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I love organic chemistry and other things also.

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Growing up is having your greatest fear go from the Bermuda Triangle to prion disease or unemployment.

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One of my friends just confused acetone with acetylcholine and so i yapped their ear off. I don’t think they want to be friends with me anymore.

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High school science competitions can fuck themselves straight to hell. And I say that as a product of them.

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I have a love/hate relationship with NileRed. On one hand, he makes interesting and educational videos that allow the masses to get interested in chemistry without needing a PhD to understand. On the other hand, PUT SOME DAMN PPE ON!

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Using the glove box makes me feel like a small child. I get it, I have small hands but DAMN why do I feel like a kid on “bring your child to the organic chemistry lab” day???

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There are two kinds of organic chem profs: those who are perfect with lab safety and those who sniff beakers of mystery solvent to find out what they are.

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At some point you’d think I wouldn’t need to look up basic unit conversions anymore but I can’t stop stressing over the small stuff so yep! We’re googling grams to milligrams for the tenth time this week. What fun.

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guys maybe the intended purpose of turn signals is to signal to cars around you when you are ABOUT to turn maybe not as a fun little flashing light you turn on when you’re halfway into the next lane

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Cracking open a cold one after a long hard day of work (the cold one is a Diet Pepsi)

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If I see one more post on Instagram with some PhD student, med student, etc yapping about how they don’t use ChatGPT but use “ethical ai” like Anara instead I’m gonna lose it. There are no ethical ai chatbots (there are still some good applications of ai; it has been useful to detect breast cancer alongside radiologists, for example). However, chatbots and productivity trackers provide no use to society and serve only to replace human thought for no greater purpose. Anara is no different.

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Roses are red

Violets are blue

Dichloromethane is scary

Sending emails is scary too

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Pro tip: if you put googly eyes on your lab equipment your work environment will be more whimsical. However, be warned: you’ll feel a lot more guilty swearing at the HPLC when it’s staring back at you looking all innocent and sweet.

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This lil guy is so eepy I love silly lab safety posters.

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Hot girls don't start running a ten hour carbon NMR at 9 am.

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"Scientists are so quiet and reserved"

One of the weirdest misconceptions I see about science is that scientists are all a bunch of antisocial weirdos. That's absolutely not true. We are all a bunch of weirdos, but not antisocial ones. If given the chance we'll talk your ear off about anything and everything from pH test strips to lab politics.