If only ACS would launch some new journals. Can't they see this is what the people want?

Wow did Zoom finally figure out people want to update their software AFTER a meeting and not in the seconds before when they're trying to get on? Great work everyone.

Beautiful plot ==>

This is a sneak peak of what we can expect from Australia, Chile, Italy, Germany and many other power sectors over the next 3-5 years

Maybe, just maybe, my field of science is somehow a unique outlier. I doubt it, but it is possible. I guess. I’d like to hear which fields have been advanced solely by one type of PI.

The ECS New England Section invites you to a Section Meeting on Tuesday June 23, 2026, 6:00-8:30 PM at Northeastern University in Boston. The event includes networking, a buffet dinner, and a seminar by David Kwabi, Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at Yale University.

Has SharePoint ever worked, like once?

I always give blue book exams, never stopped and never will. Fun fact to consider is that it allows me to make the exam questions easier.

Yeah, when the reviewer tells me to put in 20 new references, I totally read them all!

"The reality is, we are all going to mess up. I now realize that’s OK, even necessary." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4smSPSD

Getting citations is great, but then you look and they cited your manganese study as a great example of magnesium research.

The ECS New England Section invites you to a Section Meeting on March 19, 2026, 6:00-8:30 PM at Northeastern University in Boston. The event includes networking, a buffet dinner, and a seminar by Joy Zeng, Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University.

Gloucester (Glaw-stah) Dracut (Dray-kit) Concord (Conquered not Con-Cord)

I *love* this ternary chart showing developing economies increasingly go directly for clean electrons (solar plus some wind), bypassing the fossil economy that the US and EU went through. I expect Africa will take an even more direct route than India. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Was a PhD a good investment? TBD. Was @joshuagallaway.bsky.social  an incredible advisor? No question. Battery Burn Book exists because of Josh. Credit where credit is due. 💁🏻‍♀️🔋 #battchat #batteries #greensky #energysky

Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.

Just accepted a review. Due date Dec 25 baby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY7t...

Saying farewell to CHME 5621 Electrochemical Engineering class for fall 2025 today. The future is electrochemical!

Good thread for understanding grid modernization (batteries make an appearance on down the thread!)

🔋The biggest bottleneck for Western battery manufacturing isn’t capital or policy. It’s talent. There just aren’t enough people with the experience to run gigafactory-scale production. That shortage is a key reason why companies like Northvolt have failed. #battchat #greensky 🔌💡🧪

I'm not inherently opposed to AI images, but I spent some time trying to get it to make me an illustration of an "industrial electrochemical process" and it came up with this.

I agree with this. I think (college) education is a solved problem. Access to education is what's revolutionary.

When you write the Butler-Volmer equation, do you include "n" (number of electrons) terms in it?

“Batteries push investment into flexibility, smooth demand peaks, and keep the grid stable at lower cost. They will be the foundation of a power system that can deliver abundant electricity, with reliability built in, rather than as an afterthought” #battchat www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-beauty...

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a scientific illustrator most famous for her 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium'. In this book filled with beautifully illustrated plates she explored the then poorly understood concept of insect metamorphosis.

The real news of the week if that Michael Stipe is telling people what the lyrics are to It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

As an educator, this is almost obvious to me. You don’t learn a topic or a skill without putting in the work. I’m currently going through every problem in a thermodynamics textbook to relearn the subject. Slow & sometimes tedious, but the only way to gain anything more than a superficial knowledge.

The National Weather Service bulletin for Hurricane Katrina, issued 28 August 2005, was the most upsetting document I had ever read in my life at that point, and 20 years later it still is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

After months of intensive collaboration, I am thrilled to present our latest #paper: a review of zinc-based rechargeable #battery technologies and a techno-economic analysis of the various battery types. Many thanks to my co-authors for the excellent collaboration. #battchat doi.org/10.1002/aenm...

We redid our website last week, check it out here: www.batteryburnbook.com #battchat

Me and PhD student Yogesh at DOE OE Energy Storage Peer Review this week.

New paper from us today in Joule. Led by Eric Zimmerer, we used operando EXAFS and Raman spectroscopy to structurally characterize disordered intermediate materials during MnO2 cathode cycling. These cathodes are special because they cycle 2 electrons from Mn(IV) to Mn(II).

I'm at DOE OE Peer Review. The struggle is real:

The grid battery storage line looks small on this plot, but no other line grew by a larger percentage. Batteries are coming to the grid, as we speak.

This week we bid farewell to Calli and Vincent, both high school researchers who joined us through Northeastern's Young Scholars Program (YSP). They studied alkaline CuO cathodes, working with their mentor Yogesh. Great work!

Facebook showed me a snow speeder toy, and I have to share it, not for the snow speeder, but for the early 80s vintage batteries.

I've had a Google alert for "alkaline battery" for about 15 years. More than 50% of the hits are medical journals, and it has shown me what can go wrong with babies and batteries.

Picard leadership tip: The larger your audience and the higher your position, the greater the need to communicate with care and precision.

Holy moly, I did not know Tom Lehrer was still alive

28) Another amazing thing to think about is that life as we know it basically boils down to manganese breaking water and iron putting it back together.

Gallaway Research Group, Summer 2025

🔋recycling: what are the different types and how do they compare? #battchat

In MacOS I love how "Eject disk" and "Erase disk" are now right next to each other. Awesome job everyone.

Great battery information coming out from Battery Burn Book. Check it out and subscribe!

This IEA graphic shows how global sales of electric vehicles & improved efficiency of combustion vehicles (eg hybrids) is slashing growth in global oil demand. Use in road transport has peaked & likely to soon post annual declines. Aviation & petro-chemical feedstocks only drivers of growth now.🔌💡🔌🚗

🔋 All solid-state battery producers and their manufacturing readiness levels. #battchat #energysky #greensky 🔌💡🧪

America and the world's brightest X-ray "microscope" - now 500x brighter. It can: 🔋 watch a battery charge atom by atom, 🛫 help us understand fracture in fighter jet alloys, and 🧬 speed up cancer-drug discovery. Welcome to the new Dept. of Energy Advanced Photon Source at Argonne! 🥳🔬⚡️

The Venn diagram of posts Just For Me is small, and this one is right there

I'm sure I'll take shit for saying this, but this passage from Glenn Loury's Chronicle interview perfectly captures for me the civilizational necessity of a relatively autonomous academic sphere. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...