I had my students do exam corrections after our first midterm. They were allowed to use whatever resources they needed (me, their classmates, the internet/AI) to correct their mistakes. Seeing some of them still not get the right answer hurts my soul 😭😭

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

I know we all have lots of issues with MS Word, PPT, etc, but all I am asking for is a reverse numbering feature

#chemsky I am introducing the field of inorganic chemistry to our first year chem majors. Does anyone have any resources on this topic? Looking for an overview of the field as a whole, like active research areas eg "five slides about inorganic chemistry" 😅 to quote the VIPEr resource categories

The only thing I am sure about as a new instructor of inorganic chemistry is that all three commonly used textbooks of inorganic chemistry do a terrible job 😭

Come be my colleague at @hopecollege.bsky.social ! We are hiring a tenure-track open rank #chemprof to teach #GenChem & #Inorganic and establish a thriving experimental #undergradresearch group in our exceptional #PUI #Chemistry department! #chemjobs #facultyjobs jobs.hope.edu

Well I can now confirm that both United AND American aren't capable of getting planes/crews to a given location in order to transport passengers in exchange for money. Will somebody please just get me home 😭

So does anyone else always call it "Ted Paella" or is that just me

". . . it is not, in any real sense, about Columbia. Neither is it about antisemitism or free speech. It is not even at its root about education." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Just had a bottle of DMSO arrive as a completely solid chunk... apparently the melting point is ~18 °C? Definitely colder than that outside today 😅

So today I went to go open up my brand new centrifuge for the lab and inside the box I found a single box of 10 uL centrifuge tubes So, not at all a centrifuge, and in fact completely useless to me WITHOUT said centrifuge

Some of my LA friends have told me that the problem is climate change, and it is. It’s January for fucks sake. But that doesn’t mean we have to solve climate change to better control fire. If we wait for that, cities will keep burning. There are ways to mitigate risk. www.latimes.com/california/s...

hello I would like everybody to imagine for a second that you are a new faculty member and that your university is switching to a new purchasing system, such that you will not be allowed to make any purchases for a FULL WEEK while the transition happens please pray for me

Not many more days to open, I hope you've all finished purifying your products from door 16 to mix with the product of door 22

Well, it happened... I turned 30 and then I hurt my back moving furniture 😭

What I find more fun is when schools let you know that the search has closed in like, July. Or October, at which point the next cycle has begun. Like thanks I had figured that out by now that is not helpful

I will forever be of the belief that customers should be reimbursed for the amount of time that internet and utilities are unavailable to outages. I am literally paying for a service that you are not delivering

A classic editorial by Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social that was partial inspiration for the quoted thread below: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #Physics 🧪

It turns out it is very easy to get 10k steps if (1) you are commuting to work on public transit and (2) your office and your lab are in different buildings

you know I really don't feel like I listened to this song that much #spotifywrapped #ajr

Re-reading your rejected manuscript

This article hits the nail on the head 💯

When I became a professor, I was excited about all of the teaching, research, mentoring, outreach, and more. But now, doing All The Things is just exhausting and less exciting. How can professors be effective but not do All The Things? open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

Here's what drives me up the wall: We take research ethics as students. We learn and are told that "all authors must have reviewed and approved the submission of their manuscript." Then you end up on papers that get submitted without your knowledge, and what?

Has anybody tried the ACS Publishing Center (new version of ACS Paragon Plus) and has it worked for them? Literally I cannot get anything to update in my profile 😠

#PhysicsFactlet: The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project" I will try to (likely very slowly) make one or more visualization per chapter of "Solid State Physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin, with the hope that they will be useful to people teaching/learning solid state Physics. 1/

I see many people posting pictures of their pets to establish #proofofcat. I lived with the two best fluffballs ever when I was a kid. If I still had a cat today, I promise you it would be all I ever post about 😅

Help me gather the nanoscience community here on #chemsky!

I've entered my first graduate recruitment season as a professor, and I am going to go crazy reading these rec letters. Writers, please remember...

What is the difference between weather and climate. This #dataviz shows the "Central England" average temperature for periods ranging from 1 day (weather) to 30 years (climate). This shows the climate signal emerging. Note the varying y axis that covers the range of the data.

what's up #chemsky we have arrived get hyped for some incredibly stupid memes made by incredibly talented electrochemists