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Dave Palmer

@davepalmerusask.bsky.social

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Organic chemist, enzymologist, professor, cat dad. PEI ➡️ Queen's U ➡️ UIUC ➡️ USask. 🇨🇦✌️🙂 (he/him)

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 12h

Obviously Canadian thanksgiving

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13h

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 1d

Just one more thing

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Vaughn is definitely going to murder someone and somewhere, somehow, Columbo already knows it

Robert Vaughn wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt with a very wide collar and a red scarf knotted about his neck. He is looking sideways in a suspicious, scheming fashion.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 1d

The dream of Fever is to say “Booger” on the radio

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 1d

Curious Dalmatian Pelicans following the boat.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 1d

All the undeveloped faculty, featureless and muted, stumble toward you for direction! 😅 (Congrats!)

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 2d

#chemjobs en français 🇨🇦

Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 2d

Université de Montréal: chimie inorganique https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/10/universite-de-montreal-chimie.html

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 3d

Also lynxes.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 3d

A moment of peace from this evening with a doe and her fawn. #mammals

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

New York’s hottest yoga gym

a man is sitting at a desk with his hands folded

Alt: Stefan from SNL.

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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 3d

St. Francis Xavier University: Biochemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/10/st-francis-xavier-university.html

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 3d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a Brooklyn Downtown campus?

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 4d

I am no one’s creation but my own

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 5d

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

Moral victory for the bills 😄

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

The ice man cometh

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

Like all the great punters

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

Stop the count!

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

Blessed are the cheesemakers

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

Tough assignment in hostile territory. So far they’re shortening the game, which is positive.

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

Making sure they denied everyone the tie we were all craving

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 5d

👇👇👇👇👇

Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 5d

Side comment: deciding that important, practical applications of chemistry are “not chemistry” is our field shooting itself in the foot over and over. Take credit for our wins, people!