Craig Bettenhausen
@craigofwaffles.bsky.social
Science business journalist on staff at Chemical & Engineering News covering sustainability, specialty chemicals, industrial gas, and a fair amount of etcetera.
The hitch with social media in journalism is that I came here just now to find a specific DM from a source about organic acids in personal care and ended up commenting on a cartoon about Adam & Eve and forgetting what I was up to. It's like the doorway problem but with no end of doorways.
January 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The hitch with social media in journalism is that I came here just now to find a specific DM from a source about organic acids in personal care and ended up commenting on a cartoon about Adam & Eve and forgetting what I was up to. It's like the doorway problem but with no end of doorways.
Reposted by Craig Bettenhausen
The 2026 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (run by Arvind Ganesan and Todd N. Whittaker) has 96 research/teaching positions and 19 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs #chemsky
AY25-26 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List
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January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The 2026 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (run by Arvind Ganesan and Todd N. Whittaker) has 96 research/teaching positions and 19 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs #chemsky
Reposted by Craig Bettenhausen
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 359 tenure-track positions and 65 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky
Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com
Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 359 tenure-track positions and 65 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky
Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com
Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com
Reposted by Craig Bettenhausen
We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6
I'm going to try to not reporter over a Christmas break; it's goofy how much I'm dreading the volume of unread emails that may await me after not checking them for 12 days. There's already 216 just from today and yesterday being busy.
December 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm going to try to not reporter over a Christmas break; it's goofy how much I'm dreading the volume of unread emails that may await me after not checking them for 12 days. There's already 216 just from today and yesterday being busy.
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday that seeks to ease cannabis access for research and clinical purposes, including marijuana and hemp. Nothing about the legality of pot changes now, experts caution, but the step is likely to advance cannabis science. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday that seeks to ease cannabis access for research and clinical purposes, including marijuana and hemp. Nothing about the legality of pot changes now, experts caution, but the step is likely to advance cannabis science. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
Trump’s executive order on marijuana meant I didn't get any gnocchi tonight.
December 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Trump’s executive order on marijuana meant I didn't get any gnocchi tonight.
I 100% understand why we talk about hydrogen at the industrial scale in terms of metric tons. But it still feels weird to measure something we commonly think of as much lighter than air by its mass.
anyway stay tuned for low-carbon hydrogen predictions from me in @cenmag.bsky.social
anyway stay tuned for low-carbon hydrogen predictions from me in @cenmag.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I 100% understand why we talk about hydrogen at the industrial scale in terms of metric tons. But it still feels weird to measure something we commonly think of as much lighter than air by its mass.
anyway stay tuned for low-carbon hydrogen predictions from me in @cenmag.bsky.social
anyway stay tuned for low-carbon hydrogen predictions from me in @cenmag.bsky.social
It's me, hi, I'm the reporter it's me. Talkin' chemistry with a start-up founder at a JHU pitch competition.
December 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It's me, hi, I'm the reporter it's me. Talkin' chemistry with a start-up founder at a JHU pitch competition.
#Microscope images are dominating the Chempics Bracket, and it's down to the final. #chemsky, y'all have legit surprised the @cenmag.bsky.social staff with this.
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cen.acs.org/education/sc...
Our first-ever Chempics Bracket is here. Vote for your favorite science photo
Only one photo will emerge victorious
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December 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#Microscope images are dominating the Chempics Bracket, and it's down to the final. #chemsky, y'all have legit surprised the @cenmag.bsky.social staff with this.
cen.acs.org/education/sc...
cen.acs.org/education/sc...
Magnesium is cool. It can be a structural material and also a borderline energetic material. Anyway, it looks like the US can't currently make any real quantities, our only plant was an environmental nightmare. Now start-ups are changing that with better chemistry. Link below
@cenmag.bsky.social
@cenmag.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Magnesium is cool. It can be a structural material and also a borderline energetic material. Anyway, it looks like the US can't currently make any real quantities, our only plant was an environmental nightmare. Now start-ups are changing that with better chemistry. Link below
@cenmag.bsky.social
@cenmag.bsky.social
Insights from a visit to PPG's R&D site outside of #Pittsburgh. Photos and videos used with their permission. For more, check out the written article in C&EN. cenm.ag/ppgtour
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Insights from a visit to PPG's R&D site outside of #Pittsburgh. Photos and videos used with their permission. For more, check out the written article in C&EN. cenm.ag/ppgtour
Reposted by Craig Bettenhausen
<whispers> don't
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
<whispers> don't
I can't show you much of PPG's coatings R&D site; the place is deep in partner prototypes and confidentiality pacts. But I can tell you what the day revealed about the Pittsburgh-based firm's view on a high-growth, high-margin future. @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/materials/co...
cen.acs.org/materials/co...
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I can't show you much of PPG's coatings R&D site; the place is deep in partner prototypes and confidentiality pacts. But I can tell you what the day revealed about the Pittsburgh-based firm's view on a high-growth, high-margin future. @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/materials/co...
cen.acs.org/materials/co...
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I would just like to offer a small blessing to every scientist who has gamely read a paper and fielded desperate last minute questions from a science journalist.
You are a blessing to science. May you always be exactly on time and never get a paper cut.
You are a blessing to science. May you always be exactly on time and never get a paper cut.
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I would just like to offer a small blessing to every scientist who has gamely read a paper and fielded desperate last minute questions from a science journalist.
You are a blessing to science. May you always be exactly on time and never get a paper cut.
You are a blessing to science. May you always be exactly on time and never get a paper cut.
Congrats to Qube, a chemistry startup that just won the pitch contest at JHU's Pava Center. They're developing an edible molecular hydrogen carrier to use in sports drinks. I honestly didn't know H₂ had performance benefits, but I'm going to read up on it now.
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Congrats to Qube, a chemistry startup that just won the pitch contest at JHU's Pava Center. They're developing an edible molecular hydrogen carrier to use in sports drinks. I honestly didn't know H₂ had performance benefits, but I'm going to read up on it now.
Two firms I wrote about this week for C&EN's business watch were connecting direct air capture, #DAC, to boosting freshwater supplies. https://cen.acs.org/business/Nov-25-Business-Watch-Flexsys/103/web/2025/11 @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky #news
Nov. 25 Business Watch: Flexsys readies safer tire additive; Moderna halts trials of 3 mRNA drugs
Here’s what we’re watching in chemistry business news this week
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December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Two firms I wrote about this week for C&EN's business watch were connecting direct air capture, #DAC, to boosting freshwater supplies. https://cen.acs.org/business/Nov-25-Business-Watch-Flexsys/103/web/2025/11 @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky #news
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I know #chemsky was dabbling in the #mincup @mineralcup.bsky.social . Now we have our own bracket. Vote for your favorite chempics!
We're getting to the end of 2025, so why not: We made a bracket. VOTE on our best science photos. These scientists ... man, are they doin' some wild stuff! #CENChempics @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/education/sc...
Our first-ever Chempics Bracket is here. Vote for your favorite science photo
Only one photo will emerge victorious
cen.acs.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I know #chemsky was dabbling in the #mincup @mineralcup.bsky.social . Now we have our own bracket. Vote for your favorite chempics!
Reposted by Craig Bettenhausen
Personal opinion that I am proud to have managed to get through as the lede of this story: differentiating between diastereomers is better left to chemists than Congress.
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cen.acs.org/biological-c...
Why synthetic cannabinoids appear in the US funding bill
The law that ended the federal government shutdown also closes a loophole in cannabis regulation
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November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Personal opinion that I am proud to have managed to get through as the lede of this story: differentiating between diastereomers is better left to chemists than Congress.
cen.acs.org/biological-c...
cen.acs.org/biological-c...
Green hydrogen: Topsoe cut the ribbon on a major factory making solid oxide electrolysis cells. It's a step up in scale for a tech type that may challenge the dominance of PEM and alkaline H₂ generators.
Read more in @cenmag.bsky.social
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#hydrogen #H2 #chemsky #news
Read more in @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/business/inv...
#hydrogen #H2 #chemsky #news
Topsoe plant promises 30% efficiency boost for green hydrogen
Facility that makes solid oxide electrolysis cells is a new entry in a challenged market
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November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Green hydrogen: Topsoe cut the ribbon on a major factory making solid oxide electrolysis cells. It's a step up in scale for a tech type that may challenge the dominance of PEM and alkaline H₂ generators.
Read more in @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/business/inv...
#hydrogen #H2 #chemsky #news
Read more in @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/business/inv...
#hydrogen #H2 #chemsky #news
Shutdown impacts on food aid are hurting people in real time. I spoke with directly affected #science and #engineering students at JHU. Remember, SNAP dollars are currently NOT flowing to those in need, despite progress on a deal in DC. @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky
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SNAP disruptions weigh on science and engineering students
Lapse in federal food aid strains some researchers and undergraduates
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November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Shutdown impacts on food aid are hurting people in real time. I spoke with directly affected #science and #engineering students at JHU. Remember, SNAP dollars are currently NOT flowing to those in need, despite progress on a deal in DC. @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky
cen.acs.org/policy/SNAP-...
cen.acs.org/policy/SNAP-...
Go to a Penguins game with a bunch of PPG people and you'll learn some hockey #science trivia. Or, at least, I will. @cenmag.bsky.social #video
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Go to a Penguins game with a bunch of PPG people and you'll learn some hockey #science trivia. Or, at least, I will. @cenmag.bsky.social #video