Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Had 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 🍎🥽 2130
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I was surprised that today wasn’t February 2nd because it sure felt like Groundhog Day on the @mbta-cr.bsky.social 000
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Whatever this year brings, we know it will be full of surprises. Here’s to being able to adapt and be resilient. #nerdytshirtfriday 060
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025For 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 170
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Happy #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. 060
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Now 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 060
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I then made chemical reactions based on my M&Ms But sadly mixed up the colors for hydrogen and carbon 🍎🥽🧪 CH₄ + O₂ → H₂O + CO₂ N₂ +H₂ → NH₃ 000
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025At 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. 🍎 1121
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Today’s chemistry #OOTD is another @svahausa dress (shocking, I know). I’m honoring #womeninstem with Dr Rosalind Franklin’s photograph 51. #nerdychic 070
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025This popped up on my Instagram feed and my first thought was: “what’s a potassium hydroxide dress ?” 0100
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025It’s a #nerdytshirtfriday for chemistry #OOTD. Got mole problems ? Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10²³ #nerdychic 060
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025It’s a #nerdytshirtfriday for chemistry #OOTD. Got mole problems ? Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10²³ #nerdychic 010
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025In case my chemistry #OOTD is necessary to provide evidence for my students’ comments. 020
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025It'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. 180
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025How early is too early to go to bed the day that the clocks change? 050
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2025As 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 020
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Dear 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. 040
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I think this was my favorite technical challenge on the Great British Baking Show / Bake-off 000
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025There is not enough caffeine to help the recovery from the Yom Kippur fast for #nerdytshirtfriday 050
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025For 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. 060
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025For some reason, my students did not find my Family Feud of beakers vs flasks nearly as entertaining as I do. 🤷♀️ #ITeachChem 050
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025In 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. 030
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Shana 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) 040
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Note 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 050
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025I’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 041
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Trying to voice text my kid at the grocery store and somehow Rosh Hashanah became Russia in China which is something else all together 051
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025May 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 081
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025How are things going you ask? I wanted to take my usual allergy meds and instead took a melatonin. At 8am 040
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Trying to Be Like a Proton and Stay Positive for #nerdytshirtfriday 140
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Stand 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. 070
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025wcvb.com/article/umas...wcvb.comUMass Lowell shelter-in-place lifted as investigation into armed man continuesA shelter-in-place order was lifted Wednesday as an investigation into a report of an armed man on the campus of UMass Lowell continued. 100
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025In case you are curious. This is why my kid was in lockdown imgur.com/a/uml-9-3-20...imgur.comUML 9/3/2025Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and ... 120
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Update:lockdown over. Didn’t catch the guy but he’s not in the vicinity so e all have to be content with extra police on campus and by the residence halls 000
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Let’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. 360
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Back 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 170
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025One of these years I’ll be able to sleep before the first day of school. This was not one of those years. #EduSky 070
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I’ve noticed in all the mandatory meetings and events this year that it’s way too loud for me and I shut down. If it’s that way for me as an adult, I’m wondering how some students are managing. 110
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I’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 🍎 150
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I have a really hard time with someone who was last on the classroom in 2011 and there are many problems with how he presents the “right” way to teach 020
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Was my t shirt choice for mandatory back to school PD intentional? I don’t know what you mean. 170
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Nothing 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 130
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Reminding myself it’s a marathon not a sprint. #chemed2025 #nerdytshirtfriday #RuNNEr 060
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Healing in two consecutive parts - including a color changing spoon 040
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Those 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 010
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Sometimes (maybe too frequently) life sends you reeling. Really grateful for some amazing friends in my life. 030
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025debating between watching Legally Blonde, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Thelma and Louise tonight 020
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025At 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 010
Ariel Serkin @aserkin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025A little oxytocin for this beautiful #nerdytshirtfriday 020
