Rachel W. Martin
@rwmartin.bsky.social
Biophysical chemist, NMR spectroscopist, vision researcher, plant enthusiast, enzyme hunter.
I stage tiny, elaborately choreographed musicals starring nuclear spins.
Lab website: probemonkey.com
I stage tiny, elaborately choreographed musicals starring nuclear spins.
Lab website: probemonkey.com
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Check out this collaboration between the Chekmenev and Boyd Goodson Labs in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. #wsuchemistry #NMRchat #MRI #ChemSky
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
1H/15N NMR and Low-Field 1H MRI of SABRE-Hyperpolarized Pyrazinamide─An Approved Antibiotic and Potential MRI Contrast Agent
Pyrazinamide (PZA), an FDA-approved antibiotic, was investigated for potential use as a hyperpolarized MRI contrast agent. PZA was readily hyperpolarized via parahydrogen-based NMR Signal Amplificatio...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Check out this collaboration between the Chekmenev and Boyd Goodson Labs in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. #wsuchemistry #NMRchat #MRI #ChemSky
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
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it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I also use the bacon method. Although turkey is Christmas dinner where I come from.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
it fascinates me how most everyone in the U.S. does turkey for Thanksgiving, but we are all over the map as to what we eat for Christmas (as is proper for a hugely diverse nation).
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I come from a Christmas prime rib roast family, myself.
I really wanted to do research as a 16-year-old freshman and the only professor who would let me join his lab did NMR of peptides from rattlesnake venom.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I really wanted to do research as a 16-year-old freshman and the only professor who would let me join his lab did NMR of peptides from rattlesnake venom.
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Book Cover of the Day:
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
This is a delight.
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is a delight.
I rubbed my eye after eating “Fuego” Takis my student brought back form Mexico and cried through group meeting. I am very smart.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I rubbed my eye after eating “Fuego” Takis my student brought back form Mexico and cried through group meeting. I am very smart.
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wait i made a meme for this back in the day
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
wait i made a meme for this back in the day
Preach, sister!
My uni and many others have tried to centralize and automate many administrative functions. What happens is that the expertise is moved out of the department and then the rest of us suckers are left to learn to become admins and deal with all the edge cases. Such has been the last 6 yrs of my life
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Preach, sister!
You need to treat a bunch of dysentery patients but you don't have enough viruses that lyse bacterial cells? Problematic phage gap.
Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
Prisoners keep escaping because you put the bars too far apart? Problematic cage gap.
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You need to treat a bunch of dysentery patients but you don't have enough viruses that lyse bacterial cells? Problematic phage gap.
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welcome to the club, wolves
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
welcome to the club, wolves
Science, too. Ideas are cheap. The hard part is getting things done.
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Science, too. Ideas are cheap. The hard part is getting things done.
Seriously, anyone suffering from imposter syndrome or feeling bad about their writing should seek out excerpts of that book that is going around.
every time i think my prose is unnecessarily purple or esoteric i think about how legible and sensible it is in comparison to various excrescences of actual real-live celebrated journalists and feel much better about my place in the great order of things
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Seriously, anyone suffering from imposter syndrome or feeling bad about their writing should seek out excerpts of that book that is going around.
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every time i think my prose is unnecessarily purple or esoteric i think about how legible and sensible it is in comparison to various excrescences of actual real-live celebrated journalists and feel much better about my place in the great order of things
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
every time i think my prose is unnecessarily purple or esoteric i think about how legible and sensible it is in comparison to various excrescences of actual real-live celebrated journalists and feel much better about my place in the great order of things
I love these.
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I love these.
I want to do my own research (in my own research field) and for other experts to do theirs.
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I want to do my own research (in my own research field) and for other experts to do theirs.
My friend got me a free RT-PCR from a company that was giving away old equipment. It's a good day.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My friend got me a free RT-PCR from a company that was giving away old equipment. It's a good day.
I was expecting this to be someone's thesis project, but it's a musician with a pet octopus. Who can play piano.
Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I was expecting this to be someone's thesis project, but it's a musician with a pet octopus. Who can play piano.
But don't say guten Tag, they're not actually German.
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
But don't say guten Tag, they're not actually German.
I got my eel facts, did you?
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I got my eel facts, did you?
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Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
ICP has prior art on this, and they are funnier.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
ICP has prior art on this, and they are funnier.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
@ethankocak.com last night I dreamed that you and your wife were running a bed and breakfast where the guests sleep in the basement with the newts and I was trying to convince my husband that we should go. (But there are also GECKOS!)
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@ethankocak.com last night I dreamed that you and your wife were running a bed and breakfast where the guests sleep in the basement with the newts and I was trying to convince my husband that we should go. (But there are also GECKOS!)
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.
You’re welcome, for that brilliant idea from my sleeping brain.