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Donna Blackmond

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2 years

Does Barry get two parking places now?

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Barry Sharpless in press conference: "I worry for the molecules. I try to think like a molecule. I like to let the molecules think for themselves."

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4 years

Deeply honored (and what a tremendous surprise!).

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3 years

Honored to be elected to the NAS @theNASEM (as an engineer!). Credit for my chemistry conversion: #MerckChemistry . Very grateful for so many wonderful coworkers and collaborators, especially Steve Buchwald @buchwildgroup , who was the first to believe in me.

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I've been posting more recently. Can y'all (or, in homage to my Pittsburgh roots, yinz) tell that I'm feeling better? Finished my final infusion last week, rang the bell and hugged the nurses and sobbed a lot.

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Postdoc positions available in the Blackmond group! Come to sunny La Jolla to work on mechanistic studies in asymmetric catalysis and C-H functionalization or investigations into the origin of biological homochirality. Send letter of interest and CV to blackmond @scripps .edu

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Barry Sharpless in press conference: "if you can't find reactions where the molecules are happy in water and oxygen, you shouldn't be doing biological chemistry."

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It's a wrap on the first chemotherapy treatment ... 11 more to go.

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Mentor advice to Barry: "don't worry about publishing papers, just publish a few good ones."

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Donna Blackmond

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1 year

My hair is growing back! And now it's all curly instead of straight. Was going to try to compete with Jin @YulabJin for the best h(air)-index, but he pulls it off much better than I can. I'd include a pic of when I had no hair at all but I don't want to scare the children.

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I think the worst thing about the Hudlicky essay is the sheer laziness, sheer lack of scholarship, of throwing out opinions and old tropes as if there is a scientific basis for ANYTHING he said. If he wrote an uncited scientific article like this, it would be rejected.

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3 years

Candidate for quirkiest compliment ever received: my nephew played on a soccer team with some chemistry grad students at Harvard shortly after I did my sabbatical there. “Donna Blackmond is your aunt? She’s a kinetic goddess!” #kineticgoddess

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4 years

@jenheemstra In the early days, I was often told that I should appreciate being treated like a grad student instead of faculty because it meant I looked younger than I am, not that I'm not being taken seriously. Not young anymore, still waiting to be taken seriously.

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4 years

Scripps Chemistry is hiring! Do you want to be part of an energetic, dynamic, collegial, and collaborative faculty? Scripps is hands down the best research environment I’ve ever worked in (and I’ve worked in a few). Be part of our future! Check us out!

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Donna Blackmond

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2 years

My son won this song competition in Liverpool tonight!!!

Liverpool Acoustic

@lpoolacoustic

2 years

Congratulations to @DanBradleymusic winner of the 2021 Judges' Award at the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge. What an awesome song! Well done to all of the finalists to, and our judges @JonLawtonMusic @LampScientists @LukeMooreMusic @RobVincentMusic @alisonbensonuke

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4 years

Hudlicky response to Angew Chemie retraction: "There is nothing that was intended to be inflammatory but apparently some people did not like it." sorry, not sorry.

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@JakeYeston She dropped out of chemical engineering before she got to fluid dynamics. would have helped.

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4 years

Trump's lead in PA continues to show linear decrease with respect to total (Trump+Biden) votes since last night.

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Twenty years ago I taught organic chemistry for the first time while on sabbatical at Harvard (I know, masochist). This was my holiday message at the last lecture.

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Symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in prebiotic ligation reactions 10.1038/s41586-024-07059-y

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4 years

When I turned 40, people said I looked like I was in my early thirties (so 40 = BAD, 30's = GOOD). When I turned 50, people told me I couldn't be a day over 40 (hmm....so, now 50 = BAD, 40 = good). When I turned 60...well, you get the idea! Why not: current age = just fine?

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this is what happens when we breath on each other in a closed space without adequate ventilation. Even without covid considerations, it's kinda gross.

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Congratulations Barry!!

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

Barry Sharpless has just become the fifth individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes. He follows in the footsteps of double #NobelPrize laureates John Bardeen, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger. Sharpless was awarded the chemistry prize in 2001 and 2022

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Can only add... amazing to have THIS guy as a colleague.

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4 years

WE pledge to oppose racism and hate through active allyship, continuous unlearning, learning, and listening. Join us by nominating 5 others to do the same (except I don't know five twitter handles since I just started tweeting today). #BlackLivesMatter

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3 years

Well, that feels nice!

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4 years

Hudlicky Essay in Angew. Chemie: It's like they brought Archie Bunker back for comments. With perhaps less scholarship than we saw in All in the Family. And to do this right now, at this moment, it is even more poignantly, egregiously, WRONG.

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Donna Blackmond

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Submitted final version of our chiral amplification paper to Nature and received galley proofs for our PNAS on enantioenrichment in transamination! Two wonderful papers to end the year on, thanks especially to two wonderful coworkers, Min Deng and Jinhan Yu.

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dedicated to Lee Cronin

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My sons first steps, 26 years ago. He never even attempted to walk until this day, when he rose up like Lazarus and fairly ran seven steps across the room to me. Looking at old pictures=good COVID activity.

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4 years

Broke symmetry!

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Just gave the wild hair a trim. So Jin ⁦ @YulabJin ⁩ wins! And remember that ee is simply two relative rates!

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3 years

Never heard of her.

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6 months

this is brilliant.

Baran Lab

@BaranLabReads

6 months

See just how easy this reaction is for yourself, as our high school intern Asha turns a 5 step, 7% yield procedure with 3 Pd steps to one-step, 71% yield.

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Why are all proteins ‘left-handed’? New theory could solve origin of life mystery

Experiments suggest chemical reaction rates explain how amino acid pairs, and perhaps DNA and RNA, get biased toward one handedness

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3 years

A very important and often overlooked point: "Concentration effects are conspicuously absent from standard free energy profiles."

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1 year

I moved back into my house 2.5 years after my house fire. It’s been an ordeal, but last night I fell asleep listening to the waves at WindanSea beach.

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4 years

The Hudlicky Essay in Angew. Chemie (now removed, thatnks to the Twittersphere blowing up about it!) is wrong on SO MANY fronts! "It follows that, in a social equilibrium, preferrential (sic) treatment of one group leads to disadvantages for another." this says it all!

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Scientists say that the first person to live to 150 years old has already been born. We are all hoping fervently that it is RBG.

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6 months

Maybe we don’t need to solve the origin of biological homochirality one amino acid at a time... Symmetry Breaking and Chiral Amplification in Prebiotic Ligation Reactions 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3694563/v1

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6 months

Okay, I'll post it once more for the holidays. I made this 21 years ago when I was on sabbatical at Harvard. Where does the time go.

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Donna Blackmond

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3 years

Ah, microscopic reversibility! See Footnote 4 in our new ChemRxiv: And while you’re at it, go ahead and read the whole article, a good topic for a research group meeting on organocatalytic reaction mechanisms. #microscopicreversibility #porcineaviation

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3 years

Umami comes from a synergistic effect between amino acids (glutamate) and nucleosides (inosinate or guanylate). What would it taste like if the chirality of either the sugar or the amino acid was switched? (Imamu?) I wonder if anyone has ever explored that?

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Scripps Chemistry: great science, good vibes!

Baran Lab

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4 years

Congratulations! Fantastic news for chemistry and for women in science!

The Nobel Prize

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4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

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1 year

Home.

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Donna Blackmond

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11 months

Yes there is! As an Associate Editor for JOC, I'm finding I need to ask >10 people to insure 2 reviews come in.

Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

11 months

Is there a huge problem finding reviewers in chemistry journal / publishing? Other fields seem to have huge troubles right now and I don’t know if I have a blind spot for this in my own field?

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4 years

2020 WCC Merck Research Awards symposium featuring - among other talented young women - our own Meghan Baker!

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3 years

Congratulations to my Scripps colleague Arden!

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

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Honored and delighted to visit MIT ChE @MITChemE as the Hottel lecturer, with friend and perfect host Paula Hammond. Exhilarating day talking science - in person!

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1 year

I’m home.

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Donna Blackmond

@DonnaBlackmond

3 years

Congratulations to my wonderful colleague for this well-deserved honor!

Scripps Research

@scrippsresearch

3 years

With pioneering #chemistry that has transformed fields ranging from drug discovery to materials science, Prof. Jin-Quan Yu will be the inaugural holder of the Bristol Myers Squibb Endowed Chair in Chemistry @bmsnews @YulabJin

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How molecular 'handedness' emerged in early biology

Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, mirror-image versions akin to the left and right versions of human hands. One of the great...

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Donna Blackmond

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3 years

If you take Dan up on the idea of a group meeting on this, I'd love to hear how it goes! And I'd be happy to be a guest speaker!

Dan Singleton 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@dasingleton

3 years

If you want a beautiful set of conflicting mechanistic papers to work through for a group meeting or advanced class, I strongly recommend the Christmann, Vetticatt, Tantillo, Thiele, & Pagel ChemRxiv and the Blackmond response Wow.

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I used to love to chat on this site about a day like today, where, being at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, I got to spend a couple of stimulating hours with @JacobsenLab . Heard about some great kinetics and forced them to listen to our latest on homochirality.

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1 year

Congrats to both, especially my wonderful colleague Ryan Shenvi!

Chem Soc Rev

@ChemSocRev

1 year

We are pleased to announce that Timothy Noël ( @NoelGroupUvA ) and Ryan Shenvi ( @Shenvi_Lab ) have been jointly awarded the 2022/23 ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship! Read more about Tim and Ryan on our blog page 👉

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@leecronin Well, I guess as a white male it may be hard for you to understand why we are reacting like this. Check your privilege. This is not equivalent to other bad papers getting through. This one has massive, perhaps unintended implications for women in science.

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Three of my colleagues and three of my favorite people: Jin-Quan Yu @YulabJin , Ben Cravatt, and Reza Ghadiri, for their ACS Awards! Scripps colleagues are the best!

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4 years

During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, people who didn't wear masks were called "maskslackers." Gonna start using that word!

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My pet peeve as an associate journal editor: when a reviewer checks "major revision, manuscript should be re-reviewed before decision is made" and then declines to re-review.

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3 years

@Chemjobber God was left-handed. Homochirality of amino acids explained.

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2 years

Prof Christmann can disavow the Corrigendum but that will not change the fact that serious mistakes were made in the article he published as Corresponding Author. These mistakes were clarified in the Corrigendum, agreed upon after two years of review at every level at Wiley.

Mathias Christmann

@ChristmannGroup

2 years

So, @angew_chem , you finally removed the byline incorrectly attributing me as an author of a Corrigendum that remains uncredited and attached to my article published with you (3/n)

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Congrats Stanna!

Indiana University Chemistry Department

@IUBChemistry

1 year

Congratulations to Stana Dorn! Stanna successfully defended her thesis this past semester and has accepted a position as a postdoc researcher at Caltech! Good luck Stanna! #iubchemistry #chemistryphd #browngroup #womeninscience

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I got a new washer/dryer and immediately I lost three socks, one each from three different pairs. What is this, some kind of initiation? Analogous to seasoning a new skillet?

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@GloriusFrank @ForumWissenGoe @uniGoettingen Reaction coordinate for perfect catalysis should not be deep wells and steep hills, but simply "ripples": Albery and Knowles, Angew. Chemie (1977) 16, 285.

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Efficient prebiotic transamination with enantioenrichment? Yes! Metals required? NO!

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1 year

JFN session speakers and session chair, minus ⁦ @cristinanevado ⁩ whom we missed! ⁦⁦ @procrastiprof ⁩ , ⁦ @MillerGroupYale ⁩ , ⁦ @yining_RPKA ⁩ , ⁦ @Shenvi_Lab ⁩

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lol at the “star” on top of our tree!

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@A_Aspuru_Guzik @GarminFitness @manjaselva @UTSA When I give zoom lectures (sitting down) my Fitbit thinks I am swimming. I did 16 laps during my kinetics class last week.

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Congratulations to the one an only Jin!! What a privilege to work alongside him (and hard work trying to keep up with him!).

Scripps Research

@scrippsresearch

4 months

Prof. Jin-Quan Yu has been awarded the 2024 Max Tishler Prize, Yamada-Koga Prize, and Henry J. Albert Award. His trailblazing C–H activation research is reshaping chemistry, with vast implications from drug discovery to material science. More at:

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This is called “kitchen sink pot pie” - all the food left over from Christmas in one casserole.

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4 years

@doc_jlmeier Shouldn't that be Nat. Tot. Land.

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1 year

This is fantastic. Am I still allowed to be a proud parent after 10 years?

BuresGroup

@BuresGroup

1 year

AI is revolutionizing all areas of society, and now is also expanding our capabilities to elucidate reaction mechanisms! Thrilled to publish this article @Nature with my friend and colleague @LarrosaGroup .

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More frantic tweeting even than usual: side effect of the dexamethasone? Is this worrying to anyone else?

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3 years

Booked an appt April 1st to get my first jab (hope it’s not an April Fools joke!). Spent an hour on the internet trying zip codes until I found an open appt. By contrast, my 27 yr old son got his first jab last week in the UK. His GP called him and told him what time to come in.

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1 year

My pronouns are thank you/Dr. Fauci

Paul J. Dauenhauer

@pauldauenhauer

1 year

Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists

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How about this @ardemp from our Chemistry holiday party! T-shirts with a Ohil Baran original: Scripps Research…great science, good vibes. With our latest greatest Assistant Prof @Liulabscripps

Giordano Lippi

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@ardemp @AMaxTweets 😂

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@radscientist_ Kinetics is always in

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@Chemjobber Scientists and educators!

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#EWOC2020 organizers ROCK! Thanks for putting on this amazing event!

Rebecca Ruck

@Ruck_chem

4 years

Waking up to this beautiful sunrise the morning after #EWOC2020 feels about right. @EWOC8 #womeninchemistry

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It takes a village

Baran Lab

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3 years

HAT: Electrified -- Appearing today in @ChemRxiv (). In one of our largest collaborations to date @NSF_CSOE the discovery, development, and comprehensive mechanistic interrogation of silane/peroxide free HAT chemistry is disclosed.

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2nd jab done and done! Now just waiting for the reaction....

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4 years

Pennsylvania - and this proud Pennsylvanian - beg to differ.

Donald J. Trump

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I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!

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@AriHunter_ @itsaanesa First woman hired in Chemical Engineering, first woman to get tenure in the school of engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, 1989. First woman hired at Max-Planck Institut fuer Kohlenforchung, 1996. First woman hired in Chemistry at Scripps, 2010. It does get lonely.

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@kovacsjulie Isn’t it just a little bit arrogant for Americans to assume we can move to any other country we want, while we’re shutting down immigration here?

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Donna Blackmond

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@danithechemist I’ve said this to my group for years. Recently when a student was presenting a job talk, we spent 20 minutes discussing a slide before I realized his title was “No One Reads Slide Titles”

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Donna Blackmond

@DonnaBlackmond

4 years

Well said, Melanie. Equity and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences Requires Actions not Just Words

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Still, she persevered.

Shannon Miller

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1 year

Excited to share my first completed project @scrippsresearch — and no, it’s not science. For the first time in it’s near 100 year history, TSRI has free feminine products its restrooms. Turns out it just takes a bit of persistence to make a change. #WomenInSTEM #steminist

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Rachel telling Ross he’s not a “real” doctor.

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@Vy_Dong_Group My fitbit thinks I'm swimming when I give talks.

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