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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets

@sararah.bsky.social

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I love giant magnets. She/her My opinions are trash and fully my own.

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · Nov 11

100 new followers, hello,,,
- i am a #chemsky #NMRchat staff scientist at Iowa State
- i have a herd of giant magnets
- i co-own a small retail plant store with my friend & neighbor
- the reason for this us “one wild and precious life”
- i do a lot of crafts

A large can that looks like r2d2 but it is a superconducting magnet

A brick building that says back alley house plants and has two long pride flag banners on the facade

A triangular knit garment with alternating stripes of blue, pink, purple, gray

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 1d

A brown and dark gray bunny wearing a pink cowboy hat with a silver star sits on a plush purple blanket.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 8h

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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yarn yoshi stan account @cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · 14h

wake up babe new items of interest just dropped

Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 5h

lol I think it’s done now so you’re off the hook 😂

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 10h

It’s fine I can use command strips

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 10h

Like if they want to give NMR a medal, too, great. Will really spruce it up.

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 10h

hahahahahaha yesss 🫡

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 10h

how dare he call a spectrometer a machine

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 13h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 13h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 10h

well i'll be darned, luke and zach bryan are two completely separate and unrelated musicians

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 16h

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 16h

1 million NickBucks

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

Truly

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

She is just so disposable and either she’s too craven to admit it (happy to take the windfall) or too stupid to realize it

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

Did you read Liz lopatto yesterday

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

I think I actually didn’t get a date shake but K did and I tried it and it was really good. I hope I didn’t steer you wrong!

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 1d

Great speech. This especially resonated with me:
"I’d make it crystal clear in my writing where I was coming from so that there would be no ambiguity."
This has been my editorial policy from the beginning. It closes some mainstream media doors, but builds trust with my readers.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like the gays and roving groups of older women looking for a good brunch + mcm houses, date shakes, cacti

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

In which @sararah.bsky.social advised me to get a date shake

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

Iowa was super not in the confederacy, had the highest per capita soldiers fighting for the union, and I am super ashamed of our stupid AG every day for her support of this nonsense

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

You can call my crazy relative in Cape Coral who believes in Govt weather control. I’ll DM you his cell.

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

RIP #ChemTrails #ChemSky 🧪

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

(My advisor would accuse us of wasting time when we put lil jokes in our group meeting slides, in case you want to know Who Hurt Me)

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 1d

My undergrad lab assistant is helping me write the user guide for the new 300 and she keeps inserting lil jokes that amuse me greatly #NMRchat

A draft of a manual describing how to label your samples and that any samples left for 48 hours will be free for the taking, with a sentence that says “here lies your unlabeled/abandoned samples” and a picture of a spooky graveyard

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