Dr. Ferrous

@techlifeweb her motor was putting rather loudly, so the recharge must have competed! 🤣

In-progress shot of the earrings I made out of 2 cherry-red colored glass lifesavers and gold-filled wire that I made into jumprings. CC BY-SA Kate Zimmerman.

Photograph of a bunch of glazed pottery on shelf, waiting to be loaded into the kiln. 6 of the pieces are mine, indicated by fuchsia arrows. CC BY-SA Kate Zimmerman.

#3GoodThings

1. I made a fun pair of earrings from a couple of glass lifesavers I bought at a "hot glass cold beer" event last night.

2. Finished glazing all the pots I made in my last pottery class!

3. Watched Beetlejuice with my family – one of my […]

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Incredibly busy #RepairCafe this afternoon. We were at a new library that advertised super well, because 60 people showed up! There was line out the door and so many knives. I also diagnosed a ninja blender that wasn’t broken and rewired a lamp. My extrovert battery is depleted, but I am […]

Grey cat with yellow eyes in loaf mode on a blue blanket, looking up to the left. About 1/3 of her body is illuminated by a bright sunbeam.

Milli caught some photons this afternoon.

#Caturday

I am wearing a Firefly t-shirt and a Penzey’s hoodie to campus today. Casual Friday FTR.

#ProfLife #Chemiverse

There should be a German word for white men who cannot conceive of possibility they'll be held accountable for their own actions.

Omg, my grammar is atrocious. I must need sleep. 😆

What did I say about eBay live? Yeah, Admiral Akbar… I know.. ITS A TRAP! But it was a fun trap this evening that yielded a bunch of xmas gifts, so that’s something.

@chemjobber.bsky.social @SRDas ooh… there’s an idea

@chemjobber.bsky.social what is chem/chat?

Director fail this morning. Set meeting with faculty who reports to me and forget to add them to the calendar invite. Rush to get to the meeting on time only to be alone in the Zoom room. Then realize it's my fault. SMH. I guess I have time to eat someething.

#ProfLife

@DS90210 stop being so amazing 🤣

Worf: I love women in STEM. Sword fighting Tattooists Enacting Malfeasance.

Worf: I love women in STEM. Sword fighting Tattooists Enacting Malfeasance.

I made a blueberry baked oatmeal recipe today and it’s tastes …interesting. A little more gelatinous than I expected honestly. But my ginger cardamon almond flavors were on point.

#cooking #baking #ChemistsWhoCook

@garland it's worth the effort. Good food is important and so are you. <3

Pleased to report our polling site to be busier than I've ever seen it. I even had to wait a few minutes for a privacy booth. #NYC #GoVote

I think I might need to play som #BG3 tonight. Also, I like my new sweater.

#Random

upper left side of human, wearing grey sweater, blue top and "I voted" sticker.

I voted.

Virginia is electing a new governor today. My state tends to be a political bellwether and the democrat is leading in the polls. In about an hour, M and I will go vote together, her for the first time. Whoever wins, it will be a landmark election, placing a woman in the role for the first time […]

An altered page from Green Eggs and Ham. Sam I Am's face has been replaced with Sam Altman's. The green eggs and ham have been replaced with the ChatGPT logo. The text says: I do not like it Sam Alt-Man. I do not want your LLM.

My kid made this meme which I enjoy immensely. #noaiplease

Some hard truths in tonight’s therapy. I haven’t felt comfortable since then. I feel like a weirdo. Sure hoping tomorrow’s forecast is sunnier.

@Kevin I would def watch that.

On campus early for a peer teaching observation and realizing a few things. 1) I’ve been teaching a long time. 2) students still look bored in gen chem. 3) lectures are a not great way to deliver information. 4) I’m very twitchy when folks don’t use the periodic table to teach electron […]

I seriously don't want to write an exam today.

#ProfLife #sigh

Well, sometimes it's good that I check email on the weekend. This afternoon I received a request for an extension citing a very justifiable reason. I'm happy I saw it today and hope the extra time reduces the students stress somewhat.

#ProfLife #Chemiverse

Remember, tomorrow morning is the one day of the year where anything you do between the first 1AM and 2AM doesn't count, as long as you don't also do it after the clocks are set back.

So feel free to indulge in that hot fudge sundae or crime spree or whatever you've been holding back all year.

@belehaa LOL

A small bird recovering from concussion in a warm tub.

I found this little fella dazed on a path in the garden. So brought him into the warm to recover for an hour, and I'm happy to say that he recovered well and eventually flew off towards the trees.

Bluetit

#birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography […]

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Candy dispensing is over, now it's time for Young Frankenstein.

#Halloween #WhatKnockers

One young lady in a Canadian ish sweatshirt - others dressed in jeans and t shirts. One tshirt is black and has DNA Zone written on it, other tshirt has cartoon of muppets in test tubes stuck with tape on the shirt (to mimic the t shirt I have). All in a hallway with yellow beige bricks

Me and two others pointing at each other with both hands in the corridor

Ok wow the grad students were super organized and so many of them in bang up costumes as their PIs.
Here's me and my lab (one of them didnt costume as me and one of them has too much hair 😅 - but props for putting chalk dust to grey his hair.
They wanted a […]

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