Michelle Francl
@michellefrancl.bsky.social
Latest book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea https://books.rsc.org/books/monograph/2162/SteepedThe-Chemistry-of-Tea
Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College & Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory.
Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College & Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory.
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Trump flips and decides to starve people after all www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump flips and decides to starve people after all
President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed that he plans to weaponize hunger in America, writing in a post on Truth Social that he will not fund food stamp benefits during the government shutdown—...
www.dailykos.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump flips and decides to starve people after all www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"
It Is Cruel to Deny Food Assistance to Those Who Truly Deserve It: Corporations
“Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"
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Look up! A SUPERMOON will happen on Nov. 5, 2025. This is a repost of an article from 2024 by Brother Guy Consolmagno.
www.vaticannews.va/en/world/new...
www.vaticannews.va/en/world/new...
Supermoon: Why you should look at the sky tonight and every night - Vatican News
Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory, highlights our need to reconnect with the beauty of the night sky, encouraging ...
www.vaticannews.va
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Look up! A SUPERMOON will happen on Nov. 5, 2025. This is a repost of an article from 2024 by Brother Guy Consolmagno.
www.vaticannews.va/en/world/new...
www.vaticannews.va/en/world/new...
The best cup of tea is the one you love...lovely article by Shabnam Weber betweenleavesandletters.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
The Myth of the Perfect Cup
Remember when we all collectively lost our minds because Michelle Francl, in her book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea, suggested adding salt to water to brew the perfect cup of tea?
betweenleavesandletters.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The best cup of tea is the one you love...lovely article by Shabnam Weber betweenleavesandletters.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
Wondering what you can do if you are able in this emergency? Suggestion here:
My wife has volunteered at a local food bank for years and confirms what many of you have probably heard: in this case, straight cash is a good donation if you can do it.
The food banks have better access and buying power than individuals do, and can try to address item imbalances as they see them.
The food banks have better access and buying power than individuals do, and can try to address item imbalances as they see them.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Wondering what you can do if you are able in this emergency? Suggestion here:
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Speaker Johnson isn't Catholic, but this isn't a sectarian statement; it's a plain reading of the Biblical text Johnson and so many in the Trump administration (and in the R Congressional caucus) claim to accept as inerrant.
Camels and needles' eyes ain't in it.
Camels and needles' eyes ain't in it.
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Speaker Johnson isn't Catholic, but this isn't a sectarian statement; it's a plain reading of the Biblical text Johnson and so many in the Trump administration (and in the R Congressional caucus) claim to accept as inerrant.
Camels and needles' eyes ain't in it.
Camels and needles' eyes ain't in it.
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(Very fancy) kitchen chemistry!!
Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
(Very fancy) kitchen chemistry!!
When the tea book came out, someone asked me about these (as it turns out, fake) tea plantations in Scotland.
A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud
A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud
A charismatic, tweed-wearing grower from Perthshire falsely claimed to be able to create thriving tea plantations in Scotland. His elaborate deception took in luxury hotels, media outlets and tea growers across the country
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
When the tea book came out, someone asked me about these (as it turns out, fake) tea plantations in Scotland.
This is what the President of the United States thinks of people exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest? Appalling.
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is what the President of the United States thinks of people exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest? Appalling.
Brilliant!
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Brilliant!
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
Innumeracy at work! Each vaccine dose is roughly 0.5 mL, if a child gets 80 doses over the course of many years that is not even a shot glass in TOTAL. You can often find the lies and misdirection by doing a quick analysis a la Fermi.
Trump on autism: "Obviously there is something that is artificially I think induced, whether it's vaccines in terms of these massive vaccines that are twice the size of a jar like that ... I would say don't take Tylenol if you're pregnant. What do you have to lose?"
October 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Innumeracy at work! Each vaccine dose is roughly 0.5 mL, if a child gets 80 doses over the course of many years that is not even a shot glass in TOTAL. You can often find the lies and misdirection by doing a quick analysis a la Fermi.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Why should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3
Opinionated science
Nature Chemistry - When the facts can’t speak for themselves, scientists can give them a voice, argues Michelle Francl.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Why should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3
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I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.
In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽
In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽
Oh so the guy who made up gross lies about immigrants STEALING AND EATING PETS has more thoughts about immigrants? I’m sure he’s totally telling the truth this time.
open.substack.com/pub/americas...
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They’re Lying, Dividing, And Distracting. Don’t Believe The GOP’s Shutdown Hype
“This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law," said Sen. Mark Warner. "It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.”
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October 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.
In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽
In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽
October 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The skeet that got me to write this: share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The skeet that got me to write this: share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6
Science is the art of the real, not the art of the deal. My op-ed in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer.
share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6
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Medbeds, ‘truths’, and fantastical science, oh my! | Opinion
It will take more than clicking the heels of my ruby slippers twice to pull back the curtain on what is passing for science in the White House, writes Michelle Francl-Donnay.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Science is the art of the real, not the art of the deal. My op-ed in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer.
share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6
share.inquirer.com/Q7hgO6
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A post for #SciArtSeptember day 28: scientific art is not just biological (imo). There is beauty in this depiction of the trajectory of a comet by American astronomer David Rittenhouse based off his 1770 observations.
From my 1789 copy of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 🔭
From my 1789 copy of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 🔭
September 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A post for #SciArtSeptember day 28: scientific art is not just biological (imo). There is beauty in this depiction of the trajectory of a comet by American astronomer David Rittenhouse based off his 1770 observations.
From my 1789 copy of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 🔭
From my 1789 copy of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 🔭
My medications, which are life-altering, will double in price. They aren’t made in the US at all.
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
Breaking: Donald Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals from October 1
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
www.abc.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My medications, which are life-altering, will double in price. They aren’t made in the US at all.
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So, crystallography folks, can guess what it is? Single-crystal related, device is complete and I know the answer.
#crystallography #oldschool
#crystallography #oldschool
September 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
So, crystallography folks, can guess what it is? Single-crystal related, device is complete and I know the answer.
#crystallography #oldschool
#crystallography #oldschool
St. Paul?? maybe before that episode on the road to Damascus?
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"
September 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
St. Paul?? maybe before that episode on the road to Damascus?
Should someone demand Brian Kilmeade donate to a local homeless shelter?
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA
September 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Should someone demand Brian Kilmeade donate to a local homeless shelter?
If you are wondering when we ceased to be a democracy, this might be the moment, when the president of the United States says that broadcast news cannot criticize him.
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If you are wondering when we ceased to be a democracy, this might be the moment, when the president of the United States says that broadcast news cannot criticize him.