New website and new services through #STEMFactually ! I am excited to announce I am expanding educational services available. Some great new additions include mock presentation sessions and draft writing reviews for grad students, STEM mentoring for students, and tutoring for advanced STEM courses.

I just love these guys 🌱🧬🧪🦋🐛 #caterpillar #monarchs #plantmilkweed #nativegardening #NY #iloveny

The FDA has green-lit updated COVID-19 vaccines for the 2025–26 season for select groups, but confusion is already mounting over how physicians and insurers will handle the shots. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

Finally found some of these guys!! #nature #monarchs #savethemonarchs #gardening #bugs 🌱🧬🧪

With a few chemical tweaks to a known metal-organic framework (MOF), researchers have developed a material that quickly detects and removes a common per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) from contaminated water. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

I didn't know bachelor's buttons could be pink! Found this guy in my wildflower pots. #bloomscrolling #flower #garden 🌱

I knew #numberblocks was good but I didn't expect my 5yo to suddenly factor 289000 into 17 and 17000 in his head at dinner this evening. Never underestimate kids when teaching #STEM. Asked him how he did it and he said he was thinking of rabbits 😂 🍎 #math #kidsarecool #parenting #rabbitmath

I'm offering virtual educational services through my LLC, if anyone needs some help with chemistry courses. I also will virtually attend practice defenses & conference presentations and provide direct feedback. Please dm or email (stemfactually, Gmail) to request services and availability. #tutor

Everybody needs sunscreen, including people with dark skin. And we need a lot. Here is a look at what the ingredients in a sunscreen tube do. cen.acs.org/business/con... #chemsky

1/2 Fifteen minutes in my dad's milkweed gardens and look at all the neat bugs I found! #nature #plantmilkweed #bloomscrolling #bugs #plantnatives 🌱🍎🧬👩‍🔬

Just because something "sounds science-y" doesn't mean it's right. I constantly see confidently incorrect posts on social media platforms (looking at you #reddit) where someone explains science with confidence and everyone believes it. Always #factcheck what you read. People are wrong A LOT. 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🍎🧬⚛️

Iridescence of dragonfly wings is caused by structural coloration. When light passes through microscopic surface structures w/varying refractive indices, constructive & destructive interference occur. This enhances some wavelengths of light, creating vivid colors dependent upon viewing angle 🧪🍎🥽👩‍🔬🌱🧬⚛️

Catching three dragonflies in one shot has to be lucky right #lucky #dragonfly #bugs 🌱

#bloomscrolling 🌱🌹

After months of battling what feels like every pest possible, I got a rose! It's changing color! Yesterday it was light yellow and pink; today it's significantly more vibrant. Very neat! I'm excited to see what it looks like tomorrow. Wonder if it's temperature, pH, or just the hybrid🌹 🌱 🧪 🍎🥽👩‍🔬🧬

I took this photo at a park near Syracuse, NY a few years ago. Unedited...just the beauty of nature! I remember how peaceful it was like it was yesterday. #NY #Syracuse #nature #woods #trees #YesNY

Found this beautiful guy in my garden! He was kind enough to pose for a photoshoot while I tried to figure out how to capture such a speedy bug. Great blue skimmer, I think. #bugs #garden #dragonfly 🌱

New design for my #Redbubble shop! This design features a cornflower photographed in my yard. I reduced markup substantially on the Classic T-Shirt in this design only; down from 29.99 to 20.99. I had fun with this; I love wildflowers #flower #nature #plants #shop www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1716...

#bloomscrolling #pollinator 🌱

Peony! #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #gardening 🌱

While love might last forever... thermodynamically, diamonds won’t. At standard temp and pressure, graphite is the more stable form of carbon. Kinetics keep diamonds brilliant for a lifetime with a high activation energy for conversion #love 🧪💎💍👩‍🔬🧬🥽🍎 #stemfactually

Wildflower planters are finally showing off #bloomscrolling #flowers 🌱

Coreopsis #bloomscrolling #wildflower 🌱

🧪👩‍🔬🧬🥽🍎 #politics www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is very neat! Lower doses required, which could reduce even more any small vaccine-associated risks, and it is fridge stable, increasing access and ease of storage. Hopefully it's approved for all ages soon #moderna #covid #vaccine #vaccinate 🧪👩‍🔬🧬🍎🥽 www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/fda...

Anyone know if this is poison oak? 🌱 #plantid #ny

Not sure who these babies belong to! My guess is an orb weaver since they frequent our porch 🕷️ 🕸️ 🌱 #bugs

A little ruby-throated hummingbird is sheltering in our porch container gardens! Stay dry little fella. 🌱🐦 #birds #hummingbird #nature #staydry #ny

Found this beautiful cornflower right outside next to my still-flowerless planter. I never mind being one-upped by nature 😂 🌱💠 #bloomscrolling

How neat would an anti-tick vaccine be 🧪🧬👩‍🔬🍎🥽 scim.ag/43bRnt9

Possibly a peony growing!! I planted roots but wasn't optimistic. 🤞🌱🌸 #spring

If you're in an area where there are ticks, don't forget your daily tick checks throughout the spring, summer, and fall. They're everywhere! It's been raining and I've not been outside for 2 days and just found a tick on me. They are sneaky! 🌱🍎 #ticks #bugs #yuck #donteatme

Found my 5 year old squeezing out a tube of Aquaphor into a bowl of water because he was "doing an experiment". We ended up doing solubility tests in water, hand sanitizer, and oil. Then we saw how soap dispersed it in water. He really enjoyed it and learned all about polarity and micelles 🧪👩‍🔬🍎🥽⚛️🧬

Taking time to parent your kids doesn't make your credentials disappear. Many women in STEM take extended maternity leave, stay-at-home parent, etc.It doesn't make them any less valuable as professionals. Respecting women means respecting their career choices, not erasing past accomplishments 🧪👩‍🔬🍎🥽⚛️🧬

First flowers for the season! So excited! 🌱🦋🐞🐝

I've published my next #substack post. This post focuses on the necessity of introducing #stem to children and offers innovative approaches for doing so as #parents, #teachers, and educators. Audio will be added tomorrow. Thanks for reading! 🧪👩‍🔬⚛️🧬🍎🥽 open.substack.com/pub/drmariss...

When explaining to your little kids we only throw items that feel soft, don't forget to tell them non-newtonian fluids do not count. Learned that the hard way, no pun intended 🧪👩‍🔬🍎🥽⚛️

My 3 year old just asked "if an electron flows, does gravity make it go down?" Incorporating basic STEM terms into the everyday, snap circuits, & familiarity with gravity from his love of #space has helped him make a connection about forces and how they affect different systems 🧪👩‍🔬🍎🥽⚛️🧬 #kids #parent

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! Special shout out to all the #womeninstem balancing motherhood and their careers. 🧪⚛️🧬🥽🍎👩‍🔬 #happymothersday

My 5yo figured out if he asks me science questions before bed I will ramble and he's now utilizing this tactic to procrastinate bedtime. "Do circuits...move?" "Rambles in circuits" "Mommy, let's talk even MORE about circuits. Tell me more about electron currents" #iteachchem #circuitsoversleep #kids

My kids started saying "bugs, bugs doing something" every time they find a bug. Now I can't stop thinking of "bugs, bugs doing something" every time I see a bug and how perfect of a catchphrase it is ha 🌱🪲🐝🐞🦋 #kids #parenting #bugsbugsdoingsomething

Unbelievable. 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🧬⚛️🍎 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Members of the @acs.org : there's a page for STEM advocacy w/toolkits to quickly email senators, reps,& other ways to advocate at federal & state levels. I sent requests to support STEM to #NY senators and rep. Fast, easy, & hopefully impactful 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🧬⚛️🍎 @schumer.senate.gov www.acs.org/policy/membe...

The baby birds are growing up! All 5 hatched. The dad is very protective over our front porch but I managed to sneak a quick peek. They're house finches. #spring #bird #snuggles #cute 🌱🧬🐦🍎

Found this guy this afternoon. Some kind of wood-borer beetle it seems 🪲🌱🍎🧬

Happy Earth & birthday to these little baby birds on our front door. Snuck a quick photo while mommy was out. #earthday #nature #birds 🧬🍎🌱🐦

I hear students say they aren't cut out for science because they had trouble with it in high school. Don't count out science based upon HS; it's such a small glimpse into the enormous world of STEM. If you enjoy it, there's a place for you and you can succeed 🧪🥽👩‍🔬🍎🧬⚛️ #iteachchem

It's International Day of #HumanSpaceFlight 🚀 Meet Peggy Whitson: NASA astronaut. First female Space Station Commander. Biochemist. Spent >665 cumulative days in #space, the endurance record for any American astronaut. #WomenInSTEM An amazing life: nasa.gov/people/peggy...

As we face the possible closure of Goddard Space Flight Center and the cancellation of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which began its life as WFIRST, it’s timely that I got this archival document from 2011 in the mail yesterday: Women of Goddard, which included a feature on a young fellow. 🔭🧪

With the Apr. 15 deadline approaching for selection of graduate programs, I wrote an article to help with this decision. Learn how to determine which program is the strongest for you and how to negotiate your financial offer when finalizing your decision 🧪👩‍🔬🥽⚛️🧬🍎 open.substack.com/pub/drmariss...