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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

#LGTBQ+ Chemists unite! #ACSFall2025

Side note: CALC still has to be approved by the Board, but we expect this to happen.

Do I want to be on CALC? Yes. Do like 80 other people? Also yes. So we’ll see.

a rainbow background with the words love is unstoppa written on it

Alt: a rainbow background that emerges from left to right like someone is painting and creating a color palette with the words love is unstoppable on it.

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 1d

Been lurking for awhile for the same reasons. Sigh.

Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Sep 1

What Marie said. 😈🫶🏼

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Aug 24

We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...

Human Literacy

Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 26

FUND THIS CRITICAL WORK ALREADY @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
MacKenzie Scott Foundation
Hewlett Foundation NIH

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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

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · Aug 20

Tried out Grammarly's AI grade predictor. Didn't want to use actual student work, so I had ChatGPT write a paper for one of my assignments and gave that to Grammarly. Grammarly promises to use publicly available info about your instructor to predict what they will say. The advice was *not* what I /1

You demonstrate a nuanced, critical comparison of Khan and Warner, showing clear independent thinking and a command of both their arguments. Your thesis is thoughtful and sustains the essay’s direction, and your development of ideas is well-supported by concrete reference to the texts. One opportunity for revision could be to further foreground your own perspective and curiosity in the introduction—this would help the reader see not just what Khan and Warner argue, but why their debate personally matters or provokes questions for you. Doing so could provide a

for revision could be to further foreground your own perspective and curiosity in the introduction—this would help the reader see not just what Khan and Warner argue, but why their debate personally matters or provokes questions for you. Doing so could provide a stronger sense of self-discovery and engagement, which aligns with course goals for reflective and original writing.

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

So, anyway, if you’d like to know more about my current elected role as Councilor, or about CHED or ACS Council, I’m here in the comments, DMs, etc. Let’s chat.

Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

CHED ExComm approved almost $100K in CHED member scholarships for #BCCE2026. & while our role is often fiduciary, the ability to give back to CHED (via webinars (POGIL, Early Career Chemists, etc) or communication & solidarity in hard times or scholarships) is a breath of fresh air. #ACSFall2025

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

a rainbow background with the words love is unstoppa written on it

Alt: a rainbow background that emerges from left to right like someone is painting and creating a color palette with the words love is unstoppable on it.

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

Most of the time the votes are for things that help the society by slightly restructuring or enacting something.

Yesterday, we voted to create a Committee on the Advancement of LGTBQ+ Chemists (CALC) & it passed with more than 85% of the vote & 0 discussion. That was a magical moment. #ACSFall2025

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

…lots of reports from different entities (chair succession, ACS CEO, & most (all?!?) of the Society committees), & some stuff to vote on (usually w/ highlighted blue or yellow pages).

The ACS Council agenda book is available for every National Meeting well in advance of the meeting. #ACSFall2025

Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

The agenda booklet for ACS Council is publicly available here: www.acs.org/about/govern...

& it’s what we use (& what is constantly referred to) for the 4-hr meeting. It includes election info for different Society Committees (which do the ongoing work of Council for the members of the Society)…

Council - American Chemical Society

The Council shall act as an advisory body in matters pertaining to the general management of the Society.

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

ExComm runs the Division (CHED) & is lead by the Current Chair (rn it’s Thom Bussey) [& the Chair Succession (immediate past chair, current chair, incoming chair)].
Council runs the Society (along w/ the Board of Directors) & is lead by the Current Chair (rn it’s Dorothy Phillips). #ACSFall2025

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

So, let’s start by putting this in context. I am a Councilor for the Division of Chemical Education (CHED) in @acs.org & that requires me to attend at least 2 4-hour ish long meetings at every National Meeting (Fall & Spring) - Executive Committee (ExComm) for CHED & ACS Council. #ACSFall2025

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Aug 21

Ok, #ChemSky folks were saying that they missed when their pocket friends talk about #ACSFall2025, & while I didn’t go to DC (insta or Discord are better places to get pics of the experience from other former #ChemTwitter folks), I’m gonna talk about what I did go to virtually - governance. #LetsGo

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Jul 18

This is exactly how the 19 yo has conceptualized capitalism to me recently. And I’m like oh my goodness. Like am I ready to do a deep dive on the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism and why it is extraction based?!?

No, Sherri. No I am not.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Jul 12

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Jul 10

Amen and amen. Like JFC stop trolling Tressie y’all.

Retronymous @retronymous.com · Jul 10

I pray that someday people can act normal with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the internet

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Jul 3

What shocks me is how many professors, administrators and students who blithely use LLMs do not know this

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · Jun 26

Congrats to Prof. @donnablack.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication from @rsc.org—awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, asymmetric catalysis mechanisms, homochirality, and excellence in communication. More: ow.ly/iFhM50Wgn0z

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 27

The bipartisan American Science Acceleration Project sounds promising, but "move fast and break things" isn't a strategy for trustworthy research. I write in @science.org about why we need acceleration that opens doors to participation and accountability.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ten times faster is not 10 times better

As the Trump administration systematically defunds the American research ecosystem, while disingenuously promising a return to so-called “gold standard science,” hope can be drawn from the new biparti...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jun 22

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · Jun 19

“If, then, we “full-time” intellectuals restrict our knowledge to those who have been fortunate enough to get full-time education and to work in universities, we are simply reproducing, by our own efforts, the unequal distribution of knowledge and education in our societies.” — Stuart Hall

catupnorth @catupnorth.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Recently found speech by Stuart Hall that could have been written today…

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · May 30

Just saw the old Bugs Bunny toon "Sahara Hare" where he finds a "mirage-ee". I was surprised how the clip kinda illustrates diffusion model genAI. I think we found the perfect GIF for the paper @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I wrote on AI's so-call "hallucination": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · Jun 21

Coming to terms with Qualitative Research through an ungrading lens

As part of my dissertation, I am writing a paper that describes a qualitative study based on interviews with chemistry ungrading faculty. The qualitative study process, including its communication, has been more difficult than it…

Coming to terms with Qualitative Research through an ungrading lens

As part of my dissertation, I am writing a paper that describes a qualitative study based on interviews with chemistry ungrading faculty. The qualitative study process, including its communication, has been more difficult than it should be and the problem seems to be me. Creswell and Poth (2024), in the 5th edition of Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design (often considered a defining text in qualitative research methodology classes), define qualitative research as:

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jun 19

The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us.

They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

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