Dr. Rebecca Weber, Ph.D. (she/her)
@rebeck82.bsky.social
Mama to 4 (5 with new DIL!), overrun with cats, dogs, chickens. I teach chemistry and research the teaching and learning of chemistry with CER. I scroll and read/learn a lot.
Any posts/reposts reflect my own opinion, no one else's.
Any posts/reposts reflect my own opinion, no one else's.
Come on, Blue Sky, I need moral support to get me through making these pies!
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Come on, Blue Sky, I need moral support to get me through making these pies!
Turkeys are done! Left is Cajun seasoned and oven roasted, right is smoked (and not burned; the picture is misleading!)
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Turkeys are done! Left is Cajun seasoned and oven roasted, right is smoked (and not burned; the picture is misleading!)
Pies still aren't done. Am I self-sabotaging? Maybe. 🤣 Turkeys are almost done, gumbo made and eaten for dinner.
2 out of 3 is fine, right? House is clean, turkeys are sitting in their brine bath. I don't know if I have it in me to make pie crusts tonight, so I think I'll just punt that to tomorrow and be mad at myself then. After all, why do today what you can put off until tomorrow, amirite?
The countdown to Turkey Day begins! I'm trying to spread everything out as much as I can, so today: clean house, make pie crusts (4, I think), brine the turkeys tonight.
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Pies still aren't done. Am I self-sabotaging? Maybe. 🤣 Turkeys are almost done, gumbo made and eaten for dinner.
2 out of 3 is fine, right? House is clean, turkeys are sitting in their brine bath. I don't know if I have it in me to make pie crusts tonight, so I think I'll just punt that to tomorrow and be mad at myself then. After all, why do today what you can put off until tomorrow, amirite?
The countdown to Turkey Day begins! I'm trying to spread everything out as much as I can, so today: clean house, make pie crusts (4, I think), brine the turkeys tonight.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
2 out of 3 is fine, right? House is clean, turkeys are sitting in their brine bath. I don't know if I have it in me to make pie crusts tonight, so I think I'll just punt that to tomorrow and be mad at myself then. After all, why do today what you can put off until tomorrow, amirite?
The countdown to Turkey Day begins! I'm trying to spread everything out as much as I can, so today: clean house, make pie crusts (4, I think), brine the turkeys tonight.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The countdown to Turkey Day begins! I'm trying to spread everything out as much as I can, so today: clean house, make pie crusts (4, I think), brine the turkeys tonight.
The dogs are on alert. For what, they aren't quite sure.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The dogs are on alert. For what, they aren't quite sure.
I listen to my 13 yo talk so much that current slang is apparently creeping into my speech when I'm teaching, without being aware of it. New level unlocked, or did they just bring old slang back to life again? 🤔
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I listen to my 13 yo talk so much that current slang is apparently creeping into my speech when I'm teaching, without being aware of it. New level unlocked, or did they just bring old slang back to life again? 🤔
If you are in an area that has them, looking for old wood fencing can be helpful as well. It's amazing how much wood you can repurpose if you have access to the Internet and some basic tools (hammer, drill, maybe a mitre saw).
Hmmm. Look for old pallets. 🤔
Shouldn't be too hard to make from those.
Shouldn't be too hard to make from those.
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If you are in an area that has them, looking for old wood fencing can be helpful as well. It's amazing how much wood you can repurpose if you have access to the Internet and some basic tools (hammer, drill, maybe a mitre saw).
8 y.o. has discovered The Minecraft Movie (with ASL) and we are both entranced. He keeps turning to me, saying "hey mom, [this word] is this in ASL!" 🥰
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
8 y.o. has discovered The Minecraft Movie (with ASL) and we are both entranced. He keeps turning to me, saying "hey mom, [this word] is this in ASL!" 🥰
Full disclosure: I do not like carving pumpkins. (Or dyeing Easter eggs.) My kids like it, so I have to help with a smile on my face.
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Full disclosure: I do not like carving pumpkins. (Or dyeing Easter eggs.) My kids like it, so I have to help with a smile on my face.
The more I research and learn, the more my first question is "what does (thing) look like to you?" Mentoring, support, advocacy, etc. What are you expecting to receive? Follow up questions: what do you get? What do you provide? 🤔
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The more I research and learn, the more my first question is "what does (thing) look like to you?" Mentoring, support, advocacy, etc. What are you expecting to receive? Follow up questions: what do you get? What do you provide? 🤔
My husband is just fantastic at pictures. The monarchs haven't left yet. I need to print these pictures and hang them in my walls for peace. 🥰 🌱 #gardening #NTexas
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My husband is just fantastic at pictures. The monarchs haven't left yet. I need to print these pictures and hang them in my walls for peace. 🥰 🌱 #gardening #NTexas
Jfc. How many times can it be said until us white people fucking understand: sure, not all white people. But *too many* white people voted that they were okay with this! If it wasn't you, awesome, fucking scroll on, and then go talk to the fucking white people in your orbit that *did*.
Correction: Math. White America is 75% of the voting population. White people decide elections.
Correction, many Latinos consigned to this as well.
October 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Jfc. How many times can it be said until us white people fucking understand: sure, not all white people. But *too many* white people voted that they were okay with this! If it wasn't you, awesome, fucking scroll on, and then go talk to the fucking white people in your orbit that *did*.
The monarchs are very happy with my flowers right now. I probably have 30+ enjoying my mystic spires salvia, mistflower, and agastache! #NTexas #gardening 🌱
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The monarchs are very happy with my flowers right now. I probably have 30+ enjoying my mystic spires salvia, mistflower, and agastache! #NTexas #gardening 🌱
The world is spinning out of control faster and faster, I'm surrounded by trauma I can't fix, and I'm trying to figure out how to be a functioning and empathetic partner, parent, teacher, friend, and human... I'mma go sit in my garden in the morning and breath. Until then... 🍸 and 📺.
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The world is spinning out of control faster and faster, I'm surrounded by trauma I can't fix, and I'm trying to figure out how to be a functioning and empathetic partner, parent, teacher, friend, and human... I'mma go sit in my garden in the morning and breath. Until then... 🍸 and 📺.
With the husband, just supervised an 8 year old doing homework and writing an "essay"while teaching the 12 year old to make her favorite dinner. Two hours later, we haven't eaten yet and I'm exhausted, and the big one still needs to be picked up from evening band practice. 😭
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
With the husband, just supervised an 8 year old doing homework and writing an "essay"while teaching the 12 year old to make her favorite dinner. Two hours later, we haven't eaten yet and I'm exhausted, and the big one still needs to be picked up from evening band practice. 😭
Ooh. Hotel Rwanda. I suggest it to everyone, but can never, ever sit down and watch it again.
name a flick other than requiem for a dream that you will never watch again not because you think its trash but more because you just cant put yourself through it again
September 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ooh. Hotel Rwanda. I suggest it to everyone, but can never, ever sit down and watch it again.
@notyournegro.blacksky.app This is the last one I saw about Jay. Apologies if you've been tagged in this already, or if it doesn't answer your question.
FYI for those who wish to help in Jay's cause for ICE victims.
Please see the screenshot below:
Please see the screenshot below:
September 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
@notyournegro.blacksky.app This is the last one I saw about Jay. Apologies if you've been tagged in this already, or if it doesn't answer your question.
Past me is always so optimistic about what I'm going to be willing to make for dinner any given day (I plan out my menu two weeks in advance for grocery shipping). Tonight is fried chicken and I'm just...
September 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Past me is always so optimistic about what I'm going to be willing to make for dinner any given day (I plan out my menu two weeks in advance for grocery shipping). Tonight is fried chicken and I'm just...
In other news, I have to replace all of my brakes on my van tomorrow. Just me and a YouTube video. I've done it once before, but that was just the front brakes, two years ago, with husband here for moral support. 😬
I got this! 💪
I got this! 💪
September 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
In other news, I have to replace all of my brakes on my van tomorrow. Just me and a YouTube video. I've done it once before, but that was just the front brakes, two years ago, with husband here for moral support. 😬
I got this! 💪
I got this! 💪
🌱 I love community plant groups. I got a free crepe myrtle (I absolutely love them) that a lady had already spent three years growing and tending. She just flat out didn't have room for it. Don't worry, it will be lovingly tended in my yard. 🥰 #gardening #NTexas
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🌱 I love community plant groups. I got a free crepe myrtle (I absolutely love them) that a lady had already spent three years growing and tending. She just flat out didn't have room for it. Don't worry, it will be lovingly tended in my yard. 🥰 #gardening #NTexas
🌱 No pictures cause I'm lazy, but the fall green beans have started to pop! And for first time, I've done a fall planting of tomatoes (pulled the spring determinates when they were done, planted new in July). The Celebrity plants are growing like crazy, the Roma... not so much. 😬 #gardening #NTexas
September 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🌱 No pictures cause I'm lazy, but the fall green beans have started to pop! And for first time, I've done a fall planting of tomatoes (pulled the spring determinates when they were done, planted new in July). The Celebrity plants are growing like crazy, the Roma... not so much. 😬 #gardening #NTexas
Read the short thread, but I keep telling this to my students (and children). "I'll have a calculator everywhere I go!" Yeah, but if you don't know what you are doing in the first place, GIGO will bite you in the ass.
There's a small thread on my timeline about calculators (I don't want to rope the folks on that thread into this) and I think it illustrates something about LLMs quite clearly. (1/n)
September 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Read the short thread, but I keep telling this to my students (and children). "I'll have a calculator everywhere I go!" Yeah, but if you don't know what you are doing in the first place, GIGO will bite you in the ass.
This whole discourse is fascinating, with the differences between ACS certs and RSC certs (right?), but also got me thinking (and beating my head against the wall) about horizontal and vertical alignment of the chemistry curriculum (focused in the US).
**New blog post** I am once again tilting at the 300 lab hours windmill, unfortunately. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2025/9/3/why-300h-of-labs-needs-to-shrink
Why 300h of labs needs to shrink — Michael O'Neill
An argument for reducing the lab hour requirement of Chemistry degrees.
www.michaeloneill.org
September 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This whole discourse is fascinating, with the differences between ACS certs and RSC certs (right?), but also got me thinking (and beating my head against the wall) about horizontal and vertical alignment of the chemistry curriculum (focused in the US).
Logged on, saw posts with 3 elected officials saying the dumbest shit ever, logged back off.
bart simpson is sitting at a desk in a room while a man in a hat stands in the doorway
Alt: bart simpson is sitting at a desk in a room while a man in a hat comes in the doorway, hangs up his hat, then immediately turns to grab his hat and leave
media.tenor.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Logged on, saw posts with 3 elected officials saying the dumbest shit ever, logged back off.