Andrew Boa
@anboa4.bsky.social
Ex-academic, Chemist 🧪⚗️, Unemployed.
Then like my dreams,
they fade and die.
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Posts about everything and nothing.
Then like my dreams,
they fade and die.
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 + 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
Posts about everything and nothing.
Can't rationalise that with what know a slice of bloomer should look like. Either way the plane or axis doesn't compute.
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Can't rationalise that with what know a slice of bloomer should look like. Either way the plane or axis doesn't compute.
Also ,was interested to find this handwritten label on the back of the actual speaker, a throwback to the niche producer origins of Joe Akroyd's company, Royd Audio (1990-2004).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Akr...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Akr...
September 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Also ,was interested to find this handwritten label on the back of the actual speaker, a throwback to the niche producer origins of Joe Akroyd's company, Royd Audio (1990-2004).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Akr...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Akr...
@drmperdix.bsky.social Refurbishing the old Royd A7 MkII speakers (foam speaker cone surrounds had perished) bought during Wentworth College days at the University of York ~37 years ago.
Bought from soundorg.co.uk on Gillygate, and it's still there (but further down the road)!
Bought from soundorg.co.uk on Gillygate, and it's still there (but further down the road)!
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@drmperdix.bsky.social Refurbishing the old Royd A7 MkII speakers (foam speaker cone surrounds had perished) bought during Wentworth College days at the University of York ~37 years ago.
Bought from soundorg.co.uk on Gillygate, and it's still there (but further down the road)!
Bought from soundorg.co.uk on Gillygate, and it's still there (but further down the road)!
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
August 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Yesterday's final view of the chemistry building, and my (sixth) office window is in there too, as an employee of the place I've given blood, sweat and tears for the last 29 years and 10 months. A bittersweet moment.
July 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Yesterday's final view of the chemistry building, and my (sixth) office window is in there too, as an employee of the place I've given blood, sweat and tears for the last 29 years and 10 months. A bittersweet moment.
Longest serving member(s) of the lab prepare to leave after 29 yrs and 10 mo. Like Doctor Who, it's not the original incarnation, whose parent lived in the Johnson Lab in Leeds Chemistry West Block, but they've been with me through thick and lots of thin since 1995.
Here's to a happy retirement!
Here's to a happy retirement!
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Longest serving member(s) of the lab prepare to leave after 29 yrs and 10 mo. Like Doctor Who, it's not the original incarnation, whose parent lived in the Johnson Lab in Leeds Chemistry West Block, but they've been with me through thick and lots of thin since 1995.
Here's to a happy retirement!
Here's to a happy retirement!
This is the end (IYKYK)
April 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is the end (IYKYK)
The very last (😢) Hull MChem cohort on a sunny projects day in East Yorkshire.
And would you believe it but my project supervisees walked off with 1st and 2nd prizes for their talks!
And would you believe it but my project supervisees walked off with 1st and 2nd prizes for their talks!
April 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The very last (😢) Hull MChem cohort on a sunny projects day in East Yorkshire.
And would you believe it but my project supervisees walked off with 1st and 2nd prizes for their talks!
And would you believe it but my project supervisees walked off with 1st and 2nd prizes for their talks!
does the sleeve count as a sign of good luck?
April 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
does the sleeve count as a sign of good luck?
Heath Robinson, hold my beer....
March 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Heath Robinson, hold my beer....
I keep the atoms and bonds for my 'Cochrane's' molecular model kit in a tin just like that. My sewing stuff, what little I do have, is of course in a Calissons d'Aix box instead.
March 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I keep the atoms and bonds for my 'Cochrane's' molecular model kit in a tin just like that. My sewing stuff, what little I do have, is of course in a Calissons d'Aix box instead.
Clearing out my office and came across this much reused folder. You can just make out a scribbled date, 29 Jan 87, for a tutorial with Bruce Gilbert. So it's at least 38 yrs old. Channeling my inner womble, I think I'll keep it a little longer. @professor-dave.bsky.social @unsworthchem.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Clearing out my office and came across this much reused folder. You can just make out a scribbled date, 29 Jan 87, for a tutorial with Bruce Gilbert. So it's at least 38 yrs old. Channeling my inner womble, I think I'll keep it a little longer. @professor-dave.bsky.social @unsworthchem.bsky.social
And that's it.
End of an era.
End of an era.
February 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And that's it.
End of an era.
End of an era.
Very last day of the undergraduate organic chemistry labs.
It's the Claisen today, part of the bifunctional chem lab series.
Goodbye dear ester, I'll miss your sweet smell. #ChemSky
It's the Claisen today, part of the bifunctional chem lab series.
Goodbye dear ester, I'll miss your sweet smell. #ChemSky
February 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Very last day of the undergraduate organic chemistry labs.
It's the Claisen today, part of the bifunctional chem lab series.
Goodbye dear ester, I'll miss your sweet smell. #ChemSky
It's the Claisen today, part of the bifunctional chem lab series.
Goodbye dear ester, I'll miss your sweet smell. #ChemSky
One for the spectroscopists - Faraday's egg.
January 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
One for the spectroscopists - Faraday's egg.
Poster showing Faraday's original benzene sample (200 years old this year).
January 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Poster showing Faraday's original benzene sample (200 years old this year).
A copy of Robert Hooke's Micrographia.
(The lighting and display cabinets were not best for photos)
(The lighting and display cabinets were not best for photos)
January 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A copy of Robert Hooke's Micrographia.
(The lighting and display cabinets were not best for photos)
(The lighting and display cabinets were not best for photos)