Gary Baker

Dad 1st / poet / chemistry prof / #WomenInSTEM / strength coach / #FirstGen / bibliophile/ baker 🍰 of human & pet treats 🦴/ scientific consultant

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

Unpopular opinion: I’m not easily impressed with top-tier R1 faculty w/ an army of postdocs, multiple R01 grants…cranking out high profile pubs

But show me a prof at a PUI working with part-time undergrads and a few bits and bobs who publishes regularly, then color me impressed

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A pharmacist in Taipei walked off a trail in 2022 and photographed a 1mm blue mushroom on a piece of wood. It turned out to be one of the smallest mushrooms ever described.

The mushroom is now called Mycena subcyanocephala. It grows on decaying wood in Taiwan's subtropical lowland forests. Its cap is about 1mm wide, the whole fruiting body just a few millimeters tall. When young, the cap is intensely blue and fuzzy. As it matures, the blue fades to a pale whitish color. It has been formally documented in the wild only a handful of times.

Eric Cho, the man who found it, is a working pharmacist in Taipei. His friend told him there was a "special tiny mushroom" on a trail in Shilin District. He went looking, found one on a piece of wood, took it home, and was initially disappointed because it wasn't glowing in the dark like he'd hoped. He posted the photos to iNaturalist anyway.

The images went viral globally. Mycologists at Taiwan's Academia Sinica formally described the species in 2023, citing Cho's photographs as part of the documentation.

Most new species described in the last decade have not been found by professional biologists in remote jungles. They have been found by amateur naturalists with smartphones, posting to platforms like iNaturalist, in places like trails behind suburbs in Taipei.

The forest behind your house may still be full of things nobody has named yet.

[Earth @earthcurated]

Today is World Bee Day.

[Psicóloga Helen Versuti @psihelenversuti]

O pessoal com medo do detergente contaminado sendo que a esponja que tá na pia tá desse jeito

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

The five stages of academic writing:

1. Procrastination
2. Panic
3. Caffeine overdose
4. Submitting a barely coherent mess
5. Swearing to do it differently next time

[The Independent @Independent]

Sir David Attenborough responds to 100th birthday greetings

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

@tdavis234 Cool, I didn’t know May the 4th adopted such stringent rules

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

And also with you

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

@APompliano Cap

[Black cats are not bad luck @blackscats]

Me after one social event :

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The @BuffaloSabres became the first team in NHL postseason history to win in regulation time after trailing by two or more goals to zero with eight minutes or fewer remaining in regulation.

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

The wildest thing is the inability to spell appearances

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

This is actually wild.

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

A spoiler alert would’ve been nice.

I watched a random episode to see if this checks out and the episode unfolded exactly as you wrote it.

[E daí? Lamento. Quer que eu faça o quê? @AQUELECARA]

Todo episódio de Dr. House:

>Paciente chega no hospital

>É uma Prostituta ou um fanático religioso

>Dr. House entra em cena

- Doutor Doutor não sabemos o que fazer ela está sangrando pelos olhos

- Faça os exames seu imbecil

>Ele vai falar com a paciente

- Você é burra vá tomar no cu

- Doutor House eu te odeio me curaaaa

>Os ajudantes voltam pra sala

- Doutor todos os exames deram negativo ela vai morrer em 2 horas se não fizermos nada vai ser game over

- hmmm game over.... Ajudantes, tem um gameboy na bunda dela, isso é o problema

- Doutor house você é um imbecil mas vamos ver se tem mesmo um gameboy na bunda dela

>Encontram um gameboy na bunda dela

- OH MEU DEUS DOUTOR HOUSE VOCÊ ESTAVA CERTO COMO VOCÊ SOUBE???

- Os gameboys lançados em 1997 na edição do Pikachu tinham bateria com base de iodo, que se inseridos na bunda fazem seus olhos sangrarem

>Ajudantes fazem o emote do pepe Poggers na vida real

>Paciente entra na sala curada

- Eu estava errada sobre você

- Vá te fuder sua Vagabunda

>Episódio acaba

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

strategic promotion efforts despite lack of institutional support

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

He made it.. 😂

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

@millsalice144 If you’re trying to get rid of ants, whatever you do, don’t use chalk. I did and now all my ants are buff as hell. 🏋️‍♂️

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

@pubity Don’t worry everyone, microplastics are still a large (tiny) problem!

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

Overheard today:

If a woman says she'll be ready in 15 minutes, she will be.

No need to remind her every half hour.

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

My talent for distraction is unrivaled—if I applied that same focus to my writing, I'd be famous

[໊ @cdoll]

me after a day of socialization

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

@organomimetic That’s a great way to put it!

[Gary Baker @ChemGary]

@FreshoutMag @osbornecsue A banger in 10 syllables!