Ruth Bowers

Fully vaxxed and handing out snacks. General chemistry is convenient lies. Food allergy ally. Co-author of Understanding Chemistry Through Cars. she/her/hers

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

Don’t bring the Bohr model to a multi-electron fight.

[Dr. Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale]

Tips for succeeding in a chem class TL;DR:

1. Schedule weekly support
2. Expose yourself to the content early & often
3. “Chemistry is learned w/ a pencil in your hand.”
4. Reflect to seek out support
5. Reminder that your ability is changeable!

What is missing?

#chemtwitter

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

We are sad to learn of the passing of Marilyn Lovell, the loving wife of Gemini and Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. During the Apollo 8 mission, Capt. Lovell named a mountain on the Moon "Mount Marilyn" in her honor. Our thoughts are with him and the entire Lovell family.

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

We’re looking at you, too, weather

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

Who could *possibly* have predicted this shocking development in this case? https://t.co/EIUFXQslzv

[Hank Dolce @hankd_wx]

Map of every U.S. state that has been under an NHC cone of uncertainty so
far in 2023.

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

@andrechemist Build it into the laboratory curriculum so that juniors and seniors are doing authentic projects in lab. Requires scaffolding of skills and independence through Gen Chem and organic.

[Abby Denton @mizabitha]

I was talking to my dad about those 1-10 pain scales they use at doctors' offices and how they don't really work and my dad, an engineer, said they should have a standardized needle they stab you with as a benchmark and tell you, "This is 5."

[Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie]

All I want to do is drink heavy water with my boys and be able to publish a letter in Science about it

[Sampson the Service Dog @sampson_dog]

Travel boundaries part 8: We visit a location before an event if possible. Mom checks the room, locates relief areas for me, understands where we'll be talking/presenting making sure it is what we need, that I have space, and she can stand behind a podium to balance while talking

[Myq (Parenthetical) Kaplan @myqkaplan]

"go ahead, make my day" -- thor to god, re: thursday

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

🧵

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

@andrechemist I regularly have multiple tabs of the same course of Blackboard open in Chrome for comparing drafts to revisions or sorting through tests from the front and back ends.

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

Instead, the US government decided to set up the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Programme, sending 30 million pounds of cheddar to welfare programmes.

And lo and behold, a new pop culture icon was born.

4/5

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

The pile had gotten too big. The cheese was starting to go off and the huge underground storage facilities ended up costing $1 million a day to run.

At one point a USDA official suggested, “probably the cheapest and most practical thing would be to dump it in the ocean.”

3/5

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

In 1949, the US government started buying surplus milk in order to prop up the dairy industry.

And by the 80s, they ended up having more cheese than they knew what to do with. At one point, 1.2 billion pounds of it – which is about the size of a small mountain 🗻

2/5

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

I cried last year after hearing a government cheese joke and having to explain it to my teen. He has not ever had that experience, but I have.

Told that story to my students and got nods of understanding.

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

@heydebigale Me, personally? I will likely mask the first 2-3 weeks of class to let that first round of illness run through. Same after breaks and when more students than usual are ill. I work in a large lecture hall and a lab with hoods. So much air.

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

Oh

[BNO News @BNOFeed]

Texas reports 14,881 new coronavirus cases this week, an increase of 23% from last week or 170% from last month

[Ruth Bowers @subaruthie]

@heydebigale My reasoning: They are fully vaxxed/boosted. I don’t want them to feel like they need to lie to me about masking if they really don’t want to do it. Dealing with elementary, middle school, and one in a program that is already somewhat sequestered from much of the school.