Latest book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea https://books.rsc.org/books/monograph/2162/SteepedThe-Chemistry-of-Tea Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College & Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory. https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3myah6wivxk2bI am also a Catholic voice. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3myah6wivxk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mxj6o4f7qk23For those who have an itch to write! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxj6o4f7qk23https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mwvwiy5koc22My latest Nature Chemistry essay - expanding my spice palette. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvwiy5koc22https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mumruhi27k2oSo many darlings dispatched, so many. I keep their ashes in the metadata in hope. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumruhi27k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mtjhpkgntc2hThe conversation around this is ace. Wish I were teaching this fall, it would be a fascinating topic to discuss. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Aug 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjhpkgntc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3ms6tjgyqrc24Today's reading: about marmorated stink bugs, defatted cricket powder, and brain heart broth. Flavor chemistry! (well, not that last) #chemsky #chemistswhocook03 Aug 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6tjgyqrc24https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mruo7ysxxc24This chapter on insect diets is has some great snarky prose: "data almost as hard to digest as the chitinous bodies of the insects themselves"30 Jul 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruo7ysxxc24https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mrunxn76ws24Synpathizing with @stuartcantrill.com ... I had to resort to the OED while reading today: what is "lacertilian"?!? and why would you call a fire-ant-eating horned toad a "lacertilian yogi"? (Lacertilian means "relating to lizards, which to the best of my limited knowledge, toads are not.)30 Jul 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrunxn76ws24https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mqjtdikmks2zDoes your life depend on science? Mine certainly does. At the start of Trump’s term I wrote this op-ed: share.inquirer.com/Nf1shA Today is the last day to submit comments on the proposed rule changes that will dismantle US science — and have far reaching effects on everyone’s lives. Comment!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jul 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjtdikmks2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mpwakcqyqk2sHey #chemsky - I am working on a book about women in chemistry and trying to track down an incident about a general chem textbook where the authors made a snarky comment about women in bikinis (and parenthetically called themselves out as sexist). Any hints for me??05 Jul 2026 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpwakcqyqk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mpqp4willc2sWant to know more about the first women chemists? Try these terrific articles by Gisela Boeck and... https://www.chemistryviews.org/lydia-sesemann-150-years-of-womens-doctorates-in-chemistry/ (1/2) #chemsky03 Jul 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqp4willc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mpothqc6nc23My most recent column in Nature Chem (@natchem.nature.com) is out: First Ladies of Chemistry. Who were the early women PhDs in chemistry? Why was the Ice Woman a hero (why is she still?)? Also -aren't those lab coats in the photo wild? rdcu.be/frKkW https://rdcu.be/frKkW02 Jul 2026 20:07 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpothqc6nc23https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mnqcdk4wok2qThe president rants, shouts, stonewalls, belittles, as if his fury trumps the truth and the big story is Wisconsin? #butHerEMails [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jun 2026 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnqcdk4wok2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mnqc2wdvcs2qEnjoy experimenting with basic chemistry? Excited to read this… [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jun 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnqc2wdvcs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mnlerkxbls24Watching For All Mankind last episode #spoiler #chemFail #chemsky06 Jun 2026 00:16 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnlerkxbls24https://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mk4fb6s2hc2wTrump wants Pope Leo to stay in his lane. What is Pope Leo's lane? My op-ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. share.inquirer.com/jA6FfM https://share.inquirer.com/jA6FfM22 Apr 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4fb6s2hc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mjpmvwoxf22fThis is brilliant! But who, what, where is Runcorn? [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Apr 2026 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpmvwoxf22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mj2wwqmkqc2oIs this the first time Klingon has been used in a science journal? My latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis opens and closes in Klingon and looks at the language barriers in science. Chemists have tinkered with synthetic languages before! rdcu.be/fczV7 #chemsky09 Apr 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2wwqmkqc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mikbz3usfk2dTalking water, the universe, and a bit about tea. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Apr 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mikbz3usfk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/michellefrancl.bsky.social/post/3mhvayh56mc2iI ran 15 years of my own against a list of word "tells" for AI, will my esoteric vocabulary and my love of the em dash be my undoing? And yes, my writing was part of the training sets. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2026 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:ffodqffc2wseqq37e35lr3f5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvayh56mc2i