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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 · 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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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I did the same exact thing last week, oops!

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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 · 26/01/2025

The big ones were various pharmaceuticals and microplastics. Lots of people talking about microplastics.

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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 · 07/01/2025

I was just looking into those!

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I hadn’t thought of siloxanes, thanks!

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

That would be amazing! It is my first time teaching this course so I will take any help I can get!

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

True, but I'm trying to go for specific chemical classes 😅

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I was just looking at 6PPD, that would be a great topic!

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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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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

My friend saw their logo on a bumper sticker and we both lost it laughing.

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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 · 13/10/2023

which is what produced the yellow color. The sizzling/reaction is likely the Clorox reacting with the vitamin A or other alcohols present in smaller quantities.

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I just looked up the main active ingredient in both so here is my best guess: Clorox's main active ingredient is a base (NaClO) and Rogaine's main active ingredient minoxidil which can act like an acid and a base. My best guess is that the Clorox oxidized the minoxidil...

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I am so sorry to hear that. I hope you have a job that treasures you.

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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I also agree that it is dumb, my partner is in a different field and he doesn't have as many required at the time of application.

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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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Jaclyn Torkelson @torkelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I'm Jaclyn and I'm currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College and I recently got my PhD from SUNY ESF. I use lipids and isotopes to study particulate matter and coral reefs!

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