Chris Gorski
@scigorski.bsky.social
News and Strategy Editor at Chemical and Engineering News, especially interested in cross-disciplinary stories.
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Love it when I look at a list of important tasks I jotted on a post-it note. Item 4 full text: "Think about this"
Super helpful past Chris. Well done.
Super helpful past Chris. Well done.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Love it when I look at a list of important tasks I jotted on a post-it note. Item 4 full text: "Think about this"
Super helpful past Chris. Well done.
Super helpful past Chris. Well done.
#chemsky, what made you want to be a chemist? How did you overcome a difficult obstacle? What did it feel like to solve a problem you'd been working on for years? I'm editing this series about how life and chemistry interact. Reach me at c_gorski@acs.org, or encrypted at contactcen@protonmail.com
Reading Frankenstein made him want to be a chemist!?! At this year's ACS fall meeting, Victor Olet said this and caught the attention of several of our editors. What a thrill to work with him on this piece about what he's gained by reading the book 25 times cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
My Chemical Story: How ‘Frankenstein’ made me want to be a scientist
The book is more than a tale of horror; it’s a psychological drama about the drive to develop knowledge and be seen
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October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#chemsky, what made you want to be a chemist? How did you overcome a difficult obstacle? What did it feel like to solve a problem you'd been working on for years? I'm editing this series about how life and chemistry interact. Reach me at c_gorski@acs.org, or encrypted at contactcen@protonmail.com
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Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review
Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review
DECATUR, IL—A three-member panel of 10-year-old Michael Nogroski’s fellow classmates at Nathaniel Macon Elementary School unanimously agreed Tuesday that his 327-word essay "Otters" did not meet the r...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review
The fine print on this entry is interesting: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." grokipedia.com/page/Heterog...
It looks a lot like a copy of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterog...
It looks a lot like a copy of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterog...
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The fine print on this entry is interesting: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." grokipedia.com/page/Heterog...
It looks a lot like a copy of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterog...
It looks a lot like a copy of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterog...
Working on this with Victor for @cenmag.bsky.social was fascinating
Reading Frankenstein made him want to be a chemist!?! At this year's ACS fall meeting, Victor Olet said this and caught the attention of several of our editors. What a thrill to work with him on this piece about what he's gained by reading the book 25 times cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
My Chemical Story: How ‘Frankenstein’ made me want to be a scientist
The book is more than a tale of horror; it’s a psychological drama about the drive to develop knowledge and be seen
cen.acs.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Working on this with Victor for @cenmag.bsky.social was fascinating
Reading Frankenstein made him want to be a chemist!?! At this year's ACS fall meeting, Victor Olet said this and caught the attention of several of our editors. What a thrill to work with him on this piece about what he's gained by reading the book 25 times cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
My Chemical Story: How ‘Frankenstein’ made me want to be a scientist
The book is more than a tale of horror; it’s a psychological drama about the drive to develop knowledge and be seen
cen.acs.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reading Frankenstein made him want to be a chemist!?! At this year's ACS fall meeting, Victor Olet said this and caught the attention of several of our editors. What a thrill to work with him on this piece about what he's gained by reading the book 25 times cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
Very happy about today’s little library findings
October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very happy about today’s little library findings
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At long last, scientists have figured out what causes will-o’-the-wisps. It’s not ghosts or ghouls, but a newly discovered phenomenon called “microlightning.” Learn more in my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
At long last, scientists have figured out what causes will-o’-the-wisps. It’s not ghosts or ghouls, but a newly discovered phenomenon called “microlightning.” Learn more in my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
Spooky will-o’-the-wisps finally explained
A newly discovered molecular phenomenon is responsible for the spectral balls of light seen in swamps and cemeteries
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October 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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At long last, scientists have figured out what causes will-o’-the-wisps. It’s not ghosts or ghouls, but a newly discovered phenomenon called “microlightning.” Learn more in my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
At long last, scientists have figured out what causes will-o’-the-wisps. It’s not ghosts or ghouls, but a newly discovered phenomenon called “microlightning.” Learn more in my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
Reading the novel ‘Frankenstein’ made Victor Olet want to be a scientist working in this was so much fun cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
My Chemical Story: How ‘Frankenstein’ made me want to be a scientist
The book is more than a tale of horror; it’s a psychological drama about the drive to develop knowledge and be seen
cen.acs.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reading the novel ‘Frankenstein’ made Victor Olet want to be a scientist working in this was so much fun cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
I love this way of thinking about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think of the 4th season of “the bear” as having such ordinary moments. It also excels at showing people loving their work and struggling with their boundaries. Not every scene can be so moving, they just have to push ahead
This is less a critique a more of a moment to appreciate that even the most beautiful writing on Earth has moments where it can't live up to itself.
October 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I love this way of thinking about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think of the 4th season of “the bear” as having such ordinary moments. It also excels at showing people loving their work and struggling with their boundaries. Not every scene can be so moving, they just have to push ahead
I’m at the Baltimore comic con today in a session about the logistics of making a comic. So much of this guidance is applicable for science journalism too. Timelines, what to do first, etc
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I’m at the Baltimore comic con today in a session about the logistics of making a comic. So much of this guidance is applicable for science journalism too. Timelines, what to do first, etc
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Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...
Trump administration reverses course on shutdown layoffs at CDC
More than half of the approximately 1,300 reduction-in-force notices sent to the agency's employees on Oct. 10 were in error, the Department of Health and Human Services determined as it reinstated st...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...
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MOFs are pretty darn cool. Here's our story, in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks
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October 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
MOFs are pretty darn cool. Here's our story, in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Interview with Professor Susumu Kitagawa
CONTENT TYPES
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October 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Phew, that feedback on the youtube stream stopped #nobelprize
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Phew, that feedback on the youtube stream stopped #nobelprize
Less than 5 minutes until the announcement of the #nobelprize in chemistry -- our team is ready to report @cenmag.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Less than 5 minutes until the announcement of the #nobelprize in chemistry -- our team is ready to report @cenmag.bsky.social
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It's nice to be excited about science again. Congratulations to my old colleague, Michel Devoret!
Being quoted in this article about this amazing achievement is a major bonus 🤓
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#NobelPrize #Physics #Science #PhysicsNobel
Being quoted in this article about this amazing achievement is a major bonus 🤓
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#NobelPrize #Physics #Science #PhysicsNobel
Quantum tunneling trio win the 2025 physics Nobel
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis get the award for demonstrating quantum mechanical effects at the macroscale
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October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's nice to be excited about science again. Congratulations to my old colleague, Michel Devoret!
Being quoted in this article about this amazing achievement is a major bonus 🤓
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#NobelPrize #Physics #Science #PhysicsNobel
Being quoted in this article about this amazing achievement is a major bonus 🤓
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#NobelPrize #Physics #Science #PhysicsNobel
New nobel laureate Michel Devoret once led a course on Cinema and Physics physics.yale.edu/sites/defaul... -- he told a historian that he was surprised when the enrollment for that was larger than a course on differential equations
physics.yale.edu
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
New nobel laureate Michel Devoret once led a course on Cinema and Physics physics.yale.edu/sites/defaul... -- he told a historian that he was surprised when the enrollment for that was larger than a course on differential equations
The @aip.bsky.social's oral histories are a great resource on the physics #nobelprize. Delighted to be able to read Michel Devoret's where he calls his work "low-energy physics" repository.aip.org/node/129778 - dealing with "ordinary matter consisting of mundane particles like electrons and atoms"
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October 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The @aip.bsky.social's oral histories are a great resource on the physics #nobelprize. Delighted to be able to read Michel Devoret's where he calls his work "low-energy physics" repository.aip.org/node/129778 - dealing with "ordinary matter consisting of mundane particles like electrons and atoms"
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The laureates' 'prize-earning' papers in Phys Rev Lett, Phys Rev B from 1985 + 1987 have 276, 342 and 518 citations [Scopus] - low for Nobel-winning work, maybe?
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October 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The laureates' 'prize-earning' papers in Phys Rev Lett, Phys Rev B from 1985 + 1987 have 276, 342 and 518 citations [Scopus] - low for Nobel-winning work, maybe?
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Macroscopic quantum tunnelling wins -- goes to the trio of
Martinis, Clarke, and Devoret
Martinis, Clarke, and Devoret
It's physics nobel prize day! --
Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
October 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Macroscopic quantum tunnelling wins -- goes to the trio of
Martinis, Clarke, and Devoret
Martinis, Clarke, and Devoret
It's physics nobel prize day! --
Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
October 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It's physics nobel prize day! --
Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
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1/ 🧪🍃🐙📰 We @biographic.bsky.social have been hard at work for the past 8 months developing a deep, rich, behind-the-scenes feature story exploring how the Trump Administration's cuts to international conservation are affecting biodiversity on the ground.
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
1/ 🧪🍃🐙📰 We @biographic.bsky.social have been hard at work for the past 8 months developing a deep, rich, behind-the-scenes feature story exploring how the Trump Administration's cuts to international conservation are affecting biodiversity on the ground.
Fluoride has proven dental health benefits, this common additive to drinking water is now banned in Utah. Other states may do the same. Is there any real risk to fluoride at the levels present in drinking water? Story by Priyanka Runwal for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/environment/...
A small city in Utah voted to keep fluoride in its water. Then the state banned it.
Brigham City is caught in a public health battle pitting uncertain health risks against decades of clear dental benefits
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September 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Fluoride has proven dental health benefits, this common additive to drinking water is now banned in Utah. Other states may do the same. Is there any real risk to fluoride at the levels present in drinking water? Story by Priyanka Runwal for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/environment/...