Julian R. Silverman

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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

Scientists/science writers I found in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: David Spiegelhalter, Ivan Oransky, Mary Roach, Rebecca Skloot, Ed Yong, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Deborah Blum, Tom Knight, Michael E Mann, Corinne Le Quere. [pic: results of 5 trials w/ free burner acct]. No doubt many more.

This is too cool! I am so in for the next one.

Look ma no hands

I am vaguely remembering visiting Wesleyan and being impressed with the amount of concrete…

Ok I bought the book because people on Reddit are saying it’s better than the show

14 years ago I met Emily during a production of Dark of the Moon.

I was the witch boy and she was Barbara Allen.

Next week she comes to speak to my students about how we communicate science across time.

Thank you @shacorg.bsky.social for letting us explore cultural and chemical histories.

! i totally missed this... hopefully they come back around.

A colleague in my department was asked to suggest a theme for the associates level fashion design capstone project.

It’s now my goal to have them choose “safety” one year and have 500 students redesign lab coats/PPE

Coming to a Berry Park near you 3/11

Steal their style:

Iron tannate bunny
Iron oxide bow
Tannic acid cat with iron eyes
Iron tannate ink

I make my students donate their doodles to science

The book was set at a SLAC but the brutalist architecture and large departments are really giving me R1

This is oddly close to our Wi-Fi password

🙌 🏒 💊 🧪

Here TLC means tender love and care.

I’m also convinced John Slattery is a vampire. He always looks the same and always looks good.

They took the sleazy slutty guy from white lotus and made him smart in a show with Rachel Weisz?

This isn’t fair I’m supposed to be grading.

It’s amazing how when a new video game comes out there are multi-hour video reviews a mere day later.

Not judging just jealous.

The lichen are loving this weather.

I went to Kalustyans and I didn’t buy any more soap that is a win.

You’re welcome to take our break starting 3/30. I can’t promise your students will as well…

Ok no burgers but we might be getting the FIT name on the 28th street 1 trains stop!

Our new university president is giving the first 'All College' meeting later.

That's nice and all, but will we get to judge him eating a burger?

3/4 parts of this talk are now on substack: come check out how to explore waste across artists' books from a scientific perspective:

substack.com/@julianfri/n...

This summer will be 10 years since my PhD. According to the interwebs it also means I wil no longer be “early career”.

To see what it feels like I told ACS I am now “mid career” as I signed up for the spring conference.

… feels appropriately named. Very mid.

Was surprised to find a class of students didn’t know what frictionmaxxing was but all of them knew what looksmaxxing was

Running one of our favorite labs today: Chemistry and Art: Removal of Graffiti Ink from Paints Grounded in a Real-Life Scenario

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#rscposter #rscedu #rscposterpitch #rsccat #rscorg #rscsustainability #rscgrants | David Palomas, PhD, FHEA I am pleased to present at #RSCposter 2026 #RSCEdu the work "RECOMPENSE: A Student-Led Open Science Platform for Polystyrene Waste Upcycling in Teaching Labs”. This project has been done in collabor...

I am presenting a poster in this year's #RSCposter online conference. We introduce our student co-created #OpenScience platform RECOMPENSE where we share resources for polystyrene upcycling into heterogeneous catalysts for Organic Synthesis #GreenChemistry #GreenChemistryEducation

It's the #RSCPoster competition over on LinkedIn but Bluesky deserves some love too:

When your results are telling you it’s time for ☕️