Chris Gorski
News and Strategy Editor at Chemical and Engineering News, especially interested in cross-disciplinary stories.
Signal: @chris_gorski.15 — Views shared here are my own.
- Poutine is one of the great dishes out there, it’s just fantastic
- Really proud to be part of the team that put this together cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
- Early in 2025 we started talking about how our team @cenmag.bsky.social could present immersive scrolling stories. This story is what came out of those brainstorming sessions. We've told a broad story about how chemistry research has been funded over the centuries cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
- Am busy composing alt text for something I'm really excited about publishing next week: "On the left is a man wearing an apron. On the right is a many wearing a top hat and a coat with tails. He’s wearing a monocle and holding a cane." Why yes, it is about chemistry.
- Great advice applicable to far more than journalism
- This essay is incredible. A drop everything and read this piece on learning and thinking
- Beautiful writing. “…close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder. And to clarify my stakes: the way that close reading is powerful is that it lays claim to power.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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- Love it when I look at a list of important tasks I jotted on a post-it note. Item 4 full text: "Think about this" Super helpful past Chris. Well done.
- #chemsky, what made you want to be a chemist? How did you overcome a difficult obstacle? What did it feel like to solve a problem you'd been working on for years? I'm editing this series about how life and chemistry interact. Reach me at c_gorski@acs.org, or encrypted at contactcen@protonmail.com
- Reading Frankenstein made him want to be a chemist!?! At this year's ACS fall meeting, Victor Olet said this and caught the attention of several of our editors. What a thrill to work with him on this piece about what he's gained by reading the book 25 times cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
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- The fine print on this entry is interesting: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." grokipedia.com/page/Heterog... It looks a lot like a copy of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterog...
- Working on this with Victor for @cenmag.bsky.social was fascinating
- Reading Frankenstein made him want to be a chemist!?! At this year's ACS fall meeting, Victor Olet said this and caught the attention of several of our editors. What a thrill to work with him on this piece about what he's gained by reading the book 25 times cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
- Reading Frankenstein made him want to be a chemist!?! At this year's ACS fall meeting, Victor Olet said this and caught the attention of several of our editors. What a thrill to work with him on this piece about what he's gained by reading the book 25 times cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
- Very happy about today’s little library findings
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- Reading the novel ‘Frankenstein’ made Victor Olet want to be a scientist working in this was so much fun cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
- I love this way of thinking about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think of the 4th season of “the bear” as having such ordinary moments. It also excels at showing people loving their work and struggling with their boundaries. Not every scene can be so moving, they just have to push ahead
- I’m at the Baltimore comic con today in a session about the logistics of making a comic. So much of this guidance is applicable for science journalism too. Timelines, what to do first, etc
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- MOFs are pretty darn cool. Here's our story, in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
- From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
- Phew, that feedback on the youtube stream stopped #nobelprize
- Less than 5 minutes until the announcement of the #nobelprize in chemistry -- our team is ready to report @cenmag.bsky.social
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- New nobel laureate Michel Devoret once led a course on Cinema and Physics physics.yale.edu/sites/defaul... -- he told a historian that he was surprised when the enrollment for that was larger than a course on differential equations
- The @aip.bsky.social's oral histories are a great resource on the physics #nobelprize. Delighted to be able to read Michel Devoret's where he calls his work "low-energy physics" repository.aip.org/node/129778 - dealing with "ordinary matter consisting of mundane particles like electrons and atoms"
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- Macroscopic quantum tunnelling wins -- goes to the trio of Martinis, Clarke, and Devoret
- It's physics nobel prize day! -- Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
- It's physics nobel prize day! -- Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
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- Fluoride has proven dental health benefits, this common additive to drinking water is now banned in Utah. Other states may do the same. Is there any real risk to fluoride at the levels present in drinking water? Story by Priyanka Runwal for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/environment/...
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- Just wrapped a parantha around scrambled egg with sumac, added provolone and a touch of tamarind chutney. Surprisingly good combo, or I'm incredibly hungry. Maybe both?
