Malika Jeffries-EL
@chemdiva.bsky.social
Chemist, STEM DEI advocate, and die-hard Steelers fan 🏈⚫🟡 | Advancing cutting-edge research | Inspiring the next generation of scientists one molecule at a time 🧪🔬 | My voice. Always here for science, equity, & game day vibes.
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Malika Jeffries-EL
@chemdiva.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hello, BlueSky community! I am Malika Jeffries-EL an Ass. Dean and Chemistry Professor. I am passionate about organic electronics, graduate education and DEI in STEM. Beyond the ivory tower, I enjoy fashion and football.
I am looking forward to returning to intelligent discourse. Let's connect.
I am looking forward to returning to intelligent discourse. Let's connect.
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Stop obsessing over bedrooms and bathrooms. The real power plays—the ones that determine your wallet, your rights, and your future—are happening in the courtrooms and boardrooms. That's where we need our focus.
#USpolitics #NoKings
#USpolitics #NoKings
October 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Stop obsessing over bedrooms and bathrooms. The real power plays—the ones that determine your wallet, your rights, and your future—are happening in the courtrooms and boardrooms. That's where we need our focus.
#USpolitics #NoKings
#USpolitics #NoKings
So I'm sitting alone in a small crowded airport lounge at a table for 4. Most tables were for four, although most travelers were alone or in pairs. As the place filled up travelers began to join the others at their tables, except mine.
Sometimes racism works in your favor.
#travelchronicles
Sometimes racism works in your favor.
#travelchronicles
October 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
So I'm sitting alone in a small crowded airport lounge at a table for 4. Most tables were for four, although most travelers were alone or in pairs. As the place filled up travelers began to join the others at their tables, except mine.
Sometimes racism works in your favor.
#travelchronicles
Sometimes racism works in your favor.
#travelchronicles
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Should You Really be Writing A(nother) Review Manuscript?
An editorial in the new issue of ACS Energy Articles discusses the relevance of Review Articles in the era of AI.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
An editorial in the new issue of ACS Energy Articles discusses the relevance of Review Articles in the era of AI.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Should You Really be Writing A(nother) Review Manuscript?
An editorial in the new issue of ACS Energy Articles discusses the relevance of Review Articles in the era of AI.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
An editorial in the new issue of ACS Energy Articles discusses the relevance of Review Articles in the era of AI.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Reposted by Malika Jeffries-EL
🙏 Thanks to all our speakers and participants for making the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Organic #semiconductor materials: Challenges and opportunities” an amazing event!
The first pics 📷 are online 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mr2w8myh
@sbraese.bsky.social #BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
The first pics 📷 are online 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mr2w8myh
@sbraese.bsky.social #BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🙏 Thanks to all our speakers and participants for making the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Organic #semiconductor materials: Challenges and opportunities” an amazing event!
The first pics 📷 are online 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mr2w8myh
@sbraese.bsky.social #BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
The first pics 📷 are online 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/mr2w8myh
@sbraese.bsky.social #BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
Reposted by Malika Jeffries-EL
The real magic of organic chemistry? The people who do it. Thanks to Professsor Malika Jeffries-EL (@chemdiva.bsky.social ) for sharing her story with us. We look forward to reading and watching yours. Please use #AmplifyOrganic
August 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The real magic of organic chemistry? The people who do it. Thanks to Professsor Malika Jeffries-EL (@chemdiva.bsky.social ) for sharing her story with us. We look forward to reading and watching yours. Please use #AmplifyOrganic
I am in Episode 3 of #steminismunfiltered, where we explore double standards women and underrepresented groups in STEM face daily—from tenure issues to subtle ways our worth is questioned.
Join a candid talk on genuine allyship and increasing equity in STEM.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMinist #AcademicSky
Join a candid talk on genuine allyship and increasing equity in STEM.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMinist #AcademicSky
July 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I am in Episode 3 of #steminismunfiltered, where we explore double standards women and underrepresented groups in STEM face daily—from tenure issues to subtle ways our worth is questioned.
Join a candid talk on genuine allyship and increasing equity in STEM.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMinist #AcademicSky
Join a candid talk on genuine allyship and increasing equity in STEM.
#WomenInSTEM #STEMinist #AcademicSky
Exciting news! My friend's new podcast #STEMinismUnfiltered is now live on Apple and Spotify! 🎧
Feeling unseen, unheard, or unsure in #STEM? This podcast is for you. Join us to learn how to support women in STEM and build the community we all want.
#WomenInSTEM #Podcast #Equity #Allyship
Feeling unseen, unheard, or unsure in #STEM? This podcast is for you. Join us to learn how to support women in STEM and build the community we all want.
#WomenInSTEM #Podcast #Equity #Allyship
STEMinism Unfiltered
Careers Podcast · Why STEMinism Unfiltered? Because it’s time. With over 40 years of combined experience as women professors in STEM, we’re finally doing what we longed to do earlier: speak up,…
podcasts.apple.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Exciting news! My friend's new podcast #STEMinismUnfiltered is now live on Apple and Spotify! 🎧
Feeling unseen, unheard, or unsure in #STEM? This podcast is for you. Join us to learn how to support women in STEM and build the community we all want.
#WomenInSTEM #Podcast #Equity #Allyship
Feeling unseen, unheard, or unsure in #STEM? This podcast is for you. Join us to learn how to support women in STEM and build the community we all want.
#WomenInSTEM #Podcast #Equity #Allyship
Ah yes, better that a million Americans die from preventable conditions than risk one undocumented person getting free healthcare.
Nothing says 'pro-life' like slashing healthcare for the working poor.
#HealthcareLogic
#bigbeautifulbill
Nothing says 'pro-life' like slashing healthcare for the working poor.
#HealthcareLogic
#bigbeautifulbill
July 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ah yes, better that a million Americans die from preventable conditions than risk one undocumented person getting free healthcare.
Nothing says 'pro-life' like slashing healthcare for the working poor.
#HealthcareLogic
#bigbeautifulbill
Nothing says 'pro-life' like slashing healthcare for the working poor.
#HealthcareLogic
#bigbeautifulbill
Today we celebrate Juneteenth—the day enslaved people in Texas
learned they were free, 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Consider: supporting Black-owned businesses, learning about Black history, or donating to organizations fighting for racial justice.
#Juneteenth #FreedomDay
learned they were free, 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Consider: supporting Black-owned businesses, learning about Black history, or donating to organizations fighting for racial justice.
#Juneteenth #FreedomDay
June 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Today we celebrate Juneteenth—the day enslaved people in Texas
learned they were free, 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Consider: supporting Black-owned businesses, learning about Black history, or donating to organizations fighting for racial justice.
#Juneteenth #FreedomDay
learned they were free, 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Consider: supporting Black-owned businesses, learning about Black history, or donating to organizations fighting for racial justice.
#Juneteenth #FreedomDay
As a first-generation student, there is so much that you don't know that it is hard to even ask questions. Then you waste so much time finding things out for yourself that you are often playing from behind. I am grateful that I found mentors to help me along the way. Good mentoring is essential.
First-generation chemistry students report having low expectations, finding it difficult to find guidance and feeling more isolated than their non-first-generation peers.
First-generation graduate chemists face challenges throughout their entire academic lifetime
Study highlights need for mentorship and more inclusive networks
www.chemistryworld.com
June 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As a first-generation student, there is so much that you don't know that it is hard to even ask questions. Then you waste so much time finding things out for yourself that you are often playing from behind. I am grateful that I found mentors to help me along the way. Good mentoring is essential.
🕵️♀️ Where in the world am I? 🌍
My friends call me Carmen Sandiego, and I am living up to the nickname! I was on the road again, but I am not telling you where... yet 😏
Think you can crack the case? Drop your guesses below!
#WhereInTheWorldAmI #CarmenSandiego
#Travellife
My friends call me Carmen Sandiego, and I am living up to the nickname! I was on the road again, but I am not telling you where... yet 😏
Think you can crack the case? Drop your guesses below!
#WhereInTheWorldAmI #CarmenSandiego
#Travellife
June 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🕵️♀️ Where in the world am I? 🌍
My friends call me Carmen Sandiego, and I am living up to the nickname! I was on the road again, but I am not telling you where... yet 😏
Think you can crack the case? Drop your guesses below!
#WhereInTheWorldAmI #CarmenSandiego
#Travellife
My friends call me Carmen Sandiego, and I am living up to the nickname! I was on the road again, but I am not telling you where... yet 😏
Think you can crack the case? Drop your guesses below!
#WhereInTheWorldAmI #CarmenSandiego
#Travellife
When we take measures to address the racial bias that has allowed whites to enjoy privilege, they call our survival mechanisms 'racial bias.' Pure hypocrisy.
www.science.org/content/arti...
#saveNSF #NSF
www.science.org/content/arti...
#saveNSF #NSF
NSF’s grant cuts fall heaviest on scientists from underrepresented groups
Projects to broaden participation were cut disproportionately—and were often led by Black scientists, women, and those with disabilities
www.science.org
May 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
When we take measures to address the racial bias that has allowed whites to enjoy privilege, they call our survival mechanisms 'racial bias.' Pure hypocrisy.
www.science.org/content/arti...
#saveNSF #NSF
www.science.org/content/arti...
#saveNSF #NSF
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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
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@sbraese.bsky.social, @hiroseg-kyoto.bsky.social, @chemdiva.bsky.social, @luscombeoist.bsky.social @cluster3dmm2o.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Malika Jeffries-EL
Register now for the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Organic #semiconductor materials: Challenges and opportunities”, 📅 September 23–25, 2025, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/zkbby2w6
#BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/zkbby2w6
#BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
April 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Register now for the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Organic #semiconductor materials: Challenges and opportunities”, 📅 September 23–25, 2025, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/zkbby2w6
#BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/zkbby2w6
#BeilsteinSemiconductors2025
So grown men who illegally protest the legal transfer of power get pardoned, but student protestors on private property get expelled and deported? Make it make sense. #AcademicChatter
March 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
So grown men who illegally protest the legal transfer of power get pardoned, but student protestors on private property get expelled and deported? Make it make sense. #AcademicChatter
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I am thrilled to act for the second year in-a-row as subject chair #RSCEnv @envsci.bsky.social for this upcoming edition #RSCposter @roysocchem.bsky.social celebrating its 10th birthday.
Proud to represent @univlille.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social
Proud to represent @univlille.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I am thrilled to act for the second year in-a-row as subject chair #RSCEnv @envsci.bsky.social for this upcoming edition #RSCposter @roysocchem.bsky.social celebrating its 10th birthday.
Proud to represent @univlille.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social
Proud to represent @univlille.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social
Mouring the loss of R&B legend Angie Stone. This one hit hard, such a soulful voice. #RIPAngie
music.apple.com/us/station/a...
music.apple.com/us/station/a...
Angie Stone Radio Station on Apple Music
Listen on Apple Music.
music.apple.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Mouring the loss of R&B legend Angie Stone. This one hit hard, such a soulful voice. #RIPAngie
music.apple.com/us/station/a...
music.apple.com/us/station/a...
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On this Super Bowl Sunday, when the NFL kowtowed and dropped the plan to use “End Racism” as its end zone message, I’m sharing this on the meaning of “woke.” It asks: “How is compassion, empathy and care for racial and social justice not something to embrace?”
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
Embracing the Woke
What's so wrong with compassion, safety and racial justice?
www.americaamerica.news
February 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
On this Super Bowl Sunday, when the NFL kowtowed and dropped the plan to use “End Racism” as its end zone message, I’m sharing this on the meaning of “woke.” It asks: “How is compassion, empathy and care for racial and social justice not something to embrace?”
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
www.americaamerica.news/p/embracing-...
Reposted by Malika Jeffries-EL
I’m looking for new PhD students wanting to use computational chemistry to study atmospheric reactions. Topics: Hg redox reactions at surfaces. AI to study how hydrogen bonds (R=O--HO• and RO(H)--HO) affects kinetics of H-abstraction.
See www.esf.edu/faculty/dibble or tsdibble@esf.edu
See www.esf.edu/faculty/dibble or tsdibble@esf.edu
January 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’m looking for new PhD students wanting to use computational chemistry to study atmospheric reactions. Topics: Hg redox reactions at surfaces. AI to study how hydrogen bonds (R=O--HO• and RO(H)--HO) affects kinetics of H-abstraction.
See www.esf.edu/faculty/dibble or tsdibble@esf.edu
See www.esf.edu/faculty/dibble or tsdibble@esf.edu
The NSF has paused all grant reviews due to Trump administration orders, delaying research funding and innovation in the US.
#STEM #Research #SciencePolicy #EDUSky
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#STEM #Research #SciencePolicy #EDUSky
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National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The NSF has paused all grant reviews due to Trump administration orders, delaying research funding and innovation in the US.
#STEM #Research #SciencePolicy #EDUSky
buff.ly/3Eese74
#STEM #Research #SciencePolicy #EDUSky
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