Debbie Gale Mitchell
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Debbie Gale Mitchell
@heydebigale.bsky.social
Chemist, 🧲 spectroscopist, mother, Associate Teaching Prof. of Chemistry at University of Denver. Loves reading romance and nonfiction 💖📚, currently writing a narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy🚨Opinions and thoughts and posts are my own!
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I have some big news!

I’m writing a book about spectroscopy! 🚨🧲🌈🖼️🔦

My book is narrative nonfiction—with illustrations ✍️

A huge thank you to my wonderful agent Jessica Papin!!

Also thank you to my β-reader Sarah Zingales who has supported me through this whole process 🥹
I logged onto twitter ( I know I know) and there was a discourse about who should be able to use the title "Dr"
bart simpson is sitting at a podium while a man in a hat walks in front of him
ALT: bart simpson is sitting at a podium while a man in a hat walks in front of him
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November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
reason #485 why I love taking public transportation (with my kids):

I can focus on my kid instead of driving.

Both on the bus and also walking home from the bus stop, I feel like I have much better conversations with my kids compared to when I am driving them in the car.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Help me, #chemsky, you're my only hope.

Years ago, on the other place, some people posted gorgeous before-and-after pictures of actionoid organometallic crystals showing rapid radiation damage. Does anyone know where to find them so I can wow my students?
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It's that time again: @cenmag.bsky.social 's molecule of the year poll is now OPEN! Check out the contenders, lovingly curated by yours truly from past C&EN stories, and vote for your favorite by Dec. 11
#chemsky #scisky #moty2025
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Meet the molecules of the year 2025
C&EN editors’ annual round-up of spectacular molecules we’ve covered in the past year
cen.acs.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Humans are bad at big numbers. Which makes it easier for billionaires (and trillionaires) to get away with hoarding wealth. Because most people just can't comprehend how much money that is.

So, I appreciate this WaPo effort to help people visualize what ridiculous amounts of wealth really mean.
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I am nauseous watching this.

"with your permission"

This is vile.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I even started an Abstract with this thought.
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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As an intro chem instructor, I am acutely aware biology doesn't think about chemistry at all.

But maybe they should sometimes.
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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BREAKING BONDS DOES NOT RELEASE ENERGY!!
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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So hype that the faculty and staff of the UC system keep pushing their admin to be better
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Clumsy ‘cause I’m falling in love (with Cu)

#chemsky #chemchat 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My best inorganic meme was this TikTok I made with Sarah Zingales a couple years ago.

#chemsky #chemchat 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Via @matthartings.bsky.social & @rhodium103.bsky.social

I think about this one a lot
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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#chemchat
i need your best inorganic memes. Go
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Book recommendation for 2026: WHEN TREES TESTIFY by Beronda Montgomery coming January 20th 2026.

“Trees hold the transformed breath of decades of human life... and testify to history and those of their past”

I quick thread 🧵 reviewing this book!

#booksky #womeninscience #botany🌱 #BlackHistory
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I just met a dog named Deborah and I don’t know how to feel about that 😂
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Spent today learning from these amazing chemists!

Thank you @acs.org for the invitation to DC to talk about ways to promote chemistry to the public!

#chemsky #chemchat 🧪
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.

If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Nonfiction science new releases for November, 2025!
Which of these books are you adding to your TBR?

I am planning to read WHISPERS OF ROCK for science book club & I have already preordered GROWING PAPAYA TREES!

#nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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What interesting books are being released in December?
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I finally finished my Invisalign today (it took twice as long as it was supposed to) and the orthodontist gave me balloons and sparkling cider and I kind of felt like I deserved that 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I know I'm totally romance-pilled by @heydebigale.bsky.social because I am like "there is totally a romance novel angle to this story" www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM