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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪

@ndchiappini.bsky.social

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Lover of weird rxns, reactive intermediates, hockey (mostly 🐧and🐙)and equitable sci. Asst Prof at UNCW. Queer AF. Ligand appreciator. Bird and space nerd. ChemSky. He/him

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · 14d

Tonight's exam night joke:

What did the Wicked Witch of the West say to the alkene?

I'll get you my pretty, and your little sp, too!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23d

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · 28d

Do I know anyone who has applied for/been awarded a K18?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28d

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 28d

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 28d

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.

wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left.

Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29d

The anti-trans and anti-abortion contingents are united on a variety of tactics/bigotries, but one of their top ones is about turning Big Brother into Big Neighbor (or, in this case, I guess ~ Big Student ~). The goal is to make everyone with an ounce of knowledge or compassion afraid to show it.

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29d

A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.

www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

Week 1 favorites:
Nataliia
Jessika
Tom
Iain

Pui man has some killer one liners

Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

@safechem79.bsky.social at all times

New GBBO contestant Iain (wee Northern Irish man with long hair) saying "stability is a fairly big concern of mine."

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

When the click reaction calls for a tetrazine

Incredibly pink pastry with caption "This is a hot pink mess"

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

Me and my students when I improvise a workup

Noel Fielding and new bake off contestant. Noel is looking on curiously. "I haven't got a clue what I'm doing. Noel: You're a jazz baker."

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

Running an nmr in D2O

A close up of an intricately decorated swiss roll with frosting over a noticeable crack. Superimposed is the text "Solvent peaks hide a multitude of sins"

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hitting "Submit" on a paper

Cute baker Toby with mustache saying "We're in. We're stressed."

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

Stahl Oxidation time

Bowl of batter that is noticeably verdant with the closed caption "It's a bit green, isn't it?"

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

When you use the wrong solvent, but the reaction works anyway

Head on shot of Allison Hammond looking at the camera with an expression that says YIKES. with the words "You know what? I'll...Yeah. I mean.."

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

That post Sonogashira aqueous workup feel

cross section of a pink fondanted baked good on a cooling rack with the words "Oh! Look disgusting!" superimposed

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

No comment.

GBBO contestant Tom (tall, chic blond man) saying "I think Paul Hollywood's a bit of a daddy. Bit of a hunky man."

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

When my esterification of capric acid worked

GBBO contestant Toby saying "I'm absolutely" before being cut off by a sheep bleating.

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

How the DCM looks at you after you try to dry the aqueous layer with MgSO4

Allison and Noel from GBBO talking in Jurassic Park drag. Alison is looking at Noel skeptically saying "I think it's the other way round babes"

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Sep 6

IT'S FINALLY TIME! BakeOff is BACK. You know what that means ChemBakeOff reaction/meme thread.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 4

two thoughts. 1) this prose is *rough*. 2) describing weiss as possessing a “shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition” is evidence you’ve suffered a brain injury

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Sep 4

You can start getting ready for CBS News guided by Bari Weiss of the Free Press. This is from Dylan Byers. [Paywall likely]

"I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division."

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Aug 30

Andre the Goochlander

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Aug 20

New Carly Rae Jepsen to bless the first day of classes....SUBLIME.

AND we're getting EMOTION-SideC? shaking honestly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Jm...

YouTube video by Carly Rae Jepsen - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT @jeflip.bsky.social / @lipshultzsbu.bsky.social out in ACS Catalysis, feat. my rockstar undergrad Celeste Barefoot who worked in this during her REU!

She's applying for PhD programs this fall!! 🔗below

Reaction scheme showing transformation of an alcohol into the nor-alkane using a titanocene catalyst, light, and thiol co-catalyst.

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