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Chemistry, but also educational comics. The internet needs more cats.

Joined January 2012
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Am I so extra✨ that I made my own magazine with a laymans explanation of my PhD thesis? Well yes. Yes I am. #SciComm
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"Teach students how to read comic books before you teach them as texts." @historycomics at #denvercomiccon
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"When I was working on my PhD in chemistry, I decided to write two versions of my thesis." Love it, @squirrelchomp. bit.ly/2iIgdsi
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Just catching up on this cartoon explainer about the Theranos mess by KQED. It's terrific. ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/201…
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"We will not accept a world where decisions about our future are made in rooms girls cannot enter."— Malala
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A fourth of a joule is the approximate kinetic energy of a baseball thrown at 4 mph. #4thofJoule #4thofJuly
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“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.” - EW
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When all is said and done it'll be awfully quiet and there'll be nothing to do.
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Need some #TuesdayMotivation? There's 1 day left to help us send 200 more girls to #school: ow.ly/TNab300LYoq
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Daughters who see their dad doing chores have more aspirational careers. smithmag.co/UIpv5t
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"This is what a feminist looks like." -@POTUS speaking at The United #StateofWomen Summit
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The location puzzle is live! Join us in Lincoln Park on Tuesday for a set by our very own @santheo! RSVP via puzzledpint.com/puzzles/june…
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At funeral of chemist Harry Kroto today, his former classmate Ian McKellen performed a great speech from Shakespeare's 'Sir Thomas More'
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so so sad to hear #HarryKroto passed away yesterday. beyond #NobelPrize for buckyballs, super nice man, superb communicator and enthusiast.
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All #scicomm is better if we're diverse in the way we tell it -@deborahblum on gender balance in #scicomm #PCST2016 – at İstanbul, Türkiye
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I've said it before - I will always admire dinosaurs for becoming hummingbirds.
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#ChemNobel Laureate Walter Kohn has died. Kohn won his Nobel in 1998 for DFT ow.ly/4mWZRG ht @nuclear94
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Two years ago Boko Haram kidnapped more than 250 schoolgirls. Most are still missing. Hear stories of survivors: ow.ly/4mHClg
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Sona Dadhania has been awarded the full-ride Science Ambassador Scholarship. We filmed her reaction, it's great: goo.gl/veuhwt
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