@seb1520.bsky.social
food scientist | analytical chemist
16.02.2025 14:22 — 👍 33824 🔁 8578 💬 252 📌 223
Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous.
Why care? 🧵
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
22.01.2025 20:46 — 👍 12316 🔁 5007 💬 590 📌 1174
Infographic on winter fires, showing some of the compounds responsible for the smell of burning wood. These include guaiacol, 4-methylguaiacol, syringol and isoeugenol.
For day 11 of #ChemAdvent24 we're cosying up to a warming winter fire and enjoying some of its smoky-smelling compounds 🔥
#ChemSky 🧪
Bluesky post count mentioning research is at 500,997.
Mentions of research on Bluesky have crossed a half million posts as of this morning.
#Academicsky #Metascience #highered #MedSky
Infographic on gingerbread chemistry. Gingerol gives fresh ginger its pungency and reacts during cooking to produce zingerone, which gives gingerbread its sweet, spicy flavour
Day 6 of #ChemAdvent24 looks at the zingy molecules behind gingerbread's flavour 😋
06.12.2024 10:41 — 👍 81 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0
Infographic titled 'Chemistry Advent 2024: Scent-sational Chemistry! Festive Smells', featuring illustrations related to the chemistry of festive scents such as pine trees. Diagrams show molecular structures like Pinene and image representations of brain and nasal activity in response to this compound.
Join the festive fragrance journey with @thamesvalleyrsc.bsky.social's Advent Calendar! Join us as we unwrap the delightful aromas of festive fir trees. 🎄🔬✨ @compoundchem.com #adventcalendar #ChemSky #EduSky
05.12.2024 10:19 — 👍 55 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 2
I’m excited to share that a chapter of my dissertation has been published in Journal of Food Science!
We evaluated the nutritional profile of plant-based meat alternatives🌱 and ground beef🥩. The nutrient profile of these products are a sum of their parts. Check it out!
doi.org/10.1111/1750...
Saw a TikTok wellness influencer suggest boiling your raw milk last night and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since
19.11.2024 18:11 — 👍 2174 🔁 341 💬 65 📌 85
Kirsten Dunst dressed as Marie Antoinette on the set of "Marie Antoinette" smoking a cigarette
Entering the job market post-PhD
20.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 335 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 4I ripped this video from Eleonora Svanberg on X (she’s not on 🦋)
She wrote:
“I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-)
Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!”
it’s cool being able to scroll through more than six posts without wanting to k!ll myself
18.11.2024 00:33 — 👍 6288 🔁 503 💬 139 📌 12
