The Napoleonic Scientist

Research assistant, biology student, history nerd, part-time cowboy, and all-round doofus

[WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk @WeHaveWaysPod]

Fascinating discussion on the role of infection in the Second World War. Not least the extraordinary impact of malaria on troops in the east. https://t.co/M4P5ffhdxM

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Got to explain the historical importance and use of cavalry in warfare and the thinking behind 18th and 19th century linear formations to some of my science friends today. Today was a good day. #militaryhistory

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

My lab's letting all of us get new lab coats. I had to make a choice between a nice dark green coat or a white coat with elastic cuffs and snap buttons. Sadly, cruel practicality won out and I went with the latter. Dark green, I will be back for you one day.

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

Welp, just realized I made a grammar error. “Am I just,” not “am just.”

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When I take a glass of water from the sink, am just making an aliquot? Is my city's water system one big stock solution? #science #sciencehumour

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You know you're an adult and/or nerd when you spend $90 at Staples and feel excited about what you bought.

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You know, there's something therapeutic about stacking hay sometimes.

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A student walks into a lab and asks the PI why all the plant biochemists are lying in the sun outside. The PI replies "they're tannin."
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I think I'm funny

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

The map of the globe I have above my bed fell down late last night (true story)... I guess you could say my world was falling apart.

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Kind of ironic that arguably the cheapest army to start in #warhammer40k is the one covered in gold (Adeptus Custodes)

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Here me out... what if we put academic journal articles into an audio format like audio books? #science #AcademicTwitter

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Would not recommend running to class in cowboy boots. It's like I can feel each impact in my bones....

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I think this is pretty neat. #Bluegrassmusic
https://t.co/p135cnrTJm

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

Had a volunteer shift at Blood Canada today... turned into me explaining Warhammer 40K to an elderly lady since she was looking for new sci-fi books for her husband 😆. #warhammer40k #Giveblood

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

Why don't more lab coats have tags so they can be hung on coat hooks? It would save so many of ours from falling.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Look I can accept the presence of gargantuan sand worms when there is clearly not enough organic life to sustain the metabolic activity of such massive creatures, but sand causing sclera to turn blue? I’m sorry, you lost me.

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

Kind of funny how one of Austria's most famous songs (the Radetzky March) is actually about a Czech in Habsburg service.
https://t.co/41iQadiYjH

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

Reading zoology papers today. Weird seeing them citing work from the early 1900's, or even as far back as the 18th century, but a description of an animal is a description of an animal. Very different from the cell stuff I read, and cool to see the differences between fields

[The Napoleonic Scientist @NapoleonicCells]

So I was putting my hand into a bag to grab some tea bags and a voice in my head said "try to not put your hands into the bag" because you know, contamination. Thanks #science #aseptic_technique. I'll be pouring tea bags out from now on.

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Well, we're truly into fall now and I have to ditch my straw cowboy hat. My felt one is a disaster so I guess there goes a quarter of my personality for 6 months #hatproblems