@ChemBark

News, Analysis, and Commentary for the World of Chemistry and Chemical Research. The site is maintained by Paul Bracher (@ChemBarkPaul).

 St. Louis, USA
blog.chembark.com
Joined August 2010
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Very disrespectful to organic chemistry…
Cary Kelly
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What do you say when the professor asks, "Did you bring enough for the whole class?" Me: They're fasting. Source: thecarnivoreUK (IG)
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Facing a very serious domestic issue: my closet is performing a kinetic resolution of my gloves. I can’t find mates for any of these L-enantiomers 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Agree. Thatcher and Merkel were chemists. Harris is not a chemist, so she will need a running mate with that expertise.
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I feel like everyone is distracted right now. Can we focus on best practices for writing alt-text with organic chemistry schemes?
ChemBark@ChemBark30 May 2024
Does anyone have a set of best practices for the alt-text of organic reaction schemes in an intro course? What is better for those with visual impairments, a description of the image/ molecules or simply whatever the caption would be were the scheme to be published in a journal?
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Does anyone have a set of best practices for the alt-text of organic reaction schemes in an intro course? What is better for those with visual impairments, a description of the image/ molecules or simply whatever the caption would be were the scheme to be published in a journal?
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The #1 problem facing the chemical publishing industry today is the misuse of "superimposable" as a substitute for "superposable". This issue recently surpassed our widespread failure to appreciate the nuanced difference between "isolable" and "isolatable".
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Faculty: On an annual basis—done *every* year—how is your effectiveness as an instructor evaluated?
64%Student evals
1%Classroom observation
21%Class obs & std evals
14%It’s not! 😈
72 votes • Final results
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This hits hard.
John Penniman@Historiographos28 Nov 2023
I will never recover from this student email.
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Driving across our great country, sometimes you stumble across the most wonderful random things.
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“But it’s Thanksgiving!” my wife exclaims as I insist I just need 10 minutes to check how things are going.
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OTD in 2016, I gave an organic chemistry lecture with @EWhitteck to our 300-student class blindly, on a wireless mic, from one floor above, because the elevator was broken. ♿️ 💪
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A gorgeous mashup—if Adam Bomb were a chemist…
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It’s really hard to trust IUPAC with nomenclature when everyone else agrees helium is the OG of the noble gases.
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The latest (chemistry!) addition to my GPK collection
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Never underestimate the value of a well-rounded, liberal arts education.
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Tip #72 for avoiding becoming department chair: drop hints you believe all faculty should take a turn teaching first-semester general chemistry
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Look, Harry Gray is nothing less than a fucking treasure. He is the most enthusiastic and supportive scientific mentor I’ve ever experienced or even heard of.
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He paid for happy hours and parties, practically every week, in the middle of the day. He encouraged us to spend considerable time on outreach with kids. These are not the actions of a hardass.
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He is a model of scientific brilliance, enthusiasm, and support that is practically untouchable by the rest of us. Do not confuse his infectious, personal joie de vivre and chemistry as some dog whistle that does not exist.
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