Reposted by Alexandra Brumbergc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power. They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals. Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being. 19177021430
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergBrittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 29/01/2026If anyone else's personal Gmail suddenly started giving AI summaries of your emails with no option to turn them off: I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function) 2216
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Honored to be featured by ChemSci! I always love reviewing and try my hardest to make sure my reviews are of high quality (which has definitely been a learning process). 141
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I had my students do exam corrections after our first midterm. They were allowed to use whatever resources they needed (me, their classmates, the internet/AI) to correct their mistakes. Seeing some of them still not get the right answer hurts my soul 😭😭 020
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.orgnobelprize.orgThe official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.orgThe Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for... 291196448
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I know we all have lots of issues with MS Word, PPT, etc, but all I am asking for is a reverse numbering feature 100
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025#chemsky I am introducing the field of inorganic chemistry to our first year chem majors. Does anyone have any resources on this topic? Looking for an overview of the field as a whole, like active research areas eg "five slides about inorganic chemistry" 😅 to quote the VIPEr resource categories 141
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025The only thing I am sure about as a new instructor of inorganic chemistry is that all three commonly used textbooks of inorganic chemistry do a terrible job 😭 040
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergJason G. Gillmore @jasongillmore.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Come be my colleague at @hopecollege.bsky.social ! We are hiring a tenure-track open rank #chemprof to teach #GenChem & #Inorganic and establish a thriving experimental #undergradresearch group in our exceptional #PUI #Chemistry department! #chemjobs #facultyjobs jobs.hope.edujobs.hope.eduHope College Applicant Portal | Home 056
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Well I can now confirm that both United AND American aren't capable of getting planes/crews to a given location in order to transport passengers in exchange for money. Will somebody please just get me home 😭 100
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025So does anyone else always call it "Ted Paella" or is that just me 120
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergHank Reichman @hankreichman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025". . . it is not, in any real sense, about Columbia. Neither is it about antisemitism or free speech. It is not even at its root about education." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comThe attempt to destroy Columbia (opinion)The Trump administration has the symbolic fight it wants, Brian Rosenberg writes. 067
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Just had a bottle of DMSO arrive as a completely solid chunk... apparently the melting point is ~18 °C? Definitely colder than that outside today 😅 040
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 14/01/2025So today I went to go open up my brand new centrifuge for the lab and inside the box I found a single box of 10 uL centrifuge tubes So, not at all a centrifuge, and in fact completely useless to me WITHOUT said centrifuge 140
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Some of my LA friends have told me that the problem is climate change, and it is. It’s January for fucks sake. But that doesn’t mean we have to solve climate change to better control fire. If we wait for that, cities will keep burning. There are ways to mitigate risk. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comInconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire expertsFor years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized. 1864281524
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025hello I would like everybody to imagine for a second that you are a new faculty member and that your university is switching to a new purchasing system, such that you will not be allowed to make any purchases for a FULL WEEK while the transition happens please pray for me 150
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergErrantScience @errantscience.com · 22/12/2024Not many more days to open, I hope you've all finished purifying your products from door 16 to mix with the product of door 22 26219
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Well, it happened... I turned 30 and then I hurt my back moving furniture 😭 030
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024What I find more fun is when schools let you know that the search has closed in like, July. Or October, at which point the next cycle has begun. Like thanks I had figured that out by now that is not helpful 020
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I will forever be of the belief that customers should be reimbursed for the amount of time that internet and utilities are unavailable to outages. I am literally paying for a service that you are not delivering 130
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergDr. Joseph J. Thiebes @thiebes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024A classic editorial by Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social that was partial inspiration for the quoted thread below: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #Physics 🧪pubs.acs.orgThe Lost Art of Composing Single-Panel Figures 075
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It turns out it is very easy to get 10k steps if (1) you are commuting to work on public transit and (2) your office and your lab are in different buildings 030
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024you know I really don't feel like I listened to this song that much #spotifywrapped #ajr 120
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Re-reading your rejected manuscript 324721
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This article hits the nail on the head 💯open.substack.comNeeding to move is a huge barrier to broadening representation in the sciencesScience will be more inclusive and equitable when we stop expecting people to uproot their lives every few years 030
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergTerry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 04/09/2024When I became a professor, I was excited about all of the teaching, research, mentoring, outreach, and more. But now, doing All The Things is just exhausting and less exciting. How can professors be effective but not do All The Things? open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...open.substack.comWhat was the best part of being a professor is now the worst part of being a professorWe get to do it all. Which means we have to do it all. 54922
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Here's what drives me up the wall: We take research ethics as students. We learn and are told that "all authors must have reviewed and approved the submission of their manuscript." Then you end up on papers that get submitted without your knowledge, and what? 150
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Has anybody tried the ACS Publishing Center (new version of ACS Paragon Plus) and has it worked for them? Literally I cannot get anything to update in my profile 😠 000
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergJacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 22/10/2024#PhysicsFactlet: The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project" I will try to (likely very slowly) make one or more visualization per chapter of "Solid State Physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin, with the hope that they will be useful to people teaching/learning solid state Physics. 1/ 815437
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I see many people posting pictures of their pets to establish #proofofcat. I lived with the two best fluffballs ever when I was a kid. If I still had a cat today, I promise you it would be all I ever post about 😅 040
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Help me gather the nanoscience community here on #chemsky! 246829
Alexandra Brumberg @nanobrumberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I've entered my first graduate recruitment season as a professor, and I am going to go crazy reading these rec letters. Writers, please remember... 12516
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergNeil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social · 08/11/2024What is the difference between weather and climate. This #dataviz shows the "Central England" average temperature for periods ranging from 1 day (weather) to 30 years (climate). This shows the climate signal emerging. Note the varying y axis that covers the range of the data. 18506227
Reposted by Alexandra BrumbergThe Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · 12/11/2024what's up #chemsky we have arrived get hyped for some incredibly stupid memes made by incredibly talented electrochemists 0243