Elizabeth Cerkez
@zekrec.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Instruction @ Temple U. Chemistry and Chemistry Education Research.
(Philly sports + Weather + Swiftie)
(Philly sports + Weather + Swiftie)
Oh man, gonna miss @chemjobber.bsky.social but good for him.
I did not have ‘Rubber duck museum moves to Canada because of tariffs and trade war’ on my 2025 bingo card. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This American rubber duck museum is moving to B.C. due to tariffs, drop in tourism | CBC News
Quirky Point Roberts-based Rubber Duck Museum is coming to Tsawwassen Mills mall in B.C. after increasing tariffs and decreasing tourism have made business in the U.S. exclave unsustainable.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Oh man, gonna miss @chemjobber.bsky.social but good for him.
Last sentence from the discussion: “In this sense, one might view learning through LLMs rather than traditional web search as, at times, analogous to being shown the solution to a math problem rather than trying to solve it oneself.”
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Last sentence from the discussion: “In this sense, one might view learning through LLMs rather than traditional web search as, at times, analogous to being shown the solution to a math problem rather than trying to solve it oneself.”
.....I haven't even gotten through a single one 😫
I need to give detailed feedback on six, 20-page papers today. The chances this takes all day is 99.999999%
November 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
.....I haven't even gotten through a single one 😫
I need to give detailed feedback on six, 20-page papers today. The chances this takes all day is 99.999999%
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I need to give detailed feedback on six, 20-page papers today. The chances this takes all day is 99.999999%
An absolute insult to philadelphia culture that one cannot buy a soft pretzel on campus at 3 pm.
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
An absolute insult to philadelphia culture that one cannot buy a soft pretzel on campus at 3 pm.
Simultaneously doing electrochemistry in Gen Chem II and instrumental (at different levels) this week, so currently everyone is getting a mini-rant about Ben Franklin.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Simultaneously doing electrochemistry in Gen Chem II and instrumental (at different levels) this week, so currently everyone is getting a mini-rant about Ben Franklin.
Could see the Northern Lights from my roof in Philly!!!
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Could see the Northern Lights from my roof in Philly!!!
We’re regulars at author events at the Free Library. Tonight we’re seeing Ray Didinger in conversation with Merrill Reese.
Let’s just say the vibe of the crowd is very different tonight.
Let’s just say the vibe of the crowd is very different tonight.
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We’re regulars at author events at the Free Library. Tonight we’re seeing Ray Didinger in conversation with Merrill Reese.
Let’s just say the vibe of the crowd is very different tonight.
Let’s just say the vibe of the crowd is very different tonight.
Just described conjugates of strong acid and bases as "strong independent women who want to stay broken up" and my student responded, "we don't need no man."
Obsessed.
Obsessed.
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just described conjugates of strong acid and bases as "strong independent women who want to stay broken up" and my student responded, "we don't need no man."
Obsessed.
Obsessed.
Mondays are quickly becoming my least favorite days. 😮💨
October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Mondays are quickly becoming my least favorite days. 😮💨
Tack on that the HPLC failed during instrumental lab this afternoon.
yay.
yay.
And now I come back to a Canvas outage!?
Covering a class for a colleague at 10 am...which means I'm lecturing three different courses at 9, 10, and 11 am. Happy Monday to me!
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Tack on that the HPLC failed during instrumental lab this afternoon.
yay.
yay.
And now I come back to a Canvas outage!?
Covering a class for a colleague at 10 am...which means I'm lecturing three different courses at 9, 10, and 11 am. Happy Monday to me!
October 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And now I come back to a Canvas outage!?
Covering a class for a colleague at 10 am...which means I'm lecturing three different courses at 9, 10, and 11 am. Happy Monday to me!
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Covering a class for a colleague at 10 am...which means I'm lecturing three different courses at 9, 10, and 11 am. Happy Monday to me!
We get one Friday off (this Friday) during the Fall semester. I conveniently don't teach on Thursdays. Thus, I'm currently counting down the moments until I can put up my OOO.
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We get one Friday off (this Friday) during the Fall semester. I conveniently don't teach on Thursdays. Thus, I'm currently counting down the moments until I can put up my OOO.
Love a fundamental science Nobel win!
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...
www.nobelprize.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Love a fundamental science Nobel win!
I finished the set! So pretty!!
October 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I finished the set! So pretty!!
The number of commitments I have tomorrow is fully incompatible with the fact that there is a new Taylor album fewer than 6 hours away.
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The number of commitments I have tomorrow is fully incompatible with the fact that there is a new Taylor album fewer than 6 hours away.
Nola went 8 innings with 2 hits? In this economy?!
September 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Nola went 8 innings with 2 hits? In this economy?!
LORD ALMIGHTY. BIRDDDDSSSSSSS
September 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
LORD ALMIGHTY. BIRDDDDSSSSSSS
Gonna make trash day pretty exciting/terrifying around the country.
watch for exploding prosecco
Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.
September 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Gonna make trash day pretty exciting/terrifying around the country.