What's so amazing about these old Irish Halloween turnip carvings is how accurately they also represent what it feels like to live in the 21st century

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Lol, in looking something up for a student, I found a typo in my PhD thesis, almost 15 years onward! It's my habit to circle and date typos I find. No, I did not accidentally foreshadow "molecular editing".

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In today's school cooking lesson the 13yo made mozarella-stuffed garlic tear-and-share bread. Fantastic accompaniment for a simple pasta supper. Even better, he made two of them, so there's one inbthe freezer for another day! #SpecialEducation #SchoolCooking #GarlicBread

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Pleasure to introduce Prof. Saiful Islam, a @uclchemistry.bsky.social alumnus, in advance of his @rsc.org Environment, Sustainability and Energy open prize: Environment Prize prize talk in the department yesterday, before @rcrespootero.bsky.social presented him with the medal. #chemsky #compchem

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I still remember the eye-opening moment when I realized that Bragg and diffuse scattering are both just a sum of waves... I can finally share an applet where anyone can put it into action. No equations, just a play of cosines: CosPlay 👉 stecanossa.com/cosplayapp/ #Crystallography #TotalScattering

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