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Brendan
@chemscrapes.bsky.social
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Where chemistry meets the bottom of the humour barrel.
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Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day

The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky

Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC

Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
Front cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry Disability - Inclusive Laboratories in the chemical sciences report. Making chemistry accessible for everyone.
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Complete this sentence:

Phosphine oxides are…

#chemsky
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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current mood #music open.spotify.com/track/5hBTs2...
Sweet Fire Of Love
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November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Stille Life #chemsky #chemistry #realtimechem
A palladium artist is painting a picture. His models are a molecule of bromobenzene and phenyltributyltin. It is a still life painting.
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Oh my goodness….i forgot I did this in 2017. #chemsky #chemistry
Donal trump holding up an executive order saying El Dopa is a bad hombre. On the order is a ChemScrapes drawing of L-dopa in full bandit gear.
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Stumbled on this in my archive today. The message is not specific to chemistry - it's relevant to any discipline/workplace/application. Human endeavour is all about humans after all. #chemsky #diversity
A conceptual diagram, drawn in a sketchy, hand-drawn style, titled "DIVERSITY in THOUGHT LEADERSHIP." The image illustrates a cyclical process of diversity and development using anthropomorphic benzene rings labeled "Chem." Center: "DIVERSITY of TALENT" is written in the middle, surrounded by many small, indistinct, multicolored figures representing different people. The Cycle: Three hexagonal "Chem" figures with faces and limbs are placed around the central group, forming a circle connected by red arrows: Top Right Arrow: Points from the central talent pool to the top-right Chem figure, labeled with MENTORSHIP, SCHOLARSHIP, TRANSPARENCY, RESPECT. Bottom Right Arrow: Points from the top-right Chem figure to the bottom Chem figure, labeled with CREATIVITY, CURIOSITY, UNMET NEEDS, SOCIETAL NEEDS. Bottom Left Arrow: Points from the bottom Chem figure (which is standing over a lightbulb labeled "Chem") to the left Chem figure, labeled with DISCOVERY, INNOVATION, TRANSLATION, OUTCOMES. Top Left Arrow: Points from the left Chem figure back towards the top, labeled with FUTURE LEADERS. Surrounding Figures: Small, multicolored figures are shown migrating from the central pool outward, indicating movement and development into leadership.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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My process chem friends sent me, the medicinal chemist, this perfect costume
Well played. Very well played.
[scheming intensifies]
#ChemSky
Halloween costume as a non-scalable process with non-standard methods, poor documentation and non GMP starting materials. Well played friends.
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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cenmag.bsky.social
Michael Supej carved this jack-o’-lantern as part of a pumpkin-carving contest between three friendly academic groups at three different universities: cen.acs.org/synthesis/ca...

#Halloween #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
A night shot of a pumpkin with the line structure for BrettPhos carved into it, glowing from a light inside the pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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@ninaluong.bsky.social is really upping her costume game this year. And she can still work in it!
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Chemistry Horror Reads #Halloweeen #chemsky #spookychem
A Parody of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" book cover. A vampire with a cape the shape of a Salen ligand is hovering over the silhoutte of a house on a hill top. The house is shown as a Nickel Atom. The name of the book is "Salen's Lot"
November 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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#chemsky 🧪
Me in my S P O O K Y elements shirt.
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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a man is singing into a microphone with the words hello hello behind him
ALT: a man is singing into a microphone with the words hello hello behind him
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October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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A throwback to #sketchchemistry #spookychem with @cenmag.bsky.social 👻

#chemsky
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Chemdraw shenanigans #chemsky
October 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Remembering the work from home days back in '20. #chemsky
cartoon depicting a video conference call . The screen shows three main participants: Left Panel (Speaking): An aryl boronic acid, It seems to be a bit sceptical. It's saying "Thanks for calling in folks! Not sure how this is gonna work, but rules are rules. Also on the call is an aryl bromide. It is wearing a headset and has a slightly perplexed expression. Bottom Right Corner (Small Video Feed): palladium atom with a simple neutral face. The overall image is a visualization of a virtual meeting for a Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction under work from home conditions.
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Sniff….i am so proud of #chemsky
drhougs.bsky.social Jimmy Hougland @drhougs.bsky.social · Oct 25
How about some calf-cium carbide? Unfortunately, limited reactivity means that extensive organocalcium chemistry is un-herd of...
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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udderly ridiculous
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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What's a cow's favourite element?

Moooo-lybdenum
October 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Bovinyl group?
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Who's up for some Chemistry Cow Puns #chemsky? I'll start - reply with your best pun or image. I am not shy of replying to myself so get 'em in while you can.

Ludderanes anyone?
A drawing of an oligomer of cylopentadiene/norbornadiene adducts - known as a ladderane. underneath the oligomer, each unit has an udder....this is a ludderane.
October 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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It's MOLE DAY. Happy mole day all. #Chemsky #chemistry #moleday #realtimechem
two-panel hand-drawn cartoon Panel 1: A mole is emerging from a dirt hole, holding a sign featuring a portrait of the chemist Avogadro. The mole is looking up and exclaiming, "HAPPY MOLE DAY!" Panel 2: The mole, still holding the sign, looks surprised or corrected when a mole on it's hand says "THANKS! BUT I PREFER TO THINK OF MYSELF AS A BEAUTY SPOT!" The joke references the fact that the word "mole" in chemistry (the unit) is named after Avogadro, but a small dark spot on skin is also called a mole (or beauty mark). It's a triple whammy folks. A triple whammy!! A bunch of moles arranged in a hexagon. It's a mole-ecule.
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 255 tenure-track positions and 27 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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October 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Wohoo! Love this
beamsandbows.bsky.social Stephanie 🎀 @beamsandbows.bsky.social · Oct 21
For the enjoyment of #ChemSky scrollers, an origami BCC unit cell. The origami has grown quite a bit since then, and continues to grow, but I wanted to share my project at this particular stage with chemists and crystallographers.
beamsandbows.bsky.social Stephanie 🎀 @beamsandbows.bsky.social · Oct 19
All origami project units are complete and construction has started!

Here is a BCC unit cell, or as I call it in origami form, the “Kilo Cube”. This origami crystal structure grows as we speak
October 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Been a while since I defaced anything. Anyone spot the back to the future reference? #chemsky
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Perrier Rearrangement #chemsky
The reaction depicts a tetra-acetylated glucal molecule on the left undergoing an elimination reaction assisted by a Lewis Acid where at bottle of Perrier sparkling water attaccks the 2-position. The product on the right is a six-membered ring with an OAc (acetate) group and the bottle of Perrier, which is shown replacing the original OAc group, humorously illustrating the insertion of a water molecule.
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM