Just experienced two days of poor air quality in the next state over. I can’t imagine what it’s like even closer. I do not want this for our future…

I’d like to thank all the procrastinators who willed this delay into existence. We can achieve great things with our collective inaction!

I have like no social media following, but I’m so happy it’s spring, I just have to share these pictures from our garden…first up flowers

Proud to see this in C&EN highlighting some of our alumni tackling an important sustainability challenge! Chemistry labs make tons of plastic waste. Can we recycle it? cen.acs.org/environment/...

A long read but a good one for those of us in higher ed struggling with how to talk to students about their use of AI

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I have been working out a new environmental chemistry lab for the detection of NOx from various combustion sources (pink solution = NOx). When I couldn’t capture detectable levels from the tailpipe of a car, I decided to try it on the gas burners in my kitchen and…

Me: “I’ll take you to the lab and we can look at your hair under the electron microscope!” 9yo: “You really should have gotten one that’s in color” 😭

Zinnia appreciation post #gardening

Because I have opened a BlueSky window and am procrastinating on reading final papers, let me also share what this spring has been like from my corner of the academic world.

Rain clearing out just in time for graduation. I’ll take this as a good sign! 🌈

AI-generated summary of customer reviews: “some find it runs true to size while others say the sizing is off, some describe it as soft while others find the material weird, some say it's thick while others find it thin, some consider it good quality for the price while others find it low quality,…”

chemsky !!!!!

Phew, apple blossoms survived what is hopefully 🤞🏻 the last frost of the year

Right on, fortune cookie, right on…

I mean…what are we even doing here?

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Possible winter storm or bird flu? A bit of both? Who knows!

Why does the start of every semester make me want to go off grid. Technology is not my friend right now…

Won a free pair of headphones for completing a campus survey…just got word from payroll I will be taxed for the prize in my next paycheck 😑

Could use some help eating these greens #garden #GardenSky 🌱

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Every few month my kid rediscovers Legos…and that always makes for a nice night 😊

Key fact: clean energy technologies are vastly more efficient than fossil fuels technologies. Great visual RMI.

Glamour Gus

Garden harvest for today…now comes the real work of cooking with it all! Bonus cat 🐈

A Halloween tradition around here is a campus wide email reminding students not to dress up in racist costumes. History has proven this is necessary!

Find yourself a partner who will drive to your work to deliver the iPad you left at home so you can teach your classes 😭

Say what you will about break dancing being in the Olympics, but never have I seen more joyful athletes competing in their sport

Maybe we should be skipping hot yoga when there is a heat wave…🥵

Nothing is funnier than going ice skating in the south

Yet another semester of trying to be innovative and student centered in my teaching and yet again being reminded it doesn’t fucking matter

Ah, the relief I feel when all my students show up for their 8:00 am final…

Welp…definitely tomato seeds in the compost

When I suggested your section needed more references, I didn’t mean cite yourself five more times 😒

Working on a document shared on the cloud at the same time as my collaborators is so weird…like the word processor is haunted or something 👻

Why do cats do this

One of my least favorite forms of students complaining is when they claim that everyone else in the class feels the same way they do…🙄

Love when friends send me pics of the sweet potato they grew from the slips I gave them 🍠🌱

Do cats today know how good they have it? Boxes show up on a near daily basis around here

Finally gave up on the bird app…who can I follow here for chemistry and cats?