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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · Nov 13

I'm finally doing this and all it took was my follower count increasing by an order of magnitude lol

Hi! I'm Thomas! I work at the University of Michigan, where our lab does translational critical care illness research (primarily in sepsis and ARDS)! We're "primarily" a metabolomics lab 😅

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · Oct 21

One day I should probably make an actual intro post if I'm intending to use this platform for science stuff but today is not that day lol

Anyways here's my ORCiD:
orcid.org/0000-0002-39...

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 1d

The prof from periodic videos never read harry potter what an ally

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 1d

I want to pet one

Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 1d

A Least Bittern facing forward in no-neck mode and then facing to the left in maximum-neck mode.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 1d

A Least Bittern facing forward in no-neck mode and then facing to the left in maximum-neck mode.

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 1d

Most of the time I kind of just want to be using my sword

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 1d

Also I get what they were doing with the different weapons instead of sword stances but idk if it lands as well

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 1d

I really like ghost of yotei but every so often it feels like the controls are at the rough draft stage instead of highly polished and that sucks lol

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tworobocops @tworobocops.bsky.social · 1d

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 2d

Wow very exciting!!

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 2d

Is it true there's a promo command tower that comes with the book?

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, I know that everything is terrible right now, but I also have to make money, so I'm going to tell you that A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe is on SUPER SALE this month! Just $1.99!

Amazon:
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Bookshop (Buy indie!):
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A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers Book 1)

A washed-up treasure hunter, a hotshot racer, and a deadly secret society. They're all on a race against time to hunt down the greatest warship ever built. Some think the ship is lost forever, some t...

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

The moral of enders game is the same as omelas. Is this a hot take or not.

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

Desperate to know whether or not @vornietom.bsky.social reads katalepsis

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

Pappy is the jp riddles of cloudward ho, if that makes sense

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

Stop subtweeting Norma :(

josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 3d

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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QuiJohn @quijohn.bsky.social · 7d

Goose says hi

Goose, an orange and white fluffy cat, sleepily waking up and half rolling over

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

The purple ones 😍 I need (more) nail polish that looks like that

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:

Bright green transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with copper and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed blocky roughly rectangular pieces with some very large emerald-like chunks.

Pink/red transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed as a mixture of long rectangular types and aggregated chunks.

Purple transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed long slightly blocky needles.

Clear transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with zirconium and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed chunky hexagons.

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

Feels absolutely wild I didn't know these existed, what a Shape

Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 4d

Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink drawing of two long filamentous phages. The one in the background is all the same distance away. In the foreground is a close up of the spike proteins of the closer phage with 5 repeated protein complexes forming what looks almost like a flower, the rest of the inovirus loops around into the background

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NothingHappenedToday (Ed Harrington) @edharrington.bsky.social · 4d

Sea Pigs sketches. Scotoplanes are a type of sea cucumber that use a ring of feeding tentacles to sift through sediment for decaying organic matter on the sea floor and have tube-like feet for locomotion. Drawn with Rotring Art pens with Platinum Carbon and Sepia ink. #SciArt #Sketch #FountainPen

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

SO many unnecessary sex scenes it feels like also

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

The wife in the brutalist: america fucking sucks this place is so toxic

Me: hell yeah sing it sister

The wife in the brutalist: I'm moving to isreal

Me: wait no

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 4d

The sunlight highlighting the ruby eyes of a Virginia Rail.

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

A priest a rabbi an imam etc.

lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 3d

Constantly all the time my guy