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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 14/08/2025

I saw a “life hack” video today which was so wrong, and replete with so many wrong comments, it was unbearable. I know I should let it go, but I can’t. I just can’t. So, here we go: why you shouldn’t crush your plastic bottle of cola once you’ve opened it #ChemSky #Chemistry

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Alt: a cartoon drawing of a plastic soda bottle with a grumpy face

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Asking for help is not admitting failure, but rather using your resources to ensure that expectations are met. Knowing how to ask for help ensures that you get help that is actually useful, or even crucial, in meeting your goals. cen.acs.org/careers/care... #chemsky

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How to get helpful help

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Hear directly from leaders shaping the future of chemistry education. From curriculum reform to academic-industry partnerships, our panelists will discuss international perspectives and what today’s students need to succeed. RSVP here: connect.discoveracs.org/ACS-Fall-202... #ACSFall2025 #chemsky

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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The challenge of being neurodivergent in #STEM: Neurodivergent scientists say STEM isn’t built for them, despite the contributions they bring. cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #phdsky #academicsky #phdchat #academicchatter 🧪

Kit Wallis is standing in a lab, pipetting ammonium bicarbonate into a small centrifuge tube.

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Dr. Dom Sirianni @drdom.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

2,005!!! Run Eagles Run!! 🦅

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Lovette 🏳️‍🌈 @lovettejallow.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

It’s strange how some respond to prejudice by embracing Aspie supremacy as a defense mechanism, claiming superiority not just over neurotypicals but also higher support needs autistic people. Fighting marginalization by creating new hierarchies misses the point. lovettejallow.com/neurodiversi...

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White Supremacy's Impact on Embracing Neurodiversity

Embracing neurodiversity while challenging white supremacy: A look at Black autistic and ADHD perspectives.

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Alex Dainis PhD 🧬 @alexdainis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Earlier this year I asked ACS Reactions if we could do a little academic arson and they said yes! Lighting Christmas Trees on Fire to Test Internet Wisdom youtu.be/N6YkYyibFCI

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Lighting Christmas Trees on Fire to Test Internet Wisdom

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 15/12/2024

E.g., those "gold standard," "evidence-based" claims? When examined, ABA research is riddled by conflicts of interest. And per Dr. @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social, "we shouldn’t have a separate set of lower standards that we only apply to autism research." thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf... 4/

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Conflicts of Interest in Early Autism Intervention Research

A very large portion of early autism intervention research is… conducted by the same people who design or provide the interventions.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/12/2024

Today, Democratic Senators refused to hold a vote to remove the anti-trans amendment targeting healthcare of the trans children of service members from the NDAA. Only 14 Senators voted against the final bill. Subscribe to support our journalism. Guest post from Mira Lazine.

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Democratic Senators Refuse Vote To Remove Anti-Trans Amendment From Military Budget

The move follows passage of the NDAA in the House of Representatives, which will be the first national anti-trans law in recent years.

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Dr. Dom Sirianni @drdom.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Currently rating brunch in Rochester, NY and overhear conversation between two servers behind the counter. Server 1: Well I’ll NEVER see Tom Petty in concert again! (Tone suggesting he’d committed some heinous act worthy of boycott) Server 2: Why’s that? S1: Because he’s DEAD, Janine. Dead.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/12/2024

In a story sent out to newsrooms around the world, AP calls puberty blockers a 'common approach' to treatment for trans kids and highlights how the UK ban goes against 'standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health'

BRITAIN BANS BLOCKERS FOR SOME
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The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication. The decision, which will be revisited in 2027, effectively bans a common approach to medical gender transitions for youths. It also goes against standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health, as well as the American Medical Association. The announcement comes after a judge this summer upheld an emergency ban in a ruling that said the treatment was potentially harmful. The ban applies across the United Kingdom after consultation with the Scottish and Welsh governments, and an agreement with Northern Ireland. It does not apply to those already receiving puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, to their use in clinical studies or in treatment of children with precocious puberty, an uncommon medical condition that causes puberty to begin abnormally early. “We need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people, and follow the expert advice,” Health Secretary Wes Streeting said. The Associated Press

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

J.J. Thomson was born #OTD in 1856. He discovered the electron, developed experimental techniques that led to mass spectroscopy, and trained physicists like Rutherford and Bohr. He was later BETRAYED by his own son, in the ultimate act of 20th century filial physics rebellion. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢

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Dr. Dom Sirianni @drdom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Krystal’s respectful and nuanced discussion of neurodiversity in chemistry is a must read! She was brilliant to work with, and I’m so glad to have been able to contribute to helping illuminate our experience. 🧪 #DisabledInSTEM #ChemSky #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Type in “-ai” directly after your Google search term. Removes the AI crap.

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 3 I guess of asking @propublica.org how they wrote an article about Autistic healthcare without consulting a single Autistic person about what our actual needs are. Is anyone there going to correct this egregious oversight?

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 14/12/2024

Pleased (if a tiny bit confused) that this paper is now officially part of an issue (volume 54, issue 4) of Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, six months or so after it was first published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Towards autistic flow theory: A non‐pathologising conceptual approach

Flow states are heightened moments of concentration, motivation and enjoyment, leading to total absorption in the present moment. A striking parallel exists between flow states and phenomenological a...

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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

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Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories

A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.

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Dr Gayathri Eknath @drgeoxymorons.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund applications are open! This provides funding for current/prospective PhD students from underrepresented groups in #Physics ⚛️ & Astronomy 🔭 🧪Application deadline is 20th Jan 2025. FAQs: www.iop.org/about/suppor... #WomenInSTEM: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

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Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund

Apply now to the innovative fund instigated by leading physicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Institute of Physics to encourage greater diversity in physics.

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 25/11/2024

Every year I run a Holidays WishList Request program. Everyone on the list is multiply marginalized (BIPOC, LGBT+, disabled) with little family. Some get no presents for holidays. I've compiled a list of all of the WishLists. Please help if you can! Pls share. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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2024 Holiday Requests

2024 Holiday Requests *WishLists with an asterisk next to them could use extra love, as others are getting more attention. Thank you. K is a 7.5 year-old trans child who is Latine. Their extended fa...

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hi #ChemSky! @cenmag.bsky.social and I want to learn how the chemistry community might be affected by any immigration policies currently being proposed for 2025. If you might be impacted and can give any insight, I'd really appreciate if you could fill out this form: forms.office.com/r/87NQhFKrFh

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 12/12/2024

Over 30 prominent scientists call for a ban on the creation of a "mirror cell"--a microbe made of molecules that are mirror images of their natural forms. It could cause a mind-boggling global disaster. Here's my story [gift link] 🧪https://nyti.ms/3OUCXp6

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A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article)

Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.

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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Don't use red and green data lines/surfaces in the same panel please #chemsky. It can be difficult for some colorblind readers to differentiate them. I've accepted (in principle) 2 papers today, and both sets of authors were asked to remove red/green colour contrasts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness

Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

And if you followed me on twitter you'll know that I really don't like rainbow colour plots. Please don't use them #chemsky. They can be visually misleading (e.g. they create artificial boundaries in the data) and I think should feature only 2 or 3 colours. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The misuse of colour in science communication - Nature Communications

The accurate representation of data is essential in science communication, however, colour maps that visually distort data through uneven colour gradients or are unreadable to those with colour vision...

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

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Malika Jeffries-EL @chemdiva.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🌟 Excited to share our latest publication with @smmtgroup.bsky.social in Angewandte Chemie on the power of cognitive diversity in science! Let's champion diversity for a brighter future! 🌍🔬 📖 Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #Blackacademics #DEI

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Cognitive Diversity for Creativity and Inclusive Growth

Cognitive diversity explores aspects beyond traditional lenses of culture, physical diversity, and merit and into variations in problem solving skills. Understanding aspects that need to be recognize....

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Students, please, I am begging you: take advantage of office hours next semester. Go see your professors. They are just sitting there waiting for you and your classmates to stop by. They want to help you. You are not bothering them. Office hours is part of the class. Use this resource.

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Tory Hendry @thendry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We’re excited to advertise the Microbial Friends and Foes REU program! Please share info with your undergrads, for 10 weeks paid research experience at Cornell. Apps due on Feb 1. @heatherfeaga.bsky.social cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...

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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 06/12/2024

This paper may be of interest to both #CatSky and 🎢⚛️🧪 Link: doi.org/10.1119/5.01...

Two cartoons of people with a cat on their lap and cats to either side underneath a corresponding potential energy function. There is a local minimum in the center for the friendly person, and no local minimum for the unfriendly person.

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Ed Sherer @hartreefocker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

As my colleague David Thaisrivongs posted on LinkedIn: Attention chem grad students & postdocs: apply for the 2025 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color! #MerckChemistry Apply by Jan 17: survey.sogolytics.com/survey1.aspx... Contact us at chemistsofcolor@merck.com #ChemSky

An image providing details of the award nomination process. The link in the post contains the same information

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Since it's International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I wanted to share a handful of disability-related stories I've written. First, for @cenmag.bsky.social, I recently wrote about how a lot of labs are still inaccessible to disabled scientists: cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #DisabledinSTEM 🧪

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Making space in STEM for people with disabilities

Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The vanishing violet in van Gogh’s Irises X-ray fluorescence studies help scientists and conservators re-create the original hues in this famous painting. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky

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The vanishing violet in van Gogh’s <i>Irises</i>

X-ray fluorescence studies help scientists and conservators re-create the original hues in this famous painting

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Your Friend Myk @mykola.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hey! Bluesky! Learn you about some Autism! I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it. Read it! coda.io/@mykola-bilo...

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How To Talk About Autism Respectfully · Public Neurodiversity Support Center

A Field Guide for Journalists, Educators, Doctors and anyone else who wants to know how to better communicate about Autism.

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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 26/11/2024

Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone 🧪👩‍🔬🥽 www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

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The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry

Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone

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Dr. Dom Sirianni @drdom.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Even though I finished writing tomorrow’s exam for GenChem 1 and held a few extra pre-exam office hours, I still need to give my pchem lab folks feedback on their reports and write comments on my thesis students’ methods background papers. Thanksgiving break cannot come soon enough!

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Dr. Dom Sirianni @drdom.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

True, but sometimes the empirical observation is “the bomb cal only ignites the sample when the penguin is wearing his crown on the shelf above the bench.” I definitely don’t have a shrine to Prof. Peter Pulay that lighting a candle in makes tricky open-shell computations converge…

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Gregory J. Rosmaita @oedipusnj.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

A SIMPLE GUIDE TO PROVIDING USEFUL ALT ON BLUESKY 1/ ALT's sole function on Bluesky is to provide an autonomous & as fully equivalent an experience of an image as possible for the blind/VI & neurodivergent If you can see it & read it, I should be able to feel or hear it without leaving Bluesky

Baby Cat, seated on her haunches on an unmade bed, her right forepaw resting on the back of her human's white skinned left hand.

BC's gazing solemnly at her human with her enormous sage green eyes, a look of determination on her white milk muzzle. BC exudes quiet confidence, but she still wishes there was an Image Description reminder on Bluesky she could enable, so she couldn't possibly forget to add ALT before tweeting.

Baby Cat is an adult deep chocolate colored tan-ticked tabby. All 4 of her legs are tiger striped, as is her tan chest & neck. The stripes on her neck & chest look like necklaces of varying widths & hues, from jet black to milk chocolate.

BC has a tan face with black markings, white whiskers, a white milk muzzle & an irresistibly boopable dusty rose nose. Her back coat is a rich chocolate brown, dappled by golden specks. In a sign of great sincerity, BC's whiskers—like her lynx-tufted ears–are at full alert.

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Dr. Dom Sirianni @drdom.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Little late to the party over here in the clear blue sky, but I couldn’t have a better first post than to hype up my amazing undergrad mentees who presented at their first conference two weeks ago at MERCURY @ Furman University. They’re superstars!! 🤩 #compchem #proudPI

Three undergraduate scientists (Alex’s, Jill, & Carlos) standing with me outside the MERCURY conference in front of a bloomed tree on a brick patio.

Me and Carlos flanking his poster, which explores aluminum-doped porphyrin molecules for artificial photosynthetic applications, at MERCURY.

Jill and I flanking her poster, which explores the functionalization of enediyne molecules to control their Bergman cyclization to produce diradicals, at MERCURY.

Alex’s and I flanking his poster, exploring the influence of an implicit solvent environment on the strength of noncovalent interactions between two solute molecules, at MERCURY.

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