anna thee davis

pumping my body full of electrons to better my health

she has a lil coat!

a selfie in a large mirror in an indoor horse riding arena of a woman in heavy winter clothes sitting on a horse. there’s a temperature geotag on the picture that says 21 degrees fahrenheit.

a low-angle close up selfie of a horse and a smiling woman

it’s wearing 5 shirts to go riding season!

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

driving home from thanksgiving through a tiny town called delphos, ohio and getting genuinely alarmed when my gps pronounces it del-foes instead of like a phosphine ligand

larping my lifelong dream of being a professor working on grant applications and cheerfully engaging with other patrons at the bar on a weeknight by being a postdoc working on grant applications and cheerfully engaging with other patrons at the bar on a weeknight

Gimme like 20 years and I will be

exactly! it’s not comic sans!

people really underestimate the transformative power of font choice in grant applications

Yes, I have my PI’s and a couple friends’ to go off of, thankfully!

a black cat laying on a bed

blurry photo of a black cat coming towards the camera

picture of a black cat meowing captioned “marcy screaming about the election”

a black cat biting the finger of the person taking the photo

heard we postin cat pics

this is actually the best picture of me that has ever been taken

Yep! If I don’t get it funded I can try again taking the critiques to mind though, which I hugely appreciate

opened the F32 application. I take all of that back

shhhhhh let me have this

chemsky we’re so back

as a headass former bartender who does indeed have rose water on hand, an otherworldly force overtook my body when I saw this. I had to make it. it’s SO good.

alex omg this goes SO hard

guys being a postdoc is so cool. I have spent my entire life wanting to be an academic and this has really locked it in for me. self doubt inherent in any competitive field aside, this is genuinely the most fun and exciting and interesting job I’ve ever had

my lord and savior nick chiappini

Antoni porowski from queer eye saying "shared electron density is something that can actually be so personal" while looking confident

Owl House: Hooty, serpentine owl beast looking silent and smug with the label "Stille" Lilith is angry and crouched and says "chemists after multiple failed cross couplings to avoid tin"

Bernie "I am once again asking you meme" But it's Scott Denmark and text changed to says "use silanols as cross coupling partners"

Four square meme of personal holding dog while progressively zooming in on sad neglected cat each pan. Dog panel says "no true Scotsman fallacy about inorganic chemists and REAL inert atmosphere techniques" Cat on zoom says "vast examples of aerobic inorganic"

Was going through old meme folders and decided to port over some of my fave chem memes I made over the years

(Now reposting with alt text for bsky)

is the realization of her lifelong dream to become an airline pilot not payment enough

she flew the plane

oh you KNOW I brought the horse to indiana

#ChemSky's #1 shitposter is here now. I am happy to move down the list in honour of the arrival of the Queen.

hi nerds I missed u

Welcome @rad-scientist.bsky.social to #chemsky. YAY