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They/them. Chemistry teaching faculty at UMBC. LongCOVID. Programming, equity, and non-traditional paths in chemistry education. Centering humans and hope. Opinions very much my own.
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Question for academics: is your dept/college tracking and communicating grant cancellations?

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

🩷💜💙 #art

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I cut my hair, dyed it weird colors, and usually wear a rainbow wristband at work. Every student with blue hair that I teach comes by my office to tell me about their plants or their cats. No one is coming out to anyone, and yet we know who we are.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

The mindset employers want young people embarking on a career to have is one where they are willing to work long hours for lower pay than they deserve. School should teach them the opposite.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A 7yo asked me to use a new set of pronouns for them for a week just to see what it's like and honestly sometimes I love the world

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella 📷 David Irving, eBird

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Again, I don't think it's at all obvious what AI is going to do to the economy but on my very specific hobby horse: it's darkly funny how quickly we've gone from "mobilize schools to meet the economy's unfathomable appetite for computer scientists" to "tough luck coders we have AI now".

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Putting this in context there are 615 Hispanic Serving Institutions and 425 EMERGING HSIs. HSIs enroll 37% if Pell Students HSIs enroll 33% of all undergraduate students on non-profit secondary ed LET THAT SINK IN

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Omg Andor season 2 is so good

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Me: I'm recovering from a health thing and should rest in bed with TV all day Also me: Joking on here about gen chem cuts counts as rest

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This. People keep saying "well RFK has a point about...." No. Don't give him points. It's unnecessary to say. We can say they're wrong and dangerous and we're not required to also say the tiny bits we agree with.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Friday afternoons that fall on term breaks for many people being known as a great time for lots of engagement, lemme tell y'all about how I graded pchem this term, because it was AMAZING

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not listening to a depressing song on repeat, I don't know what you're talking about

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It is ridiculously challenging to my identity for me to be rooting so hard for Harvard University www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Planning for Commencement when you have POTS: managing your fluids and electrolytes all day

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment