Anytime I see a text from my school that announces a planned bonfire y'all I'm going to be nervous. This is the desert, wyd

You guys, I just love this garden so damn much. Six months ago, this was a dying lawn!

Believe women, even when it is politically inconvenient.

Congratulations DU!!! That was soooo stressful to watch—but so happy for yall!

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

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I will move to NYC for this

my idea of economics was forever changed when this girl in ninth grade was like “your family’s rich” and i said “yeah right, my dad’s a journalist and my mom’s a teacher, do the math” and she said “my dad’s a magician”

This is what I’ve been yelling about for three years I haven’t forgotten that 20 years ago I got a bad grade in my analytical chemistry class for citing Wikipedia

A thing that really bugs me about LLM use in education is that it took sooooo long to acknowledge that Wikipedia – a source that both includes references and is consistently reviewed for accuracy – could be a useful tool in some cases, yet so many folks immediately jumped on the hallucination train.

i feel like the AI bubble is just going to be elizabeth holmeses all the way down

Authors—I need you to do better and include CWs if you’re going to have a graphic discussion about how women died after childbirth from Puerperal Fever. (This is going to be a DNF unfortunately) #booksky

Hi #chemsky! I'm looking for examples of U.S. labs that have closed, moved overseas, or otherwise been lost in the last year. If this is you or someone you know, please reach out: [email protected] or LDattaro.73 on Signal.

Yesterday, at 1 AM I submitted the final* draft of my narrative nonfiction book about spectroscopy to my publisher. 🌈🚨⚛️ 79674 words, 89 hand-drawn images, 21 interviews with experts, and hundreds of darlings killed 🔪 *(before copy editing) #writing #booksky #chemsky #nonfiction 🧪

So I have this brown leather vest that I love but I need to remember never to wear it with a white shirt. A few years ago my daughter told me I looked like Han Solo. Today she asked me why I was dressed as shrek 😭 And you know what? Never mind 🫠

I'm finishing a third edit of my book and whew... One of the most stressful parts of writing nonfiction is making sure everything you wrote is correct. Like did me from 6 months ago get this right? And then I go down a rabbit hole double checking something only to find I had it right. #booksky

Soundgarden for large scale separations and parallel peptide syntheses at my bench. Metallica when one colleague was cranking high-throughput screening. Grace Potter for another when they purified epoxides. At least we took turns! #chemsky #chemchat inpreparation.substack.com/p/pi-nostalg...

how it feels to work on a grant proposal rn

We are hiring a tenure-track organic chemist! Truman State is the #1 public regional in the midwest...29 years running. Our Chemistry and Biochem/MolecularBio programs are @acs.org accredited. Apply by 4/7! #chemsky #chemjobs #chemistry #iteachchem 🧪 trumansu.peopleadmin.com/postings/1532

From April fools day last year. A good memory haha

Has anyone in #chemsky ever tried a 'choose-your-own-adventure' style assessment? I have an interesting group of organic chemistry I students this semester and am contemplating a 'unique' exam. Advice or feedback is appreciated!

Y’all, I loved Atlanta. Last week was my first visit & everyone was SO nice. Public transit was GREAT! I stayed in Decatur & the Marta was so fast! The busses & tram downtown were great too. A week without a car in ATL was easy. Visiting the MLK NHP will stick with me. So much history in Atlanta!

You would think after writing an 80K book I would be good at grammar, but prepositions are so hard! Especially on vs of. I know the rules, but I still struggle to know which one is correct in a bunch of situations. I have looked up soooo many examples of/on the correct use of on/of. #writing

Thank you @cenmag.bsky.social editor and reporters for this story. I hope people feel seen by it. #chemsky #ACSSpring2026

I had my first Waffle House experience w/ chemist & author Raj Mukhopadhyay this morning! Her debut novel is coming out in May & it is SO good! I laughed & cried! (& read in one sitting!) It's got disability rep, caregiving, female friendship, & the most human family dynamics. #booksky #chemsky

This morning I gave a talk to a class of grad students about SciComm. I was talking about how being persistently present in communities adds up, even though it’s hard to quantify. I was also saying how the squid facts project is hard to quantify the impact of but it opens doors through familiarity.

ACS Spring 2026 is approaching fast. Make sure to RSVP for the #ChemSocial hosted by C&EN and ACS on Campus. This event offers an opportunity to network with fellow chemists, editors, and students over trivia, light bites, and conversation. RSVP here: cvent.me/WaxYbE?RefId... #ACSSpring2026

Our @statnews.com survey of NIH-funded researchers drew nearly 1,000 responses from 45 states (plus DC and Puerto Rico). Here's a short thread on 5 scientists' whose labs and lives have been deeply impacted by federal policies 🧵

I just listened to his interview on the Radio West podcast and oh my god?! This is terrifying?!?!

I’m once again participating in the Trans Rights Readathon! I’ll be donating $25 for every book that I read to The Delores Project in Denver. #booksky #transrghtsreadathon

On the recent AI/student discourse (Science letter thingy), thought about a formal rebuttal, but others do it better. Briefly though, if you are not mentoring students in how to do research, you shouldn't be a professor at a research university. The research is a byproduct of the mentoring.

Making pies for π day! 🍌🥧

If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs ictnews.org/news/iditaro...

Started my reading for the #transrightsreadathon a few days early and in classic me fashion, I am reading 4 books at once: DYKE (GEOLOGY) A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS MAKE ROOM FOR LOVE & RHETORICS OF FAIRNESS AND THE POLITICS OF TRANS EXCLUSION What are you planning to read for the #trr , #booksky ?

Ms. Jenkins, you helped raise me. Yours were among the first books I stole from my grandmother’s stash. I learned as much about the humanity that survived within slavery from “Through the Storm” as anything else did. Your books had women in them, to boot!! Really honored.

Spectrometer selfie to mark my first day back in the lab since December!! Also—I can’t believe I waited so long to get prescription safety glasses. I LOVE THEM. #chemchat #chemsky 🧪⚛️🥼

A recent listeria outbreak in France - traced to ready-to-eat pâté in pastry -has sickened 12 people and killed two. Product recall in place. Just a reminder that listeria is a dangerous bacteria (case fatality rate of at least 20 percent) and one unaffected by refrigeration. So take care.

Please consider submitting feedback here: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote... You can use the template message or customize it. It takes less than 1 minute to submit. You can learn more from this recent NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

As you may be aware, the Trump administration is planning to dismantle NCAR. I can't say enough about how pivotal NCAR is to worldwide public safety, and also to the mentorship of future scientists. Today is the NSF-imposed deadline for submitting public feedback to congresspeople (see link below).

Lot of people named Ethan, don't meet many Methans or Propans.

Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt

I’ve avoided this specific bike 🚲 shop in Denver bc every time I have gone in there, I’ve had a sexist/condescending interaction. Today I needed some new tubes for my bike & it was close so I had all of these thoughts… like maybe I misread the previous interactions?

Got back our sequences for the intro bio "is this sushi what it claimed to be?" lab activity and the answer is a resounding "absolutely not"

Every time I open TikTok I get hit with a "pay $17 so more people will see your posts add" and like... Most of the stuff I post on tiktok is already free labor that I am sharing to be helpful. Why would I pay more?! Like I am already doing work for TikTok FOR FREE. Be so for real!!!

The reason the indispensable (to me, anyway) Bodleian medieval manuscripts site has been down. This feels to me like the web equivalent of the destructive scanning of physical books, and I hate it.

32 New Nonfiction Books 3/10/26 Which books are you looking forward to reading? #booksky #nonfiction #diversespines #newbooks

Nonfiction science new releases for March, 2026! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I plan on reading EXPECTING INEQUITY. I already read SALT LAKES. Read If you like books that blend science w/ memoir. #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience

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