Cathleen Crudden

Researcher, scientist, teacher, mother, daughter, tree hugger.
Professor and Canada Research Chair, Queen’s University. Editor-in-chief, ACS Catalysis

2023-04-13

@lawprofblawg buuhahhahahaha love it!

Cathleen Crudden boosted:
Dr. Kevin P. Taylorktaylor@sciences.social
2023-04-13

Why aren’t we talking about this more?

#Academia #AcademicMastadon #AcademicChatter #SubstanceUse

2023-02-18

Any advice from experienced mastodon users on how to make the experience more interactive? I miss DMs, threads and the general back and forth I am used to with the bird site. Thanks! #mastodonadvice

2023-02-18

@stuartcantrill for us it’s either continue cleaning the basement or start baking and thinking about wine….

2023-02-18

@gsuberland so so true!!!

Cathleen Crudden boosted:
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2023-02-18

I recently discovered this divide between chemistry and astronomy and had to make the meme.

#chemistry #astronomy

Remake of "the square hole" meme, for chemists and astronomers.

In the original meme, a man with one of those shape puzzles asks where each shape goes, and the woman replies with the corresponding shaped hole, but the man always puts the shape in the square hole, and the woman gets more and more visibly upset as things progress.

Astronomy asks "where does iron go?"

Chemistry: "Metals."

Astronomy: "That's right, it's a metal. Now what about magnesium?"

Chemistry: "Also metals."

Astronomy: "Yeah, that's a metal too. Next, we have argon. Can you guess where that goes?"

Chemistry: "Noble gases!"

Astronomy: "That's right, it's a metal. And what about chlorine, where does that go?"

Chemistry: "It's a halogen."

Astronomy: "That's right, another metal. Next up we have cerium, can you guess where that goes?"

Chemistry: "Actinides!"

Astronomy: "You got it, it's a metal! Lastly we have nitrogen. You know where that goes, right?"

Chemistry, now visibly distressed: "A non-metal! It's a non-metal."

Astronomy: "That's right, nitrogen is also a metal."
2023-02-10

@UROCKlive1 this is never a good sign for any company. #obviousstatements

Cathleen Crudden boosted:
Khashoggi’s GhostUROCKlive1@toad.social
2023-02-10

Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.

Musk did not take the news well.

“You’re fired,” Musk told the engineer.
platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fi

2023-02-10

Live image of me after helping the kid with her French homework.

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2023-02-09

As per that last boost about authors and social media: It's a really insidious thing that's been happening for the past dozen years or so. Publishers have been pushing authors to market themselves on social media, and to build a community of readers, and most of us did. One by one, platforms have made it harder and harder to connect with our audience. So now, when most marketing is done via social media, social media is crumbling. Share what you love. Authors really need it.

2023-02-09

Attempting a thread here-and yes thr home office features a write-on wall. #geekout

2023-02-09

Those who think cats aren’t loyal have probably never had a cat as a pet. Now that I have a new home office, this little cutie keeps me company in the background pretty well every day (for those who are fans of control experiments, this isn’t her usual sleeping spot, in fact she never sleeps here unless I’m here working). #cats #workingfromhome #catlifebalance #catlife #academicmasdoton

Cat shilling on a bedCat sort of filling in a bed
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2023-02-09

Not to brag, but I was spewing out hilariously incorrect information before huge tech companies decided to create AI chatbots and ruin the internet.

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2023-02-09

If I did data center consolidations this way back when I was at @IBM and a lead architect in their server consolidation practice, not only would I have been fired but I would have been railroaded out of this industry to never be seen again

2023-02-09

@JoParkerBear agree. It’s not like Twitter was a paragon of virtue before musk. Same with Facebook.

2023-02-09

I have one thing to say to #musk about the expansion of tweets from 280 characters to 4000, thanks for ‘fixing’ a problem that didn’t exist. And 4000 characters??? #TLDR

2023-02-08

Apparently #Foxnews might be down too-so I found this site and clicked ‘Yes’ I have a problem with Fox News. This brings you to another window where I clicked the problem as ‘other’ and entered ‘you are fake news’. I was tempted to use the more concise ‘You suck’, but went with #fakenews.

2023-02-08

@DataDrivenMD I’m just glad I don’t have to use #instagram

2023-02-08

#twitter crashing. According to the amazing Beaverton, musk still worrying site making too much money. Love thr #beaverton #satire

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