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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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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 14h

-80 freezer at -20

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

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 · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

Experiment designs.

Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday

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🌵🌟🌵 @psistarpsi.bsky.social · 1d

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

Well homeopathy is making a comeback, so

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

#chemsky 🧪 I guess if you’re gonna dump a bunch of chemicals in the countryside, don’t text your friends about it

Carolski @carolski.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, my.
#chemistry

www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/t...

Texas Man Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Illegally Dumping Laboratory Grade Cyanide and Other Chemicals in Bernalillo County

Daniel Winard was sentenced to 24 months in prison for knowing endangerment in the storage and disposal of hazardous waste without a permit.

www.justice.gov

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Carolski @carolski.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, my.
#chemistry

www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/t...

Texas Man Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Illegally Dumping Laboratory Grade Cyanide and Other Chemicals in Bernalillo County

Daniel Winard was sentenced to 24 months in prison for knowing endangerment in the storage and disposal of hazardous waste without a permit.

www.justice.gov

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Kelly Bluebook @cheatlines.co · 1d

Had to look it up... hell yeah brother

Custom van style airbrushing of ichabod crane and the headless horseman on an ambulance, as described

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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

Lapsed spouse says “oh yeah we had one of those, it’s what they use to bless all of the other Host for communion. It’s like homeopathy for communion wafers” 😆

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

Oh yeah def do not know what that is #protestant

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

Honestly, I deserve it

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

I accidentally sat through “Party in the USA” during a timeout in a women’s basketball game

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 1d

Seen in the wild at a brewery in South Dakota

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

Floor sweeper was GOAT

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

This piece made possible by the detailed data and analysis in CDC's MMWR reports, the staff of which was reportedly laid off in last night's purge...

Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Last year's flu season was brutal-280 kids died. That came amid a drop in flu vax rates among vulnerable groups. Convincing people to get the flu shot has always been hard-under RFK, doctors' job got much tougher. Anyway: it's October, get your flu shot! My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):

This Flu Season Doesn’t Have to Be as Deadly as the Last

Last year’s flu season was long, brutal, and ultimately tragic. By the time infections had subsided in May, as many as 1.1 million Americans were estimated to have been hospitalized and as many as 100...

www.bloomberg.com

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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

Growing inside or outside?

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 2d

Ours have never won any medals, but they have worn party hats and been dressed up as Star Wars droids for Halloween.

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

Super kabuto throws another one!

A small cactus with fuzzy white spots and a large yellow flower blooming on top

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

Fair

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

It is superconducting (to get to the higher field) but no liquid cryogens, instead it uses recirculating pressurized helium gas (like a cryoprobe) to cool the superconducting wire. But that introduces a lot of vibrations, is my understanding

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

so they are basically running into the same issues

Cryogen-free magnet was used to measure high resolution solid-state and liquid-state 2D NMR spectra.
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•It was shown that the magnet is good without limitations for solid-state MAS NMR.
•For liquid-state NMR the temporal field stability needs to be improved that can be done by hardware field correction.
•Magnet can be used at different field without compromising the data resolution.
•Some remaining spectra distortions can be corrected by post-acquisition software correction.

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

They are pretty common with DNP gyrotrons and higher field EPR magnets nowadays (where you have to sweep the field) but field homogeneity is not as critical. Have not seen it for solution NMR yet.

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