Kristen Kulinowski
@kulinowski.bsky.social
Science policy, emerging tech, disasters,#bikeDC. Former STPI director/member Chemical Safety Board. Fellow of American Chemical Society.
Before and after pictures of the treats table from Holiday Open House 2025. Treat bags were popular, nearly cleaned us out! #cookieparty
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Before and after pictures of the treats table from Holiday Open House 2025. Treat bags were popular, nearly cleaned us out! #cookieparty
Peanut butter cups filled with mascarpone chocolate ganache #cookieparty
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Peanut butter cups filled with mascarpone chocolate ganache #cookieparty
We’re hanging the cookies on a real tree this year. No more fake “tree of light”. #cookieparty
December 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We’re hanging the cookies on a real tree this year. No more fake “tree of light”. #cookieparty
Cookie decorating party. Can you guess which ones the teens did? #cookieparty
December 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Cookie decorating party. Can you guess which ones the teens did? #cookieparty
First time painting sugar cookies with gel food coloring and vodka. Started with a royal icing coating. The acorn bottoms were brown royal icing, caps were painted. I’m no artist but this is a good result for me. #cookieparty
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
First time painting sugar cookies with gel food coloring and vodka. Started with a royal icing coating. The acorn bottoms were brown royal icing, caps were painted. I’m no artist but this is a good result for me. #cookieparty
Next up: Maple Pecan drop cookies. #cookieparty
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Next up: Maple Pecan drop cookies. #cookieparty
Homemade ladyfingers. Not seating the non-uniformity because they’re going to get ground up for tiramisu truffles. #cookieparty
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Homemade ladyfingers. Not seating the non-uniformity because they’re going to get ground up for tiramisu truffles. #cookieparty
Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Happy Halloween
First project of #butterseason: Pumpkin apple spice cut out cookies with vanilla royal icing #cookieparty
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
First project of #butterseason: Pumpkin apple spice cut out cookies with vanilla royal icing #cookieparty
Big personal news: Today is my last day as director of STPI. I have no greater ambition at this point than to flood the #cookieparty zone. It's butter season, y'all! www.linkedin.com/posts/kriste...
In Transition
When I first came to the Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute as a research staff member in 2011, I had little idea of what the job entailed. I took a… ...
In Transition
When I first came to the Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute as a research staff member in 2011, I had little idea of what the job entailed. I took a l...
www.linkedin.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Big personal news: Today is my last day as director of STPI. I have no greater ambition at this point than to flood the #cookieparty zone. It's butter season, y'all! www.linkedin.com/posts/kriste...
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
Can generative AI be trusted to draw chemical structures? Not yet, according to two chemists who want to see the community take a tough stance against its use.
The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn
AIs like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae
www.chemistryworld.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Can generative AI be trusted to draw chemical structures? Not yet, according to two chemists who want to see the community take a tough stance against its use.
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
In 2024, a team of science writers at AAAS ran a long-term experiment to see if ChatGPT could cut it writing news items about scientific research. Here's what they learned. Worth a look. 🧪 #scicomm
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
Can ChatGPT help science writers?
www.science.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In 2024, a team of science writers at AAAS ran a long-term experiment to see if ChatGPT could cut it writing news items about scientific research. Here's what they learned. Worth a look. 🧪 #scicomm
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
Check it out. A TT position in chemical education. Got my first job post-PhD as a lecturer there. Can attest to CalPoly being a beautiful and student-oriented campus. Got to work alongside @rodschoonover.bsky.social among other dedicated profs and staff.
Be my colleague! Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is hiring two tenure-track positions for Fall 2026, chemical education and coatings technology.
Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Cal Poly - Details - Tenure Track Position - Chemistry
jobs.calpoly.edu
September 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Check it out. A TT position in chemical education. Got my first job post-PhD as a lecturer there. Can attest to CalPoly being a beautiful and student-oriented campus. Got to work alongside @rodschoonover.bsky.social among other dedicated profs and staff.
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
Be my colleague! Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is hiring two tenure-track positions for Fall 2026, chemical education and coatings technology.
Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Cal Poly - Details - Tenure Track Position - Chemistry
jobs.calpoly.edu
September 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Be my colleague! Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is hiring two tenure-track positions for Fall 2026, chemical education and coatings technology.
Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
This science story has everything:
- a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on
- a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping)
- an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded
www.science.org/content/arti...
- a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on
- a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping)
- an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded
www.science.org/content/arti...
Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes
Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease
www.science.org
September 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This science story has everything:
- a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on
- a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping)
- an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded
www.science.org/content/arti...
- a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on
- a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping)
- an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded
www.science.org/content/arti...
You can have my 1st Gen lightning-connected Apple Pencil when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
LAST ONE STANDING: only one product Apple sells still using the lightning connector-and it’s 10 years old. Can you guess what it is? @wired.com www.wired.com/story/just-o...
Just One Lonely Product Still Uses Apple’s Lightning Connector—Can You Guess Which One?
After quietly moving the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad over to USB-C last year, a solitary decade-old Apple product is somehow still holding on.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
You can have my 1st Gen lightning-connected Apple Pencil when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
LAST ONE STANDING: only one product Apple sells still using the lightning connector-and it’s 10 years old. Can you guess what it is? @wired.com www.wired.com/story/just-o...
Just One Lonely Product Still Uses Apple’s Lightning Connector—Can You Guess Which One?
After quietly moving the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad over to USB-C last year, a solitary decade-old Apple product is somehow still holding on.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
LAST ONE STANDING: only one product Apple sells still using the lightning connector-and it’s 10 years old. Can you guess what it is? @wired.com www.wired.com/story/just-o...
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
There isn’t a timelier moment nor better place to show up for science than Washington, DC. The American Chemical Society Fall 2025 meeting is taking place Aug. 17–21 in the US capital with the theme “Innovations in Chemistry.” cen.acs.org/acs-news/mee... #chemsky 🧪 #ACSFall2025
ACS Fall 2025 Washington, DC, meeting guide
The meeting will take place Aug. 17–21
cen.acs.org
July 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
There isn’t a timelier moment nor better place to show up for science than Washington, DC. The American Chemical Society Fall 2025 meeting is taking place Aug. 17–21 in the US capital with the theme “Innovations in Chemistry.” cen.acs.org/acs-news/mee... #chemsky 🧪 #ACSFall2025
Heading to #ACSFall2025 soon. I'll be speaking about my career path in the session on careers in science policy. Come say hi! @acs.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Heading to #ACSFall2025 soon. I'll be speaking about my career path in the session on careers in science policy. Come say hi! @acs.org
Someone once got annoyed at me for saying "milk chocolate is for children." This piece makes that opinion seem as mild and innocuous as, well, milk chocolate. #DontBeAfraidOfTheDark
"This chocolate is made of 87 percent unroasted cacao beans, but 100 percent of those beans have seen some shit."
This Chocolate Will Kick Your Teeth In
Are you looking for sweet, melty chocolate that makes you feel comforted—or are you a fucking adult? Are you grown up enough to appreciate that eve...
buff.ly
August 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Someone once got annoyed at me for saying "milk chocolate is for children." This piece makes that opinion seem as mild and innocuous as, well, milk chocolate. #DontBeAfraidOfTheDark
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
"This chocolate is made of 87 percent unroasted cacao beans, but 100 percent of those beans have seen some shit."
This Chocolate Will Kick Your Teeth In
Are you looking for sweet, melty chocolate that makes you feel comforted—or are you a fucking adult? Are you grown up enough to appreciate that eve...
buff.ly
August 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"This chocolate is made of 87 percent unroasted cacao beans, but 100 percent of those beans have seen some shit."
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
Flame jetting is a sudden flash fire that can occur when pouring flammable liquids from a container over an exposed flame or other ignition source.
NEVER pour flammable liquids from a container over an exposed flame.
NEVER pour flammable liquids from a container over an exposed flame.
August 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Flame jetting is a sudden flash fire that can occur when pouring flammable liquids from a container over an exposed flame or other ignition source.
NEVER pour flammable liquids from a container over an exposed flame.
NEVER pour flammable liquids from a container over an exposed flame.
Reposted by Kristen Kulinowski
Each pause of breath triggered by apnea causes a drop in oxygen levels and a surge in adrenaline for the sleeper. “Over time, that raises the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke.”
What Your Nighttime Breathing Says About Your Health
Once dismissed as just snoring, sleep apnea is now emerging as an early warning sign for serious conditions like Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and depression.
wrd.cm
August 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Each pause of breath triggered by apnea causes a drop in oxygen levels and a surge in adrenaline for the sleeper. “Over time, that raises the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke.”