Tegan Makal 🏳️‍⚧️

I really enjoyed Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.

It was great hanging out with you!

Thank you!

It's my first larger project! I've only prepared a couple table runners and a pillow before. I wanted to expand my skills and put something larger together. 🙂

I definitely get some chem joy out of the hexagons!

I finished a new quilt project!

I'm excited to be included in @daltontrans.rsc.org Women in Inorganic Chemistry collection celebrating International Women's Day! Be sure to check out our and other's recent reports! pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Shit sucks, but we were able to shut out the outside world for a few hours at our second quilting class.

And we're on Bluesky! Please follow for all news on our annual conference UKPORMAT and other porous materials news/events!

Structural diversity and solvent-induced transformations of a copper-based metal–organic framework with highly aromatic ligands A newly designed tetracarboxylic acid ligand precursor 5,5′-([9,9′-bianthracene]-10,10′-diyl)diisophthalic acid (H4BADI) has been used to prepare a series of copper-based metal–organic frameworks (MOF...

For those of you who followed me bc of MOFs, here is a look at some of what I do! I'm a faculty member at a PUI, so we don't publish a lot, but we do some pretty cool work! (imo) Hope you enjoy 😄

Fluorescent chemistree glowing brightly under UV light

Fluorescent chemistree showing different coloured solutions that fluoresce under UV illumination

The fluorescent #chemistree is up & it looks stunning! #FluorescenceFriday We ran a workshop with students making the glowing solutions out of common household substances. From Riboflavin in vitamin B2, chlorophyll from spinach to protoporphyrin IX in brown egg shells. All fluorescing under UV light

A six-panel cartoon titled "real and implied birds". In the two panels in the top row, there's a rough legged-hawk sailing through the sky, next to a smooth legged hawk, which has smooth human legs. In the second row, there's a great-crested flycatcher looking dapper, next to an ok-crested flycatcher that has just a slightly less nice crest. In the third row, there's a mountain chickadee standing up on stones, next to a valley chickadee peeking out from a dip between stones. In the fourth row, there's a least bittern standing in some reeds, next to a most bittern that is enormous and stomping through a city, with people running in fear, helicopters overhead, and an overturned car on fire.

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (by Andrew Spaeth, me) has 428 tenure-track positions and 65 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... facultychemjobs chemjobs chemsky 🧪

The Supreme Court case tomorrow is fundamentally not about gender affirming care, it's about whether or not trans people have any protections under the 14th amendment. A loss in this case would greenlight a torrent of explicitly discriminatory legislation without much, if any judicial recourse.

Oh damn! That's wild! My advisor told a horror story of his grad school experience where another grad student set a still on fire in the Cotton lab. He was then kicked out of the lab and apparently left chemistry altogether.

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

Tray of klobasneks with one cut in half showing sausage and cheese filling baked inside bread

I've been baking klobasneks (often called sausage kolaches) recently, and I'm thrilled with how this batch turned out! #chemistswhocook

Friendly neighborhood political scientist here to remind you that everything is political, including and sometimes especially science. In fact, claiming your vocation is apolitical is itself a political claim with a political goal.

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

I typically have 2-3 students in my lab during the semester and 1-2 during the summers. I've had a high of 5 students.

I'm grateful for publishers doing name changes post-publication. It's great to not cringe when I see my previous publications. But, why is @acspublications.bsky.social taking so long to make the changes?

Missing context of my previous post: my name has been updated on my diplomas

I'm having a rough few days. Stress about promotion app, stress about making progress on recent project, and general feelings of blegh. Today, I got word I was not selected for an award I had been hopeful about. BUT, my reissued diplomas came in today, and I'm so thrilled about it! It's a good day!

No.

This and Dorohedoro!

Heading to Raleigh/Durham for a few days. Any recommendations on restaurants and/or breweries?

Yes! This is why I love it! Pump, chiller, and heating bath all communicate with each other

I do love the touch screen on my rotovap, though

It's been fun getting back into theater again! My second time performing in A Midsummer Night's Dream