An albino squirrel enjoying our back yard. #nature #photography

Those are really cool images as well! We do not see twisted (yet) but see some evidence that there is a connection (hard to avoid pun) in some cases between chunkier crystals and thin rods. I have had three different students grow these oddities since at first I was uncertain if it was real.

Anyone ever seen such crazy crystals before or know what's going on? #chemsky

They were passing out these notes for upcoming Jon Husted protest at the No Kings rally in Cleveland yesterday. I also noted this very large banner. #NoKings

Terrific turnout for #NoKings Cleveland today!

Great rally for Science in Pittsburgh today! #standupforscience

Short window?!

So my grad student was trying to grow single crystals of a new compound for X-ray crystallography, and instead got candy canes, a packman, and other alphabet letters. If the crystals could now self assemble into necessary text for a manuscript then life would be good....

Had a great visit from my former postdoc @rjgilliard.bsky.social this week! Good to introduce him to some other program officers as well.

With the upcoming heat wave, I’ll need some of that cyclopentane flavored ice cream I saw the other day. #chemsky

The Thanksgiving and Christmas time lines have officially crossed and we are all now doomed to strange mutations

Couple inches snow in past half hour so far tonight in Cleveland Heights.