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Elizabeth Cerkez

@zekrec.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Instruction @ Temple U. Chemistry and Chemistry Education Research. (Philly sports + Weather + Swiftie)

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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 12h
What is wrong with Atlanta?!
Screen shot of stubhub seating chart for Game 3 of Phillies vs Braves. Prices are insulting low.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me👇🏻
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m from Philadelphia. Of course I can imagine this.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Go Birds!
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don’t know what to do with this news. On one hand I am obsessed with the Theranos scam (if you haven’t read Bad Blood, do so immediately) but I loooaaaaathe Nathan Fielder.
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‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Nathan Fielder’s Documentary About Elizabeth Holmes Is a Shameless, Fascinating, Reality-TV-Eats-Its-Tail Look at Entitled Duplicity
It's a reality-TV-as-hangout-movie portrait of the Theranos fraudster, which is Fielder's way to ask: What makes someone like Elizabeth Holmes tick?
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When I don't know the minerals very well, I look at which crystal structure I prefer. Vesuvianite's is wild!
Crystal structure of vesuvianite.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
OOO pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite!!
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Third day of classes, had multiple students come to office hours today with real chemistry questions 🥹🥹🥹
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
👩🏻‍🍳💋
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Kruk is late to phillies broadcast and after arriving, immedaitely starts a story about a deer and a jacuzzi. He is a treasure of my country, Philadelphia.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
classes start in a week - today is the most sunday of sundays
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My kingdom for folks to actually read their emails before having AI respond asking for the exact information I already provided.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Primary and Secondary Ed: “ya know, maybe we pushed for too much tech in classrooms and we should change course.” Higher Ed at the literal same moment in time: “HERE SHOVE AI IN EVERYTHING”
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Redesigned my entire Gen Chem II class today....because I'm insane.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Cape Verdeeeeee!!!
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Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Super excited to share my book How and Why Soap Works came out today! Written for anyone interested in science and consumer products the book has 30 experiments you can do at home to explore the science of surfactants and recreate historic soap recipes. doi.org/10.1039/9781...
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How and Why Soap Works: Thirty Home Experiments Exploring the Science of Surfactants
We wash with soap several times every day, but how does it get us clean? Soap has been used for centuries worldwide and is key to health and hygiene. But h
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Copying final exams, "Might as well do an extra 20 copies per room just in case some random people who aren't registered show up to the final."
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Omg! Title II deadline extended. #ChemSky #EduSky public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-07663.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
check it out!!
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Grew up on the Chesapeake Bay...more than one field trip involved going out on a skipjack (sailing vessel) and dredging for oysters.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Someone was just talking about a good example of AI disclosure in a manuscript....and now I can't find it! Does anyone have one? (Teaching on AI ethics in 2 hours!) #ChemSky #🧪
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’d like to petition for spring break to be two weeks. I’m now caught up on every thing, but there was no so called “break”
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
None of my exams stapled properly and now I need to hand staple 240 exams 🫠🫠🫠
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We've done one group quiz in lecture; was one of the most amazing learning activities I've seen in such a large classroom. Students were fully engaged with one another and with the assignment for the full 50 mins. Today we're doing another round but with IF-AT cards....excited to see how it goes.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Really disappointed in Phillies social media that I don't have video of the Phanatic pretending to be part of Bad Bunny's grass actors yet.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Temple closed tomorrow 🎉
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Did anyone else's canvas update and now you can see prior attempts in speed grader? or is this a uniquely Temple problem 😭? #EduSky #ChemSky
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I’ve been attacked.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Back on my swiftie teacher BS #ChemSky
Pile of Friendship bracelets, the main one says “cruel sulfur” with purple beads.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is crying with the words `` tears of joy '' written on his face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying with the words `` tears of joy '' written on his face .
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The amount of mental task switching I've done today has my brain feeling like a wrung out sponge 😮‍💨
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Looking for some new ideas for formative feedback opportunities in large gen chem classes (>200). We've previously done low stakes (<2% of the overall grade) quizzes the week before exams in recitations, but we've had issues with cheating recently. Anyone doing something they really like? #ChemSky
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Me, a West Wing fan, thinking only of one man. #puthimonthebench
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Just ate a meal with zero cheese in it and my rot week brain is very disappointed.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I want to go to bed, you idiots.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Instrumental students took their DUCK exam today. Found this gem on someone’s scratch paper…. #ChemChat
A pencil drawing of a duck holding an erlenmeyer flask and wearing lab goggles saying, “Quack”
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Attended an all day accessibility training on WCAG. I am overwhelmed and there are not a lot of answers of how to deal with this in STEM classes.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Had to skip yoga tonight to finish writing an exam. The end of the semester is not my favorite part of the semester.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Context isn’t needed. Always true.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Oh man, gonna miss @chemjobber.bsky.social but good for him.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Fire Patullo.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Last sentence from the discussion: “In this sense, one might view learning through LLMs rather than traditional web search as, at times, analogous to being shown the solution to a math problem rather than trying to solve it oneself.”
academic.oup.com
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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a cat is laying on the floor next to a door and the word done is on the floor .
ALT: a cat is laying on the floor next to a door and the word done is on the floor .
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
.....I haven't even gotten through a single one 😫
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I need to give detailed feedback on six, 20-page papers today. The chances this takes all day is 99.999999%
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
An absolute insult to philadelphia culture that one cannot buy a soft pretzel on campus at 3 pm.
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Elizabeth Cerkez @zekrec.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Simultaneously doing electrochemistry in Gen Chem II and instrumental (at different levels) this week, so currently everyone is getting a mini-rant about Ben Franklin.
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