The photographer at House of Scientista got me on-brand, taking notes for potential coverage in @cenmag.bsky.social during #ClimateWeekNYC

Thanks for a fun week, #NYC!

The menu at the House of Scientista event at #ClimateWeekNYC. I think I'm in the right room here :) @scientistas.bsky.social @cenmag.bsky.social

Quick #chemsky poll: If I say marine fuel "bunkering", do you actually know what that means? And would you want a short explainer? #energy #ClimateWeekNYC #boats #decarbonization

"This levy on luxury avation is not a silver bullet, but it is a bullet,"--Benoit Faraco, French Climate Ambassador, on the climate impact of a proposed multinational tax on private jet flights #ClimateWeekNYC

"80% of the world is still moving incredibly fast on the energy transition,"--Jon Creyts, RMI at #ClimateWeekNYC

"The atmosphere doesn't care how many solar panels we build. it cares how many fossil-fuel burning plants we don't," Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative at #ClimateWeekNYC

Trouble with 2nd-day news coverage is there are SO MANY threads one could pull on. Here's my tug on the situation with Air Liquide and #Russia. #Ukraine #industrialGas #chemicals #industry #history #war cen.acs.org/business/inv...

I got to see a cool #science thing and now I get to tell you about it*: Not obvious from the article is that I got to HOLD one of Franklin's original prints of the X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA. My job rocks at times. #chemistry @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky cen.acs.org/biological-c...

I unexpectedly got to see and hold an original X-ray print by Rosalind Franklin today of the chemical structure of DNA. So that was wild. #chemistry #science

Hey, #chemsky people who'll be at #ClimateWeekNYC, wanna meet up for a drink and tell me about what you're working on? web.cvent.com/event/ddd39e...

Northern Lights has begun injecting CO₂ into geological storage off the coast of Norway. So far, cement and waste-to-energy are the customers signed on to reduce their carbon footprint by this route. #CCUS #CO2 Read more in C&EN @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/environment/...

Was it quietly grinding on your soul that the #MinCup25 bracket was off-center and oh-so-slightly asymmetrical? We fixed it! No changes to the matchups, it’s just a lil bit more polished.

Dang, it happened again. I wrote the word "climate" so many times prepping for NYC Climate Week that it stopped looking like a real word. kli-mah-tay. NYC Clamato Week, idk. Apparently, this is called semantic satiation. #climate #writing

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host @craigofwaffles.bsky.social speaks with Chemical & Engineering News business reporter Alex Tullo about the most recent release of C&EN’s Global Top 50, our annual list of the top 50 chemical firms. cen.acs.org/business/Pod... #chemsky 🧪

ARPA-E opens $60m in funding opportunities for novel magnet materials, rare-earth element analysis. An exclusive to @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/energy/ARPA-... #youHeardItHereFirst #chemistry #magnet #rareEarths #analytical #matsci

The #Braille periodic table is such a cool project. #chemistry #ACSFall2025 #accessibility

#Coldplay 's recent show in Massachusetts made the news ... for deploying flexible, roll-out #solar panels. cen.acs.org/energy/solar... #electronics #sustainability #energy #KissCam

While reading Alex Tullo's fascinating article in @cenmag.bsky.social about the chem of liquid cooling for #AI and data centers, I got distracted wondering: When Neo wakes up from the Matrix for the first time, is the liquid he burst out of a heat exchange fluid? cen.acs.org/business/Dat...

Some days I feel a lot of impostor syndrome. Other days I explain in a single sentence how apartheid affected the rise of a Fischer–Tropsch synthesis company, a sentence that I'm pretty sure shoots straight, isn't inflammatory, and will stand up to scrutiny by actual informed people #scicomm

Bold to make a video about Schrodinger's cat to demonstrate a technique that precisely controls the position and speed of atoms. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #chemistry #physics

Important reporting and context around the announcement of changes to EPA emissions regulations

New #podcast episode just dropped, this one on #antimicrobial drug discovery cen.acs.org/biological-c... 30 min listen, here's a teaser. #science #chemistry #pharma @cenmag.bsky.social

Hey ##chemsky, brainstorm with me. I'm doing street interviews at the fall ACS meeting. What are some forearm-length lab things I could clip a microphone onto to be on-brand?

NMR Job at 3M. 3m.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Search... #Chemsky #NMR

No matter what you think of #CO2 capture and conversion, the question of how best to scale new technologies is an interesting one. #business #chemistry #CCUS.

Why try to catch carbon in the East River? #CCUS #NYC #skylight #flashes

It's me, hi, I'm the reporter, it's me.

Okay yeah we might be in a heat wave. #melted #JustDoIt #adhesives

I set out to write about CO₂ utilization, the U in #CCUS. It became a story about #cleantech in #China. Check out the article in C&EN to find out why (it's at least three things, that's not a teaser for teasers' sake) cen.acs.org/environment/...

Eurofins has the biggest highlighters I've ever seen. #swag

TIL that the idiom "pans out" is derived from gold panning. Oh and a lot of interesting things about antibiotics drug discovery cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... @cenmag.bsky.social Look for a C&EN Uncovered episode on this article soon, btw

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, @craigofwaffles.bsky.social speaks with @fmorningstar.bsky.social about her recent C&EN cover story concerning ocean alkalinity enhancement as a method to combat climate change by increasing ocean alkalinity to absorb more CO₂. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky

Back in 2020, when protesters gathered around the country calling for the end of police brutality and were met with tear gas and pepper spray, my colleague @craigofwaffles.bsky.social reported on the chemistry of such riot-control agents. The story still seems pertinent: cen.acs.org/policy/chemi...

Wanna know more about preserving brains? cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

TIL the Society of Flavor Chemists exists @mattblois.bsky.social HT: Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) in #NYC

EPA's Safer Choice program, which helps green chemistry get stable footing in consumer products, has survived the EPA reorganization. Advocates say the program needs continued support and advocacy. Read more in C&EN: cen.acs.org/business/con...

Atmospheric CO₂ to gasoline on an NYC roof. Aircela unveiled their working prototype recently and a central notion is that Fischer-Tropsch was never best at multi-ton scales. What do you think, #chemsky? #DAC #CCUS

C&EN is #hiring a reporter to cover chemical #engineering. Be warned, if you get this job I'm going to have a LOT of story ideas for you :) recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1095ACHM/...

Alternative headline that got shot down: Vodka, it's got what plants crave? cen.acs.org/food/Liquor-... My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social talks about electrolyte vodka and a custom reactor that replicates the slow oxidative chemistry of barrel-aged spirits.

Omigosh look at the adorable little biohazard waste containers this lab has. #kawaii @towsonu.bsky.social

While I'm directly addressing #chemsky like y'all were standing in a room together: Anyone with access to noble gas mass #spectrometry want to help my friend confirm or deny his meteorite find?

#Chemsky, y'all like the inside baseball, methinks. Writing this article was intense. Smart people disagree SO HARD about how to dodge climate disaster. cen.acs.org/energy/hydro...

Want to be more uncomfortable about AI? As a test, I pasted in an article asked the bot to cut it to 335 words. I'm sorry to report that it did a pretty good job, though it edited quotes which of course isn't cool. On a whim, I told it that its success made me uncomfortable as an editor. (1/3) 🧵

Is infrared photography science enough for this #chemsky focused account? I took these out in Baltimore County just north of the city.

Woah! Now I'll certainly be on the lookout

Two interesting things in this image beyond it being a cool photo from near Grindivak, Iceland. 1 That's fresh lava in the foreground, from the eruptions over the past year. It's darker, crunchier, and more glassy than the lava rocks you're used. (1/3) 🧵

*whispers* You know who can help you do your own research by finding you verifiable sources and teaching you how to evaluate websites with skills like lateral reading and SIFT? Librarians.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov