I saw a “life hack” video today which was so wrong, and replete with so many wrong comments, it was unbearable. I know I should let it go, but I can’t. I just can’t. So, here we go: why you shouldn’t crush your plastic bottle of cola once you’ve opened it #ChemSky #Chemistry

Asking for help is not admitting failure, but rather using your resources to ensure that expectations are met. Knowing how to ask for help ensures that you get help that is actually useful, or even crucial, in meeting your goals. cen.acs.org/careers/care... #chemsky

Hear directly from leaders shaping the future of chemistry education. From curriculum reform to academic-industry partnerships, our panelists will discuss international perspectives and what today’s students need to succeed. RSVP here: connect.discoveracs.org/ACS-Fall-202... #ACSFall2025 #chemsky

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The challenge of being neurodivergent in #STEM: Neurodivergent scientists say STEM isn’t built for them, despite the contributions they bring. cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #phdsky #academicsky #phdchat #academicchatter 🧪

2,005!!! Run Eagles Run!! 🦅

It’s strange how some respond to prejudice by embracing Aspie supremacy as a defense mechanism, claiming superiority not just over neurotypicals but also higher support needs autistic people. Fighting marginalization by creating new hierarchies misses the point. lovettejallow.com/neurodiversi...

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Earlier this year I asked ACS Reactions if we could do a little academic arson and they said yes! Lighting Christmas Trees on Fire to Test Internet Wisdom youtu.be/N6YkYyibFCI

E.g., those "gold standard," "evidence-based" claims? When examined, ABA research is riddled by conflicts of interest. And per Dr. @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social, "we shouldn’t have a separate set of lower standards that we only apply to autism research." thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf... 4/

Today, Democratic Senators refused to hold a vote to remove the anti-trans amendment targeting healthcare of the trans children of service members from the NDAA. Only 14 Senators voted against the final bill. Subscribe to support our journalism. Guest post from Mira Lazine.

Currently rating brunch in Rochester, NY and overhear conversation between two servers behind the counter. Server 1: Well I’ll NEVER see Tom Petty in concert again! (Tone suggesting he’d committed some heinous act worthy of boycott) Server 2: Why’s that? S1: Because he’s DEAD, Janine. Dead.

In a story sent out to newsrooms around the world, AP calls puberty blockers a 'common approach' to treatment for trans kids and highlights how the UK ban goes against 'standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health'

J.J. Thomson was born #OTD in 1856. He discovered the electron, developed experimental techniques that led to mass spectroscopy, and trained physicists like Rutherford and Bohr. He was later BETRAYED by his own son, in the ultimate act of 20th century filial physics rebellion. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢

Sheep! Earwax! www.sciencenews.org/article/shee... 🧪

Krystal’s respectful and nuanced discussion of neurodiversity in chemistry is a must read! She was brilliant to work with, and I’m so glad to have been able to contribute to helping illuminate our experience. 🧪 #DisabledInSTEM #ChemSky #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Type in “-ai” directly after your Google search term. Removes the AI crap.

Day 3 I guess of asking @propublica.org how they wrote an article about Autistic healthcare without consulting a single Autistic person about what our actual needs are. Is anyone there going to correct this egregious oversight?

Pleased (if a tiny bit confused) that this paper is now officially part of an issue (volume 54, issue 4) of Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, six months or so after it was first published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025. FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor... #WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

Every year I run a Holidays WishList Request program. Everyone on the list is multiply marginalized (BIPOC, LGBT+, disabled) with little family. Some get no presents for holidays. I've compiled a list of all of the WishLists. Please help if you can! Pls share. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hi #ChemSky! @cenmag.bsky.social and I want to learn how the chemistry community might be affected by any immigration policies currently being proposed for 2025. If you might be impacted and can give any insight, I'd really appreciate if you could fill out this form: forms.office.com/r/87NQhFKrFh

Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6

Don't use red and green data lines/surfaces in the same panel please #chemsky. It can be difficult for some colorblind readers to differentiate them. I've accepted (in principle) 2 papers today, and both sets of authors were asked to remove red/green colour contrasts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And if you followed me on twitter you'll know that I really don't like rainbow colour plots. Please don't use them #chemsky. They can be visually misleading (e.g. they create artificial boundaries in the data) and I think should feature only 2 or 3 colours. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

🌟 Excited to share our latest publication with @smmtgroup.bsky.social in Angewandte Chemie on the power of cognitive diversity in science! Let's champion diversity for a brighter future! 🌍🔬 📖 Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #Blackacademics #DEI

Bluetorial: What’s the worst that can happen? Meeting a scientific hero (Lots of chemical history today)

Students, please, I am begging you: take advantage of office hours next semester. Go see your professors. They are just sitting there waiting for you and your classmates to stop by. They want to help you. You are not bothering them. Office hours is part of the class. Use this resource.

We’re excited to advertise the Microbial Friends and Foes REU program! Please share info with your undergrads, for 10 weeks paid research experience at Cornell. Apps due on Feb 1. @heatherfeaga.bsky.social cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...

This paper may be of interest to both #CatSky and 🎢⚛️🧪 Link: doi.org/10.1119/5.01...

As my colleague David Thaisrivongs posted on LinkedIn: Attention chem grad students & postdocs: apply for the 2025 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color! #MerckChemistry Apply by Jan 17: survey.sogolytics.com/survey1.aspx... Contact us at [email protected] #ChemSky

Since it's International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I wanted to share a handful of disability-related stories I've written. First, for @cenmag.bsky.social, I recently wrote about how a lot of labs are still inaccessible to disabled scientists: cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #DisabledinSTEM 🧪

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The vanishing violet in van Gogh’s Irises X-ray fluorescence studies help scientists and conservators re-create the original hues in this famous painting. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky

Hey! Bluesky! Learn you about some Autism! I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it. Read it! coda.io/@mykola-bilo...

Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone 🧪👩‍🔬🥽 www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

Even though I finished writing tomorrow’s exam for GenChem 1 and held a few extra pre-exam office hours, I still need to give my pchem lab folks feedback on their reports and write comments on my thesis students’ methods background papers. Thanksgiving break cannot come soon enough!

But for real though: being junior faculty with ADHD is like playing academia on hard mode. You're constantly trying to wrestle your brain to do the things that you need to do in order to ensure success in your field and you're constantly worried that you've forgotten something due to ADHD.

True, but sometimes the empirical observation is “the bomb cal only ignites the sample when the penguin is wearing his crown on the shelf above the bench.” I definitely don’t have a shrine to Prof. Peter Pulay that lighting a candle in makes tricky open-shell computations converge…

A SIMPLE GUIDE TO PROVIDING USEFUL ALT ON BLUESKY 1/ ALT's sole function on Bluesky is to provide an autonomous & as fully equivalent an experience of an image as possible for the blind/VI & neurodivergent If you can see it & read it, I should be able to feel or hear it without leaving Bluesky

Little late to the party over here in the clear blue sky, but I couldn’t have a better first post than to hype up my amazing undergrad mentees who presented at their first conference two weeks ago at MERCURY @ Furman University. They’re superstars!! 🤩 #compchem #proudPI