Rachel W. Martin
@rwmartin.bsky.social
Biophysical chemist, NMR spectroscopist, vision researcher, plant enthusiast, enzyme hunter.
I stage tiny, elaborately choreographed musicals starring nuclear spins.
Lab website: probemonkey.com
I stage tiny, elaborately choreographed musicals starring nuclear spins.
Lab website: probemonkey.com
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Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
ICP has prior art on this, and they are funnier.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
ICP has prior art on this, and they are funnier.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
@ethankocak.com last night I dreamed that you and your wife were running a bed and breakfast where the guests sleep in the basement with the newts and I was trying to convince my husband that we should go. (But there are also GECKOS!)
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@ethankocak.com last night I dreamed that you and your wife were running a bed and breakfast where the guests sleep in the basement with the newts and I was trying to convince my husband that we should go. (But there are also GECKOS!)
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.
This is good advice.
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is good advice.
#chemchat
@chemjobber.bsky.social says this is what we're doing now.
I forget to use the hashtags, so my lab content gets mixed in with art and shitposting.
@chemjobber.bsky.social says this is what we're doing now.
I forget to use the hashtags, so my lab content gets mixed in with art and shitposting.
Fun with 3D printing. This is part of a benchtop NMR coil tester.
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
#chemchat
@chemjobber.bsky.social says this is what we're doing now.
I forget to use the hashtags, so my lab content gets mixed in with art and shitposting.
@chemjobber.bsky.social says this is what we're doing now.
I forget to use the hashtags, so my lab content gets mixed in with art and shitposting.
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not now, carnivorous death ball
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My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.
Fun with 3D printing. This is part of a benchtop NMR coil tester.
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Fun with 3D printing. This is part of a benchtop NMR coil tester.
Hey look, new toads!
Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hey look, new toads!
Whoa! To this Californian, this friend looks shockingly out of place- I didn't know there were any in Britain. New plant-focused travel quest unlocked.
Nothing to see here, just one of half a million Giant Redwoods in Britain
Of course it’s still a long trek to visit them in the wild, even in the Kingdom of Kent. This one is 20 yards off Tonbridge High Street 🥵🌲
Of course it’s still a long trek to visit them in the wild, even in the Kingdom of Kent. This one is 20 yards off Tonbridge High Street 🥵🌲
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Whoa! To this Californian, this friend looks shockingly out of place- I didn't know there were any in Britain. New plant-focused travel quest unlocked.
In case any billionaires are interested, I could be convinced not to run for mayor for substantially less than $10 million.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
In case any billionaires are interested, I could be convinced not to run for mayor for substantially less than $10 million.
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Absolutely delighted to see that we’ve already raised over $33K to fight hunger in America (and MAGA’s cruelty) via the Friends of Alf team on Feeding America - please donate today!
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Absolutely delighted to see that we’ve already raised over $33K to fight hunger in America (and MAGA’s cruelty) via the Friends of Alf team on Feeding America - please donate today!
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
I love these. I see them pretty often when visiting the Central Coast of CA.
Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...
November 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I love these. I see them pretty often when visiting the Central Coast of CA.
BlueSky-ass post.
I recommend not wearing the pants.
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
BlueSky-ass post.
My friend dressed up as the FLIM Reaper and it is amazing.
October 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
My friend dressed up as the FLIM Reaper and it is amazing.
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Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.
Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.
Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.
Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again.
Efforts to restore the American chestnut comprise "one of the most epic conservation stories ever told.”
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October 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.
Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.
Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.
It's ok wolf spider, take a deep breath and try to relax.
‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
Conservationists hail ‘remarkable’ rediscovery after 40 years, at nature reserve only accessible by boat
A tiny spider thought to have vanished for ever from the UK has been rediscovered on a remote area of a nature reserve accessible only by boat.
The Aulonia albimana, a member of the wolf spider family with orange legs, was found on the Isle of Wight in a spot grazed by a flock of Hebridean sheep. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
It's ok wolf spider, take a deep breath and try to relax.
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I am devastated to learn that Uncle Roger isn’t my real uncle.
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I am devastated to learn that Uncle Roger isn’t my real uncle.
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This is a Pixar movie. The little moon (Sabrina Carpenter) comes in to work-shadow the veteran actual moon (Meryl Streep). Streep is grumpy about it for the film’s first thirty mins. But by the end they’re inseparable and when 2083 comes we cry. While also learning about the need to let someone go.
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is a Pixar movie. The little moon (Sabrina Carpenter) comes in to work-shadow the veteran actual moon (Meryl Streep). Streep is grumpy about it for the film’s first thirty mins. But by the end they’re inseparable and when 2083 comes we cry. While also learning about the need to let someone go.
Me: This paper is not about fish cataracts. We are studying fish eye lens proteins because they are a good model system for solubility under extreme conditions, blah blah blah.
Reviewer 2: What about fish cataracts, though?
(I'm secretly glad I got to add a paragraph about fish cataracts.)
Reviewer 2: What about fish cataracts, though?
(I'm secretly glad I got to add a paragraph about fish cataracts.)
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Me: This paper is not about fish cataracts. We are studying fish eye lens proteins because they are a good model system for solubility under extreme conditions, blah blah blah.
Reviewer 2: What about fish cataracts, though?
(I'm secretly glad I got to add a paragraph about fish cataracts.)
Reviewer 2: What about fish cataracts, though?
(I'm secretly glad I got to add a paragraph about fish cataracts.)
I have just learned I am doing it wrong, I call my mom's cousins cousins, not aunt/uncle. But seriously, no one knows what that stuff means except the one auntie whose special interest is genealogy.
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I have just learned I am doing it wrong, I call my mom's cousins cousins, not aunt/uncle. But seriously, no one knows what that stuff means except the one auntie whose special interest is genealogy.
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It's fixed! Isopod is now out! Please go buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...
October 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's fixed! Isopod is now out! Please go buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...