My mother once told me to get the snow shovel and take care of the drifts that were piling up…indoors in the memory care…in Florida…. 😬

Woman wearing history T shirt at baseball game.

Sporting my UF Department of History T-shirt at Gators baseball. See, @elizabethrdale.bsky.social, what happens when your folk set up a merch table right outside my CHM 6225 class.

Thanks for your support #ChemSky! Coming out of the Council meeting at ACS Atlanta, I am one of the two remaining candidates for 2027 ACS President-Elect.

Thanks!

Tweet of possum on a chemistry stockroom shelf.

It’s not just with plush toys….

I just sent them a copy of Matthew 6:5-6.

Black University of Florida History T-shirt with a white alligator.

There are still things to love about universities. There was a History merch table outside the classroom where I was teaching Chem 6225. I bought a T-shirt after class.

Hard cover copies of the Chronicles of Prydain.

Signed cover page of The High King.

Oh yes! I have the original hardcopies, bought for me by my parents as they came out in the 1960s. My copy of The High King is signed. Just reread them…

Occasionally input from a consultant can have value. This is not a general principle.

We all need friends who will assist with our cheap shameless plugs. Also a shoutout to my collaborator Howard Fairbrother, who is above such self-promotion.

Self‐Organized Metal‐Carbon Multilayers Formed by Ion Beam Induced Deposition from Trimethyl(methylcyclopentadienyl)platinum(IV) Ion beam induced deposition (IBID) of MeCpPtMe3 using low-energy Ar+ and H2+ generates self-organized multilayers of Pt and C, in marked contrast to the homogeneous deposits created by typical IBID a....

I know this is a cheap shameless plug for my own paper but this is really cool. #chemsky
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It is time to nominate Organic Chemistry Assistant Professors to speak at the Academic Young Investigator’s Symposium (YAS) held at the Fall 2025 ACS Meeting.

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Great egret on a bush in front of a campus building.

Great egret on a bush in front of a campus building.

When the students are gone, the campus (non-human) wildlife comes out!

Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.

Haha….thanks!

During my Stanford days, Condolezza Rice nearly ran over me in a crosswalk.

He. Cooks. Enough said.

Definitely willing to go around again.

An important service.

Statues of bears and a fawn with a Christmas tree, as seen from the back of a Palomino horse.

I haven’t posted from my #horse for a while but we’re still out there. Happy Holidays from the neighborhood bear statues!

And the smell of dust and archival permanence. When no electronic database can be accessed anymore, those hefty volumes will still be there, mocking us for our impatience while paging through them.

Sigh. I did my grad school lit searching using hard copy Chem Abstracts and taking notes about the content of papers on a yellow pad because xeroxing papers was expensive. 👵🦕 People who remember the Hell of paper Chem Abstracts are a dying breed, I fear.

Not just TAs. It is also the case for instructional faculty teaching large lower division courses. As a department chair, I regularly got complaints about women and faculty of color.

I got it from my mother, who grew up during the Great Depression. Her response to Christmas whining was to tell us (again) how as a child she got an orange for Christmas…and she was all in favor of family traditions. 😳🍊

The women in my family do not mess around. We know how to shut shit down on the spot.

Sulking child with a bag of socks and underwear.

This is my granddaughter who was whining about wanting to get into her Christmas presents early tonight. Her mother (who is *definitely* my daughter) gave her a Target bag containing…socks and underwear.

Photo of a PhD advisor and new graduate in academic regalia.

Another PhD from my group! Congratulations to Dr. Johnathon Johnson! #ChemSky #ChemChat

Good call.

I did pick up the “almond loaf” baton from my grandmother (wife of the oyster stew fiend). Literal baton. It’s a giant log of handmade caramel mixed with slivered almonds and it is the food of the gods.