I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Nonfiction science new releases for November, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I am planning to read WHISPERS OF ROCK for science book club & I have already preordered GROWING PAPAYA TREES! #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience

What interesting books are being released in December?

I finally finished my Invisalign today (it took twice as long as it was supposed to) and the orthodontist gave me balloons and sparkling cider and I kind of felt like I deserved that 🫠

I know I'm totally romance-pilled by @heydebigale.bsky.social because I am like "there is totally a romance novel angle to this story" www.reuters.com/business/hea...

ooooh this (April) 2026 release looks really good: #chemsky #chemchat Chain Reactions: The Wonderous Chemistry of Everyday Life www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state" ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

I like the idea of #chemchat as a hashtag to for conversations around chemistry!

after listening to some chemistry professors talk about graduate admissions for next year, if you are a senior this year, you need to be thinking about post-graduation plans RIGHT NOW #chemchat 🧪

Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪

FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities. www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

Back on my bougie bullsh*t 💅🏻 I love the bus so much 🩷🚌🩷

I'm so pleased

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

I only recently learned about antivenom from V IS FOR VENOM by Kathryn Harkup. This is cool:

#BirdGlamour says BOO! this Halloween with the Spotted Lanterfly! Calling southeast Asia home, these planthoppers were first noted in Philadelphia in 2014! Populations are checked by parasitic wasps in southeast Asia but are an invasive species in N.A., going after agriculture and lumber crops. 🐞

I know I’m old because I open TikTok and there is a person doing Y2K makeup to Like a G6 and do they not know that song came out 10 years later?!

I finished reading V IS FOR VENOM by Kathryn Harkup yesterday. I love the mix of history, true crime, literature, and chemistry in both this book and A IS FOR ARSENIC. Harkup does such a good job describing the chemistry of the different poisons. The #chemsky will love this one! 🧪⚛️🐍 #booksky

The irony of Chegg calling LLMs parasitic... (They are both parasites!!!) www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

It's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃 Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/... #ChemSky 🧪

Yesterday, our campus had the honor of hosting Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She said a lot of interesting and valuable things. One thing that's stuck with me is this claim: "The only thing that distinguishes the ordinary from the extraordinary is hard work."

I'm a bit late with the customary #MoleDay infographic this year, but better late than never! The mole makes it easier to describe the huge numbers of atoms, molecules, or ions that participate in chemical reactions. More in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2014/10/23/m... #ChemSky 🧪

So let's do some real-talk about my teaching job now that I'm going to be on strike in less than 12 hours, yeah? I co-teach first-year Biology at SMU. The other professor teaching the other half of the course is a full-time tenured professor. We may be the only PT/FT teaching team on campus.

Humans of Bluesky! I want your questions, please. Let me explain. I like writing explainers about things like: What colors do bees see? Do bugs fart? How long can viruses survive in a dead body? What's the difference between hemp and marijuana? But my brain is wrung dry. I need questions! 🧪🧵

Can anyone explain to my like I am five yo how audible exclusives are legal? How can amazon gate keep accessibility from public libraries in the US? Like, I honestly do not understand. #booksky

Watching the Albuquerque mayoral debate now www.youtube.com/live/jPkki5X...

Not sure what the equivalent of war crimes is for wilfully destroying the planet, but maybe when we’re done sorting out the fascists, we could sort these guys out too.

*reads another horrifying thing on the internet” Me: “oh, god” My husband: “don’t bring me into it” 🙄

For the enjoyment of #ChemSky scrollers, an origami BCC unit cell. The origami has grown quite a bit since then, and continues to grow, but I wanted to share my project at this particular stage with chemists and crystallographers.

Sometimes I remember a person I really appreciated following on old Twitter and I want to see if they’re over here on blue sky but then the only thing I can remember is their avatar and the topics they posted about.

Nonfiction science new releases for October, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I already checked out BORN from the library. I am also adding GATHERED ans THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT to my TBR. #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience 🎢

Nonfiction science new releases for October, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I already checked out BORN from the library. I am also adding GATHERED ans THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT to my TBR. #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience 🎢

Happy National Chemistry Week: The Hidden Life of Spices! To celebrate I made a quick TikTok about the fluorescence of turmeric! #chemsky 🧪⚛️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AnGACN/

Oooh I just looked it up and National Chemistry Week starts today! The theme is The Hidden Life of Spices! How fun. #chemsky www.acs.org/education/na...

Hey #chemsky, Is #realtimechem week a thing on bluesky? I just had a memory pop up from like 10 years ago and it made me super sad. We had something so good! @realtimechem.bsky.social

What’s everyone reading this weekend? I finished THE EARL WHO GOT AWAY yesterday (*loved*) And now I’m reading HOW TO ADHD. This book is so relatable and helpful I think I’m going to go buy a hard copy I can highlight. #booksky #reading #nonfiction #romancelandia

My book, Crisis Averted, is on sale at Amazon for $6. It’s filled with behind-the-scenes characters and suspenseful stories of how outbreaks get stopped. Although it was written before All This, it puts into context what’s at stake if we let public health dissolve. www.amazon.com/Crisis-Avert...

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Define your musical taste in 8 artists: Charli XCX Metric Linkin Park Dashboard Confessional P!nk Sleep Token Kacey Musgraves Cardi B

I think it’s weird that people complain about the misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda but then are absolutely unwilling to grapple with the fact that there are folks who have been propagandized and fallen for the mis/disinfo and actually those people are worth trying to reach

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

Dr. Hoffman’s obituary: #Chemsky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...

Oh wow, Dr. Darleane Hoffman, ISU alumnus and GOAT, passed away last month. Absolute legend, I was grateful to meet her in 2007 when she came back to ISU to receive an award. #Chemsky 🧪

Happy birthday #physicist Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), who came up with a truly beautiful experiment to test whether the weak force conserves parity (whether beta decay would be the same if reflected in the mirror)! 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬#histsci In my print on the left I show Wu in her lab & a schematic diagram of 🧵

Steve Withers demonstrating once again how fundamental science leads to breakthroughs that can change lives. #chemsky

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

last 5-star read: THE EARL WHO ISNT by Courtney Milan Favorite Sandwich: Tomato + chili crisp with mayo on sourdough !