Tom Stevenson
@steventm98.bsky.social
An Empanada is an Aussie meat pie or is an Aussie meat pie and Empanada?
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
An Empanada is an Aussie meat pie or is an Aussie meat pie and Empanada?
A childhood favorite Scoville boosted.
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A childhood favorite Scoville boosted.
Wo Herkules steht.
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Wo Herkules steht.
Disfrute su comida! La comida española es la mejor.
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Disfrute su comida! La comida española es la mejor.
The sheer time saved and extra SAR space immediately available is still mind bogging to 1985 me.
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The sheer time saved and extra SAR space immediately available is still mind bogging to 1985 me.
A group of visiting students asked me that on Tuesday. I mentioned many of these, but the availability of so many starting materials these days is game changing. I described by shelf full of catalogs which was 0.1% of what you can find on Scifinder or Reaxys today.
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A group of visiting students asked me that on Tuesday. I mentioned many of these, but the availability of so many starting materials these days is game changing. I described by shelf full of catalogs which was 0.1% of what you can find on Scifinder or Reaxys today.
After 4 years and 5 months in the grinding American research system it was jarring to think that you could learn enough Organic chemistry to work on a professional level without spending 70-80 hours a week in the lab with almost no vacation.
August 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
After 4 years and 5 months in the grinding American research system it was jarring to think that you could learn enough Organic chemistry to work on a professional level without spending 70-80 hours a week in the lab with almost no vacation.
I was in Europe for a postdoc a few years before you and I was genuinely that shocked that the grad students took vacation time.
August 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I was in Europe for a postdoc a few years before you and I was genuinely that shocked that the grad students took vacation time.
This is how the mechanism of the Heck reaction was explained to me in the summer of 1977 when I standing at the blackboard with a piece of chalk.
August 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is how the mechanism of the Heck reaction was explained to me in the summer of 1977 when I standing at the blackboard with a piece of chalk.
For the first decade of Suzuki's it was mostly DME/water mixtures or maybe that was just me and my pals. I don't know at what point it turned over to dioxane.
August 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
For the first decade of Suzuki's it was mostly DME/water mixtures or maybe that was just me and my pals. I don't know at what point it turned over to dioxane.
Yet, I did not hear you utter that word last week?
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Yet, I did not hear you utter that word last week?
Paul Simon: Stille crazy after all these years.
July 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Paul Simon: Stille crazy after all these years.
Morandi lab declares indolpendence for all tryptophan containing peptides.
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Congrats to Ann-Sophie Paschke, Eva Meeus, Florin and our collaborators from the pharmacy institute M. Masota and @nathalie-grob.bsky.social - Late-Stage Diversification of Peptides and Peptide Drugs through Nitrogen Atom Insertion | @ChemRxiv - go.shr.lc/44mL6Kg
July 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Morandi lab declares indolpendence for all tryptophan containing peptides.
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I still remember the first time I saw the Ring Nebula. Relatively easy to find for a teenager with my 6 inch Reflector. I also remember being surprised that the rings of Saturn reorient over the course of years eventually becoming parallel to our perspective like this year.
June 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I still remember the first time I saw the Ring Nebula. Relatively easy to find for a teenager with my 6 inch Reflector. I also remember being surprised that the rings of Saturn reorient over the course of years eventually becoming parallel to our perspective like this year.
When I get clear weather in Delaware, I am enjoying the ZWO Seestar S50 I bought last year.
June 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When I get clear weather in Delaware, I am enjoying the ZWO Seestar S50 I bought last year.
Perhaps this revival will buy you another telescope.
June 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Perhaps this revival will buy you another telescope.
The poster left out the part where Vance mentioned the German and Jewish scientists. Doesn't make it more palatable, but it does acknowledge he knows about Von Braun et. al.
May 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The poster left out the part where Vance mentioned the German and Jewish scientists. Doesn't make it more palatable, but it does acknowledge he knows about Von Braun et. al.
I believe many can coalesce around the definition of sandwich or even whether Chicago style deep dish pizza is really a pizza.
May 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I believe many can coalesce around the definition of sandwich or even whether Chicago style deep dish pizza is really a pizza.