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I haven’t seen under $4 in CA in years

Yikes, that’s terrifying. Stay safe friend!

This from the rooftops. Isolate people and they consume more to survive, instead of relying on community. We are always stronger together. They want us weak, sick, broken. More exploitable.

Watched a Korean cooking competition and mostly collapsed.

Today I had a full day of technical discussions in a large group…where I was the only woman.

I didn’t miss this. 😔

The organic chemistry dreams break my heart a little, because I miss it and I’m not even sure I still have those skills

The Rimegepant of the Ancient Mariner #ChangeALetterDrugAPoem

Positive displacement pipette. Didn’t even know they existed. Honestly I find I’m able to use a normal pipette for this just fine, but my coworkers struggle. Technique 💪🏻

Since when does a pipette need a battery?

And why does it need the only kind of battery we have none of at work - and that the hardware store next door is out of?

note: as a preventative, patients take it every other day

This basically leaves ya paying full price. It’s a fancy tier in the formulary, of course, it’s a great drug, works really well…but it does us fuck-all good if it’s unaffordable.

Please change the wording on your copay assistance #pfizer

Hey #Pfizer, your copay assistance on Nurtec does no good for patients who need it as a preventative:

- it’s sold in boxes of 8, so 2 boxes (16) is what I get at the pharmacy

- your coupon only allows for a 30 day supply

- pharmacies will not break the boxes to remove one tablet

Do the math 😡

No, all the synthesis I did ended up being on arenes/acenes/flat things.

I keep telling y’all I only respect “laws” that are empirically or mathematically derived. Everything else is just social contract, which (these days) is pretty broken on large scales.

(I might still observe fake laws, because anxious, but these? Fuck no. Clear and obvious bullshit.)

COSY was one of those things we learned that I’ve never actually had the chance to use in the wild. Always thought it was cool.

It’s worth going to Defcon at least once, to witness the SocEng Capture the Flag at least once. 20 minutes, 5 phone calls, how much sensitive info can you get from people?

Yes!!!!

An unfortunate consequence is that STI prevention info from reputable sources does not really cover a lot of what you might be doing. (I also suspect commonly ordered STI testing doesn’t cover some of the relevant pathogens, esp for immunocompromised folks!)

Yes! And the way it’s commonly defined is so cisheteronormative and so abled. If you’re outside those categories, the cultural scripts around it aren’t terribly applicable.

Because you’re going to have to find a compatible printer and/or a 5.25” floppy and send it via snail mail?

🎇🧨🎆Waterworks for the New Year!🎆🧨
I dropped fluorescein in water and rhodamine B in isopropanol into water to visualize miscibility and diffusion.

#FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #RealTimeChem #Chemistry #ChemTwitter

I actually might watch a stream of that, purely out of nostalgia

What is an optical caustic? Here’s another post based on the revisions I’m making for the second edition of my Singular Optics textbook! Caustics are a subject that I’ve sort of casually understood for ages …

🧪 New optics blog post! What is an optical caustic? skullsinthestars.com/2026/01/16/w...

A colorful optical caustic from a glass of red wine in the sunlight

Laser weeding is one of those “no wa-well actually no that makes perfect sense doesn’t it” things.

Why are cage rail optical assemblies so satisfying? #adultsciencelegos #chemsky

Hey everyone,

We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history.

Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

Pretty sure everyone around me also agrees it is more important that I have adequate snacks than that I do research (not that the science ISN’T important…I just get a little scary when I’m hangry)

Contents of a package from Thorlabs: a large box of lab snacks, with a teeny tiny optomechanical component in a padded packet taped to the top

The world may be falling apart, but at least Thorlabs has their priorities correct
#chemsky

Oh god I hate it when universities do this. Mine had this problem too, and it SUCKED because of course I was living paycheck to paycheck as a grad student