Dr. Z
skzingales.bsky.social
Dr. Z
@skzingales.bsky.social
Chemist, Professor, Vegan, Ballerina, Gamer, Crafter, Voracious Reader, Mom, Writer, Southerner in New England, 👩‍🔬
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EMMA AND THE BUTTERFLY BLUEPRINT

Gigi Shen is Not a Nerd x The Girls Who Code

When science becomes part of the arts high school admission criteria, Emma must join the STEM club to and convince her friends to help her make a larger than life art exhibit.

#bluepit📖 #Q #MG
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Candy corn reaction #chemsky
October 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Educators, do you have favorite/well-liked peer-reviewed scholarship about gap years and their long-term impact?

Please RT. Thank you! 🧪
August 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Genre fiction 🤝 nonfiction science pairing about mining and the potential destruction of a planet. 🌍🪨

THE BLIGHTED STARS BY Megan O’Keefe and POWER METAL by Vince Beiser.

🧵A thread on why you should read these books :

#booksky #sff #nonfiction
July 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just submitted our manuscript to the ACS Omega special issue for PUI research!

It's open until 7/30 if anybody is looking for a place to submit.

axial.acs.org/cross-discip...
Call For Papers: Undergraduate Research as the Stimulus for Scientific Progress in the USA | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog
This Special Issue will highlight the significant research activities at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) in the United States and their unique focus on fostering student engagement in STEM...
axial.acs.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Hi! I’m a freelance reporter writing a story for Nature Careers
about bullying during peer review & solutions to the issue, and am looking to speak with folks who have personal experiences. If you have a story you'd like to share, please write to me at katarinaszimmer@gmail.com. Thanks so much!
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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LOTR: ROP x PRINCESS BRIDE

A half-elven princess and her loyal guardsman must evade capture and save her father, the king, from a fate worse than death: total corruption. But their rescue mission turns into a hunt, and only the princess or the king can be saved.

#BluePit 📖 #P #A #F #LGBT
July 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Love seeing all the great pitches for #bluepit today. Mine is a contemporary MG STEAM-themed novel. 📖 🧪 👩🏼‍🔬 🎨
EMMA AND THE BUTTERFLY BLUEPRINT

Gigi Shen is Not a Nerd x The Girls Who Code

When science becomes part of the arts high school admission criteria, Emma must join the STEM club to and convince her friends to help her make a larger than life art exhibit.

#bluepit📖 #Q #MG
July 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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#Bluepit 📖 #NA #F #WF First book of a series. Drawing from the Void follows Ellie & Louie. After unveiling an ominous prophecy about herself, Ellie & her basset hound Familiar hit the road to go on the adventures they always talked about. They face threats from magical & non-magical forces.
July 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
EMMA AND THE BUTTERFLY BLUEPRINT

Gigi Shen is Not a Nerd x The Girls Who Code

When science becomes part of the arts high school admission criteria, Emma must join the STEM club to and convince her friends to help her make a larger than life art exhibit.

#bluepit📖 #Q #MG
July 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Nothing better than heading into a long weekend after hitting the submit button on a manuscript.
July 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Has anybody gotten an abstract acceptance from @pacifichem.bsky.social? Submission receipt said June 1 we would hear back. #chemsky
June 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Join us in CT on June 27 for our one day organic symposium that brings in chemists from academia and industry.

www.cvs-acs.org/event-detail...
7th Annual Symposium on Applied Synthesis | American Chemical So
Modern Methods in Organic Synthesis/Methodology
www.cvs-acs.org
June 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Y'all I actually graded the papers I brought with me on the plane 😱
March 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Love seeing all the poster tubes at the airport. Peak nerdcore.
March 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Today is #NationalCabbageDay, which is always a good opportunity to remind everyone that red cabbage can be used to make a colourful pH indicator solution! www.compoundchem.com/2017/05/18/r...

#ChemSky 🧪
February 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Dear Ed consultants/seminar presenters. When you start with “I’ve got a loud voice, I don’t need to use this microphone”. You do. Please use the microphone. 🎤
February 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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A PSA for anyone curious about grading, ungrading, alternative grading (which I don’t designate as something other than ungrading but hey - it’s a term), etc. especially those trying to publish their SOTL results.

No matter what your field is, you are not the first to do this.

Cite. Abundantly.
January 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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2024 was a good year for scholarship (4 papers), particularly proud of the IONiC SLiThEr Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... and a paper collab with @skzingales.bsky.social, my colleague Dr. Karver, and others: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Engaging chemistry educators through virtual roundtables: how the COVID-19 pandemic led to a community-wide initiative - Discover Education
Members of the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC) report the development and sustained efforts to provide virtual professional development sessions: Supporting Learning with Inte...
link.springer.com
December 31, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Neither time not calories exist this week. I don't make the rules.
December 29, 2024 at 3:30 AM
In the chem ed space we often say, "we don't have to do to our students what was done to us" and this is true in lab culture too. 🧪
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Dear PIs: Don't work on weekends & holidays.

And if you do, don't brag about it.

It's NOT cool. It reflects a bad set of values that promote unhealthy work-balance practices in the team you lead.

You're an example for your students and colleagues, live up to it.
December 22, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Humble brag time. Today I finished a manuscript draft, submitted final grades for the semester, and finished my syllabus for next semester. Now it's time for a hotty toddy. 🍻
December 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Undergraduates - Join us for summer research at MIT!
December 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The feeling when you send your latest manuscript draft to your collaborator #chemsky
a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a face
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a face
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December 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Monitoring some reactions today. Not sure what any of it means yet 😅 #ChemSky
December 10, 2024 at 6:40 PM