Lisa @lisabalbes - Bluesky Profile

How to use an individual development plan to advance your career Four steps to assess your current position and set your goals

After 30+ years, I'm still thrilled when I see something I wrote get published.

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07.08.2025 15:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!!!

24.04.2025 21:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow! Thank you for posting. I am working on a project documenting the history of women in chemistry, and this will make a fascinating addition.

24.04.2025 11:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Editorial: CDC vaccine-autism study—right theme, wrong question Amid a dangerous measles outbreak caused by a lower vaccination rate, the US pursues a misguided strategy

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18.03.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

standupforscience2025.org

06.03.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did you know that 90% of Ukraine aid spending stays in the U.S., creating thousands of jobs? Don’t believe me? Read this: insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wha...
#StandWithUkraine

Great pack, Jen. Thanks for including me.

02.03.2025 15:52 — 👍 582 🔁 269 💬 16 📌 7

"clown car of chaos" is my new favorite phrase.

25.02.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Impressive! Parafilm is the number one thing I miss about working in the lab.

25.02.2025 15:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Elon's Fermi problem Roman Catholic wife, mother, writer and teacher blogs about life, laundry, prayer and God.

Just the tiniest bit of logic can clear up a lot.... quantumtheology.blogspot.com/2025/02/elon...

18.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cutting NIH funding puts my life on the line — and maybe yours as well | Opinion Private investment in pharmaceutical research can't replace the NIH. Both public investment and the private sector are needed to be world leaders in health care, writes Michelle Francl-Donnay.

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15.02.2025 16:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A poster about the national day, 11 Feb

On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.

11.02.2025 17:21 — 👍 111 🔁 75 💬 3 📌 5

Why is everything I try to do 47 times more complicated than it needs to be? /vent

11.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Heck, I'd be happy if they put them in the ACS store so I could buy them! 37 years a member and never a mug. (I did get a letter opener at 15 years.) #chemjobber

04.02.2025 13:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I will be there.

08.01.2025 23:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agree! I was honored to meet him in person once, and very much enjoyed his contributions online. He will be missed.

31.12.2024 11:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is great! Did you make it? I would love to use and give credit to the creator.

28.12.2024 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Parafilm is the thing I miss most about being the lab.

23.12.2024 20:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0