DAWGS ON TOP! #GoDawgs

It’s live!🚨🎙️ David Hamilton and I were guests on the Analytically Speaking podcast & we talked about our pub “Survey of Instrumentation Use in Industry: What Does Industry Want New Chemists to Know?” Available on Apple/Google Podcasts and SoundCloud: chromatographyonline.com/view/ep-28-wha…

A really fun discussion about instrumentation use in industry! The podcast has many other great episodes, including a personal favorite of how to train scientists to interpret infrared spectra. Definitely worth checking out.

This is an area of chemistry I have been really excited to hear about! Dr. Molly B. Atkinson is a fantastic person and a go-to for understanding chemical education. Make sure to give this episode a listen if you are interested in HOW chemistry is being taught and the implications!

I’m in my ~podcast era- 🎙️ We talked all things #ChemistryEducationResearch this week on the SW Pod. Thanks for the invitation, Aidan Looby! Available on Spotify and YouTube in the tweet below.

Forced to hone a skill that I have zero interest in developing 🤗🫠

I’ve never rooted for USF, but today is the day boys 🏈

On today's episode of higher education in the state of Texas: "It has been determined that continuation of these [faculty] groups creates ongoing issues with the university being in full compliance with the law." Y'all, I'm tired. Of Texas legislature specifically.

Excited to see this in print! Check out this work where we investigated students' feelings of shame in an organic chemistry course with Jeff Raker and colleagues! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to share our first American Physical Society Physical Review Paper on LGBTQ+ and/or women PhD physicists! Thank you Justin A. Gutzwa, Ph.D. (they/them) #blm and the rest of the team for their work! #lgbtqcommunity #Physics #HigherEducation 500QueerScientists LGBT+ Physics Physics Magazine journals.aps.org/prper/abstract…

When IT finally fixes your eye tracking computer after blaming Tobii for 3+ months and the person says, “Yeah I guess it was something with the Windows install” which we literally identified and told them about IN JUNE. #tired

Three manuscripts submitted in the last two weeks LET’S GO 😎

This is definitely something I didn’t anticipate and wish I had been a little more prepared for. As a CER scholar, I knew odds were high that I might be the only one in my department. But I did not anticipate the loneliness and isolation in leadership and decision making.

Real 😂

I did not realize how much of my adult life would be spent thinking about protein

Melissa's Exciting New Role and Must-Have Merch Reveal! #PodcastAnnouncement #NewMerch #CollegiateStyle #BackToSchool #MelissaTheLecturer #SweatshirtSeason #EducationalJourney #CollegeLife #PodcastCommunity #ExcitingNews

New publication in Journal of Research in Science Teaching with the fabulous Tamera Jones and Maia Popova, PhD! We used the science identity framework to understand how marginalized women experienced recognition while pursuing a PhD in chemistry. And it's open access! Chemistry_URI URI Arts & Sciences onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.

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Not sure how many more times I can put up with someone sitting in my office and going on an absolute rant about education, in exact opposition to our entire literature base and every piece of evidence on how learning happens.