Today's reading: about marmorated stink bugs, defatted cricket powder, and brain heart broth. Flavor chemistry! (well, not that last) #chemsky #chemistswhocook
Michelle Francl
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Latest book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea https://books.rsc.org/books/monograph/2162/SteepedThe-Chemistry-of-Tea Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College & Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory.
Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342
This chapter on insect diets is has some great snarky prose: "data almost as hard to digest as the chitinous bodies of the insects themselves"
Synpathizing with @stuartcantrill.com ... I had to resort to the OED while reading today: what is "lacertilian"?!? and why would you call a fire-ant-eating horned toad a "lacertilian yogi"? (Lacertilian means "relating to lizards, which to the best of my limited knowledge, toads are not.)
Does your life depend on science? Mine certainly does. At the start of Trump’s term I wrote this op-ed: share.inquirer.com/Nf1shA Today is the last day to submit comments on the proposed rule changes that will dismantle US science — and have far reaching effects on everyone’s lives. Comment!!
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Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3w agoGood morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
Hello we are back from a holiday weekend and the Office of Management and Budget is still trying to make sure federal grants can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason. There's still time to stop it. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Hey #chemsky - I am working on a book about women in chemistry and trying to track down an incident about a general chem textbook where the authors made a snarky comment about women in bikinis (and parenthetically called themselves out as sexist). Any hints for me??
Want to know more about the first women chemists? Try these terrific articles by Gisela Boeck and... www.chemistryviews.org/lydia-sesema... (1/2) #chemsky
Lydia Sesemann: 150 Years of Women's Doctorates in Chemistry - ChemistryViews
First woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry
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My most recent column in Nature Chem (@natchem.nature.com) is out: First Ladies of Chemistry. Who were the early women PhDs in chemistry? Why was the Ice Woman a hero (why is she still?)? Also -aren't those lab coats in the photo wild? rdcu.be/frKkW
First ladies of chemistry
Nature Chemistry - Michelle Francl puts the early women of chemistry, who were ignored at the time, back into the picture.
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Many of us are relying on the welcome chill of air con during historic heatwaves 🥵 Here's a look at the chemical compounds keeping us cool in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/95/... #ChemSky🧪
Do you read fantasy fiction? Would you like to take a few minutes on this tedious Friday afternoon to help our marvellous publishing studies student Emma Watson with her dissertation by answering a few questions? Of course you do! (Please share too!) docs.google.com/forms/d/19v4...
Why do you read Fantasy? Stories, Places and Myths behind Fantasy Fiction
You are invited to participate in a web-based online survey on reader preferences in the Fantasy genre. You have been invited to participate because you are age 18 or over and are a reader of fantasy ...
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This year has been a tough one for chemists who want to go to graduate school in the US - chemistry graduate programs are taking significantly fewer students than they did just 2 years ago. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/education/gr...
US chemistry graduate programs scale back
Faced with uncertainty in federal funding and rising costs, chemistry departments are taking fewer students
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📣 Calling all chemists/catalysis peeps! 📖 Ever considered working in scientific publishing as an editor? ✅ If yes, @natcatal.nature.com is hiring! 📍Shanghai, Beijing, Milan or Pune 📅 Deadline: July 12 🙏 Reposts appreciated 🧪 #Chemsky springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Catalysis
Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Catalysis Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Milan and Pune – hybrid working model Application Deadline: July 12, 2026 (Candidates will be considered as they apply...
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The president rants, shouts, stonewalls, belittles, as if his fury trumps the truth and the big story is Wisconsin? #butHerEMails
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoWOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
1. Editors of prof. society journal write editorial vsTrump admin policies. 2.Trump admin to give talk at prof. meeting. 3. Editors hand out copies of editorial. 4.Society says to stop; they don't. 5. Society sends in security cops. 6. Cops do their cop thing. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner and crystallography pioneer, was born #OTD in 1910. Using X-ray crystallography she determined the structures of complex molecules including vitamin B10 and insulin: www.compoundchem.com/2019/05/12/h... #ChemSky 🧪
Trump wants Pope Leo to stay in his lane. What is Pope Leo's lane? My op-ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. share.inquirer.com/jA6FfM
Exactly what does Trump imagine is within Pope Leo’s proper purview? | Opinion
It’s a circular argument at best: that faith and morals are meant to direct how I should pray and worship, but not how I manage my life outside the walls of the church.
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Is this the first time Klingon has been used in a science journal? My latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis opens and closes in Klingon and looks at the language barriers in science. Chemists have tinkered with synthetic languages before! rdcu.be/fczV7 #chemsky
I ran 15 years of my own against a list of word "tells" for AI, will my esoteric vocabulary and my love of the em dash be my undoing? And yes, my writing was part of the training sets.
Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · 4mo agoI agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.
Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The potential of mRNA vaccines in a crisis...which the US HHS dismisses out of hand.
BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 5mo agoA first-in-human mRNA vaccine for Nipah virus. NiV kills 40–75% of those infected, causes near-annual outbreaks in Bangladesh, & has no licensed vaccine. mRNA-1215 (NIAID/Moderna) targets both surface glycoproteins F and G a first for any NiV candidate in human trials www.nature.com/articles/s41...
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
It can be exhausting to navigate the need for accommodations, and it can feel as if you are simultaneously far too visible and entirely invisible thewalrus.ca/how-universi...
How Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff | The Walrus
Some administrators treat accommodations as a favour—and those requesting them as problems
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Tea, too! Both caffeinated beverages also appear to be linked to a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease. Caffeine, not just fueling my students‘ late night study sessions. wapo.st/4rUaxwW
Opinion | Drink coffee to prevent dementia? It’s not so far-fetched.
Why coffee and tea may protect your brain’s health.
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