⌬ dr. anna davis! ⌬
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former grad student/future postdoc/current bartender with a phd - average cycloaddition enjoyer & nitrene fiend - @hilinskigroup 🩷💜💙
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I just walked into my room holding the remote and a glass of chocolate milk and I meant to toss the remote into my bed but instead I tossed the glass of chocolate milk onto my bed
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Will someone pls tell me why they haven’t made a sitcom about grad school yet? You get the same insular drama, weird relationships in a mid sized group, & petty or absurd situations you get in a high school sitcom, but like… the 26 year old actors can actually play 26 year olds
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[emailing my committee at 2:48am] would you guys still let me graduate if I was a worm
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I’m a large nitrogen dewar.
I provide essential pressure and inert gas to a top tier research lab.
This is my daily routine.
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every lab has a weird little guy. if you don’t think your lab has one, then you’re the weird little guy
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The fact that plankton knew he could figure out the krabby patty formula simply by stealing one implies that the chum bucket has a mass spec
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left lab at 8pm exhausted, dejected, ready to quit and become a bartender, wondering why I started doing this whole chemistry thing. then I ate dinner and it turns out I was just hungry
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this is objective and definitive and I will not be accepting critiques, thank you
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I’m over halfway through a phd program in organic chemistry and there’s no good reason why I was required to take organic chemistry
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no chemist has all 5:
-high impact publications
-a genuine love for their craft
-hobbies
-a hot significant other
-social skills
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Getting desk rejected is actually a very sexy thing to do, fyi
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They say to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, so today I’m dressing like a tenured synthetic chemist
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“all this talk about click chemistry winning the nobel prize got me thinking about how well we clicked and how I missed the chance to make you my prize. you don’t have to respond I just what you to know that :/“
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⠀ (•ㅅ•) our postdoc supporting
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/ﾐ`ー―彡\ (•ㅅ•) me
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Babe are you okay? You’ve hardly touched the crude product you left in the freezer 7 months ago
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What, like I wasn’t gonna make one of these???
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Was trying to take a pic of myself working at my hood for a tweet and instead I got an action shot of me falling off my chair
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MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED IN CHEM SCI‼️‼️‼️‼️ NOT TO BE DRAMATIC BUT I HAVE LITERALLY NEVER WORKED HARDER ON ANY SINGLE THING IN MY LIFE SO IM CRYING A LIL
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If you say “NMR machine” 3 times in a bathroom mirror, your institution’s NMR tech will burst through the wall like the kool aid man and tell you it’s an instrument
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“Pics or it didn’t happen” sorry my first instinct after spilling chocolate milk all over my bed was to immediately clean it up/wash the sheets and not take pics to prove it to the 10 people I thought would see this???
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Here’s my stripped bed and the offending milk glass, for the haterz 😘😘😘
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Scifinder needs a “leave review” option like recipe websites where users can rate procedures and suggest improvements that worked for them. “I got 1/4 the yield they reported” or “works better with two equivalents of electrophile” or “needs more garlic” or smth
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the stir bar that had trace palladium on it that did the metal free suzuki
The chemistry Nobel will be announced tomorrow, so it’s that time again! Who will win this year? Wrong answers only.
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me on a date: I may not be cool or sexy but I can name the point group of anything you throw at me
date: [splashes glass of water in my face]
me: C2v
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I washed my dishes please clap
my therapist: for your journal doodles, make sure they encompass your primary emotion when you draw them
my primary emotion: utter unwillingness to wash my dishes
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Going into academia so I’ll get to use my .edu email address to get discounted spotify and prime student forever
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the feminine urge to get a phd in organic chemistry
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happy belated platinum jubilee to all my uk friends 😌😌😌
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This is what I get for always using ethyl acetate for my extractions :/
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Grad school is a marathon, not a sprint*
*you still gotta sprint for the whole marathon though like one of those really hardcore professional runners who maintains a 5 minute mile pace the whole time
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95% of the work for this went into matching colors using the snapchat palette, anyway, tag yourself I’m hawaiian shirt
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“mom can we have some physical affection”
“we have physical affection at home”
The physical affection at home:
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tell me where to get the solid dumpy flask thing riGHT NOW
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Already posted this a long time ago but,,,,, tag yourself I’m an equimolar mixture of ethyl acetate and diethyl ether
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Wishing we could go back to the golden age of science (getting a jacs paper by doing one reaction and confirming it for 31% yield because it tastes different than the starting material)
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The existence of provolone implies the existence of provolaldehyde and provoloic acid
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everyone is posting their red flags in men. here are mine.
-books >3h nmr time during work day
-in an all male research group
-does total synth
-boring group meeting slides
-knows how echem works
-clean fume hood
-mean to undergrads
-too many pubs
-not enough pubs
-in academia
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Shoutout to the premed sorority girl at the airport who saw my UVA chemistry shirt and rolled up to ask for help with orgo. Fortune favors the bold
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I’m sorry, putting them into the WHAT
Chemistry pro tip: make sure ALL crystallized iodine is cleaned from glassware before putting them into the dishwasher, or your prep room might smell like an antique first aid kit… 😳😂🤦🏻♂️
#chemchat
#realtimechem
#atleastitssanitized
#oompaloompa
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ten workup wednesday took a turn into rotovap bath extraction wednesday. I girlbossed too close to the sun
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people hating inorganic
on NFTs chemists
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“hexagon bad”
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If your PI is over 15 minutes late to group meeting you’re legally allowed to leave
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be not afraid
The DMSO bonding discussion on
#chemtwitter
is neat. I actually think DMSO bonds like this
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doing my lit presentation for group meeting tomorrow on the total synth of vilmoraconitine, which looks shockingly similar to this crumpled up piece of paper I found in my trash can
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extremely important snap memory just came up, please discuss
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I understand the importance of “selling your work” to a journal in the intro but I’m so over the requirement to say you’re like… curing cancer with your niche cycloaddition. When are we gonna be secure enough in our masculinity to say that we’re just doing stuff bc it’s cool
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Did it hurt? When you left your column for 30 seconds and it ran dry
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Undergrad mentee chronicles, week 2: she said she described me to her friend as “fantastic as a chemist, barely functional as a human being” which may actually be my new tinder bio
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Today I learned that kurt alder was 25 when the diels-alder was discovered, if I don’t have a name reaction in the next 14 months I am going to walk into the sea
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Anyways remember when I got quote tweeted by a Nobel laureate
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gonna share some advice I just gave my undergrad and always share with junior grads before their quals: if you don’t know the answer to a “why” question, just say “the homo lumo gap”
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the existence of paramore implies the existence of metamore and orthromore
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Squirting DCM on my hands just to feel something
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[taking a nap at my bench] “I’m teaching her independence”
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Reducing agent, emphasis on the agent (I’m sticking hydrides on everyone)
@heydebigale
WAIT I have another!!! Get a bunch of little balls. Put “e-“ on them. Throw them at people all night. You’re a reducing agent
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I cleaned your nmr tubes for you
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deleting dating apps because I want to fall in love the old fashioned way (leading rival research groups in the same ultra-specific subfield until a chance meeting at a conference makes us realize our labs, and each other, are better off working together)
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this came up on insta but I felt like more people would relate here
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3 columns later and there’s still grass in the aromatic region
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chemistry affirmations in the style of the afffirmations insta page
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this is what the discourse in the poll comments looks like
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not sterics not electronics but a secret third thing
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getting into crystal healing (got my first crystal structure and it has healed me)
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You guys wanna tell me why the nmr machine gets paid a higher hourly wage than the grad students do
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Thinking about 15 year old Anna, who did her chem hw in a labcoat, took wild joy in her lab classes, and probably wouldn’t have been able to tell you what a scientist actually did. Thankful for her absurd insistence on becoming one despite that & it getting me where I am today✨
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Don’t say you’re up to date on the literature unless your phone’s IP address has been blocked from the jacs website for excessive site usage
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Everyone’s writing “roses are red” poems so I feel like now would be an appropriate time to share the poems I write for the stockroom when I place orders for chemicals
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I know this is a paper from two and a half years ago but I still constantly think about how they put methane in a buckyball
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classes started. why the HELL do all the undergrads have mullets
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When I say we need to go back to the golden age of chemistry this is what I mean
"You don't need to know why we were doing this in the first place"
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How do I indicate on my cv that I’m a niche internet microcelebrity
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securamine insecuramine
A moment I've been waiting for. I present my first-cofirst author manuscript:
An oxidative photocyclization approach to the synthesis of skeletally-diverse Securiflustra securifrons alkaloids
Lucky to be able to do it with some great friends!
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all I’m saying is that when I was 16, a kid brought a kitchen knife to school and stabbed a bunch of people in the hallway. 20+ injured, ZERO dead. this isn’t about psychopathic teenagers or reactionary internet communities or mental health. it’s about guns.
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Thank god I can finally do my reactions in pumpkin spice acetonitrile
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and? I published the vinylpyridine diels alder at age 24
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Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.
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three words. say them and I’m yours. (sigma bucket hat)
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inside every nmr machine is a slightly smaller nmr machine piloting it like a mech suit
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become ungovernable
Currently reviewing a manuscript that was submitted in landscape orientation
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