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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The rush to cram new technology into education IMMEDIATELY has really taken off in the past 10 years or so (MOOCs anyone?) The idea that we need to jump on new tech "or be left behind" is some CEO, business-school-ass thinking that is seeping into academia from the top down [5/?]

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Congratulations to @jillian-mulligan.bsky.social on the publication of their first first-author paper with our group, in Batteries & Supercaps. Primary Zn-MnO2 batteries have anodes made of Zn particles, and during discharge, these Zn particles get pushed around, mostly by ZnO formation.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Congratulations to Eric Zimmerer on the publication of his latest paper, in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Bi-modified MnO2 has been known for decades to enable rechargeable alkaline Zn-MnO2 batteries, but how Bi actually does this has remained an open question.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you are a fan of Harvey Pekar and American Splendor, consider backing this Kickstarter to physically protect, sort, and digitally archive this legacy.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If only ACS would launch some new journals. Can't they see this is what the people want?

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Wow did Zoom finally figure out people want to update their software AFTER a meeting and not in the seconds before when they're trying to get on? Great work everyone.

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is a sneak peak of what we can expect from Australia, Chile, Italy, Germany and many other power sectors over the next 3-5 years

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Maybe, just maybe, my field of science is somehow a unique outlier. I doubt it, but it is possible. I guess. I’d like to hear which fields have been advanced solely by one type of PI.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The ECS New England Section invites you to a Section Meeting on Tuesday June 23, 2026, 6:00-8:30 PM at Northeastern University in Boston. The event includes networking, a buffet dinner, and a seminar by David Kwabi, Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at Yale University.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Has SharePoint ever worked, like once?

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I always give blue book exams, never stopped and never will. Fun fact to consider is that it allows me to make the exam questions easier.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Yeah, when the reviewer tells me to put in 20 new references, I totally read them all!

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Science Magazine @science.org · 15/04/2026

"The reality is, we are all going to mess up. I now realize that’s OK, even necessary." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4smSPSD

An illustration of a woman cradling herself in her arms. Hedline is "I was debilitated by mistakes in grad school. A dream reshaped my perspective."

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Getting citations is great, but then you look and they cited your manganese study as a great example of magnesium research.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The ECS New England Section invites you to a Section Meeting on March 19, 2026, 6:00-8:30 PM at Northeastern University in Boston. The event includes networking, a buffet dinner, and a seminar by Joy Zeng, Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University.

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Gloucester (Glaw-stah) Dracut (Dray-kit) Concord (Conquered not Con-Cord)

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I *love* this ternary chart showing developing economies increasingly go directly for clean electrons (solar plus some wind), bypassing the fossil economy that the US and EU went through. I expect Africa will take an even more direct route than India. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Battery Burn Book @batteryburnbook.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Was a PhD a good investment? TBD. Was @joshuagallaway.bsky.social an incredible advisor? No question. Battery Burn Book exists because of Josh. Credit where credit is due. 💁🏻‍♀️🔋 #battchat #batteries #greensky #energysky

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Saying farewell to CHME 5621 Electrochemical Engineering class for fall 2025 today. The future is electrochemical!

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Good thread for understanding grid modernization (batteries make an appearance on down the thread!)

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Jasmin Smajic @jasminsmajic.com · 16/10/2025

🔋The biggest bottleneck for Western battery manufacturing isn’t capital or policy. It’s talent. There just aren’t enough people with the experience to run gigafactory-scale production. That shortage is a key reason why companies like Northvolt have failed. #battchat #greensky 🔌💡🧪

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm not inherently opposed to AI images, but I spent some time trying to get it to make me an illustration of an "industrial electrochemical process" and it came up with this.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I agree with this. I think (college) education is a solved problem. Access to education is what's revolutionary.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

When you write the Butler-Volmer equation, do you include "n" (number of electrons) terms in it?

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Research Group of J. Cabana @cabanachemistry.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

“Batteries push investment into flexibility, smooth demand peaks, and keep the grid stable at lower cost. They will be the foundation of a power system that can deliver abundant electricity, with reliability built in, rather than as an afterthought” #battchat www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-beauty...

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The beauty of batteries

Keeping the grid stable requires overbuilding generation, driving up costs. Batteries fix that.

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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a scientific illustrator most famous for her 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium'. In this book filled with beautifully illustrated plates she explored the then poorly understood concept of insect metamorphosis.

Owl butterfly in all its life stages on a branch of cardinals guard that has twisting red flowers. The butterfly, shown in two positions, has large golden brown eyespots on the outer part of the wings whereas the inside are blue and brown. The caterpillar is orange with grey hairs, and the chrysalis is light green and pink with a slight fishhook shape. The butterfly’s eggs are also shown on the leaves of the plant. A small dark red wasp flies in the background

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The real news of the week if that Michael Stipe is telling people what the lyrics are to It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

As an educator, this is almost obvious to me. You don’t learn a topic or a skill without putting in the work. I’m currently going through every problem in a thermodynamics textbook to relearn the subject. Slow & sometimes tedious, but the only way to gain anything more than a superficial knowledge.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The National Weather Service bulletin for Hurricane Katrina, issued 28 August 2005, was the most upsetting document I had ever read in my life at that point, and 20 years later it still is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

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Kerstin Neuhaus @microtopico.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

After months of intensive collaboration, I am thrilled to present our latest #paper: a review of zinc-based rechargeable #battery technologies and a techno-economic analysis of the various battery types. Many thanks to my co-authors for the excellent collaboration. #battchat doi.org/10.1002/aenm...

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Competitive Rechargeable Zinc Batteries for Energy Storage

Growing energy demands and the associated increase in renewable energy production require robust, sustainable, and cost-effective energy storage, in particular for large-scale stationary applications...

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Me and PhD student Yogesh at DOE OE Energy Storage Peer Review this week.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

New paper from us today in Joule. Led by Eric Zimmerer, we used operando EXAFS and Raman spectroscopy to structurally characterize disordered intermediate materials during MnO2 cathode cycling. These cathodes are special because they cycle 2 electrons from Mn(IV) to Mn(II).

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I'm at DOE OE Peer Review. The struggle is real:

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The grid battery storage line looks small on this plot, but no other line grew by a larger percentage. Batteries are coming to the grid, as we speak.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This week we bid farewell to Calli and Vincent, both high school researchers who joined us through Northeastern's Young Scholars Program (YSP). They studied alkaline CuO cathodes, working with their mentor Yogesh. Great work!

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Facebook showed me a snow speeder toy, and I have to share it, not for the snow speeder, but for the early 80s vintage batteries.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I've had a Google alert for "alkaline battery" for about 15 years. More than 50% of the hits are medical journals, and it has shown me what can go wrong with babies and batteries.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Picard leadership tip: The larger your audience and the higher your position, the greater the need to communicate with care and precision.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Holy moly, I did not know Tom Lehrer was still alive

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

28) Another amazing thing to think about is that life as we know it basically boils down to manganese breaking water and iron putting it back together.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Gallaway Research Group, Summer 2025

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Battery Burn Book @batteryburnbook.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🔋recycling: what are the different types and how do they compare? #battchat

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

In MacOS I love how "Eject disk" and "Erase disk" are now right next to each other. Awesome job everyone.

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Joshua Gallaway @joshuagallaway.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Great battery information coming out from Battery Burn Book. Check it out and subscribe!

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