Booms and plumes over LA tonight. (Don’t be alarmed if a sonic boom wakes you up.)

Very proud of this video on honey fraud that I worked on with the @acs.org Reactions team! I really really wanted to write a video about stable isotopes, and along the way we found honey that might not really be what it claims to be… youtu.be/rKvNp0fAaZ8

People ask me for career advice sometimes, and my biggest piece of it is to tell everybody what you love and what you want to do, loudly and often. Sometimes, for me, that’s blimps 😂

Well I also caught a fish so that balances the budget back out to “reasonable expenses” since my meal costs were lower, right?

Friday thoughts on trust in science.

How grants work, part two:

How grants work, part one:

On silly-sounding science:

If only there was a way to make raw milk safe?! *Screams into the void*

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(Screenshot from the @statnews.bsky.social morning newsletter)

At dinner last night I was asked: “If you were a piece of lab equipment, what would you be?”

I am a centrifuge. I desperately crave balance. When unbalanced, I get loud. I do my best working at high speeds in high pressure situations.

What are you?

Currently reading. “The Alchemy of Us” by Ainissa Ramirez.

So far, absolutely loving it: beautiful presentation of chemistry stories that I’ve already shared with “Oh my gosh, so I just read a story about…” in conversation!

Is a duck too big to be a critter? Not sure, but I saw a Muscovy Duck for the first time recently and just look at that plumage! #critterposting

Trying to get better at using both of my scopes: tele- and micro-. Just becoming my own science museum over here 😅