Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So many darlings dispatched, so many. I keep their ashes in the metadata in hope. 120
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The conversation around this is ace. Wish I were teaching this fall, it would be a fascinating topic to discuss. 2131
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Today's reading: about marmorated stink bugs, defatted cricket powder, and brain heart broth. Flavor chemistry! (well, not that last) #chemsky #chemistswhocook 030
Reposted by Michelle FranclGeorge O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342 163117
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This chapter on insect diets is has some great snarky prose: "data almost as hard to digest as the chitinous bodies of the insects themselves" 041
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Synpathizing with @stuartcantrill.com ... I had to resort to the OED while reading today: what is "lacertilian"?!? and why would you call a fire-ant-eating horned toad a "lacertilian yogi"? (Lacertilian means "relating to lizards, which to the best of my limited knowledge, toads are not.) 110
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Does your life depend on science? Mine certainly does. At the start of Trump’s term I wrote this op-ed: share.inquirer.com/Nf1shA Today is the last day to submit comments on the proposed rule changes that will dismantle US science — and have far reaching effects on everyone’s lives. Comment!!share.inquirer.comInquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes 0127
Reposted by Michelle FranclBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Hello we are back from a holiday weekend and the Office of Management and Budget is still trying to make sure federal grants can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason. There's still time to stop it. www.theverge.com/science/9576...theverge.comThe war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’ 28559
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Hey #chemsky - I am working on a book about women in chemistry and trying to track down an incident about a general chem textbook where the authors made a snarky comment about women in bikinis (and parenthetically called themselves out as sexist). Any hints for me?? 71615
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Want to know more about the first women chemists? Try these terrific articles by Gisela Boeck and... www.chemistryviews.org/lydia-sesema... (1/2) #chemskychemistryviews.orgLydia Sesemann: 150 Years of Women's Doctorates in Chemistry - ChemistryViewsFirst woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry 371
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026My most recent column in Nature Chem (@natchem.nature.com) is out: First Ladies of Chemistry. Who were the early women PhDs in chemistry? Why was the Ice Woman a hero (why is she still?)? Also -aren't those lab coats in the photo wild? rdcu.be/frKkWrdcu.beFirst ladies of chemistryNature Chemistry - Michelle Francl puts the early women of chemistry, who were ignored at the time, back into the picture. 12313
Reposted by Michelle FranclCompound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 29/06/2026Many of us are relying on the welcome chill of air con during historic heatwaves 🥵 Here's a look at the chemical compounds keeping us cool in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/95/... #ChemSky🧪 27345
Reposted by Michelle FranclAvert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Do you read fantasy fiction? Would you like to take a few minutes on this tedious Friday afternoon to help our marvellous publishing studies student Emma Watson with her dissertation by answering a few questions? Of course you do! (Please share too!) docs.google.com/forms/d/19v4...docs.google.comWhy do you read Fantasy? Stories, Places and Myths behind Fantasy FictionYou are invited to participate in a web-based online survey on reader preferences in the Fantasy genre. You have been invited to participate because you are age 18 or over and are a reader of fantasy ... 058
Reposted by Michelle FranclBethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This year has been a tough one for chemists who want to go to graduate school in the US - chemistry graduate programs are taking significantly fewer students than they did just 2 years ago. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/education/gr...cen.acs.orgUS chemistry graduate programs scale backFaced with uncertainty in federal funding and rising costs, chemistry departments are taking fewer students 12916
Reposted by Michelle FranclStu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 10/06/2026📣 Calling all chemists/catalysis peeps! 📖 Ever considered working in scientific publishing as an editor? ✅ If yes, @natcatal.nature.com is hiring! 📍Shanghai, Beijing, Milan or Pune 📅 Deadline: July 12 🙏 Reposts appreciated 🧪 #Chemsky springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comAssociate or Senior Editor, Nature CatalysisTitle: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Catalysis Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Milan and Pune – hybrid working model Application Deadline: July 12, 2026 (Candidates will be considered as they apply... 01019
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026The president rants, shouts, stonewalls, belittles, as if his fury trumps the truth and the big story is Wisconsin? #butHerEMails 010
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Enjoy experimenting with basic chemistry? Excited to read this… 150
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Watching For All Mankind last episode #spoiler #chemFail #chemsky 100
Reposted by Michelle FranclAnn Finkbeiner @annfinkbeiner.bsky.social · 05/06/20261. Editors of prof. society journal write editorial vsTrump admin policies. 2.Trump admin to give talk at prof. meeting. 3. Editors hand out copies of editorial. 4.Society says to stop; they don't. 5. Society sends in security cops. 6. Cops do their cop thing. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...medpagetoday.comVideo: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA MeetingResearchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions 22011
Reposted by Michelle FranclCompound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 12/05/2026Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner and crystallography pioneer, was born #OTD in 1910. Using X-ray crystallography she determined the structures of complex molecules including vitamin B10 and insulin: www.compoundchem.com/2019/05/12/h... #ChemSky 🧪 17929
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Trump wants Pope Leo to stay in his lane. What is Pope Leo's lane? My op-ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. share.inquirer.com/jA6FfMshare.inquirer.comExactly what does Trump imagine is within Pope Leo’s proper purview? | OpinionIt’s a circular argument at best: that faith and morals are meant to direct how I should pray and worship, but not how I manage my life outside the walls of the church. 143
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 17/04/2026This is brilliant! But who, what, where is Runcorn? 120
Reposted by Michelle FranclSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Brought to you by Zach hasn't studied physics in years and is trying to read through the famous Mike and Ike quantum computing textbook. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/easier PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 918024
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Is this the first time Klingon has been used in a science journal? My latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis opens and closes in Klingon and looks at the language barriers in science. Chemists have tinkered with synthetic languages before! rdcu.be/fczV7 #chemsky 2315
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Talking water, the universe, and a bit about tea. 030
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I ran 15 years of my own against a list of word "tells" for AI, will my esoteric vocabulary and my love of the em dash be my undoing? And yes, my writing was part of the training sets. 072
Reposted by Michelle FranclSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 28422466
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The potential of mRNA vaccines in a crisis...which the US HHS dismisses out of hand. 022
Reposted by Michelle Francltomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know. 7495884076
Reposted by Michelle FranclKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2026I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it. 523730843
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 18/02/2026It can be exhausting to navigate the need for accommodations, and it can feel as if you are simultaneously far too visible and entirely invisible thewalrus.ca/how-universi...thewalrus.caHow Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff | The WalrusSome administrators treat accommodations as a favour—and those requesting them as problems 011
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Tea, too! Both caffeinated beverages also appear to be linked to a lower risk of Parkinson’s disease. Caffeine, not just fueling my students‘ late night study sessions. wapo.st/4rUaxwWwapo.stOpinion | Drink coffee to prevent dementia? It’s not so far-fetched.Why coffee and tea may protect your brain’s health. 170
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Qapla' (success!)...I think. We'll see what the copy editor has to say about a standfirst in Klingon! 010
Reposted by Michelle FranclCompound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 11/02/2026Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women. Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom... #ChemSky 🧪 310866
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Somehow I don't think the blessing gets attached to individual molecules? 010
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026TIL about Ostwald, his Nobel, and constructed languages - and his fight with van 't Hoff over the language his Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie should use for abstracts. Spoiler, it wasn't German. Also lots of chemists with skin in this game in the early 20th century. Who knew? #chemSky 070
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026A decade ago I wrote about the improbably named (and decidedly odd) Lancelot Hogben in a Thesis column for @natchem.nature.com (here: rdcu.be/e1YS8). And he just showed up in a literature search for my next column?!? #ChemSkyrdcu.beNeolexiaNature Chemistry - Michelle Francl thinks that new science words should have a touch of swagger and a whiff of mystery. 100
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Wandering down the rabbit hole of journals published in constructed languages, are there chemistry articles in Esperanto? Klingon? #chemSky 843
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026And the NYT doesn’t note Trump’s reaction? In a phone interview Tues pm w/ABC’s Rachel Scott, Trump accused Omar of staging the attack. "I don't think about her. I think she's a fraud," Trump said. "She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...nytimes.comRepresentative Ilhan Omar Is Attacked at Town Hall in Minneapolis 110
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026If you develop software for research, consider responding to this survey trying to help understand who develops research software and how they work so as to get more robust support: softwaresaved.limequery.com/611257?lang=en #chemSkysoftwaresaved.limequery.com 2026 International RSE Survey 055
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Will tea be next? It’s a big source of dietary fluoride. 010
Reposted by Michelle FranclC&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Welcome to this month’s crossword, constructed by Christopher Adams, a trivia writer from Iowa City, and George Barany, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪cen.acs.orgCrossword: Quantum leapersA centenary celebration of science that is anything but classical 064
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Happy #NationalHotTeaDay! A great graphic on my (and the world’s) favorite beverage! 090
Reposted by Michelle FranclRoyal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 12/01/2026📢 Get ready for #RSCPoster 2026. Join @errantscience.com for a live webinar on the history of cartooning & pick up some tips. The webinar will take place on LinkedIn & is sponsored by the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering @unisouthampton.bsky.social 👉 More info to come – stay tuned #ChemSky 133
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Working on a piece about reading scientific journal articles in languages other than English. I got my PhD (chem) in 1983, no language requirement; my youngest got his (math) in 2024 and had a language requirement. Wondering what #chemsky's experiences have been. Did you have a language req? 29124
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Who would say this? The same people who blame Ukraine for the Russian invasion of…Ukraine? Up is down and we are living in 1984. 051
Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026When I wrote my latest for @natchem.nature.com on the appropriation of the quantum mechanical lexicon by scam artists, could I have imagined that the surgeon general of Florida would be peddling the woo? Alas, probably. rdcu.be/eXQL (1/3)rdcu.beQuantum quacksNature Chemistry - It is 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics, and not only did it bring with it a greater understanding of the world around us, it also introduced a new... 2137
Reposted by Michelle FranclOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Trump flips and decides to starve people after all www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...dailykos.comTrump flips and decides to starve people after allPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed that he plans to weaponize hunger in America, writing in a post on Truth Social that he will not fund food stamp benefits during the government shutdown—... 67619