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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️

@brachinus.bsky.social

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Polymer chemist & engineer in industry. Spent some quality time studying bombardier beetles. CWRU Macro & MIT PPSM alumna. Loves science, animals esp insects & cats, photography, computers, cooking, & the outdoors. Trans queer autistic woman. She/her

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 11d

FYI friends, I can no longer see dms because Ohio, so please @ me instead

FTR Woman✔️☑️ @mostlycussing.bsky.social · 11d

What in THEE FUCK?!?
#FuckingOhio

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 16m

We have a functional garage! Only took three years!

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

Most important rule of handling anything truly dangerous is, no matter what happens do not panic

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

it’s like anything, you get used to it

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

i’m well :)

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

i need to buy some aramid thread (we work with pyrophorics so our lab coats are flame retardant) and reinforce or re-sew them

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t even have a flash module for my professional cameras lol

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

My lab coat is gray :) Now if only i can get them to use thread that doesn’t just break immediately for the buttons

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

ugh that’s so frustrating

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

gray is best from standpoint of, if you get something on you you can see it

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 2h

Precise Energetic Systems

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 14h

Unsolicited Bic pic

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 4h

nothing good ever happens after 9:30 pm 😅

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 4h

honestly this is so on brand for corporate america it’s not even surprising to me

Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 4h

that is deeply unfair to Wagner lol

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not one of these business-y a-holes who says "I miss the lab", but man, reading Derek's experiments with MOFs, it does sound like more fun than sitting in front of two screens 9 hours a day www.science.org/content/blog...

#chemsky ⚗️🧪

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks

www.science.org

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 16h

😒 guess broader impacts is dead

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17h

This is America

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Josh Crutchmer @jcrutchmer.bsky.social · 22h

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

NPR @npr.org · 22h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 18h

yikes

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18h

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves multiple people dead and missing, sheriff says

The blast occurred Friday at Accurate Energetic Systems, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville.

www.pbs.org

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Mike Giuliano @drmikeg83.bsky.social · 18h

Come join us! We’re seeking a tenure-track colleague in Organic Chemistry. Our department is solely-undergraduate, and well-equipped for a PUI- 400 MHz NMR, six mass specs (including MALDI AND HRMS ESI), and more. DM me with questions!
#chemsky

@chemjobber.bsky.social

jobs.cofc.edu/postings/17277

Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the College of Charleston invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position beginning in F...

jobs.cofc.edu

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Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 18h

yeah