Brendan

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Where chemistry meets the bottom of the humour barrel.

A benzene molecule in a lab coat and sunglasses.
A representation of an old, noisy 60MHz proton NMR spectrum showing broad curves and no resolution. it is adorned with 60 styled vintage rainbow coloured flowers. the title is 60s MHz NMR
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A cartoon drawing of the statue of liberty. It is made of the atoms Lithium (Li), Boron (B), Erbium (Er), Titanium (Ti) and Yttrium (Y) - which spells out LiBErTiY
A cartoon molecule of indole. It’s holding a torch, and is dressed like the Statue of Liberty. Tha caption says Happy Indolependence Day.
A shipwrecked person a dessert island. Writing a not saying “send help. There is a sinking ship in the distance and an empty bottle next to the person
A white mug with a blue handle and a picture of a round bottom flask. It looks like it’s twerking. The text on the mug says - shake that big round bottom
A picture of Dean Toste with a jar of vegemite on his shoulder
Two polymer beads, standing looking very cross. theiur arms are linked. these are cross, linked polymer beads. a play on crosslinking.
the word fact in vibrant different colours. they are having a party. Fun fact.....
Anisole, happy that is shafted someone.
A depiction of Monet's "Woman with Parasol" - except the umbrella in this image is the disodium salt of terephthalate. ba-dum-ch!
A parody of a chemistry ournal " Organo-meatallics. The review article is advertised as "Recent advances in Leg-end design for the hock reaction" The perspective is advertised as "Di-Rib eye dium complexes as hydrogenation catalysts" The feature article is advertised as "Meat-allocenes: New era of steak sandwich complexes. It is accompanied by a picture of a metal sandwiched between two pentagon shaped steaks. Speacial guest editorial is by George M Topsides.
Inside the mind of an organic chemist: 1H NMR of a failed reaction. Two scenarios. The first scenario: What happens: shows a FT, it is transformed via a Fourier transform, and it generates a messy spectrum with a forest of peaks in the resulting spectrum. There is no product here. The second scenario: What we see: Shows the same FID, the same Fourier transform, but this time the spectrum has a flat baseline. The only signal is a hand coming off the baseline holding up its middle finger. It's mocking us....always mocking us.
A chemistry themed Mahjong set - 13 wonders. The winds are replaced by DG (gree energy), DS (entropy) DU(change in internal energy of a system, DH (enthalpy). The dragons are ideal gas equation (white dragon, Arrhenius eqn (green dragon) and schrodinger hamiltonian). The circles are MO diagrams, the bamoboo are electron spins and the characters are the same chinese numbers but they represent atoms with electron configurations.
Anisole breaking the fourth wall saying "after all, what wrong with a bit of fun?"
A palladium atom, wearing an artists hat, is painting a picture. It's models are and aryl bromide. It is holding grapes over the mouth of a seductively positioned molecule of phenyl tributyltin. Looks like the aryls are about to "get it on" and maybe do some coupling. This is a Stille life
It's a sewing machiine sewing out an NMR Spectrum.
cartoon drawing of a chess set. All the pawns are atomes with their electron clouds, castles are beakers, knights are horses with SOMOs on them (fronteir MOs). bishops are volumetric flasks, king is NMR, queen is free energy.
an s orbital, a p-orbital and a dx^2-y^2 orbital are all standing on the beach looking longingly at the dz^2 orbital playing with a beachball in the water. the dz^2 orbitals are using their donut shaped lobe as a floatation device.
Orbital diagram showing three key frontier molecular orbitals - the LUMO, the HOMO and the FOMO. the FOMO seems stressed dudes!
A RBF is in a small dewar, obviously at -78 degrees C. there is a lot of condensed vapour. It has a towel on the side of the dewar, and a rubber ducky. and it is scrubbing its back with bath brush. It looks indignant and is saying "Do you mind?" because you, yes you, are imposing on its bath.
Business card for a hair salon: 1Gravity. The logo looks a 9 membered ring
a flask is sitting in a heating mantle swiping on its phone. another falsk is standing nearby telling it to hurry up because it has been on there for ages.
apples and oranges arranged in a soidum chloride arrangement
Dracula has seen Nikolay's post. He is telling renfield they are going to Namur.
an atom of magnesium is holding a cup of tea and a copy of BBC pride and prejudice. It has tears in it's eyes and is saying "OMG, OMG, it's finally happening'.
Getty's image stock photo of a stack emitting water vapour and a picture of CO2 writted in a "cloud"
he drawing depicts a scientist in a lab coat and safety goggles standing next to a large, anthropomorphized NMR spectrometer. The spectrometer has a serene, contented facial expression with closed eyes and is holding a finger to the scientist's lips, "shushing" them. A speech bubble coming from the machine says, "DON'T TALK! JUST SHIM!"
A flyer for a fictional "Public Dissertation Defence" titled "Mechanism for building emotional resistance under intense mechanochemical stress." It features several chemistry-themed puns and illustrations: Top Section: A logo for "ChemScrapes School of Hard Knocks" sits above the title. Below, a cartoon character of an Anisole molecule is identified as the doctoral candidate in "Molecular Psychology." Middle Section: Lists the assessment committee with punny names like "Professor Theresa Carbonsinks" and "Dr. Molly Cool." The location is humorously listed as a "500 mL, RBF" (Round Bottom Flask). Bottom Illustration: A scene shows adrenaline leaning against a large "THESIS" book, looking stressed. Next to it, histamine is snapping a pair of tongs, in front of A BBQ.
The Joshua tree album cover
an image of the transformation described, except all the oxygen atoms are replaced by bottles of premium ouzo.
a sign with four red circles with a line through them, signifying "do not" use these things when you are doing your "discovery route" because it's doesn't necessarily translate to a useful process and your process team will have to redo everything anyway. in the four circles: 1. a flash column - meaning avoid column chromatography. 2. -78 degrees C, 400 degrees C in a sealed tube - meaning don't use silly reaction conditions. 3. hexane, dichloromethane and dimethylformamide - meaning don't use these solevnts. 4. sodium hydride, HF, TBDMSCl, CH2N2, OsO4 - meaning these are not great reagents for scale. avoid protection/deprotection and hazardous reagents.
A layer is conducting an orchestra of process equipment. a batch reactor (playing triangle), a distillation column (polaying a violin) and a flash separator (playing the flute). This layer is called a process orchestration layer. Ba-dum-ch!
A batch reactor dressed in a cowl and a cape is watching seriously as a oscillatory baffled reactor (OBR) is running away. It has question marks all over it. Next to the batch reactor is a large purification column pointing urgently at the OBR. The column in also wearing a cape, an eye mask and has hair that looks like Robin, from Batman. It is saying "Holy filter dryer Batchman....the Baffler is getting away" It's a scene from Batchman and Robin. The baffler is like the riddler from Batman.
A batch reactor wearing a hood is about to pull a guillotine on a fixed bed reactor. this is a manufacturing execution system.
Photo of XP Pen tablet monitor box
A photo of a chicken crossing the road
a benzene ring. it looks stressed. then it turns on an IR light at 1276 reciprocal cm. the ring starts to breathe and the rings looks relaxed. stay zen folks!
An angry, grey, cartoon atom with a clenched fists. It has "Hg²⁺" (Mercury ion) written on its forehead. A sign above it reads "DEPT. OF TUNGSTEN & ARGON" (WAr). The atom is exclaiming, "'diversity is our strength' is the dumbest phrase in military history!" This is Pete Hg-seth
cartoon featuring a line drawing of a cow standing in a field. The cow has various black spots, but two specific spots are labeled with chemical symbols: a large spot on its back is labeled "Mo" (Molybdenum), and its udder is labeled "Tc" (Technetium). Above the cow, the handwritten text reads, "Moly Cows" and "IT'S A LIVING!"
A molecule of anisole doing a face palm and asking "why me?"
A roughly drawn Journal - J. Amer. Chem. Sock Vol 1 2017. There is a picture of a colourful sock. The title under the picture reads Feet-ure Artical: Tripodal Leg-ands for self heel-ing Applications. The authors are Goldberg (Alex F Goldberg), Campbell (Allison Campbell) and Wang (Linda Wang)
2,5-diphenyloxazole is holding an alpha particle and glowing at about 360 nm. It's saying "It's giving alpha! That's not....." (1,4-bis(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl) benzene) (also knows as POPOP) is hovering behind, raising its hand and saying "Clock it". Its glowing at about 410 nm. These are the molecules commonly used in liduid scintillation counting.
a molecule of oxygen is pointing and laughing at another molecule. It is making hand gestures and saying"six, seven! six, seven!". The other molecule is cyanide. The carbon looks mad. the nitrogen is rolling it's eyes.
This cartoon shows a boat labelled “Grantor” carrying a cargo of “IP”, “know how”. And a massive container that says “protect”. It’s trying to get away from an iceberg labelled “publish”. There is a cry from the grantor boat saying “faster faster”. Driving the iceberg is a submarine labelled “tenure board”. Ithere is also a cry from the submarine saying “faster faster”. Trailing behind these two is a researcher in a small boat with an outboard motor. The person is crying “wait up”! The cartoon is meant to represent the tension between translational research funding, the pressure to achieve outcomes, and the pressure to produce outputs to meet the different metrics of the different bodies involved.