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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · 2d

Kicking off a new Adapt Faculty Mentoring Network with @acs.org Green Chemistry Institute this week! 🌱
Eight new participants, eight returning as facilitators—shared leadership in action. 💚
How do you build communities that help people grow into leadership roles?
#GreenChemistry #Community

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · 10d

Recording here if you want to check it out:
🔗 youtu.be/BmbtCO7pdyM

#GreenChemistry #Teaching #ScienceCommunication #Sustainability #STEMEducation #Chemistry

Ionic Liquids: A Cautionary Tale in Green Design and Lessons Learned

YouTube video by Sarah Prescott

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · 10d

She kept everyone engaged with examples ranging from Legos and Vicks VapoRub… to QSAR, microwave-assisted synthesis, and yes—even fart smell. That’s how you make chemistry memorable. 🔬✨

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · 10d

We kicked off our Greener by Design guest speaker series with Dr. Meghna Dilip (Worcester State University) and wow — what a talk.

“Ionic Liquids: A Cautionary Tale in Green Design and Lessons Learned” explored both the promise and the pitfalls of ionic liquids.

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · 21d

Life’s been busy with fall course prep, but I finally wanted to share this: we got to help at least 7 tiny painted turtle hatchlings cross the road safely after they hatched near our mailbox. 🐢💚 A magical summer moment. #sustainability #wildlife #EverydayJoy

painted turtle hatchling crawling over rocks and grass

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Sep 8

Apples need pruning work, ducks are happy with a clearer pond, and I’m grateful for the food + lessons this year. Onward to Maru’s Meadows. 🌱💚

White flowers in the foreground with a small pond behind

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tried fruit bags on peaches to keep pests out… accidentally hosted an ANT PARTY. 🐜😂 Lesson learned.

Closeup picture of unripened peaches in small mesh bags on a peach tree

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Sep 8

Peaches were the stars — so many that I had to thin them mid-season. Flash frozen for winter PEACH CRISP (better than apple crisp, fight me). 🍑🔥

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Sep 8

This season’s garden experiments had wins, fails, & surprises. Tomatoes thrived this year (drought & all) — heirlooms from local plant sales. Even got some yummy yellow ones! Pickle-palooza: sweet, dill, garlic-dill, & my grandmother’s sour (mustard) pickles. (Only I eat those… but it’s tradition.)

Cucumbers and assorted colored tomatoes in pans

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@DocGiani 🩺 @docgiani.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is truly well said

altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · Aug 16

Yesterday was the closest thing we will likely ever see in our lifetimes to the meeting in Munich between Hitler and Chamberlain.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 16

Imagine spending all that time and energy to become an FBI agent and then President Mumbles McFacepaint orders you to march around the yuppiest neighborhoods of Washington DC in tactical gear so drunk college kids can jeer at you.

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · Aug 16

FYI: the FBI is patrolling Columbia Heights along 14th St. and is not in a "taking questions" mood.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Aug 16

Last night, chants of “FREE DC” echoed loud and clear through the Washington Spirit broadcast, absolutely incredible. Huge shoutout to everyone who made noise. Free DC is doing amazing work! ✊💚

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · Aug 16

These are not the stories of the “violent criminals” ICE says they are detaining. These are CHILDREN.

The headlines are horrifying. So much for keeping us safer…

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism

The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

www.latimes.com

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 31

💬 What’s your main thing?
Whether or not you were at BIOME, we’d love to hear what grounds you as an educator, leader, or changemaker. Drop a reply—we’re building together.
#CatalyzingChange #BioQUEST #STEMed

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 31

🧭 “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” @travisyork.bsky.social
Travis York’s keynote helped us reflect on our center, and our word cloud said it all: community, collaboration, learning.
#TheMainThing #BIOME2025 #Equity

screenshot of a menti poll word cloud, with the words collaboration, community, learning, and engagement largest in the center

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌈 Tie Dyed Tuesday brought the color and the energy! Our Bonfire shop’s still open if you want to rep the spirit year-round: lnkd.in/ef2SKtv8
📰 Don’t miss future events: qubeshub.org/news/newslet...
#TiedyedTuesday #BioQUEST

screenshot of a zoom room of participants headshots smiling, most wearing tie dyed tshirts

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌀 BIOME 2025 (organized by @bioquest.bsky.social ) was one of the most energizing events of my summer. Educators across disciplines came together to catalyze change through inclusive, sustainable, community-centered STEM education. #BIOME2025 #CatalyzingChange #STEMed #CommunitiesOfPractice

screenshot of zoom room with headshots of participants smiling

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 29

Each event gave me real hope. If we crossed paths—thank you.
And if you’re working on inclusive STEM ed, I’d love to connect and hear about it. 💬

Let’s keep the momentum going.

#STEMed #GreenChemistry #HigherEd #FacultyDev #CommunitiesOfPractice #CatalyzingChange

Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 29

🔬 Chemistry Community of Communities Convening
Joined a vibrant set of chem ed CoPs—some brand-new, others well-established.
📢 Spoke on BioQUEST as a Community of Transformation.
💡 Chem hasn’t had same structural and funding support as bio ed—but the energy here? 🔥
🔗 sites.google.com/view/chem-co...

Community of Communities Gathering 2025

Schedule

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 29

🏛️ ASCN Transforming Institutions Conference
Shared how BioQUEST @bioquest.bsky.social supports equity-focused change in STEM.
💬 Rich convos on assessment, faculty networks + shared leadership.
🧠 Real change = community care.
🔗 ascnhighered.org/ASCN/transfo...

Transforming Institutions Conference 2025

Saved on 2025-04-14 14:31:35 by Kacy Redd View Raw HTML Rowing in the Same Direction: Aligning Change Efforts Across Higher Education June 9-11, 2025 | St. Louis, MO The Transforming Institutions Conf...

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 29

🧪 Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (GC&E)
Co-led a Greener by Design workshop with David Laviska and Sarah Kennedy @sarahkennedyphd.bsky.social.
🌍 Focus: green chemistry, the UN SDGs + systems thinking.
🎯 Takeaway: Values must be centered in STEM teaching.
🔗 www.gcande.org

ACS GCI Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference

Attend ACS Green Chemistry Institute's 29th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference Pittsburgh, PA | June 23-26, 2025

www.gcande.org

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Maru @drprescott.bsky.social · Jul 29

It’s been a BIG summer of conferences—packed with ideas, momentum, and community. Here’s a quick rundown of where I’ve been showing up (and what I’m carrying forward). 🧵👇

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jul 23

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The result—an increase of executive power at the expense of legislative authority-does not stand alone. Just last week, this Court granted another stay allowing the President to ignore a federal statute. That decision permitted the President to push forward in dismantling the Department of Education, even though Congress created that agency and tasked it with performing vital functions. See McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S.
(2025)
(SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). If the majority had any valid basis for taking that action (relating, say, to the breadth of the District Court's preliminary injunction) it did not appear on the face of the Court's unreasoned or-der. See id., at _ (order) (slip op., at 1); id., at (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 18). That order simply signaled that the President could carry on, even in the face of a conflicting statute. So too does this order, and with the same lack of care. The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with "little time, scant briefing, and no argument" —to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties. Wilcox, 605 U.S., at
_ (KAGAN,
J., dissenting) (slip op., at 5). By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another. Respectfully, I dissent.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 23

Surely this will be the payment that finally gets the extortionist to stop demanding money

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

www.nytimes.com

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