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Jaclyn Torkelson

@torkelson.bsky.social
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🌊🪸 Marine biogeochemistry | She/her, Dogs🐶, science⚗️, books📚, and tea 🫖 Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I want to implement a new procedure to sample suspended particulate matter I found this: "Water quality — Sampling Part 17: Guidance on sampling of bulk suspended solids". But it is $200! Is there an alternative anyone could recommend? 🧪🌎🦑
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Something no one tells you as a new PI is the amount of time you will spend fighting with Amazon about invoices and refunds.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Come work with me at Northern Arizona University! We are hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Organic Chemistry. We have a friendly department, dedicated students, and a beautiful mountain town (yes it snows in Arizona). 🥽👩‍🔬🧪 nau.edu/chem-biochem...
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Here we go! #ACSSpring2025
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Do I teach chemistry? Yes. Are we still doing March Mammal Madness for extra credit? HELL YES. I'm so excited for chemists to learn about something outside their comfort zone! #2025MMM 🥽👩‍🔬🧪
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Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Women and Girls In Science Day! i post this every year as a reminder! 🧪 www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-h...
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Dr Yvonne Couch, Blog – How to Make a Female Professor
How do you get more female Professors? Feed the system with more female ECRs? Address the leaky pipeline? Or a big rethink? Dr Yvonne Couch explores
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Cristina Legido-Quigley @legidoquigley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#WomenInScience day, unfortunately this scissors pipeline shows that many women leave. How can we support women? we need to appreciate their skills, knowledge, work & leadership style. ✂️ graph from Australia, #WomenInSTEM #ScienceForAll
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Remember that you have the power to change lives through teaching, research, or even encouraging those around you. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience 🥽🧪🦑
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The excitement of our acceptance into the Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum Innovators Program to develop a new analytical chemistry lab is really hampered by the fact the program is NSF funded and might not exist soon. 🥽 #ChemSky #AcademicSky
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In Environmental Chem today I asked students what chemical contaminant they were the most worried about, we eventually got talking about environmental legislation. I told them we were pulling out of the Climate Accords and the WHO. A student yelled "WHAT" and that about sums up how I feel. 🧪🥽
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch (of the Haber-Bosch process) could not look any more like 1900s German scientists. 🧪🥽
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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
TikTok was a place for people to learn and connect, not just watch cat videos. As someone who had a community in TT I can tell you that the people on there care about democracy, they are LIVID about so many social issues and don’t just care about losing the app. It is so much more than that.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
First day of Environmental Chemistry and I asked students to create a word cloud on chemicals introduced/produced by humans. I love the results! #env-ed #iTeachChem #AcademicSky #ChemSky #SciSky
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I need ideas of emerging contaminants/pollutants for students to research for an Environmental Chemistry project. Any ideas? #ChemSky #EduSky #environmental #contaminants #pollutants #environmentalchemistry
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Family: "You're on winter break, you must be so excited to relax!" Me: *redesigning a course, doing manuscript edits, trying to get lab work done, writing grants etc.* "Yep, so relaxing." #AcademicSky 🥽🧪
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In the spring I will be teaching a 400 level Environmental Chemistry course and I am starting to build it. Does anyone have any recommendations for topics or resources? #environmentalchemistry #academia #EduSky
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New paper out on the cycling of organic matter and trace metals in nearshore coastal ecosystem sediments focusing on mangroves, seagrass, and coral reefs! 🧪👩‍🔬🦑 authors.elsevier.com/a/1k9B4%7E1M...
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've been MIA, but I'm an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University! I'm insanely excited to be teaching at my alma mater.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Nine months after submitting the manuscript I got the verdict of revise and resubmit. Maybe I can get this paper actually published before I retire.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Today I met with students in Obregón, Sonora to talk about climate change and ocean acidification through @skypeascientist.bsky.social and sent off the first letter to my pre-scientist pen pal through Letters to a Prescientist!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
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Scientists discover deepest known evidence of coral reef bleaching
University of Plymouth news: Scientists have discovered never before seen damage to the deeper reefs in the Central Indian Ocean and attributed it to...
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Just talked to some very excited third grade girl scouts about water conservation and the ocean for @skypeascientist.bsky.social . One of the highlights of the week!
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
My friends bought me a doctoral sword (a replica of Andúril, the blade of Gondor) inscribed with my degree. I will now have a sword in my office!
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
This week in lab we are doing metallic and ionic structures. I love relating periodic properties to the rocks I was obsessed with as a kid. Below is the lattice model they built of fluorite compared to the actual fluorite! #geology #iTeachchem #fluorite #ChemSky
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
When applying for tenure track jobs how many did you apply for? I feel bad asking for so many letters of recommendation, but then I hear about people applying to 60+ places... #AcademicSky
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Why is that when I am making example problems I tend to forget every compound that has ever existed? #iTeachChem
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Coral tissues have arrived, let the science beegiiiiinnnnn!!!!
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 02/10/2023
Today's Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman for work that enabled the mRNA vaccines used in the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's a reminder of how these vaccines work in this graphic made with the Royal Society of Chemistry: www.compoundchem.com/2020/12/02/r...
Infographic on RNA vaccines. The genetic code of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is made up of RNA. Scientists have isolated the part of this code that contains the instructions for making the virus's spike protein, and this is what is used in RNA vaccines. The synthetic RNA is packed inside lipid nanoparticles to protect it from being broken down by our bodies' enzymes. Our cells follow the RNA instructions to produce the virus spike protein, which then triggers an immune response. RNA is easily made in a lab so these vaccines are quick to develop. The RNA is broken down by normal processes in our cells, so can't cause infection. Some RNA vaccines must be stored at low temperature to keep them stable. There are two different types of RNA vaccine: mRNA vaccines and saRNA vaccines. The structures of mRNA and saRNA vaccines are similar but saRNA can produce copies of itself once it's inside a cell, so can be given in smaller doses.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Last Friday I got to talk about my research at Trinity College (some of my general chemistry students came and I was very excited). I'm looking forward to building a little research group while I'm here. #AcademicSky #WomeninSTEM #ChemSky
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Why did you not publish Open Access? Well Mr. Publisher, because this project had VERY LITTLE FUNDING and we couldn't afford it. Wouldn't it be great *cough* if someone *cough* had the money to make science more accessible?🧪
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kc kc kc (ichabod era) @katecrane.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Fat Bear voting starts in the morning!
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Fat Bear Week 2023 | VOTE
Choose the fattest bear of the year! Some of the largest brown bears on Earth make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Brown bears get fat to survive and Fat Bear Week is an an...
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Starting today, households can place an order to receive 4 Free COVID-19 Tests. Order yours from www.COVIDTests.gov and while you wait for them to arrive check out our conversation with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina about the new vaccine boosters. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/new...
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New COVID Boosters Arrive Amid Rise In Infections
Three new vaccines will be available this fall to address COVID, the flu, and RSV. Here’s how you can stay safer in the coming months.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
@chanda.bsky.social thank you for articulating your love for physics the way I wish I could about my love for chemistry. Thank you (and your mother) for your activism and your voice. As I introduce quantum chemistry to my first year students I will be weaving in lessons I learned. 🧪#womeninSTEM
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
The first three weeks as a professor have been exhausting. But when students come in to ask questions and they leave understanding the topic it all becomes worth it.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
This week I'm telling my students about Dr. Joana Fowler for the Scientist of the Week 🧪. #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #iTeachChem
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
I needed to jump in: About me: Favourite element: yttrium or lead Favourite reaction: silyation Favourite het: pyridine Favourite functional group: carboxylic acid Favourite piece of glassware: 25 mL volumetric flask Favourite natural product: gorgosterol #Chemsky
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Happy birthday Canadian scientist/writer Ursula Franklin (1921 – 2016), thinker on role of tech in society, advocate for women in STEM, peace & social justice #SciArtSeptember prompt ochre 🐡🧪🧑‍🔬#histsci - Her research interests were guided by her principles, including gathering evidence of the 🧵1/n
Linocut of Ursula Franklin working in the lab in blue  in a circle in the centre. Surrounding this area is a golden olive colour, on which are carved several gears at the top, a tooth at the bottom left which is labelled Sr-90 with radiating arrows labelled e- to indicate how radioactive strontium-90 can absorbed into bone can undergo radioactive decay emitting electrons, and in the bottom right corner is an ancient Chinese vessel she dated. The blue circle is actually a peace symbol and below it is a cross carved into the golden olive area, making it the symbol for women.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Chrome needs to stop switching the default search engine to Yahoo! I do not want it. STOP.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
One of my students apparently has an entire insect sock collection and I'm so excited to see them throughout the semester.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Every week I highlight an unsung hero of science. I figured I should start sharing them 🧪 #iTeachChem
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
A squirrel tried to enter my classroom today (the windows don't have screens). I guess it really wanted to learn about atomic theory?
Squirrel staring at you.
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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
🧪New Fish History out today! We have a lot to learn from extinct, armored fishes. Featuring some original art from Megan Sodano, who created an amazing reconstruction of an extinct, armored fish we find in Michigan. fishhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...
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The rise and fall of the armored fishes
what we can learn from the doom of a lost kingdom
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Am I super officially a doctor now? #AcademicSky
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Just got matched with a girl scout troop with @skypeascientist.bsky.social I'm so excited to talk about the ocean and conservation!
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
I'm excited for this book, two of my favorite things: chemistry and tea!
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Eva Amsen @evaamsen.com · 07/09/2023
To celebrate that September will always kind of feel like the start of a new school year to me, I wrote about a recent study that used an art heist-themed game to show that curiosity-driven exploration helps you retain information better. 🧪
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Curiosity-Driven Exploration Makes Things More Memorable
Curiosity-driven exploration is more likely to help you retain information than having a more urgent mindset, according to a recent study.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
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Underwater photos capture dazzling new views of colorful fish larvae | Science News
Lab specimens of fish larvae are often mangled and bleached. Divers and researchers have partnered to study their rich colors and intricate bodies.
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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
Today I asked my into chemistry students what makes a scientist. They said: Curious about the world Thinks outside the box Find explanations The answers were better than I could have hoped for and all true. #iteachchem #Academicsky #EDUSky
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