The researchers found that one of the disposable vapes they studied released more lead during a day’s worth of use than almost 20 packs of tobacco cigarettes. cen.acs.org/business/con... #chemsky 🧪

AQ sensor in my office on campus… and while there are other indoor PM sources from construction, this spike overnight on July 4 is most likely the massive *private citizen* use of fireworks. And this is indoors in a MERV14 building! 🧪⚗️🇺🇸

Thanks to everyone on #TeamMassSpec for a great #ASMS2025 - my first! I’m coming away with great new connections, inspirations, and ideas for our current research in multiphase atmospheric and indoor chemistry. #IndoorChem #AtmosChem 🧪⚗️

Hey #TeamMassSpec come check out our work on disinfection byproducts from bleach *vapor* chemistry. Unlocking new science with a #SICRIT technique… learn more at WP120 here at #ASMS2025 today. #UndergradResearch #IndoorChem #AtmosChem 🧪⚗️

Grades: SUBMITTED ✅ Sabbatical mode: ON ✅ 🧪⚗️

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THE entire NIOSH engineering group has been fired among most ALL of NIOSH. It is devastating. www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

While idly perusing the PurpleAir #PM2.5 map today -- it's an amazingly clean day in the Northeast US, but there was this one red sensor in Ohio, north of Cincy. And then I saw that it was ironically located just outside the town of "Mount Healthy". #AirQuality #SpikeyTimeSeries 🧪⚗️

This week we were notified that our Thriving Communities grant to build community capacity and study #AirQuality in the #Anthracite #Coal Region of PA was selected for an award! It was not ideal to see that we were awarded frozen (EPA) funds that we aren’t sure that we will ever really get.

NIH-supported Environmental Health Perspectives is the open-access flagship journal in environmental health. They have paused all new manuscript submissions "due to changes in operational resources". Is this the transparency and open discourse we were promised? ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/b...

Was just reading a #NYTimes Morning email blast with an article reflecting on Spring 2020…. 5 years later. This question hit me harder than I thought it would. Hugs requiring a calculation. Oof. Think about what it’ll be like to explain this idea to kids in 10-15 years.

🧪🔥 #wildfire #funding opportunity www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Hey #ChemSky, any chemists or chem students attending to the Stand Up for Science event in Sacramento? I'll be attending and would like to speak with you either at the event or beforehand!

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

If you’re an industry chemist who holds a BS/BA in Chemistry, we want to have a (compensated) conversation with you 🤗 Please share widely with chemical industry friends and colleagues! #ChemSky

RIP Amos Smith: www.chem.upenn.edu/news/2025/02... chemsky 🧪⚗️

The NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, let us name him early and often, is by LAW required to to support programs designed to broaden participation of underrepresented populations in STEM fields uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?h...

Apropos of *absoloutely nothing* science 🧪 friends, this is your friendly reminder to read the grant solicitation VERY thoroughly when you *start* writing so you don’t have to reformat/rewrite/cut down your whole grant in like 6 hours right at the deadline. ⚗️ #academicsky #chemsky

Students interested in #NASA and/or planet Earth 🌍 should really consider applying for SARP.

I’m looking for new PhD students wanting to use computational chemistry to study atmospheric reactions. Topics: Hg redox reactions at surfaces. AI to study how hydrogen bonds (R=O--HO• and RO(H)--HO) affects kinetics of H-abstraction. See www.esf.edu/faculty/dibble or [email protected]

Links for wildfires smoke tips SCAQMD: www.aqmd.gov/home/air-qua... CalTech: scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/susta... CIRES: cires.colorado.edu/news/how-mit...

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

The LA fires are a staggering example of needing to understand how emerging pollutants are produced by #wildfires at the wildland/urban interface #WUI #chemsky #atmoschem #envirochem 🧪 ⚗️ www.npr.org/2025/01/18/n...

Understanding the Link Between Indoor Ventilation and Radon Levels: Insights from Recent Measurements January marks Radon Awareness Month, a time when public health officials and environmental agencies emphasize the importance of monitoring and mitigating radon gas, a known carcinogen that can…

A reminder that I'm looking to talk to chemists impacted by the LA county fires. #EatonFire #PalisadesFire #ChemSky

"ASHRAE is providing free ... access to ..the new ... Guideline 44-2024, Protecting Building Occupants From Smoke During Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Events (bit.ly/4gUL8hF).. until Feb. 11, 2025. ...tips for creating safer, healthier indoor environments during and after fire events"

How to deal with abysmal #airquality in SoCal due to the fires 🔥 mask up w/ a good mask (N95 or P100) Avoid outdoor intense activity Turn on air filters if you have them a Corsi-Corsi-Rosenthal box *really* worked during NorCal's fires

Sadly, this story about our work in Chemical & Engineering News a few days ago is very timely again due to the #Palisades and #Eaton fires. bsky.app/profile/cenm...

In Dover, NH 2008-09: $450 for an attic bedroom in 100 yr old shared Victorian. Good people, good location, non-existent insulation. 🥶 San Diego, CA 2009: half of a 2BR 2BA for $750 near UCSD. Nice but boring area. Prob up 2-3x now (?) 💸 similar rent for shared 2BR in Pacific Beach the next year

Let’s be honest there is a big circle around this whole Venn diagram labeled “Analytical” except those who reside in only the outer circle don’t clog the #MassSpec ion source routinely.

Anyone dealt with AI-generated reviews on papers? I just had a paper rejected by ACS with 2 positive reviews noting novel work / minor corrections, but 1 scathing review with broad statements with no evidence and clearly didn't read the SI). AI checkers put this review at 100% AI generated...

So much to consider here. I also get this complaint - even suggested I would “probably fail the course if I was a student”. Students really struggle with tolerating small failures, and want a LOT fed directly to them. Struggle to see thru math to chemistry. A challenge for us all to address

Ephraim was a excellent chemist, educator, advocate, mentor, and very kind person. He made P-Chem approachable without diluting the challenge. I base most of my teaching philosophy for problem solving on his example. I miss him. #chemsky #PUI #mentor www.threads.net/@colgateuniv...

spent a bunch of time with #TheTragicallyHip in the ear in 2024 🇨🇦 and finally became a 1%-er in something! #Rush 🇨🇦 in 2nd place #SpotifyWrapped

Content Analysis: Doug seems to have one foot in academia and the other in an awkward family dinner conversation—so close to engaging, yet always dropping a fact like it's on sale! blueskyroast.com/roast/earthm...

Ozone reacts with indoor chemicals to form harmful chemicals that can impact our lung function. The health impact of the result of ozone reactions has been shown to be greater for indoor air than outdoor air. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am looking to recruit 1-2 new PhD students to start in Fall 2025 at CU Boulder in either Mechanical Engineering or Environmental Engineering. Our group works on aerosols (particulate matter): physical properties, indoor/outdoor transport, human exposure, etc. More info: www.colorado.edu/lab/vance

Bucknell Chemistry is looking for TWO visiting assistant profs. One in Physical and one in Organic. #chemsky Physical Chem job ad bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Dan Murphy from NOAA reports growing metal abundance in stratospheric aerosol from SpaceEx and friends. wapo.st/3Q3OT8s

Hi All, We have a new search for a junior faculty member at MIT chemistry. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/261...

Remarkable effort by Propublica to downscale airquality data illustrating regions with very high exposure to BTEX and other pollutants. www.propublica.org/article/toxm...