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Brendan
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Where chemistry meets the bottom of the humour barrel.
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Seems about right. #u2
Screen shot from Spotify wrapped. Apparent I am no 1500 top listener of u2 on Spotify
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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10 yrs ago today I stopped drinking - forever. It took ~2 of those yrs to say "I don't drink" instead of making excuses to explain my abstinence.

Dunno if anyone needs to hear this, but if you feel need to stop but can't...you can! And when you do, no-one needs an explanation. 🙂 #chemsky
A molecule of anisole, smiling saying : this has been a ChemScrapes community service announcement
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Americium Gothic #chemsky #sciart #chemistry
two atoms of americium standing out the front of their house in a chemistry parody of the famous painting by Grant Wood, American Gothic.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Stille Life #chemsky #chemistry #realtimechem
A palladium artist is painting a picture. His models are a molecule of bromobenzene and phenyltributyltin. It is a still life painting.
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Oh my goodness….i forgot I did this in 2017. #chemsky #chemistry
Donal trump holding up an executive order saying El Dopa is a bad hombre. On the order is a ChemScrapes drawing of L-dopa in full bandit gear.
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Stumbled on this in my archive today. The message is not specific to chemistry - it's relevant to any discipline/workplace/application. Human endeavour is all about humans after all. #chemsky #diversity
A conceptual diagram, drawn in a sketchy, hand-drawn style, titled "DIVERSITY in THOUGHT LEADERSHIP." The image illustrates a cyclical process of diversity and development using anthropomorphic benzene rings labeled "Chem." Center: "DIVERSITY of TALENT" is written in the middle, surrounded by many small, indistinct, multicolored figures representing different people. The Cycle: Three hexagonal "Chem" figures with faces and limbs are placed around the central group, forming a circle connected by red arrows: Top Right Arrow: Points from the central talent pool to the top-right Chem figure, labeled with MENTORSHIP, SCHOLARSHIP, TRANSPARENCY, RESPECT. Bottom Right Arrow: Points from the top-right Chem figure to the bottom Chem figure, labeled with CREATIVITY, CURIOSITY, UNMET NEEDS, SOCIETAL NEEDS. Bottom Left Arrow: Points from the bottom Chem figure (which is standing over a lightbulb labeled "Chem") to the left Chem figure, labeled with DISCOVERY, INNOVATION, TRANSLATION, OUTCOMES. Top Left Arrow: Points from the left Chem figure back towards the top, labeled with FUTURE LEADERS. Surrounding Figures: Small, multicolored figures are shown migrating from the central pool outward, indicating movement and development into leadership.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Chemistry Horror Reads #Halloweeen #chemsky #spookychem
A Parody of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" book cover. A vampire with a cape the shape of a Salen ligand is hovering over the silhoutte of a house on a hill top. The house is shown as a Nickel Atom. The name of the book is "Salen's Lot"
November 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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A throwback to #sketchchemistry #spookychem with @cenmag.bsky.social 👻

#chemsky
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Chemdraw shenanigans #chemsky
October 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Remembering the work from home days back in '20. #chemsky
cartoon depicting a video conference call . The screen shows three main participants: Left Panel (Speaking): An aryl boronic acid, It seems to be a bit sceptical. It's saying "Thanks for calling in folks! Not sure how this is gonna work, but rules are rules. Also on the call is an aryl bromide. It is wearing a headset and has a slightly perplexed expression. Bottom Right Corner (Small Video Feed): palladium atom with a simple neutral face. The overall image is a visualization of a virtual meeting for a Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction under work from home conditions.
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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a vinyl group with a cow head saying "i thought not bad"
October 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Ppl are shy in #chemsky

Transition Mootal complex….
A drawing of a metal coordination sphere in the shapes of a cow. It is a transition mootal complex.
October 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Who's up for some Chemistry Cow Puns #chemsky? I'll start - reply with your best pun or image. I am not shy of replying to myself so get 'em in while you can.

Ludderanes anyone?
A drawing of an oligomer of cylopentadiene/norbornadiene adducts - known as a ladderane. underneath the oligomer, each unit has an udder....this is a ludderane.
October 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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It's MOLE DAY. Happy mole day all. #Chemsky #chemistry #moleday #realtimechem
two-panel hand-drawn cartoon Panel 1: A mole is emerging from a dirt hole, holding a sign featuring a portrait of the chemist Avogadro. The mole is looking up and exclaiming, "HAPPY MOLE DAY!" Panel 2: The mole, still holding the sign, looks surprised or corrected when a mole on it's hand says "THANKS! BUT I PREFER TO THINK OF MYSELF AS A BEAUTY SPOT!" The joke references the fact that the word "mole" in chemistry (the unit) is named after Avogadro, but a small dark spot on skin is also called a mole (or beauty mark). It's a triple whammy folks. A triple whammy!! A bunch of moles arranged in a hexagon. It's a mole-ecule.
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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i DO remember this though.
Matt in a roasting dish with some herbs and spices and and apply in his mouth. He is wearing PPE. Picture drawn in some ChemTwitter nonsense in 2017
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Been a while since I defaced anything. Anyone spot the back to the future reference? #chemsky
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Woah!!! 
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Perrier Rearrangement #chemsky
The reaction depicts a tetra-acetylated glucal molecule on the left undergoing an elimination reaction assisted by a Lewis Acid where at bottle of Perrier sparkling water attaccks the 2-position. The product on the right is a six-membered ring with an OAc (acetate) group and the bottle of Perrier, which is shown replacing the original OAc group, humorously illustrating the insertion of a water molecule.
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Some Downloadable printable Christmas Cards at The ChemScrapes Store...the puns are bad folks. REALLY bad...and therefore classic ChemScrapes/ #chemsky

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October 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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a molecule of Anisole standing holding an unattached steering wheel in one hand, while the other arm looks like it is resting a a car window. The first image of this thread appears in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Done!
Backstory for the image (AI Generated). Long before the rise of the Atreides Empire, in a forgotten corner of the Spice mining operations, there existed two rival Fremen tribes: the Spectroscopists and the IUPACians. The Spectroscopists, led by their grizzled chieftain, Gurney Halleck-O'Meter, believed that true knowledge of the universe, and particularly of the Spice Melange, could only be gained through empirical observation. They meticulously analyzed every sample, charting its vibrational modes, electron transitions, and rotational spectra. Their holy texts were not the legends of Shai-Hulud, but dense tomes of Infrared, NMR, and Mass Spectrometry, which Gurney (pictured on the left, ever-vigilant with his Spectroscopy scroll and trusty IR flashlight) guarded fiercely. They spoke in a language of peaks, shifts, and coupling constants, convinced that the answers lay in the data. Meanwhile, across the vast, sandy plains, were the IUPACians. These were the purists, the keepers of order and nomenclature, led by the charismatic, albeit somewhat bewildered, Paul 'Blue-Foot' Atreides (pictured on the right, still getting used to his blue-in-blue chemical identity). They believed that without proper, systematic naming and classification, the universe—and especially its compounds—would descend into chaos. Paul, ever burdened by the visions of future chemical reactions and the weight of proper organic nomenclature, carried his revered IUPAC Guide everywhere. He argued that understanding the fundamental names and structures was paramount to controlling the universe's chemical destiny. Their rivalry was legendary, though mostly peaceful, consisting of heated debates on the proper identification of organic functional groups and the most effective way to quantify Spice purity. The Spectroscopists would scoff at the IUPACians' reliance on "mere words," while the IUPACians would lament the Spectroscopists' "lack of systematic elegance."
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Ah yes - who could every forget this great face-off at the Thunderdome. @stuartcantrill.com @jakeyeston.bsky.social #chemsky

Shoes worn it yet Stu?
It's a cartoon image of Stu and Jake facing off at the thunderdome. I can't remember what precipitated this image - but Stu is waving an IUPAC rule book, and Jake has the ACS style guide. Stu is wearing new blue sneakers.
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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It has been a LONG time since I have been able to pull this out.... #chemsky

#epl #mufc
The image shows four panels depicting personified chemical elements drawn as spheres with orbits, Lithium (sad), vanadium (angry), Erbium (crying), Plutonium (bawling), and Aluminum (consoling erbium). Spelled out it is LiVErPuAl - which is phonetically spelled for the liverpool accent. The image features four personified chemical elements drawn as spheres with orbits, performing a skit about Manchester United Football Club (MUFC). Manganese, Uranium, Fluorine, and Carbon. When read together, the element symbols create the pun: MnUFC - Manchester United Football Club. They are all very happy - unlike the losers in the previous image. I don't care if it's mean - I have earned this. Now just need Ferrari to get a few more podiums.
October 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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You know - sometimes I go through my archives and I wonder what on earth inspires stuff like this. #chemsky Sung to the tune of the oompa loompa song.
A hand-drawn illustration depicting the chemical structure of three lecithin molecules (specifically phosphatidylcholine) with the choline head groups humorously drawn as orange Oompa Loompa faces. The image includes a rhyming text that describes lecithin's function as an emulsifier to prevent an emulsion from splitting: "WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOUR EMULSION SPLITS? OIL ON WATER AND A CASE OF THE SHITS! HOW THEN TO GET YOUR TWO PHASES TO MIX? I HAPPEN TO HAVE A QUICK FIIIIX! YOU SHOULD ADD... YOU SHOULD ADD... YOU SHOULD ADDDD.... A FEW DROPS OF SOME LECITHIN!"sung to the tune of the Oopma Loompa sing from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
October 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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My fav song at the moment. The Fate of Orphenadrine #chemsky
Parody of the single cover to Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift. Except instead for Tay Tay there is a semi-submerged structure of orphenadrine and decomposition products. It's really very clever
October 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM