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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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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 9h

Before Alaska flooding, Trump & Vance’s EPA had cancelled a $20 million flood protection grant.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

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Chad Haney @imagedistillary.com · 11h

Sad day. Ramping down our 7T MRI to remove some ice.

Left, MRI super conducting magnet. Large orange cables going into magnet. Right, electronics rack.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 12h

No startups, no science: How the Republican Administration switched off America's most important engine of economic success.

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Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 19h

Another view of Monday’s Spectacular Chicago Sunrise

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

Dr. Hoffman’s obituary: #Chemsky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...

Darleane Hoffman, Innovator in Nuclear Chemistry, Dies at 98

www.nytimes.com

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

Oh wow, Dr. Darleane Hoffman, ISU alumnus and GOAT, passed away last month. Absolute legend, I was grateful to meet her in 2007 when she came back to ISU to receive an award. #Chemsky 🧪

A group of seven women standing in a hallway, with a petite older woman in a Jean jacket, standing in the front of the group

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Brandon Doughan 🍶 @brandondoughan.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning LA with your 2% chance of tornadoes

NOAA map showing LA under tornado threat

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 Mary Golda Ross for
#AdaLovelaceDay and #IndigenousPeoplesDay

#ald25 #histsci

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 6d

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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

Upsetting there’s only 12 years between these versions of Sarah and now 18 years since 2007 Sarah bsky.app/profile/sara...

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

Oh wow, Dr. Darleane Hoffman, ISU alumnus and GOAT, passed away last month. Absolute legend, I was grateful to meet her in 2007 when she came back to ISU to receive an award. #Chemsky 🧪

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

I didn’t know she was my hero until I met her - a pioneer for women in the physical sciences. Generous with her time and happy to answer stupid questions about the theoretical Island of Stability from 25-year-olds. She was so kind, and incredibly driven, even in her later years.

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

Dr. Hoffman’s obituary: #Chemsky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...

Darleane Hoffman, Innovator in Nuclear Chemistry, Dies at 98

www.nytimes.com

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

Oh wow, Dr. Darleane Hoffman, ISU alumnus and GOAT, passed away last month. Absolute legend, I was grateful to meet her in 2007 when she came back to ISU to receive an award. #Chemsky 🧪

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

Honestly, Cresco is kinda cute, has a good little greasy spoon diner, and is close to good canoeing

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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

My friend sent me this meme, but then I had to go find the listing. I was not disappointed. #imaginativelandscaping www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

A large pile of rocks with a staircase that says Cresco IA $229,000 and then “this backyard is exactly what happens when you you let your girlfriend keep all the cool rocks she finds”

A screenshot that says
SPRAWLING ROCK SCULPTURE
IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPING

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

Plz enjoy Autumnal Sarah ca. 1995, with Good Boy Beau

A young teen with short brown hair and glasses, crouching in a pile of leaves with a Shetland sheepdog, who had a brown face and ears and a white chest

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

WTF

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

Correct

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 1d

Forbidden love

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1d

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 2d

-80 freezer at -20

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 2d

This is the mushroom used by Erin Patterson, the Australian woman was convicted last month of murdering three people in 2023 by serving them a lethal lunch.

Bath Nature @bathnature.bsky.social · 2d

Deathcap (Amanita phalloides) at the foot of an oak in Engine Wood, Combe Hay on the outskirts of #Bath #Somerset #UK Probably the most poisonous #mushroom in the world - although slugs seem to like eating them!
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #fungi

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 2d

My “ohs” and “ehs” definitely get longer when I’m up nort, especially after a beer or two 😅

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naturepoker @binomicalabs.org · 2d

Experiment designs.

Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday

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🌵🌟🌵 @psistarpsi.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly I’m kind of upset the sentence wasn’t more substantial. Like, make him do the remediation every weekend for the rest of his life.

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