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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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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 6h

#chemjobs en français 🇨🇦

Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 1d

Also lynxes.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 21h

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

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a Brooklyn Downtown campus?

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 1d

I am no one’s creation but my own

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 2d

Moral victory for the bills 😄

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 2d

The ice man cometh

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 2d

Like all the great punters

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

Stop the count!

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

Blessed are the cheesemakers

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

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

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

Making sure they denied everyone the tie we were all craving

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

👇👇👇👇👇

Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 3d

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!

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Atlas loves to watch nature shows #CatsOfBluesky

Viewed from behind, a silky grey cat is sitting on a beige carpeted floor looking up at a television. There is a California full on the screen.

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

That would be a funny way to bookend his career

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no!

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 3d

Prince of Darkness (1987, dir. John Carpenter). 🎥 Scene from a typical physics professor’s office, with a nonsense molecular model on the desk next to the rotary phone, and a group of undergrads who are all definitely not 40 years old. Anyway, Satan is in a beaker in a nearby church basement. 😁👍

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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 4d

He has been waiting for the right occasion to wear it? 😜

Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 4d

Probably Sanchez didn’t expect him to be there and just ran right into his butt