Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 12hPart of this project is to focus on sustainability. Because of this we no longer gather acorns, which are food for squirrels and such, and focus on leaves and acorn caps (non food biomass). Despite this we found two weevil larva in the mix 😔. The project is now dedicated to snoots with boots 020
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 16hTis the season to boil acorns and leaves 👀 1100
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 19hThat feeling when you forgot to weigh something 😔 010
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026FWIW it’s more vanillic acid than vanillin which to me is more marshmallowy 030
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The book I’m reading smells so good it’s hard to pay attention. 60 years old, been sitting on a library shelf for over ten years its so warm, soft, and almost sweet. 150
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Happy to share: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Let me know if you have any questions. It's a fun activity for a group/workshop toodocs.google.comDark Matter: Workshop ManualDark Matter: Making Ink from Waste Contents: Background 2 Upgrading Waste Resources 2 Distinguishing Pigments, Inks, and Paints 2 Oaks and Metal 3 Evaluating Upcycled Materials 3 ‘Painting’ with Polym... 010
Reposted by Julian R. SilvermanC&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"It’s time we rethink what outreach in organic chemistry can look like. We often focus on K–12 students, as we should. But there is another audience we may be overlooking: intellectually curious adults who simply want to learn about our field." #chemsky 🧪cen.acs.orgOpinion: I gave a chemistry lecture in a bar. It was a revelationI discovered adults eager to learn. Let's do more to reach them 48022
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I got both in different arms and realized after sleeping on neither side was comfortable! 010
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Join me tonight at 7 EST for some hands on soap demos! www.chemedx.org/event/soap-s... Thanks to ChemEd X for setting this all up. 010
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Someone anyone just needs to confirm we can use this for research and then I can tell my dept my colleagues advised me to get this I remember hearing stories at KU of them bringing theirs to outreach events and having to tell people their jewelry wasn’t gold/silver 140
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Oh that’s cool. It would be fun to test lots of consumer products. We’ve been trying to track down some skin whitening creams with mercury in them 040
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I know it would sit in the box a lot but I really think it’s worth the $20k 110
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Guns are bad but I really want an XRF gun 4142
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It’s the season! I’ll have a pumpkin poison spice please Generic poison is fine. 020
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s the best time of year to collect acorns for making iron gall ink: 130
Reposted by Julian R. SilvermanDebbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026if you would like to preorder the book I would be SO grateful! I drew ~75 images for this book, and (w/ help two artists) I turned one into a Riso print! If you would like a signed book plus a Riso print, you can order from my local indie, Westside books: westsidebooks.com/book/9780262... 8197
Reposted by Julian R. SilvermanDebbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We are about 6 months away from my book, RESONANCE & RADIANCE, being released into the world. (April 13th, 2027!) RESONANCE & RADIANCE is a narrative nonfiction book about spectroscopy—the field of science that studies how light interacts with molecules. I want to share this book’s origin story 🧵: 1413238
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Got to break out the muller for the first time to make some paint from scrap iron/oak leaves 140
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ending our Sustainability Awareness week with a Science and Math Open House! 171
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hidden is my syllabus is the call number for a book that relates to the final project theme. Take a pic with it and you get a point on an exam. I do this so I can learn who the nerds are week one. My student made a video of finding the book and got over 100k likes in TikTok. Win win win? 0265
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Who needs a Nobel when you have dynamite colleagues. 0100
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ethylene brassylate is a synthetic musk But it also sounds like if an aroma compound had a drag persona 1131
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today was a good day. There was something I could’ve worried about, but I didn’t worry about it and then it turns out I didn’t need to worry at all.  150
Reposted by Julian R. SilvermanJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is no NSF leadership. They were removed and never replaced. 323073
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Students avoiding subscripts by making the numbers in chemical formulas smaller fonts. :/static.klipy.comMan with Magnifying Glass: Detective LookALT: Man with Magnifying Glass: Detective Look 032
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026😯 The graph only include the top 10 biopharm/chem companies Would love to see them all 000
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We had a lovely time in Queens for City of the Forest day. Kids take to tie dye like iron atoms take to tannic acid. 010
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Things like this remind me that you can watch 100 videos online and it’s no replacement for being able to do it yourself 020
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Prepping for some color mixing. Colored pencils. I clearly don’t know what yellow and black are. 131
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yeah I was hoping it’s like vanilla from books and coffee but more likely it’s expired Diet Pepsi and unclean office vents 020
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I really need to know what the “professor” air freshener smells like. 4123
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fun fact your acorn cap might be 0.5% vanillin link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comUnlocking the potential of acorn oak cupules as a bio-based feedstock - Biomass Conversion and BiorefineryAcorn cupules are the structures that originally protect and connect the acorn to the tree. Currently, they are considered a residue of the acorn sector. In the present work, cupules from six Portugue... 050
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Internet consensus is yes, it’s a lichen. Perhaps with a parasite. Probably not Christmas tree lichen but it looks similar. 060
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026😆 pick em now. Also having watched the whole series I still wish I knew what it meant 010
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m unsure if this is a #lichen? 0101
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026:( I hope they behave for everyone’s sake 010
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That’s always a fun role to have hopefully some dancing in there too 110
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I often feel like I’m looking at Hank Hill and with some of your characters. I love it. 050