podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... My podcast has launched!! Stay tuned for the first episode! I am also looking for people to share their stories about their nonlinear pathways on this podcast. Have you changed careers? Or do you have interests outside the STEM fields? If so, let’s chat! #ChemSky

If you like desserts with red beans, here is a good and simple one: mashed sweet red beans with sticky rice balls 红豆小圆子 😋 I topped it with osmanthus flower honey, but just regular honey (or syrup) works, too! #ChemistsWhoCook #Food

Therapist: you need to find time to relax. Me: YES I WILL I’M GOING TO MAKE THE MOST OF MY RELAXATION AND I WILL HAVE THE BEST RELAXATION OF THE WHOLE HUMAN HISTORY I WILL WIN THE WORLD RELAXATION CHAMPIONSHIP— #Anxiety #AcademicSky

Not a single thought behind those eyes and that blep #CatSky

To materials chemists: Synthesis= F around XRD = find out 🤣 #ChemSky

Before and after I told him he could not have the chocolate cookie stick #CatSky

Hi #ChemSky I’m planning to start a podcast called “No, I have NOT always been in science”. In each episode, I will feature someone in STEM who has had a nonlinear pathway (e.g. ppl who started outside STEM but switched later; ppl who got heavily involved in non-STEM related activities, etc.) 1/2

“Mommy? Did you forget to share your lunch with me?” #CatSky

Such a poser #CatSky

Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/

I got this question from a student: imagine there is a gas that stays ideal no matter what, does that mean that gas can never be compressed into a liquid? #ChemSky

“You wouldn’t let me eat cat food directly from the bag, yet you just ate ice cream directly from the container.” 😾😡 #CatSky

Physical chemistry escape room today! #ChemSky #ChemEd

I got a hate message from a complete stranger on social media, so I am eating hotpot to celebrate the fact that I am so powerful that my mere existence (without any real interaction) can make someone so angry 😎 #PowerAgainstHate

I just started learning to play the harmonica, and as a beginner, the sounds I make are…well, not so great, and Hydrogen is very honest about his OPINIONS 🤣 #CatSky

Without defects, your gemstones lose colors, your phone becomes paperweight, your solar panel no longer works, and your stainless steel spoons get rusty. Crystals are like people, it is the defects that make us unique and interesting. #ChemSky

A snowflake that looks like hexamethylbenzene #ChemSky

How feasible is the idea of “MOF LEGO”? That is, something like LEGO pieces but are in the shapes of linkers and vertices that people can use to build MOF structures? I think that would be a great hands-on or outreach activity for students. Anyone in the #ChemSky community have any ideas?

Hooman gibs kitteh go-gurt too slow. I take things into my own paw. #CatSky

I’ve had this picture saved in my phone for a long time, until recently, someone pointed out that it is the REPAIR of the broken pottery, not the pottery being broken itself, that makes the pottery more beautiful. (1/2)

this came to me in a dream #iTeachChem #ChemSky

Work-life balance cat shows teeth when you try to work on weekends #CatSky

There is not much I can do, but I have a feeling that folks can use some Hydrogen pictures to brighten up their days a bit, so here they are.

Well I tried to use this joke in class today, but less than half of the class knew this song…I feel old

Thread: Jolene, but fluorine Fluorine, fluorine, fluorine, fluorine I'm begging of you please don't take my electron Fluorine, fluorine, fluorine, fluorine Please don't take it just because you can

Look I iz hooman, I can haz hooman foodz #CatSky

This is how Hydrogen rolls #CatSky

A coworker gave me a giant zucchini. Hydrogen for scale. #CatSky

Got some really good strawberries, tomatoes, green beans, and shishito peppers! #ChemistsWhoGarden #Gardening

The things Hydrogen does for kitty go-gurt

Describe your in-person social skills with an image

韭菜盒 (“chive box”). It is like a hand pie, filled with Chinese chives and scrabbled eggs (with salt, sesame oil, and five spice), and pan fried. #foodsky

PhotoCATalyst #CatSky #ChemSky

Papers, in PNAS

Let’s start calling the odds of getting stuck at the DFW airport “the DFW rate” 🤣 #ChemSky #ChemEd

Food?

Some Hydrogen updates

Be ware of the peeping Tom(cat) #CatSky

We know that generally, when everything else is the same, the more O an acid has, the stronger it is, e.g. HClO4 is stronger than HClO3. Of course, an acid can’t have too many O, or it won't exist. e.g. there is no HClO20000. In other words: what doesn't kill an acid makes it stronger. 🤣

The great musician is shaking paws with his fans 🎹👨‍🎤

My mushroom is so big, I can fit three people underneath and still have mush room to spare 🤣

The Hydrogen photo dump has started! #cats

There is still time to submit your abstract! #BCCE2024 #chemsky

Hi all! Are you going to BCCE 2024? I am co-organizing a symposium on "Integrating Humanities into Chemical Education"! If that sounds interesting to you, please consider submitting an abstract! More details in the screenshot attached. Hope to see you in Kentucky! #BCCE2024 #chemsky

Happy Lunar New Year! At the start of the Year of the Dragon, the latest edition of Periodic Graphics in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at the chemistry behind some of the Chinese celebration customs. including dumplings and firecrackers: cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...

Well, I know lots of you missed this little dude...so here are some photos! He is doing well, if anything, he has become more clingy and a complete lap/Velcro cat!😻

Hi all! After a VERY long (and much needed) break, I am back! It was a good break - I wrote a lot of novels, thought a lot of thoughts, and spent a lot of time with Hydrogen. However, it is also good to be back!