Ben Bellenie
@chemb.bsky.social
Medicinal chemist at ICR London. Lots of proteins being degraded around these parts. I’ll write something more interesting here when I have time, so never. Views my own
Ah it’s tedious. There’s a run of about 5000 words in the middle that do nothing but describe how white the whale apparently is.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Ah it’s tedious. There’s a run of about 5000 words in the middle that do nothing but describe how white the whale apparently is.
Great to be part of this event @chemicalprobes.org - nice to return to the complexities of GPCRs for a day!
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Great to be part of this event @chemicalprobes.org - nice to return to the complexities of GPCRs for a day!
Well, I am an scientist so the only way to find out is experiment
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Well, I am an scientist so the only way to find out is experiment
awful news - thoughts to friends and ex colleagues at MSD. Had no inkling from the outside that this was likely, seemed like the job market was generally picking up slightly in the UK
September 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
awful news - thoughts to friends and ex colleagues at MSD. Had no inkling from the outside that this was likely, seemed like the job market was generally picking up slightly in the UK
Don’t leave it unguarded, those competitive intelligence folks will be unpicking the tape …!
September 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Don’t leave it unguarded, those competitive intelligence folks will be unpicking the tape …!
The lab book write up is going to be fun. Like the old tissue paper extraction from the surface of the fume hood. “The biphasic mixture was distributed over a large flat surface and absorbed onto a cellulose matrix. Product was eluted from the cellulose with DCM and evaporated…”
August 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The lab book write up is going to be fun. Like the old tissue paper extraction from the surface of the fume hood. “The biphasic mixture was distributed over a large flat surface and absorbed onto a cellulose matrix. Product was eluted from the cellulose with DCM and evaporated…”
Tl;dr why can’t LLMs count?!?
August 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tl;dr why can’t LLMs count?!?