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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m still running for 2027 ACS President-Elect. Register for the webinar if you would like to hear the discussion. #ChemSky #chemchat www.acs.org/acs-webinars...

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Nathan Richey @nerichey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In graduate school, one of my labmates needed to reduce then methylate a Ru center. They thought they could do this with Na/Hg then adding MeI in-situ. They were in the middle of the reduction step when I pointed out that I'm pretty sure that's exactly how you make dimethyl mercury....

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Nathan Richey @nerichey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Super excited to be attending my first BCCE conference! Hoping to bring back a lot of strategies to improve my own teaching. #BCCE2026

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Nathan Richey @nerichey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Neil Garg seeing this structure: "I could make that."

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Nathan Richey @nerichey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've run out of milk for my coffee this morning. So, like an adult, I've decided to put ice cream in my coffee instead.

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Nathan Richey @nerichey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Going to start calling "American Football" "European Soccer" until it catches on

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

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Nathan Richey @nerichey.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Question for #ALDep people: without looking anything up, what do you think is the most widely used ALD precursor?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · 16/05/2025

With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su

A beeswarm chart of canceled NIH grants showing the years into each project when the funding was pulled. Each dot represents a terminated grant and is colored by the number of publications associated with the project: none, one to four or five or more. The grants are separated into thee rows based on the award type (R01, U01, U54). RO1 research projects had the most terminations, which occurred at all stages of research, from the project onset to 7+ years in. Most grants were canceled short of the 4-5 year lifespan of a typical grant, and 40% of R01s had no publications at the time of termination. Projects that had been active for longer had more publications, suggesting that more findings are disseminated in the later stages of these grants.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

There is no good time for bad news and today is no different than any day in our recent time. Nevertheless, I write this thread to chemistry faculty job seekers in the United States. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

As others have noted, the life of Carl Bosch is worth a look in these times. Fritz Haber demonstrated that nitrogen could be reduced to ammonia, but Bosch’s work turned that into a technology that changed the world with sudden new supplies of fertilizer (and of explosives). (1/8)

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#RealTimeChem @realtimechem.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Completely condemn the highly disappointing decision by @acs.org to take down and then amend their pages on Diversity, equity, and inclusion - www.acs.org/about/divers... - this is not what #RealTimeChem stands for.

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Katy's Shit Cartoons @cartoons.katymontgomerie.com · 28/11/2024

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

Pie chart:
74% hydrogen
25% helium
1% other (in tiny font)

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