: academyofinventors.org/wp-content/u...
do you want an alligator snapping turtle for Christmas?
December 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
do you want an alligator snapping turtle for Christmas?
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Officially inducted as Professor of the University of St Andrews today. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social This would not have been possible without the contributions co-workers and collaborators past and present. Many thanks to you all.
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Officially inducted as Professor of the University of St Andrews today. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social This would not have been possible without the contributions co-workers and collaborators past and present. Many thanks to you all.
a good "Fermi question" for a physics graduate student exam would be "how many people on earth are watching Season 2 of Heroes today?"
It's so nice seeing season 2 Heroes introduce a loving girlfriend to Peter Petrelli
I hope he doesn't accidentally leave her in a future world where almost everyone has died from a highly contagious virus & then just forget she existed cause the plans for the show changed cause of a writer's strike
I hope he doesn't accidentally leave her in a future world where almost everyone has died from a highly contagious virus & then just forget she existed cause the plans for the show changed cause of a writer's strike
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
a good "Fermi question" for a physics graduate student exam would be "how many people on earth are watching Season 2 of Heroes today?"
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I’m excited to share my postdoctoral work on the mechanism of ThiC! In this collaborative effort, we combined advanced EPR with organic synthesis and DFT to characterize three intermediates of the complex 20-step radical cascade.
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
Insights into the initial steps of the thiamin pyrimidine synthase (ThiC)-catalyzed reaction through EPR spectroscopic characterization of radical intermediates
Thiamin pyrimidine synthase (ThiC) is a noncanonical radical SAM enzyme that catalyzes the complex radical rearrangement of aminoimidazole ribonucleotide (AIR) to hydroxymethylpyrimidine phosphate (HM...
doi.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I’m excited to share my postdoctoral work on the mechanism of ThiC! In this collaborative effort, we combined advanced EPR with organic synthesis and DFT to characterize three intermediates of the complex 20-step radical cascade.
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
thinking about my grad school computing days....makes me wonder why so many folks at AntiVax
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
thinking about my grad school computing days....makes me wonder why so many folks at AntiVax
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Prof. Laura Dassama (Stanford Chem) is developing a small-molecule therapy for sickle cell disease that removes BCL11A, restoring fetal hemoglobin without gene editing. Her goal is a simpler, more affordable sickle cell therapy. brnw.ch/21wXP8k
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Prof. Laura Dassama (Stanford Chem) is developing a small-molecule therapy for sickle cell disease that removes BCL11A, restoring fetal hemoglobin without gene editing. Her goal is a simpler, more affordable sickle cell therapy. brnw.ch/21wXP8k
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Senior Scientist to join the NMR Centre and the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria, extensive hands-on experience with NMR, EPR, DNP spectrometers, will oversee the operations of the advanced NMR core facility www.nature.com/naturecareer... #NMRjobs #NMRchat 🧲
Senior Scientist - Wien, Österreich job with University of Vienna | 12849256
At the University of Vienna almost 11,000 personalities work together towards answering the big questions of the future. Around 7,700 of them do re...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Senior Scientist to join the NMR Centre and the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria, extensive hands-on experience with NMR, EPR, DNP spectrometers, will oversee the operations of the advanced NMR core facility www.nature.com/naturecareer... #NMRjobs #NMRchat 🧲
It so tough these days to get undergrads to milk the rattlers...at least in the UC!
I really wanted to do research as a 16-year-old freshman and the only professor who would let me join his lab did NMR of peptides from rattlesnake venom.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It so tough these days to get undergrads to milk the rattlers...at least in the UC!