I wrote this article for myself, but there are a lot more people than just me who deserve to hear this message.

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Yeah that’s probably why

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Honestly, good. Diet Coke is the best

It’s from Etsy!

Look what I found on Etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/6150...

Click here to see pictures of shark gifts 🦈

My favorite sharks are hammerhead sharks (although I love all sharks). My favorite singular shark is Bruce from Finding Nemo.

Hear me out:
The Three Wise Men were research scientists.

Gold: has antibacterial properties and can be used an immunogen, anti-cancer agent, angiogenic modulator.
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I love sharks and my mom has noticed.

Here is the article I wrote a while back that was described as "ruining Christmas for nearly everyone." My work here is done. 🪰🎄 www.wired.com/2015/12/rein...

Every day is a good day when you have llama antibody socks.

I got these from a woman who got them from an antibodies-related conference and was like “I know someone who loves fun socks.”

I will be drawing molecules on every card or letter that I send anyone ever again. I love molecules so much

Using legos, a flashlight, and polarizing film to observe chiral molecule light rotation in my organic chemistry class!

“I know a guy” sums up at least 50% of my relationships. I may not know that guy very well, BUT if I ever need to learn linear algebra, electron microscopy, or particle physics I know exactly who to call.

My goal is also to be that person 😊 Haven’t figured out what my specialty would be, though.

Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.

If you see this, post the cover of a book about sharks that you like

Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm

The MOST ABUNDANT PROTEIN ON EARTH is probably the one that almost all life depends on.

It makes up ~3% of the mass of every leaf & blade of grass on the planet: a total weight of 10^11 kg.

Let's talk about Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase or 'RuBisCO'.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What do sharks and camels have in common, (besides sometimes trying to eat children)?

Camelids like llamas, alpacas, camels can produce a type of antibody consisting of only the heavy chain (hcAB or VHH Abs).

So can sharks (& some other cartilaginous fish). So what?🧪

Everyone judges twist boat conformers until they wake up one day as a cis-1,4-ditert-butylcyclohexane existing in a chair conformation.

Something seemingly useless for you may be perfect for another person.

#chemistrylifeadvice

When life makes you a trans-1-ethyl-3-methylcyclohexane, you can never have both of your substituents in an equatorial position, but you can still live a stable life if you prioritize well

#chemistrylifeadvice

6 years of Kenshikai karate (my favorite) and 2 years of BJJ (also my favorite). We’re here!

Please send me chemistry memes

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Molecular biologist: I forgot to add the primers to the cup

I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization."

This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here: