Wesley browne

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Moderate being 2 cups an hour? Asking for a friend 😥

Internal reference for determining liquid crystal orientation at alignment layers in liquid crystal cells by confocal polarised Raman microscopy The transmission of light through liquid crystal (LC) displays is controlled by reversible switching of the alignment of a mesogen using electric fields. In the absence of an electric field, the orien...

Industry/academia projects can be viewed as too applied, but that is not my experience. Interested in Raman microscopy of liquid crystal based display cells (who wouldn't be) then we found a neat solution to finding the bottom - the hard part is staying there doi.org/10.1039/D5CP... #chemsky #LC

So just inhumane bias then 😥

Engineering Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase by Growth‐Based Selections on Non‐Natural Organofluorides We present a high-throughput selection system to engineer fluoroacetate dehalogenases (FAcDs). By challenging E. coli populations that produce diverse FAcD libraries to grow on non-natural organofluo....

🥳🥳🥳 Our study on engineering enzymes to break C–F bonds is out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Congrats to the brilliant & dedicated @suzannejansen.bsky.social for taking this step toward the remediation of #PFAS & other contaminating organofluorides!
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Open Call: Ikerbasque Fellows (5-year senior postdoc):
• any discipline
• applicants must have their PhD completed between 01/01/2015 and 31/12/2023

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Hmm mischien tijd om eindelijk een cursus nederlandse te volgen, nah Google translate 🙄

Have expensive Raman microscope with mapping and chemometric buttons - it's all you need to find plastic everywhere 🤦‍♂️

Registration and abstract submission is open for eurobic18.eu. Hopefully we see all of you (bio)inorganic chemists in Groningen - the coolest place to be in Europe this summer (and probably also a bit wet but fantastic speakers!).

If you see this post, then post a random fact about yourself.

I can sometimes be pedantic (and I had a black belt in karate but the pedantry hurts more I find)

I will never grow up 🙃

I agree with your in-laws 🙄 as long as it also contains half a bottle of sherry as well

Well it saves money if they do the work

EuroBIC18 registration and abstract submission is open now. Hope to see all the bioinorganic community in Groningen next July! www.eurobic19.eu #chemistry #eurobic #ecostbio

Two fully funded PhD positions (MSCA Doctoral Networks, Horizon Europe) at our group at IQCC, University of Girona (Spain) Many high-value molecules in pharma, agrochemicals, and materials rely on… |... Two fully funded PhD positions (MSCA Doctoral Networks, Horizon Europe) at our group at IQCC, University of Girona (Spain) Many high-value molecules in pharma, agrochemicals, and materials rely on ch...

My colleague @silviaosuna.bsky.social has two fully funded #PhD positions available:

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PhD contract available in the @icmabcsic.bsky.social in my group to work on the synthesis and characterization of New Photosensitisers for Panchromatic Photoisomerization. Retweets appreciated. Candidates please contact me directly.

No the balance between how much you drink and how long you have to wait to escape to the bathroom

And had an amazing dinner discussion 🤔

We are hiring! We are looking for a Postdoc in Catalytic Approaches toward Bio-Based Peptide Surfactants. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Application deadline is January 12th 2026

For more information please check out the link 👇
werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/pos...

Progress 🤦‍♂️. You still have passion!

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Teach with chalk and a board and no PowerPoint 🤷‍♂️ ....oh and a bit of passion for the subject I guess helps.

They'revnot even funny and the whole thing is just them sitting around taking rubbish. Glad I don't have to pay the licence fee.

Toxic formalin or something else? Shining a light on the University Museum’s mystery jars Chemist Wesley Browne came up with a way to figure out which of the University Museum's wet specimens have been preserved in toxic liquid.

Nice!
@wesleybrowne.bsky.social used Raman spectroscopy to check if old samples are toxic

ukrant.nl/magazine/tox...

Supramolecular hydrogels for sure🙄 I mean the odds got to make it worth a punt

If you're in the audience - lab cloths are fine. If you are in the opposition then just a batman costume will do.

Nice team work where theory lead experiment

I learned a lot going through shelfs accidentally reading things I would not have looked for

Blackboard

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