Multiple emergency departments in Toronto are on the verge of collapse tonight. There are no nurses. They are begging people with no nursing training to act as nurses. Care will be compromised. But they won't declare an official emergency (presumably to save face?)

Wordle 407 2/6. Well. That certainly was unexpected. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

How is it legal to be this adorable?

So I guess thats it for us regular folks having access to health care

A COVID-19 vaccine walk-in clinic will be running on Tues, Sept. 27, from 10:00am-4:00pm in Mitchell Hall for any Queen's student, staff, or faculty member. The bivalent vaccine will be available. Bring your health card or other photo ID along with a mask.

The NMR can sense when you are in a hurry

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

Carolyn Bertozzi – awarded the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions take place without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.

Ever stop to think about how if you get your doctorate in acid base chemistry you would have a pHd PhD?

I notice Doug Ford has stopped following me.

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Striploin steak with green peppercorn sauce, dilly carrots , and mashed potatoes. With Mark Aloisio #chemistswhocook Chemists Who Cook

Thanks That Chemist for coming to visit my poster (multiple times) it was really great meeting you and talking chemistry!

Had an incredible time this year at my first #CSC2023 it was so amazing being able to share my work and talk with a bunch of fantastic and talented chemists!

Ever wanted a cross-metathesis … but with carbonyls? Check out Prof Lumin Zhang’s last discovery before starting his own lab at SIOC … in Nature Chemistry nature.com/articles/s4155… It’s like a reverse ozonolysis!

Who would have thought? Acidic protons and Grignard reagents are compatibl, to yield enantiospecific cross-coupling! Crudden's Lab we report the first example of enantioenriched cyclic sulfones as coupling partners in Ni-catalyzed Kumada. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Chemistry is inaccessible: how to reduce barriers for disabled scientists go.nature.com/3uwGPGb