john kavouris

process chemist. also bicycles, motorcycles, catalytic cycles. He/Him

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

What remnants of chemtwitter still exist here? Any?

Anyone have either a pinout for miniDIN pH probes, or a known-good adapter for using a phono-connector ATC probe on a pH meter with miniDIN connector?

[yatharth ༺༒༻ @AskYatharth]

broke: great men theory

woke: smart cow effect

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

after a cursory glance: YIKES.

Paging @SafeChem79 And @Chemjobber

[Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik]

🧵In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my home. Later I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off EPA, who raided them in 2023. EPA just sent me the report 💀⬇️

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Again, I’d love to know what these dimwits think the US legal system does now to “anyone”

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

opening up a burger joint that combines deep existential questioning, root cause analysis, and free peanuts: Five Why’s

https://t.co/f2xGuI9czv

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

@JHullaert I believe so, yes! I started yesterday, so the extend of my understanding is currently at “where things are in the building” rather than anything technical. I’ll get there!

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

So, I work at Abbvie now! I’m at the Waltham site (previously Immunogen) and I’ll be doing ADC Process Chemistry!

I’ll spare you the “first day of school” picture, but you get the idea.

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

@SpeedSportLife Not me doing the math on driving to wherever that is with a tanker truck…

[BU Grad Workers @gradworkersofBU]

We won't let BU's repression of faculty take place behind closed doors! Concerned BU faculty have shared an open letter sent to the President, Provost, and Associate Provost: "We want to be very clear with our students that to the extent we are submitting grades today (1/?)

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

@KCGOrtiz Congrats dude. Boston or SD?

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

Per my company’s social media policy I should probably state “views my own” and this is in no way intended a solicitation of the FDA for anything

“good” is “views my own” btw.

“drip” is just stone cold facts.

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

https://t.co/5ircPfycDt

1) seems good
2) drip

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

every once in a while, I will make some chemistry realization shakes me to the very core. That suggests everything I thought I knew might be totally wrong.

Gonna need YEARS of therapy over this. Thanks ACS Style Guide:

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

To be clear: 1) personally this is way more amusing than inconvenient. No hard feelings, but I’ll accept some chocolates on behalf of friend…

2) my understanding from friend’s IT that it is sigma who blocked. It is not impossible that really, Co is blocking access to sigma.

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

Weird question @SigmaAldrich: what would prompt your IT to (reportedly) block IP addresses from accessing the site?

Glitch? Security threat? Beef because those IP addresses belong to a company with a preferred vendor agreement with a different vendor?

asking for a friend.

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

For reference

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

fun fact, this is actually their mode of action!

They don’t really inhibit ACE enzymes, just banish them to the shadow realm.

The shadow realm has a lot of high blood pressure issues as a result, thats why it’s bad to be sent there.

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

Sartan (blood pressure meds) generic names go WAY harder than they need to:

Candesartan cilexitil
Olmesartan medoxomil
Azilsartan kamedoxomil

Bro these are not drugs they are incantations.

“Trick someone to speak these words; send them to an alternate dimension” type shit

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

context: I was raised Greek Orthodox but dgaf. But if you hit me with that “christos anesti” on may 5 I will 100% get you back with “alithos anesti”

[john kavouris @johnkavouris]

me: “Nah, I don’t need to care about this Easter it’s not real Easter”
Katie: “if orthodox Easter is the real one then why does it need the qualifier compared to… you know… Easter?”
Me: “huh. touché.”