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Dont_know_nothin0 t1_iwsgmxa wrote
Reply to comment by intengineering in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Are there certain inks that affect the lymph nodes or cause lymphoma? Any studies done?
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shitlord_god t1_iws8pjs wrote
Reply to comment by intengineering in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
"good" and "poor" for market segment, or for performance in this testing?
Mrs-Anders t1_iws86y9 wrote
Reply to comment by Ojhka956 in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Besides from understanding the causes it can also be studied from a statistical point of view - i.e. whether people with tattoos have cancer more often that people without tattoos.
RealAmerik t1_iws7tiq wrote
Reply to comment by baltikorean in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
You beat me to it
GloriaFreeman OP t1_iws3lpf wrote
Reply to comment by CardiologistSmart421 in Chloe Traicos who plays Gloria Freeman on The Righteous Gemstones would love to talk to you all about the show by GloriaFreeman
Heya. Thanks for the question. I truly love acting and I truly love writing. The rest.... I do because I have to. Producing wise I do so I have ownership of my projects but it's not my most favorite thing - far from it in fact. The same with marketing. I could happily do without both of those. As for how I do it? When I look back on the Jodea shoot I really don't know. We had our production manager and production designer pull out 3 days before we shot. Jon the director and myself had to do everything. I was coming home from 12 - 14 hour shoot days and instead of preparing my lines and getting enough sleep I was sorting out production design for the next day, seeing if we had enough extras etc. So looking back I have to say I have no idea how I did it. But we pulled through. Being on the set of Gemstones was pure bliss as I didn't have to worry about anything except my performance. I mean there was even someone waiting for me if I wanted to carry my shoes. I was like " It's ok I can carry them " and she was like " No you mustn't carry anything" I was not used to that.
Ojhka956 t1_iws39og wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Thats part of what they are working on, finding possible carcinogenic causes or pathways from ink dyes
logiczny t1_iws2qsj wrote
Reply to I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Isn't that assistant to the professor instead of a assistant professor?
Doomgloomya t1_iws21ao wrote
Reply to I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Damn wished I could have caught this when you were here. Have yall considered checking out traditional tattoo ink from stick and poke artists in tribes and the like?
Doomgloomya t1_iws1r92 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
says the person on reddit typing this to an academic doing research.
cheezburglar t1_iws194n wrote
Reply to I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
What's your favorite conifer tree?
CardiologistSmart421 t1_iws0jbj wrote
Reply to Chloe Traicos who plays Gloria Freeman on The Righteous Gemstones would love to talk to you all about the show by GloriaFreeman
Hi again Chloe,
I have a Jodea question this time. You clearly wear a lot of hats as an independent filmmaker. Writer, Actor, Marketer, Producer, etc, etc, etc. What is your favorite part to do? and least favorite part? Follow up Q: All that work must be exhausting; how do you do it?
night_chaser_ t1_iwrzax5 wrote
Reply to I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Have you found a difference in toxicity based on the colour of ink and is there a link between ink colour and adverse health effects?
ProperBoots t1_iwry4y4 wrote
Reply to I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Hello professor! I'm currently studying biomedicine. Why is organic chemistry such a horse shit course?
I jest, but seriously. Seems like everyone in the world agrees it's a bloated beast. Why is it not shaved down to something more reasonable? Why is it not updated with modern nomenclature that doesn't use a mix of Latin, Greek, German and Bullshittinian? Why can't the notation system be updated so we don't have to draw 7 different resonance structures? The freaking literature itself admits they don't exist and that it's just a shortcoming in the notation that forces us to draw them because people didn't know it existed when the system was developed!
... I'm sorry. I used to enjoy chemistry. They killed it for me.
sicarii4512 t1_iwrvq3l wrote
Reply to I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Are there any safe brands of UV reactive tattoo ink?
Sence t1_iwrv3h7 wrote
Reply to comment by YoungPatrickBateman in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
I'm also fair skinned and grew up surfing with fairly diligent sunscreen use but have definitely had more than a few days of sunburn from lack of reapplying. I have a black piece on my upper arm and one on my upper thigh. My thigh almost never sees sunlight and both those 20 year old tattoos have the same level of color degradation.
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Reply to comment by intengineering in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
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Reply to comment by intengineering in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Right on! I think it's actually really interesting research, as someone who has considered tattoos (but also does not have any currently) it was interesting to me that for such an ancient tradition, there has been relatively little scientific exploration of them. I know there has been a little bit of research done on the immunogenic effects and how that might play into suppressing autoimmune disease, but from what I could see there doesn't currently seem to be any conclusive evidence one way or the other.
Do you spend any time thinking about the LD50 of any of the carcinogens you are studying (I know carcinogens aren't really toxins so it probably doesn't make sense to talk about them in terms of LD50, but I guess I'm wondering if it is known how much of them, if any, can be tolerated before a significant increase in risk of cancer; or maybe it's just on a continuum). Have you also looked at what happens spatially to these compounds over time? Do they get degraded or trafficked away from the tattoo site or do they just kind of sit there?
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Super cool research!
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Reply to comment by laughlines in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
WOW. Our body microplastics have congealed into a macroplastic. GREAT! Thank you for the antecdotal evidence, I feel better.
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magneticgumby t1_iwrmr8m wrote
Reply to comment by intengineering in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
Hear me out...if you can find it, Renko's (the pickled sausage people) make a spiedie sauce now that is freaking amazing. We even got wild and mixed it 50/50 with Lupos. Transcendence. Also, shout out to Red Chilis, not spiedies but favorite spot in Binghamton.
greem t1_iwsi13q wrote
Reply to comment by intengineering in I'm John Swierk, assistant professor of Chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. My team and I are working to understand the molecular composition of tattoo inks to provide a broader understanding to artists and consumers. AMA! by intengineering
That's surprising to me. As a medical-type, research-y person, I support it. It's just surprising.