I had a wonderful time attending the Charter II NOBCChE Official Collaborative meeting this past week at Carnegie Mellon University with some of my fellow MIT Chemists! Thank you MIT Chemistry for supporting us and the Swager Group and SmithLabMIT for supporting me!

Ultratrace PFAS Detection Using Amplifying Fluorescent Polymers MIT Chemistry MIT Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Swager Group #Ultratrace #PFAS #Detection #fluorescent #Polymers pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

I would like to go back in time to last week and have a stern conversation with past!me, who inexplicably thought "It's just an updated CV, a research summary, and cover letter. How long could it take to write?" 🙃

I would like to have words with whoever is behind the "Save as Adobe PDF" and "Export to PDF" buttons in MS Word producing different outcomes 🤦‍♀️

Always make sure your reflux condensers are securely attached, folks, or make your downstairs neighbors sad 🤦‍♀️😭

My thesis defense officially has a time and a location 🫠😵‍💫

Having to ask "weird barbie" for advice is the equivalent of having to ask the most senior grad student for department lore and how to navigate in said space.

Defend my PhD thesis? After all it did to me??

You can't drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive. You can't drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive. You can't drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive. You can't drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive. You can't drive moving trucks on Storrow Drive. Have a nice day.

I've watched this about 5 times now

I'm in a mad scramble to find housing near Caltech, and a fun twist in this effort has been realtors/landlords that won't let me apply without seeing the unit in person!! SOS 💀😭

actually a bit eldritch how grad school lures you in with promises of arcane knowledge but then drives you to an incurable madness

A PhD is temporary. That typo in your thesis is forever.

Welcome to our new postdoc Dr. Jessica Beard !!!

The first paragraph of this article is the best paragraph I have read in years

Absolute banger of a synthetic prep! See note 2 💥💥💥 orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep…

🚨We are hiring! Our team is looking for a postdoc to work at the interface of chemistry, materials science and chemical engineering for sensor development. Apply now at the link below: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

A problem with the advice "don't eat anything that has ingredients that you can't pronounce" is that I'm am an organic chemist, so I can basically pronounce all the ingredients

Take a look at the project that consumed most of my PhD! Happy to have this out there