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And so my glove is is undead!! Atmosphere well below 5 ppm of oxygen. Now the cleanup begins.
The spots are a very sensitive organometallic compound used as an indicator. Green is good. Orange is baaaaaad. #chemistry #academiclife
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@dan613 @phil_browne I rewrote my lecture last night at 11 pm – this morning I went on an excursion about phase diagrams, enthalpies of phase changes and then into the issue of heat being transformed into work with coal-fired power stations as examples, followed by hurricanes. Your images and video were crucial to this. Big big thanks for giving me the ideas and inspiration. #climate #education #thermodynamics
My problem is that I'm now ~30 minutes behind and have little slack! 
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#GloveBox Saga. So the regeneration cycle is on for the catalyst on my #glovebox. Because I'm out of town I've got a couple of students primed to take photographs of solenoid valves to see whether the lights go on in the right order and whether when VRE opens the gas actually flow. If the light is on but gas doesn't flow then it's back to ordering another replacement part. How many weeks might that take? #sigh #chemistry #academiclife
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#Glovebox purged with 100 bar (7 m3 of nitrogen). Now the catalyst is heating up waiting for its nitrogen/hydrogen feed to reduce it down and activate it. We might have a working box by morning.
And then the shite jihad will begin. Time to clear out a lot of ancient samples and abandoned schlenks. There's a fair bit of rather manky white phosphorus and alkali metal in there so there may be some fun to be had… #chemistry #academiclife
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After multiple vicissitudes the correct replacement circuit breaker for my #glovebox has finally arrived. When it was installed, the blower that runs the recirculation in my glove box came back to life. 
So now I need to purge the box with a cylinder of nitrogen and regenerate the catalyst which I have completely replaced. It's been a 2 ½ month emotional roller coaster. Fingers crossed we'll have the atmosphere down around 5 ppm O2 before the end of the week. #chemistry #academiclife
Science communication is very important, for sure. But pushing scientists to all be science communicators—and worse, compete in the increasingly saturated field of #SciComm or even science entertainment—is not productive. I see more and more that imposes crazy efforts on researchers just to tick a box so they can do their job or be taken seriously.
These last few ARC rounds the push for a schools-focused outreach component has grown. Consequently, I can think of at least three teams across Life Sciences who are now making or have made full actual board/card games about their science. The games are great, don’t get me wrong, but that is not their job. Finding ways to save our planet is.
New rule - anyone who starts an email to me with "I hope you are well" is going to get told the truth, especially if they're management or students. I'm an academic with ADHD. I work in a Univerity that's going through rounds of redundancies. They've over-recruited undergrads in my dept. to make up for shortfall elsewhere. I'm being asked to do more and more with less and less. Admin. support has been cut. I have no time to think. I'm barely coping. So, no. I'm not well. #AcademicLife #academia
De nouveaux abonnés, du nouveau dans ma vie, je fais une nouvelle #Introduction #HelloESR
Je suis docteur en #géographie ! Je travaille sur les questions de #TransitionÉnergétique #Ressources #SousSol #Controverses #Geoveille
Je parle également de #VeilleESR #Écologie #Neurodiversité #Académique #Communs
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I have a PhD in #Geography ! I working on #EnergyTransition #Ressources #Subsurface #Controversy
I also take about #AcademicLife #Neurodiversity #ecology #Commons
My honors first years wrote individualized college plans and reflected on what’s in their personal survival & success kits, inspired by the father & son in McCarthy’s The Road who carry their lives in a shopping cart through a bleak dystopic landscape. Making an actual cart was an option. I think I’m keeping this one on my desk forever. #lastdayofclass #academiclife #highered
