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NMR guy. Chemist. Magnet wrangler. Tree Hugger. Mountaineer. Pilot. Scuba Diver. @nmrchemist .bsky.social

Eugene, Oregon, USA
Joined November 2022
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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2 years
Well... one of my users got my broken nmr a balloon..... #NMRchat
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@ScientistsLift Grad school is supposed to be hard and not everyone is going to be successful.
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2 years
As I dive deeper and deeper into solid state NMR...
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In the past i had mentioned that I dress up as a banana most halloweens.... my class did not disappoint! #NMRchat #Halloween
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1 year
It has happened. I have finally been asked for Gallium NMR. Knocking another nuclei off the list. #NMRchat
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1 year
You spent hours doing literature research, glassware prep, experiment prep, running your reaction, purifying your compiund.... ....Spend the extra 10 minutes and prep your damn NMR sample correctly.....
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Today I am very grateful I made detailed notes about the disassembly of the lower shim stacks head unit... was able to get it out, disassembled, cleaned, reassembled, reinstalled, and calibrated in 3 hours. #NMRchat
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Its my yearly, "do you have the old oxford posters?" If so please High Res scan them so I can have them reproduced. @sarahdcady has sent me a beautiful scan of the Oxford 900 poster but I'm looking for the others: #NMRchat
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2 years
Are you even a real chemist if you don't have an HPLC in your garage? /s #ChemTwitter
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2 years
For better understanding of orbial mechanics please go purchase @KerbalSpaceP
@thePrimalSpace
Primal Space
2 years
Orion has now reached the Moon, here's how it will get back to Earth on the 11th of December.
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Friday fill day!!! This magnet has been around since '88 (upgraded electonics) and may be a little leaky but has pretty good field stability. #NMRchat
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2 years
Cleaning a cryoprobe always gives me anxiety.... #NMRchat
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2 years
"my sample won't shim" their sample:
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1 year
It's a magnetic resonance miracle!!! Only took 6 months. I was worried the plane would have crashed with this bad boy on it. #nmrchat
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2 years
Well I know quadrapolar nuclei in the solid state can be evil but was not expecting expecting to open a small portal to hell....? #NMRchat
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2 years
There are two ways I can explain what I do: #NMRchat
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1 year
CRYOPROBE RETURNED and REINSTALLED! ....turbo pump for cryoprobe dies....
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11 months
I did a thing today. Passed my written with an acceptable score. Getting closer to my private pilot's license. (Yes I know is a certificate) #aviation
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1 year
Family keeps trying to get me to travel for the holidays:
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2 years
After an over dramatic and super late return home at 2.30 am I'm now back at work putting out the fires that had started while gone....
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10 months
...I hope all of your mornings are going better... *insert smoking Ben Afleck meme*
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10 months
Campus wide internet/electronics outage.... except for the NMR facility? Thank you Linux?
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1 year
Success.
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2 years
Omg for the first time in a decade I live in a place where bands I want to see tour @CAKEMUSIC
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1 year
Fill day!
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1 year
Friday fill day!!! #Nmrchat
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1 year
What I wanted: Someone who messages me when they wake up excited to talk to me.... What I got: Someone who messages me that there are errors on the NMR at 7 am....
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2 years
Taking time off as an NMR scientist is a conundrum #NMRchat
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11 months
NMR or MS?
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Barney Simon
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10 months
Reinstalled then cryoprobe after 4 months. Now pumping down the transfert line fir q8 hours before getting the probe under vacuum. #NMRchat
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10 months
Vacuum is reconnected to the cryoprobe and the rebuilt Turbo Pump is up to speed. 60 hours of pumping before cool down. #NMRchat
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1 year
Getting signed off on a new plane. They even gave me my own key
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2 years
Once a semester.....
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2 years
Nothing like a make shift turbo pump system to get your EPR cryostat prepped! #EPR #NMRchat (?)
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1 year
Not even my birthday
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11 months
Damn dude.... mean.
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1 year
Automated purchase system: "why you want to buy '100 L LHe'?" Me: "MAKE MAGNET NOT DEAD"
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1 year
Beautiful sunsets almost make you forget you are in lab on Saturday night....
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1 year
Admin: No, you can't have money for new instrument electronics! We have instrument electronics at home! The instrument electronics:
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10 months
Holiday fills
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2 years
Spooky Magnet 👻🧲 #NMRchat
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10 months
Took wayyyyy to long to figure out but cryoprobe is installed and meeting specifications. Now to jot down 3 pages of notes so I know what to do next time this happens. #NMRchat
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1 year
Spent most of Sunday on the water canoeing. Thanks @maddiejayy for being willing to spend 4 hours on the water!!
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1 year
Had my first solo last night! Pumped to fly again tonight!
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10 months
Me looking for another soul to help with a LHe fill
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1 year
lol "we are looking for a self-motivated chemist to join our team!" How about a money motivated chemist?
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1 year
Oh you wanted a 9am meeting and didn't show up for it? Now you expect me to go out of my way to meet with you later? Lol no.
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1 year
When I have too many negative emotions the mountains help clear them away
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2 years
@astro_jaz This picture makes it look like a star destroyer:
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2 years
8k to replace the atm unit?!?!... lol I got this. #NMRchat
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1 year
Though can we just stop using up field and down field and say higher frequency/lower frequency?
@MoleculesGoHard
cool molecule pictures ⚛
1 year
I need this on a t-shirt
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1 year
Hot damn I love magnets. Fill day Thursday while my undergraduate assistant is at the country fair. #NMRchat
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Customer: "WhY dIdN't YoU rUn ThIs SaMpLe?" Me: "Did you add it to the online list that tells me what you want done with it?" Them: "..........."
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Well..... Someone decided to mess with the regulator to my cryoprobe N2.... sent my cyroprobe to emergency warm up..... #NMRchat
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1 year
Beautiful day to be in the sky.
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1 year
For today I'm going to have to dust off a classic.... #NMRchat
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2 years
You can do it VT system!! Only 1.3 °C to go!! #NMRchat
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How do I deal with stress and emotions? Buy a canoe!
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Day in the mountains tock climbing. I've missed this.
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Looks like it is just that the roughing pump need to be rebuilt... ...small miracles?
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1 year
CRYOPROBE RETURNED and REINSTALLED! ....turbo pump for cryoprobe dies....
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1 year
Watching my former dog (ex got her in the divorce). Not to sure shes happy about it.
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1 year
This dude always uses the priority button on the autosampler.
@Chemjobber
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1 year
Guess who's not using the normal NMR reservation system anymore?
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1 year
Oh shit.... a magnets helium reading dropped an enormous amount in a week 😬😬😬Now hoping isn't about to quench.
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2 years
It is a proven fact the only time the NMR goes down is when I'm trying to take a day off. #NMRchat
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10 months
All is quiet in the science complex
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1 year
The final motor finally arrived.
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1 year
NMR and Space? Heck ya!
@nmr900
Magnetic Resonance News
1 year
Researchers @westernuEarth @BGeoinstitut & #NRCMetrology @NRC_CNRC develop an NMR thermometer for the early Solar System, reporting first ever 27Al MAS NMR spectra in 4.568 Billion Year Old meteorite specimens, the oldest solid matter dated #NMRchat #NMR
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1 year
Emergency Helium Secured.... Luckily weekend plans already fell apart?
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2 years
This poster was made for me a while back when I took my current position and became "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Director". Its based off of a card from the game Munchkin.
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11 months
Ah fun. A user is mad at me that I won't try to meet a deadline they are trying to impose BECAUSE they promised to meet someone else's deadline. I made no promises to your overlords. Lol. Teaching important life lessons today.
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1 year
OMG I have just been sent one I had never seen before.... #NMRchat
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Become ungovernable.... #NMRchat
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1 year
The chances to be killed by a corgi are never zero.
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2 years
It was maintenance monday yesterday! When I try to take time off everything breaks. #NMRchat
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1 year
Rebuilt turbopump has arrived!!
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Seeing the tubes left in the autosampler overnight I had to dust off this classic. #NMRchat
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@McknightLaura By bring it to work tomorrow and letting me know.
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11 months
....A bunch of cortab errors... after a student decided they could change settings to collect a 2H experiment without talking to me.... "You should not do magic you do not understand" - Little Bear
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Omg. I just got approval to spend $$$$$..... - turbo pump - smart probe repair - cryo probe repair
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1 year
Done
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How do I deal with stress and emotions? Buy a canoe!
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2 years
Me: I have no idea why I can't get past the initial interview stage of tenure track positions Also Me:
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Random conversation with a former classmate from undergrad (they were they A student... I was .... not) that I hadn't talked to in 15 years. Told them Im the NMR director at my current spot.... They were speechless and it allowed me to FINALLY use this picture
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1 year
Just watching paint dry.... #EPR #NMRchat
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Me frantically taking notes as a Bruker engineer remote tests.... #NMRchat
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Friend: "Hey Casey! You know a lot of weird shit want to teach nonlinear optics?" Me: "What makes you think I can teach nonlinear optics?" Friend: "Well.... Can you?" Me: *Points to thesis with nonlinear optics in title*
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Nothing like broken gas lines in the morning....
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1 year
Thanks Rainier for the memories. Alive but had to bail on Liberty Ridge. Years of shit snow fall and high Temps have done some damage....
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2 years
I swear to science I'm going to write a book called "what the actual @#%^ you need to know about running solids NMR". Complete with tutorials.
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2 years
Well.... Some final details to wrap up but my remodel is complete... took me a year and cost me my marriage but if you are looking to buy a house in central Oregon let me know. 🤣😢
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2 years
This shipping container was used for a single NMR sample..... Oh to have industry money. #NMR #NMRchat
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1 year
Some nights are a stroopwaffle dinner kind of nights...
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Family and friends: "You are going through a major life change... don't make any rash decisions" Me: "Well looks like I'm going to give up chemistry, buy a plane, and become a bush pilot"
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A single o-ring.... fingers crossed because it was a pain in the ass to get to. (Connects air from bore to shim stack) #NMRchat
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10 months
...I hope all of your mornings are going better... *insert smoking Ben Afleck meme*
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2 years
Oh snap! OSU has a bunch of wooden chairs for sale 50% off!
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1 year
It's been real Utah. Thanks for the good time..... Now for a 12 hour drive...
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Shark onsie came in... unfortunately, it's too small, and they only sent me one of the two ordered....
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2 years
Luckily the 4mm rotor contain a peroxide ompund didn't explode.... but the drive tip did... #NMRchat
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1 year
Its a classic. Even the NMR doesn't know what to do when its working....
@NMRspectroscopy
nmr_spectroscopy / Organic Chemistry ⌬🇺🇦
1 year
Thank you, Topspin! It’s really helpful 👍 #nmr #nmrchat
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