Tim Easun

#TalkLikeAPirateDay

Pirate goes to the dermatologist
"How can i help you, Captain?"
"Well doc, arr! arrr! I be 'avin' some moles on me back, see?"

Doctor "Well, I've examined them. And they're benign"

"Arrr! Arrr! Count again, ye Scurvy Doc! There be Ten"

Large pore windows too.

Porous materials researchers adsorbing onto lunch table. #EPoMM_2025

(...and then learned a lot about the analysis of concrete - great talk!)

In which I just learned that we consume more concrete than food per person each year.

Alex stood in front of the intro slide for the conference

@epomm.bsky.social The 2nd EPSRC EPoMM* network meeting has started!

A warm welcome as always by Alex O'Malley to two days of holes.

*Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales

Would be very at home in Wales.
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Understandable. There's still always a place for classical if you can find the right thing though. There's some great piano pieces out there - I was also in orchestras so piano is not so familiar.

90s side scrollers are particularly good for concentrating.

Film soundtracks are the best. John Williams for writing proposals. Danny Elfman for quirky reviews. Ennio Morricone for writing reviews of bad proposals 😂 Thesis chapters work well with game theme music - the writers designed it to make you focus.

I read your reply as "Very Graphic Design" and thought, yes, it certainly is.

The Long Earth - Sir Terry Pratchett All the Long Earth books in order. The Long Earth is a collaborative science fiction series by British authors, Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

I've only heard Long Earth in the context of the Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter collaboration

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On authorship, I agree with your other reply: body of work, cite PI; single paper, cite first author.

I'm not sure I've always been that consistent in the past though 🤔

Side note on your side note, I read the quoted text as saying your method doesn't have the drawback of the (alternative) UV-vis method, not that there's any UV-vis in your method.

Our new themed collection explores molecular photoswitches for energy storage, guest edited by Professors Rachel Evans, Grace Han, Tao Li and Professor Dr Hermann A. Wegner.

Read the articles here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Read the Editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA...

#matsky #scisky

Me: "I wrote this."

Carbon dioxide: "It sucks. It's utter trash. A child could have done better. Plus your outfit is horrible. Did a cavefish dress you?"

Me, to other guy: "Who is this jerk?"

Other guy, the one who says the punchline: "That's supercritical CO₂."

Agreed, and also on more private social sites like Discord.

And more willing to use video than I ever will be!

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On the upside, it is good to know that many of the people met through twitter are here, so the lines of connection aren't completely lost :)

I'm sadly less engaged here than twitter for lots of reasons but one of them was definitely the sense of loss - I don't want to go through that again.

I'm also just *tired* so don't have the capacity for building up engagement again.

#ChemSky

Same, agreed and yes!

We seek to improve knowledge and develop methods to remediate the problem, to provide safer water to many.

The network Emmanuel pioneered and Victorien is continuing is called the Central and West African Network for Safe Water, CW-ANSWer. It is my hope that we will live up to the name.

He was with us long enough to hear of the successful new funding for his Network.

Led by Professor Victorien Dougnon, from the Université d'Abomey-Calavi, this new project will allow us to honour Emmanuel's legacy by addressing the problems of fungal toxins in waters across 8 countries.

Science on a shoestring: the researchers paid $15 a month Scientists based in resource-poor regions describe how they tackle salary uncertainty, power outages and equipment shortages.

You can hear from Emmanuel yourself here, in an interview from 2 years ago.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

He was passionate about bringing people together to solve problems of water contamination across Central and West Africa.

I can't mention this without it being bittersweet though.

The Network founded by our original grant was the work of Professor Emmanuel Unuabonah, my collaborator and friend in Nigeria. He sadly passed away unexpectedly earlier this year and we are still regrouping from the loss.

Fantastic scheme, and I'm biased saying that because we're one of the awardees of a Network Strengthening Grant, but it will really make a difference to a lot of people!

UK chemistry industry professionals

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Fro the last few years, as part of a final assignment in my senior biophysical chem class I ask students to share a class-related memes, with ones they make themselves highly encouraged!
For everyone's enjoyment, here are some of my favorites!
#chemistry #biochemistry #sigfigs #units 🧪

Extremely 👍
See centre-right in this photo for Sam's latest appearance 😄
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We do think your squeaky toy is very elegant!