While reporting this story, I (very easily) convinced @leighkboerner.bsky.social to get this Cinnabon gift wrap. Here's some of what she said:
"The smell overpowered the Christmas tree smell for about a day"
"It is unhinged wrapping paper. 100% would buy again."
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I realize I'm late to the party publishing a story about these ancient arrowheads! the reason is that I was busy finishing up a story about chemist repurposing enzymes to make diazo compounds. Which i think nicely sums up how my job works.
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There’s too much ionic energy in the world… we all need more covalent energy ✌️🫂

📼 November: My favorite project from this year, in which I got to go behind the scenes at the Library of Congress and hear a lot of wild stories about tapes
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

🦭 December: I learned some cool facts about seal milk!
cen.acs.org/biological-c...

🌟 September: I blew up C&EN's website with a story about C-H functionalization (I know my audience and they're massive nerds)
cen.acs.org/synthesis/c-...

💸 October: The third installment of my series on chaotic changes to NSF's graduate research fellowship
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

✂️ July: Adventures in atom swapping!
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(see also this very successful feature cen.acs.org/synthesis/Sk...)

🧪 August: Beth Halford, Laura Howes, and I revamped C&EN's first disclosures coverage to put the molecules front and center
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

♻️ May: I make a case for becoming a Kat Knauer stan (seriously you guys she's so cool)
cen.acs.org/materials/po...

🌞 June*: I traveled to Troy, NY during a heatwave to party on a boat with a bunch of organic chemists
*Story pubbed July 10 but the conference was in June
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🍝 February: I attempted to make scientifically perfect cacio e pepe
cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...

💚 March: Prachi Patel and I got stuck on green glues
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🦠 April: I traveled to San Diego to hear about how machine learning can benefit biocatalysis
cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs...

oops here's the glue link
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