It's been a great Olympics for meme-worthy bespectacled guys who have orange cats. Props and happy #Caturday to Nedoroscik and Dikec.

Busy week. Had a 40 year old chunk of hydroxyapatite extracted from my mouth. Had a hurricane (was lucky, no damage, power is back). Had a paper accepted in Chem. Mater.

Happy Friday, new paper! Ripping up anthracene to create interstitials. Lanthanide Borocarbides Ln3BC2Xn (Ln = La–Pr; X = H, F, Cl) Grown from Metal Flux: From Magnetic Ordering to Superconductivity | Chemistry of Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Envying the northerners tonight. My phone (not my eyes) can see a hint of #aurora in Tallahassee when facing north. Control image with roof taken facing south.

This week's cover of Inorganic Chemistry introduces the Special Issue titled "A Dialogue on Zintl Chemistry" highlighting contemporary research into different strategies for synthesizing and understanding molecular Zintl anions, clusters, and solid-state phases: go.acs.org/bqO

Got my vote in early. Thankful that it was quick and easy at the FSU Student Union! #Vote FSU Student Union

Steve Kornacki is to election night what Jim Cantore is to hurricanes.

Have questions about applying for chemistry grad school, the admissions process, picking a school/group? Join us Wed, Nov. 13th, 8-11 pm ET. Current and former @ChemistryFSU Admissions Chairs, HansonFSU and DePrince Group will be doing a live Q&A on Twitch. twitch.tv/ask_a_scientis…

Get answers to questions about applying to chemistry graduate school in this Twitch session on Wednesday evening! (You could also ask for some hints about speedrunning video games) #Chemistry

A wild Chemistree appears in the student lounge! Starring microcentrifuge tubes and pipettes.

Kind of dig that Patrick Mahomes is giving his kids names that are metal alloys. In addition to Sterling, Bronze, and Golden, may I suggest: Nichrome? Stainless? High Entropy?

Artistic rendition of breaking down organic molecules to use as carbon and hydrogen sources in flux reactions! #MyACSCover Hydride in the product confirmed at Oak Ridge Lab ACS Publications Chem. Mater. Vol. 37 No. 2 pubs.acs.org/toc/cmatex/37/2

Great to be back Oak Ridge Lab collecting diffraction data with a higher power neutron beam (was 1.4 MW a couple years ago, now is 1.7 MW). Finding hydrides even faster!

I always get a kick out of how the beamlines at SNS Neutron Sciences are color-coded. Neutrons...taste the rainbow! My beamline is 🍋 flavored. The newest one is mint stripe. Oak Ridge Lab

Happy #NationalPetDay !

New paper on new carbides grown from metal flux! Synthesis done by a great undergrad, Luke Marzano. In ZAAC issue in honor of Gordie Miller. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/za…

Running to post on ##NationalCatDay

This year's chemistree comes with pipettes, microcentrifuge tubes, and graphical abstracts, courtesy of Wen Zhu Lab !