And if you really want to make me happy, read the blog post explaining each pic in the bracket! I like this one :) cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

i was looking for a photo of someone hugging a fish and found out that people have been feeding the phrase "therapy fish" to Ai image generators

In my reporting, I found out that there are a bunch of “Swedish-type” candies that are growing in popularity in the US. I got these (fancy?) Swedish jellies for myself. Pretty good!

Hartel is the [candy]man. Thanks so much for the suggestion!

Ok, if you can’t read all of this year’s profiles, *at least* click through a couple of them and peek at the portraits and photos for the package. Damn i wish i looked that good cen.acs.org/people/profi...

I just liked this one about Karl Booksh. He realizes that doing experiments is hard, so he’s using machine learning to avoid the need for extra benchwork. @fmorningstar.bsky.social was even able to capture his southern charm: cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

Every word about Neetu Jha made me go ‘wow’: She turns garbage into zinc-ion batteries and got her university to install ramps and an elevator for accessibility. Read @payaldhar.bsky.social
inspiring piece: cen.acs.org/energy/energ...

Artur Mylin lost half a leg fighting in Ukraine. A year later, he walked back into the lab to defend his country in a new way. @rowanwalrath.bsky.social wrote a knockout about him: cen.acs.org/physical-che...

We lead the issue with Mona Minkara’s POWERFUL personal essay. Start here: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Just about all of our modern-day Trailblazers had stories like this. I really think you should read all of them 😉 But i’ll put a spotlight on a couple that’ll appeal to the people on here …

This crystallized as we wrote our historic biographies. Going back >300 years, many of these scientists had to hack together their own lab accommodations by necessity Lots of “firsts” on this list. cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Think about how many students have been alienated from science because they didn't feel they belonged or because they weren't given effective accommodations. Accessibility is hard; compromising is easy. That’s what Cary Supalo told Soren Lipman in his Q&A: cen.acs.org/education/Tr...

That’s one theme of Trailblazers this year. There’s a stigma imposed on chemists with disabilities by the chemistry enterprise. Many scientists don’t want to be viewed as less than or, worse, a hazard in the lab. Many hide their disability if they can.

As we went through about 100 nominations, recruited a bunch of science writers with disabilities, and started building these profiles, i realized that i knew kind of a lot.