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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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Used book store coming in STRONG today with a whole cadre of desk refs for my students as they write their papers and theses.
Four books: A Writers reference, The Elements of Style, a Pocket Style guide and Making Shapely Fiction All with the central theme of imparting the art of writing
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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@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."
September 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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When the click reaction calls for a tetrazine
Incredibly pink pastry with caption "This is a hot pink mess"
September 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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."
September 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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"
September 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Hitting "Submit" on a paper
Cute baker Toby with mustache saying "We're in. We're stressed."
September 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Stahl Oxidation time
Bowl of batter that is noticeably verdant with the closed caption "It's a bit green, isn't it?"
September 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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.."
September 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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
September 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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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."
September 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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When my esterification of capric acid worked
GBBO contestant Toby saying "I'm absolutely" before being cut off by a sheep bleating.
September 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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"
September 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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IT'S FINALLY TIME! BakeOff is BACK. You know what that means ChemBakeOff reaction/meme thread.
Logo/TitleCard of the Great British Bake Off
September 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🚨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.
August 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Running a little Hajime Ito group chem to cook up some silyl boronates! GC looking good so far 😎 #RealTimeChem
Petite, but perfect 50 mL roundbottom flask on an aluminum heating block with a septum and balloon on top. The flask is about 1/2 full with a dark black solution (Pt/C, B2pin2, silane, cyclohexane)
August 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Mom from Futurama saying Cram it Ape to her idiot sons while an image of the Cram chelate model for prediction of stereocontrol in carbonyl additions is superimposed over her face
August 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Also met @dmeremin.bsky.social for the first time irl too!!!
Nick looking like an absolute dingus doing finger guns while Dmitry poses effortlessly behind him
July 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Peaflower Lavender lemonade (codename: Purple Rain) saving my life rn
A gorgeous purple drink that gradients to a blue violet near the bottom.
July 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Finally met the one, the only, the powerful @stanna-dorn.bsky.social at ORP GRC.

Such a long time coming, and so much fun
July 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Forgot to share my hydrogenation balloon from the other day!

Tragically his smug demeanor did ~not~ enhance the hydrogenation yield.
An unwarrantedly smug face drawn in sharpie on a red balloon connected to a flask with a needle.
July 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Last day of classes!
Nick is sitting in his car in a Garnet colored tee under a blue cardigan. He's smiling, has a beard, and is wearing tinted glasses along with a mushroom button earring
April 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Okay but @skeletonkeyed.bsky.social consider also, Him (TM)
Geno Malkin sauntering down the hallway with a stupid schoolboy grin on his face with a sharp pewter blazer and beige slacks.
April 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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My god
The most beautiful man in existence, Sidney Crosby, strutting stunningly down the hall pre game with the Caps. Ass not visible from this angle but implied
April 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Got to meet Sam Witwer at Coastal Comic Con!
Nick smiing goofily next to human sculpture, Sam Witwer, the stunning baritone responsible for the amazing voicework on Maul in Star Wars
March 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Scott this was my heart rate monitor the moment I opened the text:
Nick's pixel watch heart rate monitoring showing a rapid and large spike to about 128 bpm corresponding to the time he received a text that his friend met Sidney Crosby, complete with fucking picture.
February 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM