Brian Fisher

4 x 4L bottle boxes are the GOAT of moving

Sleeeiiiigh

For Texas residents offended by this, ask yourself: What kind of person wants to move to Texas? Not people who want to move to be closer to family or whatever—people who believe in their hearts that Texas is where they were meant to be?

Site-, Stereo-, and Chemoselective Enzymatic Halogenation of Terpenoids by a Substrate Masquerade Enzymatic halogenation of C–H bonds is a promising approach to synthesize chlorine-containing compounds. However, few halogenases chlorinate C(sp3)–H bonds of molecules lacking a carrier protein, and ...

This is such a neat idea from the @narayanlab.bsky.social and the @hartwiggroup.bsky.social now in #JACSasap fooling enzymes with a removable binding ligand to accept non-native substrates #ChemSky

Universal Basic Jackass

Tylenol’s gotta be in blister packs

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

The thing I love about taxonomy is that it never changes and everyone agrees on names for everything!!!

Wish I owned the copyright to all the papers of mine used by them…

Stirring Bars are Superstition?

Do you really need to stir your reactions? How do you know?

"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up

I know in France the equivalent is “Brian is in the kitchen”. A French former coworker was amused to learn my name.

Getting into homeownership is really making me much more of a just-call-customer-service person than I expected

A lot of people will believe this shit! Lots of suburban and rural folks truly think that US cities are literal war zones. They could easily be convinced that if they visit them and find them pleasant and safe that it was all Trump’s doing rather than them being fine the whole time.

ACS 1996 is a fine starting point but imo you should probably manually tailor your ChemDraw object settings to whatever kinds of molecules you work most with. I worked with polypeptides through my PhD and I really didn’t like how its skinny bonds made these long molecules look like chicken scratches

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Trump take video game

Hope the estate of Henrietta Lacks is on this

Hopefully it stays that way longer than the 2-ish hour runtime of this experiment!

Baby’s first Nanopore run

Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.

The 2010 paper claiming arsenic-based life has been retracted by Science today. 🧪

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Pedagogy is often worse at more elite institutions, even. Place like Indiana University have faculty that publish in J Chem Ed. More elite institutions just wanna hire more faculty who’ll publish in CNS, their teaching skills be damned.

And his nephew was the landlord of some of my friends—deep ties!

Also, if AI tools were any good at making highly-targeted completely novel molecules, it’d be a lot better at making the therapeutic ones than it is

As a chemist, this sort of thing doesn’t really worry me. A non-chemist would need more than ChatGPT to start synthesizing any chemical weapon. Anyone with the skills to make a chemical weapon can already make known ones, and new ones could be made by trivial modifications around a reactive group

Mine was “you’re an uncultured slob for having a shellfish allergy”

Something anybody who’s set up parallel heterogeneous catalysis experiments—or reactions limited by gas transfer rates—has probably run into at some point. Good to see this phenomenon highlighted!

Even worse is cafes that make their own oat milk. Oatly is good, just buy that! The only two lattes I’ve ever tossed because they were so bad had homemade oat milk.