@bennepasta.bsky.social
Chemistry PhD student at the University of York
half successful recrystalisation..
28.10.2025 07:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
working with crystals is so fun
27.06.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i made circle
10.06.2025 10:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
even awful crystals look nice under the microscope
30.05.2025 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
reaction vial with a vivid orange solution
amazing colours make everything worth it
02.05.2025 12:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Schlenk flask containing a green solution
something something green chemistry
22.04.2025 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
big day for the colour yellow
13.03.2025 12:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
campus bunnys
28.02.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
shaggy from scooby doo colour scheme
27.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
yelloue
26.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0get yellowed
26.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0saw my first bee of the year
24.02.2025 16:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A white solid inside a round bottomed flask.
two months of my life spent making this thing
12.02.2025 18:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A round bottomed flask containing a dark green solution
speedrunning all reaction colours with my failed experiments
04.02.2025 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A round bottomed flask containing a dark red solid
A round bottomed flask containing a dark red solid, from a different angle
jam
01.02.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0oh...
27.01.2025 21:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A round bottomed flask with a yellow suspension inside
liquefied mister happy
20.01.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0if only...
19.01.2025 11:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Schlenk flask containing a pink solution with a dark green precipitate at the bottom.
wuh oh
03.12.2024 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Schlenk flask containing a yellow solution submerged in a cooling bath atop a hot plate.
Starting up the yellow machine
02.12.2024 14:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Chemical drawings of the RuPhos catalyst and then a made up chemical bond stick figure reindeer called RuDolph
It’s Dec 1st and after thanksgiving so officially happy holidays from the nanoputians #ChemSky
01.12.2024 15:04 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
cute seal covered in snow/ice looking up at the camera with a look of desperation
me (weighing chemicals): it says here the compound can be "a bit static-y" lol i'm sure it's fine
my spatula:
A photo of York Minster in the sun
York Minster this morning :)
18.11.2024 08:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
stable aminal vs. stable animal
Do not confuse...
16.11.2024 21:36 — 👍 173 🔁 29 💬 4 📌 5
orange juice reaction!
16.11.2024 02:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0me, confidently: i'm going to open up this column with an anecdote about louis pasteur, the guy who invented pasteurization
me 20 minutes after starting research: what the fuck is stereochemistry. what's an enantiomer. what's racemization. this guy didnt even deal with milk
