Soap is our ultimate Time Machine keeping us healthy into tomorrow and connecting us to the past. Join us for the webinar it will be good clean fun.

The only thing getting me thru the week is student art

Supposedly our mace got damaged and we had to borrow one from SUNY optometry.

My next Lectures on Tap is also my book release! Join me in Williamsburg for “How and Why Soap Works” with live demonstrations exploring the science of surfactants June 8th 6 PM www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

Jersey transit, if you’re not gonna behave, we’re gonna have to talk about the World Cup

Some chapsticks are special though. Borregaard makes their vanillin from spruce trees rather than petroleum.

Beyond the endless chapsticks and free tote bags I always take home a copy of “the little book” from Supplier’s Day Companies sponsor a page highlighting a formulation and ingredients. You could fill your bathroom cupboard with what’s inside. This year a focus on upcycled ingredients.

Funny hat day

For what it’s worth @chemjobber.bsky.social at Suppliers Day in NYC there was a man dressed as a magician handing out fliers saying “we’re hiring chemists” on the trade show floor. I didn’t catch what company but the grad student I was with was relieved.

I know it’s the sustainability session but it’s nice to see lots of discussions of LCA and life cycle thinking.

Reports from Suppliers Day: Quaternary Ammonia surfactants are no longer a sustainable option for beauty products. 💄 💅💇

Cool: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... I’ve never had to use powdered sulfur to clean up mercury but this is a great idea for week one or two in the lab.

On the other end of sometimes struggling to write a strong letter for a student you don’t know well… …writing a letter for a colleague and friend is always a pleasure.

Summer to do list: -Learn Robert’s Rules of Order -Get powdery wig -Find large gavel -Source backup foghorn -Practice looking at large groups and instantaneously counting how many hands are up What am I missing?

As we get closer to the release of How and Why Soap Works I can’t help but see soap everywhere (it’s not that hard). Communicating science is hard! A small example: Unless the soap is alive (which it is not) it would be heathful n not healthy!

Looking forward to talking about soap and alchemy today at @sciencehistory.org for Alumni Day. Giving a flask talk about how the Philosopher’s Stone might be sitting by your kitchen sink. Can’t wait to meet the other Fellows (and new collections). books.rsc.org/books/monogr...

This is actually a photograph of us doing science at the fashion institute Brendan how did you get this?

On a scale of one to wrong how bad would it be to get a fog horn that blasts “this is the quiet car” for the train?

I often pass posters for courses at my school which relate to my research and teaching but they’re in different departments. What’s the verb I should use in an intro email to signal I’d like to see what overlap there is? It’s less about collaborate but more like cross pollinate?

Ok so we know Robert’s Rules of Order… But I just got a copy of the Cornish Trilogy (Salterton has been a longtime favorite) and I wanna know what Robertson’s Rules would look like.

FIT does not have a formal engineering dept. but the amazing dept of Textile Development and Marketing does a lot of this work. Their capstone presentations are always the best.

I finished Stoner the other day by John Williams. It was surprising to me how much it felt like it could have been written today. Discussions of terminal associate professors, lackluster students, and transforming campuses. High recommend it as a summer read.

My favorite FIT student is also my favorite mother. Happy Mothers Day yall!

Have yall tried ending every friend gathering like it’s the final night of a HS musical? Thank each and every person by going on and on, highlighting little things and inside jokes, not letting people leave. It’s a real good time.

The Canuck opened a second bar a block from school. We’re seeing the musical tonight there so we stopped in. My partner is very excited for his first Bloody Caesar. 🍁

Would you rather: A joint lecture-lab, if you fail one, you have to redo both. Separate lecture lab, but the two are always seemingly disjointed/unrelated.

Good vibes. 🕺 💃

Thank you. The consensus in our meeting yesterday was: Try to see if we can find a contract service to wash them (unlikely) Plan to have cubbies for the stunted required to take sconce in the fall. The others will share (unless they provide their own).

Final lab. Can you crack the case? It’s like Murdle but chem… Churdle? Curdle?

There is a young man in the park dressed just like Marlon Brando in Streetcar. He’s doing yo-yo tricks while wearing ear buds. (FWIW he’s pretty good)

www.reddit.com/r/nyc/s/5vWA... Getting to the end of the semester no matter what.

My course registrations in college were always online. I would have loved to experience this once (as a prof). from William’s Stoner

Hey Lab folx, I’m interested to know how lab coats work at your undergrad labs. Do students purchase them? Are they stored onsite? Do you sell them/provide them? Thanks!

Yesterday was the Empire State Buildings 95th birthday.

Hey Lab folx, I’m interested to know how lab coats work at your undergrad labs. Do students purchase them? Are they stored onsite? Do you sell them/provide them? Thanks!

Getting excited for GCandE in Texas in June! TITLE: Sustainability assessments in the classroom: Exploring soy-based materials by evaluating hazards, life cycle, and techno-economic feasibility TITLE: From waste to want: Connecting green chemistry across the arts and sciences

One month until How and Why Soap Works comes out and less than two until the webinar!

Whenever my partner wants to start a new hobby we begin with a literature review. We go to a bookstore and get a book on the topic (before buying equipment). This is a win-win because my hobby is books 📚

This year’s course project was reimagining hazard labels. Students designs seals that communicate hazards across time using alchemical symbols, chemical structures, and IR curves. With homemade iron gall inks they patterned these onto fabrics. Thank you @shacorg.bsky.social for the support!

I always enjoy leaving my students unattended… It means cat doodles

Gave a talk at Hunter on Friday. Got to see some old friends.

Final designs are up in the 7th Avenue gallery

I like my steak like my earth metals.

I imagine this could be a nightmare for a conservation perspective. “I need that H2S canister, so it really seems like you’re next to a urinal”

Solve our pretty lab crime! (Answers below)

That was fun!

Student work is on display. I’m in love with this cochineal tapestry!

Shout out to the schools who will exhibit at Suppliers’ Day Cosmetics, personal care and ingredients are a great way to apply your chemistry!

I wonder if flowers that don’t have aroma compounds named after them (gardenia) get jealous of flowers with lots of aroma compounds with their name (e.g. lilac, lavender…).