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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Had a super sweet moment in class today A student came in saying that she was having a low energy day and was looking forward to my class all day because she was looking forward to my positive energy. #ITeachChem 🍎🥽

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I was surprised that today wasn’t February 2nd because it sure felt like Groundhog Day on the @mbta-cr.bsky.social

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Whatever this year brings, we know it will be full of surprises. Here’s to being able to adapt and be resilient. #nerdytshirtfriday

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For dinner tonight, I’m making homemade applesauce and latkes. Currently, I’m making my 4th pan of latkes. On the plate are how many remain. #chanukah

The empty plate with paper towels where the finished latkes are supposed to be.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Happy #chanukah and #nerdytshirtfriday celebrating the FEsTiVAl of Lights and Chemistry #OOTD I was stopped in the hall by a Student who noticed the shirt, & then I pointed out the headband, and the response was "Represent!" Representation always matters, especially now, even when it feels hard.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Now that the West Wing is back on Netflix, it's time for a rewatch. In the 1st 90 s there is a "news report" of a spill of 20,000 gallons of NaOH. Now I'm trying to think how I can make this into a problem that I use in class. #IteachChem

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

At an after school meeting today and there were snacks. Someone looked at my plate and said “are you going to eat all that?” I replied that I needed enough snacks to put in my mouth so I wouldn’t talk and get myself fired. 🍎

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Today’s chemistry #OOTD is another @svahausa dress (shocking, I know). I’m honoring #womeninstem with Dr Rosalind Franklin’s photograph 51. #nerdychic

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This popped up on my Instagram feed and my first thought was: “what’s a potassium hydroxide dress ?”

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It’s a #nerdytshirtfriday for chemistry #OOTD. Got mole problems ? Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10²³ #nerdychic

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It’s a #nerdytshirtfriday for chemistry #OOTD. Got mole problems ? Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10²³ #nerdychic

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It's been a hard and exhausting day of teaching, but several students said that my outfit ate, so I'll take that as a win.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

How early is too early to go to bed the day that the clocks change?

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

As we get ready for sukkot, I’m grateful for the time with A as we celebrate the chaggim together. And for nature for providing us with the mini pumpkins for our front yard from the ones that decomposed last year. ‎וְשָׂמַחְתָּ בְּחַגֶּךָ וְהָיִיתָ אַךְ שָׂמֵחַ

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dear Apple Watch, I’ve been up since 6 am shopping, baking, cooking, and putting up the sukkah. Please give me way more credit for all my fitness goals. Thanks.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I think this was my favorite technical challenge on the Great British Baking Show / Bake-off

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

There is not enough caffeine to help the recovery from the Yom Kippur fast for #nerdytshirtfriday

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

For this Shabbat Shuvah and #nerdytshirtfriday I present the elemental model of the universe. To quote Carl Sagan: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff” We are all capable of reflection and teshuvah and are worthy of being recipients of the same.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

For some reason, my students did not find my Family Feud of beakers vs flasks nearly as entertaining as I do. 🤷‍♀️ #ITeachChem

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In a stressful 6 hour weeks that included End of an engagement/LTR Rough transition back to school Dropping A off at his dorm (also he got clipped by a car, lockdown, etc) Potential glaucoma diagnosis Cancer scare I know that I’m healing b/c I can finally enjoy reading again.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Shana Tova! My favorite pre Rosh Hashana dress from @superdesignershop ! A bee-utiful way to get ready for a sweet new year. May we have and health and renewal this year. (And yes, there are sugar molecules right near the bees)

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Note to self continued: chocolate chip cookies will taste better when you decide to add sugar. Yes, I noticed this in plenty of time But not until after I tasted the batter Moral of the story: Always taste the batter

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I’m making challah for Rosh Hashana and I tried twice to get the psyllium husk to gel and it didn’t work. Then I realized I was using teff flour and not psyllium husk #glutenfree #roshhashanah #chemistswhocook

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Trying to voice text my kid at the grocery store and somehow Rosh Hashanah became Russia in China which is something else all together

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

May 5786 be much more Bohring than 5785. Looking forward to peace, quiet, and reflection. Looking forward to continuing to move forward. Shana Tova Tikatevu #nerdytshirtfriday

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

How are things going you ask? I wanted to take my usual allergy meds and instead took a melatonin. At 8am

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Trying to Be Like a Proton and Stay Positive for #nerdytshirtfriday

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Stand Back; I’m going to try science. The 1st official #nerdytshirtfriday of the 2025-2026 schools year. Definitely not the transition to school that I would have expected/wanted for my 25th year in the classroom, but here we go.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Let’s go over the past 3-weeks, shall we •broken engagement •terrible Back to school PD •drop kid off at college •testing for glaucoma needed •kid gets clipped by a car biking to archery •kid currently in a lockdown at UML b/c guy brandishing an AK-47 style rifle So, no: not really ok.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Back to school in three pics. Before school day After school day Surviving a stressful school day with a black raspberry frappe, though this time I had to do it w/out the kid

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

One of these years I’ll be able to sleep before the first day of school. This was not one of those years. #EduSky

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I’ve been thinking a lot about group work in class -something that I stressed for years. How are we accommodating for introverts & those for whom all the busy noise of classroom dynamics are very deregulating? Ideas? #ITeachChem #EduSky 🍎

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Was my t shirt choice for mandatory back to school PD intentional? I don’t know what you mean.

Grey t shirt with a white text box saying “what’s your evidence” with a large orange question mark.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Nothing like being back to school for make up PD from when I was in Morocco and discovering that the school decided to remove my PAEMST banner that was hanging in the school and putting in my mailbox. Thanks for all the ways you continue to make me feel valued as an educator. /sarcasm

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Healing in two consecutive parts - including a color changing spoon

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Those of you who were at #TheMole at @chemed2025co.bsky.social heard me talk about the group I went to Morocco with: well, when they heard life through me an unexpected plot twist and I was so so sad, they sent me this. This is what I mean by they became family after less than 2 weeks

6 pints of ice cream: chocolate, vanilla, wired, party cloudy, pink sprinkle, speed bump

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sometimes (maybe too frequently) life sends you reeling. Really grateful for some amazing friends in my life.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

debating between watching Legally Blonde, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Thelma and Louise tonight

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

At some point during #ChemEd2025, someone asked me about whiteboard stands. These are the ones that were made for me. Hope this helps. #ITeachChem🥽 #EduSky🍎 #ModChem

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Can anyone on #Jewsky explain why הטעם העליון are in a completely separate section in a tikkun? If you are using a tikkun, don’t you want the notes and the breakdowns that you are going to use when you read?

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ok friends, kid is moving into his dorm room in a few weeks and has been uncommunicative about what he needs. Besides the obvious: clothes, linens, toiletries, laundry stuff, what else might be useful?

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Sometimes the hardest part of parenthood is not saying “if you only listened to me when I told you the first time”

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

These are the longest 5 minutes ever. #Jewsky

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It’s a noble #nerdytshirtfriday on a beautiful day here. And some homemade peach crisp and matchbucha with the peaches and tomatoes grown at the farm down the street.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Sometime towards the beginning of Covid, I started making homemade pizza for me & A for Shabbat dinner. I just realized that these are the last few weeks we’ll have Shabbat dinner together since he’s transferring schools in a couple weeks. It hit harder that I thought.

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

For this #nerdytshirtfriday , I want to remind all of you that I’m really just introverted but willing to talk about chemistry. Thank you to all of you who made @chemed2025 such an amazing experience for me. #iteachchem #chemfam #bettertogeher

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Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

What sessions are you looking forward to at @chemed2025co.bsky.social ? I hope to see you at #TheMole And my session with @ninahike.bsky.social & @dwilkssea.bsky.social “Teaching While” And my session “Using Whiteboards to Leverage Collaboration for Learning”

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