I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be joining Bryn Mawr College as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Chemistry in January 2027! I’m excited to teach Bryn Mawr students, build the Brann Astrochemistry Group, and continue mentoring and empowering women and gender-diverse students in STEM. 🚀🌟
Was extremely happy to come home to this today!
I've got my weekend reading locked in 😎
@chanda.blacksky.app
The moon was still out when I awoke today & I stood in my living room grinning at it for awhile-I mean, can you believe that yesterday, the Artemis crew was RIGHT THERE?
My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on the awe-inspiring mission as a crucial reminder of the value of investing in science. (🎁)
The fact that all software switched to subscription rather than license model is a fucking crime.
"Sign into revitty signals to use your ChemDraw."
What if, and I know this is crazy, you just STICK TO THE ACTIVATION SYSTEM YOU'VE HAD SINCE THE BEGINNING.
Seething rn.
Request: PAA stain that doesn't go to complete dogshit in like a week on the bench even when protected from light
Where are my fellow jazz band kids at?
Is it just me or does Bruno Mars new song sound like Oye Como Va?
Today at #ACSSpring2026 we’ve got @ndchiappini.bsky.social in Academia 101 : Launching Your Lab talking about how to apply and interview for a faculty position and get ready to teach - stop by and hear from all our young faculty
@chemfunman.bsky.social encounter!!! Love ACS!
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
A deeply haggard, starved and desperate Sarah Paulson faking a smile while eating a wholly underwhelming sandwich provided by her captor. She is saying "This is good"
HTE setups realizing they're being used for a Buchwald-Hartwig screen for the 1,286,712th time
It's honestly impressive how infuriating to use OneLan digital signage is. Forget user-friendliness, this is user antagonism
A peek at my non-chemistry picks!
Sociology of Science Fiction
Deconstructing the Darkness of German Fairytales
American Art History
Modernism in Art and Music
Italian Political History from Unification to Present
Please buy books that are coming out this year.
Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Awesome!!!! That's great to hear. Thank you so much!!!
Woah! 8 hrs is crazy! What works works though!!
Thank you!!! This is great.
@chemrxiv.org Is there an RSS feed for the new host? I can't seem to find one via Feedly or the new site.
(sorry for the double post, wasn't sure which platform was checked more often)
Love when the science looks like a glitch in the matrix!
Similarly, I love showing my students how to liquid load with it and showing them how you can check your packing/band thickness by watching the little translucent band spread as you push it through your Hx/EA column.
We used it once for a chromatography of spinach pigments demo for the orgo labs when I was an undergrad! Definitely leaves an impact seeing basically "floating" red, orange, green, and blue bands!
I have a single 4L of CHCl3, basically only really use it for liquid loading annoying compounds for columns or chasing off last bits of other solvents before a final high vac excursion.
At least with the EtOH stabilized stuff you can wash with water and then dry/distill. The amylenes on the other hand linger like the glitter after a birthday party for a 6 year old.
I def see much more CCl4 in modern stuff from 🇷🇺 than I do EU, US, CAN, JPN, or even CN!
Read one paper from I think last year that was azeotropically drying with it. Completely alien to me since it's been so regulated my entire life lol.
@barneygrubbs.bsky.social raised that it is probably a recycling GPC! So probably doesn't use that much all said!
Today I Learned!
Plus, when we talk about black-body radiation, we get to talk about the ultraviolet catastrophe, which I'm adamant should be a band name if it isn't already. Share your frustration, Chanda!! Ugh
Black-body radiation is something we’ve understood for over a century, I teach it in my undergrad astrophysics classes, and it’s how the quantum revolution kicked off en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-b...
Prep HPLC I've done once! Prep GPC sounds wild. I always am a bit agog when I read like JACS from the 50s-60s where they do prep GC (often annotated as VPC/GLC). Never seen one in action but I picture like a little nozzle just spritzing into a collection bottle lol.