Had a great time at the Photochemistry GRC this past week! Now I get to sleep for 2 days to recover.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

For those concerned about environmental justice, the EJScreen tool (which provides valuable mapping and screening data) has not yet been taken down, and the database can be downloaded. Act fast… www.epa.gov/ejscreen/tec...

Received this email from my chair tonight (🧵, 1/6): "The DOE has issued new guidance indicating that, until further notice, there will be delays in any funding actions. Here’s what this means for projects pending or already awarded by DOE: 1. Pending Proposals: Awards will be postponed. ...

Teen Vogue never ceases to amaze me ✊🏼

Saw people posting on this and was hoping they were isolated incidents… but nope, it’s real and it’s bad www.science.org/content/arti...

Immediately cut off anyone who is trying to make this argument. It’s gross.

Happy #TortieTuesday! Remember to eat your food like you mean it. Your forehead deserves food, too.

Happy #TortieTuesday! I dropped the ball before but I’m hoping to stick to it now. May you have something today that brings you as much joy as Tortie gets from squash.

Estimated cost of LA fires is in the neighborhood of $150 billion. I don't want to ever again hear the argument that climate policy is too expensive.

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

The DAR Lab started the year at the I-APS (Inter-American Photochemical Society) meeting in Florida. Caden, Alex, Max, and Will presented posters on their research, and I gave a talk. We got lots of great suggestions for future work, and have some collaborations cooking. A successful meeting!

I cannot stress enough that libraries need to be defended. Public. Academic. School. Fight for them. USE them & make it known that you're using them. As a librarian who lost the fight at their institution & was forced to toss 120,000 books because "no one reads books anymore," I am begging you.

A Low-Spin Manganese (II) Complex with an Emissive Charge-Transfer Excited State Authors: Maxwell Rhames, Nora Burnett, William Tocco, Ahshabibi Ahmed, Annemarie Lee, Alexander Ruhren, Claire Besson, Julien Panetier, John Swierk, Daniela Arias-Rotondo DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-r2qq0

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it. Today is as good as any day to return to it.

I spent so much time in the hospital this year, watching immigrants and children of immigrants care for my mom (who was an immigrant herself!) I am never going to understand how my dad saw them all help my mom, and yet he still voted for Trump.

I’m so excited to share my group’s first pre-print! This is a collaboration with @johnswierk.bsky.social and @japanetier.bsky.social. Here’s your reminder that great science comes from PUIs, too 😊 doi.org/10.26434/che...

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Do we get any swag/freebies from companies if we’re among their first 100 followers here? Should I start tagging? 😂

I missed #TortieTuesday this week, but better late than never? Tortie doesn’t care for raw squash, but lightly boiled gourd is his jam.

I signed up for my first half-marathon in 6 years. I'm both giddy with excitement and terrified. Please clap. Or send help. Or both. #ChemistsWhoRun (It's the Kalamazoo Half, on 5/4/25, which is a perfect date. May the force be with me, indeed)

For those in #ChemSky looking for inspiration on reaction systems for photocatalytic CO2 reduction, here goes the first of three reviews published in 2024 with colleagues: this one is a compendium on photosensitizers typically used for CO2 reduction: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Letter of Recommendation Season to those who celebrate! 1) please, stop asking me to rank them. 2) weekend deadlines are cruel. Also, my students are amazing and if you don't take them, that's your loss.

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Looking at the new prices to attend ACS national meetings 😭This might be the last year I send students. It makes me so sad.

Luis Miguel: “mas, quién le pone puertas al campo? 🎶” Yo: “la puta oligarquía!!”

I have predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for candidates with a strong background in computer modelling in condensed matter physics or computational chemistry/biochemistry. Anybody interested contact me for details!

Use a gif to show where you’re from

Use a gif to show where you’re from

I need help, #ChemSky: I need to edit a style in Zotero but the editor is too… “programming-y” and I’m intimidated.

I’m considering having #TortieTuesday. Thoughts? This is from the time my students taught me about .5 pictures.

A terminology proposal:

Left my @ambeed.bsky.social bag on the floor, Bandit took over. She hasn’t moved in 20 minutes.

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Khalil. Khalil and his wife Noreen have three children, Mohammed, Yassin and Ghaith. They lost their home in Rafah. Mohammed has hepatitis and 2nd degree burns and they really need assistance for his care and basic survival needs.

Georgetown Law told a pregnant student due amid exams that she has to take her final with everyone else, because accommodation would be “inequitable” to “non-birthing” peers. They suggested she bring her newborn to campus as she does her exam. “Motherhood is not for the faint of heart,” they said.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Working on a list of ways we can all help support #trans and #nonbinary queers in your community and school departments. Will share soon, but please feel free to reply with any suggestions!! #academicsky 🏳️‍⚧️🩷🏳️‍🌈

Fascists aren't just going after trans folks cause they hate trans ppl. They know for a fact that liberals won't risk anything real to protect trans ppl making it an easy way to legally accumulate power to use on everyone else. This is them sharpening their blade on them for y'all.

If you are a trans person in Illinois arrested, harassed, or discriminated against for using a public bathroom, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

I love seeing how #ChemSky builds up. I’m also enjoying the surreal moment when I have more followers than the ACS 😂 Don’t worry, it’ll be short lived.

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you

[tries to act cool despite all the excitement of #ChemSky growing] Hola! I’m Dani (she/ella), also known as Dr. DAR (“DAR” rhymes with jar). I’m an assistant professor of chemistry at Kalamazoo College, in SW Michigan. I teach general chemistry 1&2 and inorganic chemistry. 1/n

Okay, one of the things Twitter was really good for was sounding the alarm & driving calls to Congress when terrible legislation came up for a vote. Bluesky, IT'S TIME. H.R. 9495 would allow Trump to shut down any nonprofit by claiming they're "terrorists" www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-o...

Lots of new faces, so new introduction! I'm an assistant professor at Kalamazoo College (started 2023) and teach pchem and gen chem mostly. My research focuses on optical cavities and adsorptive materials. Also interested in increasing the use of coding as a tool in the classroom.

I think a lot about what @nanjala.bsky.social said once about oligarchy and threats to freedom: One way to stay free and resist authoritarianism is “resisting the narratives of inevitability”. We are being told to accept exploitative AI, because our tech overlords say so. We don’t have to.