Heavily Into The World Of Magnets

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I think i somehow managed to turn off the ringer for teams. don't ask me how because I griped about this months ago, likely went into a fugue state to figure it out, and now I can't remember

thankfully no one ever calls me and I'm also bad at answering my teams phone (WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO STOP MY MUSIC) so i am just enjoying the data points

a screenshot showing missed calls at 8:33, 9:16 and 10:15 a.m.

right on schedule

it's a different phone # each time so I can't block it

Absolutely disgusting. Shame on the legislators who did this. And shame on anyone who says that we should trade away the rights of our trans friends, family members, and neighbors.

lol up to 19 spam calls over the last three days

they like to call about every 45 mins or so

you're just a single mom who works two jobs who loves her kids and never stops with gentle hands and a heart of a fighter

Ames adds gender identity protections as state lawmakers seek to limit local civil rights expansion The Ames City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing and education based on an individual’s gender identity. It comes about a year after the state remove...

Ames also passed an ordinance adding gender identity protections back to our municipal code (I think Johnson Co did similar, maybe Iowa City) and ofc the state gov is now trying to ban this, akin to banning local minimum wages. www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Anyways we'll see how it shakes out. In story, 2/3 (Dem) county supervisors are running for re-election in their new "districts" which encompass most of Ames. The third district scoops out part of east Ames and then Nevada & the rest of eastern StoCo and none of the current sups lived in that area.

Last year they passed a law that only affects three counties: Story, Johnson and Black Hawk. Previously, county supervisors were elected at-large for all Iowa counties. But this law did a rural gerrymander in these counties so the college town population was separated from other parts of the county.

There was a guy on X the everything app (nanographs) who was like building electron microscopes in his garage from spare parts. I don't think he had any training in this, just a tinkerer. I think he got a job with JEOL for a while but is now back to doing his own thing.

I'm also remembering that in undergrad in the advanced analytical lab, there was a headspace GCMS running in windows 98 and we had to find floppy disks to export the data 😂

The prof was the kind of guy who built his car wn custom mass specs so he has been keeping it alive

Hi you don't have to see the posts about her from the worst people on earth, you can just watch this 80 times.

Some great fits from the new exhibition at the Museum at FIT

Art x Fashion

On now until 4/19

YES i have a grad school friend with the same one (or it was UV-Vis, can't remember) and his gave the same error message

This brought to mind the best error message I've ever seen, on a very old IR spectrometer

EMBARGO LIFTS AT FEBRUARY 25, 2026 16:00 PM EST FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JAY BHATTACHARYA IS “A HERB” He also “weenis” NEW HAVEN – Colin Carlson (@colincarlson.bsky.social) released the following statement Thursday afternoon (2/25/2026) at 16:00 PM EST: “Jay Bhattacharya is a herb.” At a press conference, Carlson emphasized that these were his personal views and not his employer’s. He also provided further clarification: “He’s been called a lot of nastier things. But he’s basically a weenis. Don’t give him too much credit, you know? I think the right word is probably herb. Jay Bhattacharya is a herb.” Herb was unavailable for comment. ###

oh yeah if you are a bazillionaire company (but who even is these days??, R&D budget are tight everywhere) you can kinda sorta lease a spectrometer with a full service agreement bsky.app/profile/hapc...

(at ISU)

i think when my spouse was a college student in the 90's it was like a 3:1 dude to lady ratio. Slim pickins for a short king.

this is so pure

yes thermogravimetric analyzer, although ours is TGA-DSC-MS-IR so it was like $300-350k(??) a decade ago. I assume half a mil now lol

Remembering Rob Schurko - MagLab MagLab’s NMR Director described as extraordinary leader, first-rate scholar, and remarkable person.

We are deeply saddened at the passing of Rob Schurko, director of the lab's NMR facility, FSU chemistry professor, brilliant scientist, colleague, mentor, and friend.
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I feel you detector I feel you.

This reminds me of a recent and totally serious (for them) conversation with a vendor about 'subscription instrumentation'.

meanwhile, tinfoil, duct tape, and a good electronics shop make my world go 'round.

cant imagine what #Chemistry at #Cambridge would be like without the #NMR team, for instance

life would've been so different--nothing like having spectrometers act up or getting weird results at inconvenient times and then being so relieved on seeing one of the #NMR staff around

a woman wearing a blue sweater and earrings is sitting on a couch . Alt: a woman wearing a blue sweater and earrings is sitting on a couch and giving a judgy stare.

IT people definitely don't want to hear "sure you can upgrade this computer, but this software won't run on an OS newer than windows 7, running it on a VM is slow as hell, and to upgrade the instrument is one bazillion dollars so what do you want to do now?"

An anthropomorphized pigeon gesturing to her sparse nest like 'now, this... THIS is art'

"My Masterpiece - A Pigeon's Nest"

I'm really lucky to be in a place where my staff and myself are very highly regarded and respected. We still get the occasional person rolling through the door that thinks we are there to serve as their personal lab tech, until we are like nah we get to teach you to be your own lab tech 😈

That's so frustrating. My position is permanent but of course all of us at public unis are all somewhat beholden to the whims of state and federal funding 🫠