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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger Death Bus for Cutie

Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dixson et al. (2022). Is organic chemistry helpful for basic understanding of disease and medical education? J. Chem. Educ. 99, 688–693. doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00772

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So I was teaching an online, asynchronous (shudder, I know) grad course on spectroscopy this summer. I'm pretty sure some students used llm to solve their problem sets. It's against my syllabus policy obviously, but what can I practically do in future? #chemsky #chemchat

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Entering my author era!! Y'all !! My book is on goodreads! You can add it to your TBR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... I just submitted an application to "claim my goodreads author profile" so that feels very official! I also changed my profile pic to my author photo so that’s exciting!

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Resonance & Radiance: How Light Reveals the Chemistry o…

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Something new for The ChemScrapes Shop 🙃 #chemsky #chemchat thechemscrapesshop.etsy.com/listing/4365...

A white mug with a blue handle and a picture of a round bottom flask. It looks like it’s twerking. The text on the mug says - shake that big round bottom

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Organic chemists make the best beat poets

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Join is on 11 June for the 8th Symposium on Applied Synthesis @ Conn College with co-sponsors Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck, BMS, & Vertex w/ the CT Valley ACS @sarponggroup.bsky.social & Marvin Parasram with industry & student presentations - posters and networking too! #ChemSky Reg link in replies

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Headed to #ACSSPring2026 in Atlanta? Interested in undergraduate research? Join us for this amazing SURF Symposium Sunday March 22 Hosted by @organicdivision.org we're presenting talks by SURF recipients discussing their research and the role the SURF program played in their careers #ChemSky

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

In this house it's: DCM ACN S.N.A.R. IPA Snickel Tickel And never Orgo

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

@chemjobber.bsky.social Reading a Bad Food chapter book with my kid tonight and we answered an age old ##chemsky question.

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Tell me five classes you took in college. Advanced ballet Kayaking Intermediate French IV Biotechnology law Advanced Organic Chemistry (there were like 4 of them, but spectroscopy was my favorite)

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If you took orgo with me it wouldn't have taken so many tries lol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/01/2026

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I deleted social media from my phone for the new year and have read 3 books so far this year. I guess it's working lol

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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

An elder of mechanistic reasoning expounds on a painful truth: students don't make sense of organic reactions starting from mechanistic reasoning. Knowledge of reactions has to come first. (Same is true for practicing organic chemists, though we don't like to admit it.) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Rethinking the Mechanistic Approach to Teaching Organic Chemistry†

The mechanistic approach to teaching introductory-level organic chemistry─Organic One and Two (Organic I and II) in the United States─continues to predominate since its introduction through Morrison a...

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Genre fiction 🤝 nonfiction science pairing about mining and the potential destruction of a planet. 🌍🪨 THE BLIGHTED STARS BY Megan O’Keefe and POWER METAL by Vince Beiser. 🧵A thread on why you should read these books : #booksky #sff #nonfiction

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THE BLIGHTED STARS by Megan Okeefe and POWER METAL by Vince Beiser

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

EMMA AND THE BUTTERFLY BLUEPRINT Gigi Shen is Not a Nerd x The Girls Who Code When science becomes part of the arts high school admission criteria, Emma must join the STEM club to and convince her friends to help her make a larger than life art exhibit. #bluepit📖 #Q #MG

A jumbled display box of butterflies, girls doing science, a tree covered in Spanish moss with a trolley in Savannah, GA, and a sketchbook full of nature drawings

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Nothing better than heading into a long weekend after hitting the submit button on a manuscript.

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Has anybody gotten an abstract acceptance from @pacifichem.bsky.social? Submission receipt said June 1 we would hear back. #chemsky

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Y'all I actually graded the papers I brought with me on the plane 😱

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Love seeing all the poster tubes at the airport. Peak nerdcore.

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 17/02/2025

Today is #NationalCabbageDay, which is always a good opportunity to remind everyone that red cabbage can be used to make a colourful pH indicator solution! www.compoundchem.com/2017/05/18/r... #ChemSky 🧪

Infographic on making a pH indicator from red cabbage. The indicator can be made by roughly chopping cabbage, boiling, straining, and collecting the liquid. The extract contains anthocyanin pigments which give different colours in solutions of different pH, ranging from red, through purple, to green and yellow.

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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Dear Ed consultants/seminar presenters. When you start with “I’ve got a loud voice, I don’t need to use this microphone”. You do. Please use the microphone. 🎤

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 26/01/2025

A PSA for anyone curious about grading, ungrading, alternative grading (which I don’t designate as something other than ungrading but hey - it’s a term), etc. especially those trying to publish their SOTL results. No matter what your field is, you are not the first to do this. Cite. Abundantly.

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Neither time not calories exist this week. I don't make the rules.

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In the chem ed space we often say, "we don't have to do to our students what was done to us" and this is true in lab culture too. 🧪

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Humble brag time. Today I finished a manuscript draft, submitted final grades for the semester, and finished my syllabus for next semester. Now it's time for a hotty toddy. 🍻

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Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. @rjgilliard.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Undergraduates - Join us for summer research at MIT!

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Monitoring some reactions today. Not sure what any of it means yet 😅 #ChemSky

Image shows a TLC plate under UV light with 6 lanes each displaying multiple spots.

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Let's connect with other PUI organic chemistry faculty! go.bsky.app/9HSystp

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Want to give a good scientific talk? TELL A GOOD STORY. don’t show the audience every result, don’t give us one slide on every paper you’ve ever published. If I want to read your resume, I will. Teach me something, tell me a story.

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Today I made a to do list and checked off half of it. Including running some NMR spectra for a manuscript due in December. 🧪

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Mechanistic reasoning for the win!

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Steph @stephy.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

NIST’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) is accepting applications until January 31, 2024. Visit www.nist.gov/surf to apply and learn more about what previous interns have worked on. I was a NIST intern and it was a fantastic experience! #chemsky #chemsummer #chemintern

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Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

It’s that time of year when you might be interested in doing the elephant toothpaste demonstration(mole day & national chemistry week & Halloween) I made a quick ⏰🕰️video on some tips and safety considerations if anyone is interested! #chemsky #RealTimeChem www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8rpGeSk/

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Dr. Debbie Gale Mitchell on TikTok

Tips and safety recommendations for Elephant toothpaste!! #chemistry #halloweenchemistry #science #chemistrywow #chemistryrocks #chem #stem #womeninstem #elephanttoothpaste #safety #ppe #chemistryfork...

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