proton, neutron, electron and crouton

Nat ☆ UC Berkeley chemistry undergrad ☆ main: grignerd

[cryptydmatt]

all these fools talking about big dick energy…you know what I have? big dumbass energy. i’m stupid and everyone can tell

[studyelement]

just start. do a single math problem out of the 20 you have. one page of reading and youre done. try to just place one item where it belongs. research that one thing you need for your paper. go over a powerpoint slide for that lecture youre confused in.

i promise you doing one single action feels better than doing nothing at all. take 5 minutes to do just one small task thats been staying in the back of your head.

[physticuffs]

assert your dominance by unnecessarily turning in your homework in LaTeX

[knifepadme]

academia is ruined, we need to throw it back to the days when scholars were only after the cure for death, i want to wear a cool robe and get funding from the king to just do whatever the hell and kind of poison him

[ironinkpen]

my shit brain: i’m so bad at this, i just can’t do it-

me, a learning, growing human being whom believes in her own potential: yet bitch!!!!

[wittig]

whatever i;m not gonna get into grad school anyways 

[wittig]

i believe everyone should have access to research and that most people benefit from doing research regardless of their intended career path but

holy shit i hate when premeds who aren’t even interested in the lab apply to get a shiny research position on their resume

[l-aakj]

I realized I was not yet awake this morning when I read Macrocycle as Motorcycle. I then sat there and though about motorcycles self-assembling in water and why it was in Organic Letters before I reread the title…

[nixcraft]

Welcome aboard ;)

[klashta-neali]

[theavengers]

And what are these?

[backintheblackparade]

she’s right. Open-toed shoes are against lab safety regulations.

[thequantumqueer]

you look me in the eye and tell me shuri’s lab doesn’t have a low-grade stasis field that stops dropped objects 8 inches above the floor

[antioch-actius]

you look me in the eye and tell me that’d make shuri be careless about the sacred, consecrated rites of lab safety.

[thequantumqueer]

you are correct and i was a fool

[thequantumqueer]

goggles

[wholesomethemedmemes]

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Crystals of Indium Sulfide

The image shows different crystals of indium sulfide In2S3) with tetragonal structure and pyramidal shapes. Indium sulfide is a semiconductor used primarily as a buffer layer in copper-indium-diselenide (CIGS)thin film based solar cells, replacing toxic cadmium sulfide.

Courtesy of Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Source.

[wolfpilled]

“there’s a lot to unpack here” is the academic equivalent of “yikes”

[adventuresinchemistry]

If Scientific Journals Were Honest

Nature: 90% whatever’s hot in bio right now, 10% other

Science: 2 pages of a really cool story, 50 pages of supplement

Cell: your entire dissertation edited down to 20 unreadable pages

PNAS: papers Academy members couldn’t get into better journals

PLOS one: papers non Academy members couldn’t get into better journals, but open source

eLife: papers people couldn’t get into PLOS one

Nature [insert field]: research that isn’t hot enough for Nature

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics: we couldn’t decide if we were one field or two

JACS: chemistry you’re pretty sure is cool but honestly you’re not sure you understand

Angewante Chemie: JACS but German

Advances in Physics: scientific journals: a statistical approach

Astrophysical Journal: not nearly enough pictures of space

Actual Journal of Your Field: solid science, interesting, low impact

[hypersfixation]

unstoppable force (my thirst for an education) vs immovable object (my excutive dysfunction preventing me from actually doing any work)

[soyouwanttoplaytheflute]

[mimi-eats-carbs]

me doing experiments in lab