It's almost #ACSSpring2022, and a few of us are trading our windowless basement lab for sunny San Diego! Be sure to check out oral presentations from Lennon () and Qilin, and posters from Kayla () and Jessica ()!
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Jessica Beard
@jesscbeard
Chem PhD student at MIT in || alum. Proud cat mom and Prairie State native residing in MA. she/her
Joined March 2020
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Vietnamese and other peoples of Southeast Asia have naming conventions very much different from those in the Anglosphere. For us, writing our names overseas is a big headache. Let me first explain Vietnamese names, then I'll touch on names in other cultures.
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At the same time that MIT stopped requiring indoor masking, the institute also stopped requiring weekly covid testing for students. Admin really just doesn't want to deal with this anymore 🙄
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He even highlighted the part about individuals not being allowed to even REQUEST that someone mask.
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science is 80% just fixing shit that was working yesterday but is somehow broken today
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he is a graduate student
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I regret now not clarifying that I have turned many a brown sludge into clean, pale powder before, and don't actually need Workup 101 😅 (some of the suggestions have been intriguing though)
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I'm just a grad student, staring at a flask of brown sludge, wondering how to make it into an off-white powder
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To any grad students still wondering how their peers can afford studio apartments, brand new cars, take-out, regular restaurant trips, concerts, fancy vacations on a grad student stipend: they can’t. They’re probably being supported by family. It’s not you unable to manage $$
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Update: I reached out to the woman whose info ILLiad is displaying, and the requests aren't her requests either... The plot thickens
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I just want my articles from obscure chemistry journals ðŸ˜
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In a bizarre turn of events, 's inter-library loan system (ILLiad) has gone rogue and appears to be showing both me and my labmate someone else's ILLiad page and requests instead of our own 🙃🤔
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Normalize describing all methods in a paper, even if they were done "as described in [16]."
Because [16] did it "as described by [9]", and [9] cites an abstract from the 70s that is unavailable. 🤦�♂�
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I don't generally post my Wordle results, but this was slightly infuriating 😅
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oh dude you like crypto? sick! i'm mining crypto rn. let me show you my setup. it's in the cellar, in this little opening in the brick wall,
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The administration, via the Chancellor and Provost, wrote yesterday that "we do not believe that unionization is the most constructive path forward for our graduate students." Today they provided faculty a set of talking points to address their graduate students,
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petition to create a de-acknowledgments section for dissertations where you spitefully list all the things that made it harder to finish
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Seeing these black IKA plates (vs the old blue ones) feels like seeing the dark, edgy reboot of a TV show from my childhood
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When you've been doing chemistry (or any science?) long enough, your definition of "sexy" can expand in funny ways.
Example: these hotplates from @IKAworldwide are sexy AF. Straight... fire...? 
#RealTimeChem #ChemTwitter
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The level of experimentation happening in twenty-something girls' bathrooms all over the country is the pipeline I dream of empowering. Recruiting directly in the sephora comments. Have you READ those comments? They're literally methods sections
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The best PhD defense is a good PhD offense
Print out your doctoral committee’s old theses beforehand and spend the first 30 minutes of your defense eviscerating them
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Celebrating our three most-read  articles in 2021. Check them out to see what everyone thought was interesting. 👇
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jo
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.or
dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.or
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is it just me or is the “4 tests per residential address� thing kinda weird?
like what happens if you’re a poor college student with 7 other roommates in a little apartment? who gets to use the tests?
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Excited that our recent work on the site-selective labeling of FeMoco is out on the chemrxiv! Big thanks to Dan and . Also thanks to our collaborators, Dmitriy and Brian, for their work on the collecting the beautiful 57Fe ENDOR data.
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Ligands are just chemist's way of going "I can fix you" to misbehaving metals
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Scientific research is paying $12,000 USD for a Nature paper generated from the work of grad students who can't even cover their rent.
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my journey through this new project so far
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how to table flip a lab bench
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Scientists are like yea I'm taking a break, then they describe literal work
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solidarity with all the phd students who are home for christmas and getting asked for more details about what their thesis is about from people who seem to then regret asking
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Covid denialism includes vaccinated people not taking precautions
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A thread for graduate students in chemistry - forward to your family!
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Why does every other prep in "Purification of Laboratory Chemicals" start with something normal like "vacuum distill over CaH" but then take a sharp turn to "pass through a mercury column while upside down holding a monkey's paw"
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Me: I'm going to be so productive this last week before I go on vacation.
My chemistry: Lol that's cute
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People are out here justifying not getting vaccinated by asking others if they trust their immune systems. Like??? I don’t trust my immune system. That bitch saw my thyroid and decided it was an unnecessary organ. She sees dust and decides the best reaction is death.
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I'm #TeamOrganicChemistry because who doesn't love a good mysterious white/off-white powder, but also why is anyone trying to start this fight on a random Tuesday
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I think they should kiss
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