Theodore Press (he/him)

She looks like she’s about to paint her bedroom black

The $3B Human Genome Project was started under a Republican administration and later acknowledged by the Obama admin to have returned $141 to the economy for every $1 spent. Science has a higher ROI than any other category of government spending.

Trying to see the good after a ridiculously exhausting week

Pronouncing Molecules like Socrates

very happy with my new desk toy, courtesy of @PrincetonEHS SAFEST raffle

This is how @acsnano covers look to biochemists:

@billthechemist This is how I learned that bill mostch is absolutely swole

I’m a mouse. Duh.

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

Peak scouting activity

@NYTGames once again strikes against chemists, as it does not include a common organic functional group name…

I knew this was spam immediately because the idea of academia actually having an hr department was too good to be true

*shaking my head and nodding vigorously as if I understand what’s going on* “uh yeah! that’s…the classifier!”

The substance is what happens when you try perform experiments on hek cells past passage 20

this is how my friends and I look at each other during a seminar that’s way out of our subfield

lol apparently @nytimes spelling bee doesn’t recognize a canonical amino acid on their word list…

It's Friday. Time to reflect on how gorgeous this building is.

@radscientist_ @GabrielLovinger @PurdueChemistry Boiler up, hammer down!

so so SO excited to finally be able to drop some personal news‼️ I’ll be moving up to west lafayette next month to start my postdoc helping @GabrielLovinger start up his ✨new lab✨ @PurdueChemistry. incredibly grateful for the opportunity and SO pumped to get back in the lab!

@WiringTheBrain The purpose of a system is what it does!

A lot of molecular and cell and developmental biology is concerned with figuring out the "functions" of various proteins. I'm starting to distrust that formulation...