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The 2025 #Newscripts' Gift Guide is live. Start planning your present shopping now, or just treat yourself.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
Have a bit of #holiday #FridayFun with the 2025 #Newscripts Gift Guide in @cenmag.bsky.social. Find a chemistry-themed gift for the scientist on your list.
#chemsky

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Holiday gift ideas
Chemistry-themed goodies for the scientists in your life
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November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
Hey #ChemSky - I'm putting together the #Newscripts holiday gift guide for @cenmag.bsky.social. Have you given or received a great chemistry-themed gift recently? I'd love to know about it and maybe include it on our list. Here's last year's guide for ideas:
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Holiday gift ideas
Chemistry-themed goodies for the scientists in your life
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October 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ppr-org.bsky.social
What a privilege to spend time with the amazing youth workers @springboardopps.bsky.social this week, sharing their #NewScripts for Mental Health — rooted in respect, connection, and community 💙

Find out more about New Script 👇

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October 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
Cat-ch up on your kitty science and read @rowanwalrath.bsky.social's latest feline-themed #Newscripts column in @cenmag.bsky.social
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Chemistry is no catwalk
Are you kitten me? Felines make forays into genomics and publishing
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September 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
krhornberger.bsky.social
Finally had a chance to read through the redesigned monthly @cenmag.bsky.social and it’s great! Chock full of interesting long form articles plus old favorites like Newscripts. My fave was this one on the Graduate School Readiness Boot Camp. As a first-gen grad schooler: what a great resource!
Sponsored Content: Next stop, graduate school
How the Graduate School Readiness Boot Camp is supporting the next generation of Chemists.
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September 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
protyusagendher.bsky.social
Life is Change #newscripts #change #move #indiana #colorado #family #stepfamily #stepdad #stepkids #wedding #scripttheory #regimechange invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/07/20/7...
7) New Scripts
The narrative reflects on a childhood shaped by rigid family dynamics and expectations, particularly towards maternal roles. The author recounts the contrast between their mother’s lively past and …
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August 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
Looking for some #Fridayfun? Check out @bribarbu.bsky.social's latest #Newscripts column on adventures in #alchemy. cen.acs.org/education/sc...
Alchemy goes for the gold
Houston museum launches an alchemy game, and lead turns to gold in a particle collider
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August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
bribarbu.bsky.social
My latest @cenmag.bsky.social newscripts column is inspired by my friends: Veronica and Allison, whose love for a touchscreen game at a museum inspired this whole column, and Jaclyn, the reason I can't mention the LHC without also mentioning the 2016 weasel incident
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August 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
How many members of #chemsky are or were Scouts? Fionna Samuels (@fmorningstar.bsky.social) learned all about the new chemistry merit badge requirements for #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social - she also tried out the cabbage pH indicator experiment herself.

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Chemistry merit badge gets a new formula
Updated experiments for Scouting America can be done safely at home with easy-to-find materials
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July 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
Some #FridayFun - Reporters at @cenmag.bsky.social get a lot of press releases that don't fit the magazine's coverage. When one about injecting salmon sperm DNA for skincare reached @laureloldach.bsky.social, she used it to dive into some weird science for #Newscripts
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Salmon science: Newscripts dives into a fishy field
The popular fish contributes reagents to labs, instrument makers—and med spas
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June 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
Need a little #FridayFun? Read about mashups of music and microbes in @cdellamore.bsky.social's lastest #Newscripts column for @cenmag.bsky.social
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When microbes and music mix
Two studies explore the curious case of ‘tenor horn lung’ and the effects of Mozart on mouse health
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June 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
Noble gases earn their name--taking humans to the heights of Mt. Everest and ocean depths. Sydney Smith follows the adventurers for the latest #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social

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(Apologies for falling off my usual posting of #Newscripts).
Noble gases help humans journey farther
Xenon reaches above, helium below
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June 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
My afternoons often include coffee and a treat, so in this week's #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social, I wrote about how scientists in Arnold Mathijssen's lab studied pour-over coffee physics and how food scientist Damir Torrico used ChatGPT to evaluate brownie receipes.
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Science takes a shot at your afternoon pick-me-up
Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds
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May 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
For a bit of #FridayFun, @fmorningstar.bsky.social offers meditations on miso (in spaaaaace...) and moon glass in @cenmag.bsky.social's quirky science column, #Newscripts
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Space miso and moon glass
Space meals improved through fermentation, and solar panels made with moon dust
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April 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
coldreadseries.bsky.social
Thank you to who attended last night’s #event! 32+ years wouldn’t be possible w/out your #support. See ya’ll May 12th.
#SeeYouThere #NewScripts #coldread
#actors #shortfilm #Featurefilm #scripts #scriptwriter #Creative #CreativeCommunity #Vancouver #Live #Storytelling #SciFi #NovaScotia #RomCom
The Cold Reading Series
The Cold Reading Series is Vancouver's longest running live script reading event supporting local creativity and storytelling in film, tv, web and theatre.
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April 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
The staff at @cenmag.bsky.social went wild when we saw this image of Tadej Pogačar in the 2024 Il Lombardia cycle race rolling over a structure of lactic acid. For the latest #Newscripts, Alex Scott wrote about how chemistry and competitive cycling are colliding.
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A lead cyclist bikes over a structure of lactic acid painted on the road.
April 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
cenmag.bsky.social
Our latest #Newscripts recalls the glory days of chemical companies on money (and printing money) and one firm's side hustle as an art collector. cen.acs.org/business/fin...
Chemical plants printed on bank notes, and a firm’s museum closes in Japan
Chemistry on currency and a chemical company’s fine art sell-off
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April 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
If you need a little #FridayFun (and who doesn't these days?), I suggest reading Alex Tullo's latest #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social. It recalls the glory days of chemical companies on money (and printing money) and one firm's side hustle as an art collector.
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Chemical plants printed on bank notes, and a firm’s museum closes in Japan
Chemistry on currency and a chemical company’s fine art sell-off
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April 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
laureloldach.bsky.social
Teaming up with colleagues to crack wise on AI models' utter failure to provide any image remotely resembling adenosine or caffeine was the most fun I've had at work all year.

@rowanbio.bsky.social captured some of the best digs in her Newscripts column:

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March 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
What happens when you ask genAI to draw caffeine? Some menacing and unexpected imagery, finds @rowanwalrath.bsky.social for #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social
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AI doesn’t know how to depict chemistry
Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds
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March 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
St. Patrick's Day is on Monday. In the latest #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social, @leighkboerner.bsky.social writes about ways to color the holiday--both on a big scale and a small scale.
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A yellow boat cruises down the Chicago river, which appears bright green. There are tall city buildings in the background.
March 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
If your #FridayFun after a stress-filled week includes pasta, you should make the best pasta possible - for which @bribarbu.bsky.social digs into scientifically perfect cacio e pepe for #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social.
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Imagine the pasta-bilities
Cheese-sauce secrets and the science of salt rings
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February 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
If you're looking for a little joy to begin your week (and aren't we all lately?), check out the latest #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social, where @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social contemplates a 32-minute egg recipe and the best houseplant for bad plant parents.
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Making a perfect egg while neglecting your houseplants
Because you can’t be attentive about everything
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February 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
bethanyhalford.bsky.social
With everything going on, it seems a little frivolous to post about @cenmag.bsky.social's latest #Newscripts. But Prachi Patel's column on chemical romance brings some joy to me, as I hope it does to you: cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
Chemistry couples and punny romantic cards
Stories of love at first sight and following your heart
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February 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM