Carina Crucho
Assistant Researcher @FCTNOVA 👩🏻🔬 Chemist 🧪 @stateivlp alumna 🇺🇸 CASFutureLeader2020 @CASChemistry @LOréal awardee Fulbrighter 🇺🇲
- An afternoon spent persuading molecules to cooperate. Controlled chaos. 👩🏻🔬 #OrganicChemistry #lablife #ResearchLife
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- Our new Comment explores how future supply chains and chemical innovation may influence cooperation, competition, and geopolitics in the decades ahead. rdcu.be/e0sGi www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemistry #Geopolitics #CriticalMaterials #EnergyTransition @natureportfolio.nature.com
- The lab elf’s final experiment: spreading joy (and candy). 🍬🧪 See you next year! #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #LabAdventures #HolidayInTheLab #ThankYouElf #elvesbehavingbadly
- The lab elf tried dashing through the snow. ⛷️ Physics had other plans. 😂 #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #LabLife #ResearchLife #ExpectationVsReality #LabAdventures #HolidayInTheLab @elvesbehavinbadly #elvesbehavingbadly
- Today’s experiment: Find the 12 candy canes hidden around the lab. Results pending. 🍬🧪 #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #LabLife #elvesbehavingbadly #LabAdventures #CandyCaneHunt
- Your move. (History suggests the elf will still win.) #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #LabLife #ElfOnTheShelf #TicTacToe #elvesbehavingbadly
- After a long day of causing chaos, the lab elf booked himself a spa treatment. 🫧🍷🛁 #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #LabAdventures #SelfCareInScience #LabSpa #elvesbehavingbadly
- Something strange happened in the lab today…The elf slipped into the Upside Down and took half the equipment with him. #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #UpsideDown #StrangerThings #LabLife #elfonashelf #elfsbehavingbadly
- Presenting: “No Title”, 2025, a groundbreaking work from the Elf Funding Initiative. Bold. Conceptual. Entirely unfunded. #ElfInTheLab #ElfFundingIdeas #LabElf #LabLife #GrantWriting #ResearchLife #LabArt #ElfOnTheShelf #elvesbehavingbadly
- BREAKING: NaCl has taken a hostage. Our lab elf is requesting immediate rescue. Send help. #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #LabLife #ResearchLife #LabAdventures #LabProblems #elvesbehavingbadly
- BREAKING: Lab elf caught running an unauthorized relabeling experiment. Today’s challenge: identify the ONE correct label. (Hint: it’s not coffee) #QualityControl #ChaosInTheLab #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #CellCulture #ScienceFun #ElfOnTheShelf #elvesbehavingbadly
- Freshly prepared cell culture media. Source: highly questionable. 🧝♂️🧪😂 #ElfInTheLab #LabElf #CellCulture #LabLife #ScienceFun #ElfOnTheShelf #elvesbehavingbadly
- Onto The Tetrahedron phase! 🔺 Like methane in its most iconic form, Glitter and Glow just wants to hold its structure. One vote from you can keep it from undergoing a "geometry change"! #PhotoContest #VoteForMyPhoto #GlitterAndGlow #CENChemPics
- Guess who’s back…and breaking into the lab through the window this time? Security, dont look! 😅 🔬🧝♂️🪟 #ElfInTheLab #LabLife #ScienceFun #ElfOnTheShelf #LabElf #elfsbehavingbadly #LabAdventures
- I’m excited to share that Glitter and Glow advanced to Round 2: The Full Octet! 🧪✨ If you believe this photo deserves a complete set of votes, I’d love your support. Every vote helps me reach the ‘stable configuration’ of the next round!
- My photo Glitter and Glow is currently in a contest, and I’d be so grateful for your support. If you think it’s as magical as I do, please take a moment to vote for it. 🧡⭐️👩🏻🔬
- With all the rain ⛈️ lately, its nice to remember when my cuvette looked like windows on fire. 👩🏻🔬Happy #fluorescencefriday #raining #chemistryfriday #WomenInSTEM
- We’ve just launched “An Adventure in the Land of ORGO” — our Organic Chemistry Board Game bringing play and strategy to the lab! 🎥 Watch the video 📄 And don’t miss the paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/.../10.../ct... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa5V...
- It’s official! Our Organic Chemistry Board Game “An Adventure in the Land of ORGO” has just been launched! 🧪💫 Designed to bring game-based learning into the lab, this adventure turns complex chemistry concepts into strategy, fun, and collaboration. #GameBasedLearning #Education #BoardGames
- Happy Laboween! 🎃 🕷️ Twenty tiny spiders are hiding in the lab today… science just got a little creepier! 👩🔬🧪 #Laboween #ScienceFun #SpookyScience #halloween #laboween #HappyHalloween
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- Reposted by Carina CruchoIt's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃 Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/... #ChemSky 🧪
- Igniting this #fluorescencefriday with a fiery glow! 🔥👩🏻🔬 #ChemistryFriday #ChemistryMagic #fluorescentvibes
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- Just published! 🚀 “Bringing Geopolitics to the Periodic Table” explores how chemistry and global trends intertwine. Read here: rdcu.be/eKNfs 🌍 #NatureReviewsChemistry @NatRevChem @SpringerNature #sustainability #criticalmaterials
- Post a female character you love 💜 (My Barbie the Scientist — inspired by Lara Croft)
- Flask cleaning, the royal way 👑⚗️ Aqua regia — the royal water — a powerful mix of nitric and hydrochloric acid, famous for dissolving even noble metals like gold. Today, just making my glassware sparkle! #royalwater #ChemistryHistory #LabLife #womeninstem #womeninscience
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- A fluorescent green light 👩🏻🔬 — permission granted for weekend mode. 💚 Happy #FluorescenceFriday #womeninscience #womeninstem #ChemistryFriday
- Just published! 🧪🎲 Bringing organic chemistry to life with a role-playing game where students fight zombies, trolls & goblins while solving chemical mysteries. 🧟♂️🧪 #GameBasedLearning #OrganicChemistry #scienceeducation doi.org/10.1515/cti-...
- Scaling new fluorescent heights this #FluorescenceFriday! 🏔️✨ A tiny glowing mountain in the lab. 👩🏻🔬 #ChemistryFriday #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
- A little bloom in the lab! 🌸✨ This compound crystallized into what looks like a delicate white flower. Proof that chemistry grows its own kind of beauty. #LabLife #LabBlooms #chemistry #WomenInScience #flowers
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- Ever wondered what a 50 nm #nanoparticle really looks like? I built a 20 cm styreofoam model to scale - complete with polymers, dyes, peptides, and even a 1 nm² marker to show just how much room we have at the nanoscale! 🧬✨ Big science - tiny #SciArt #scicomm #scicom #womeninscience
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- Kicking off Easter weekend with a glowing twist for #FluorescenceFriday! 🐣✨ Meet my fluorescent and phosphorescent ducks lighting up the lab.💡🧪 #HappyEaster #GlowDucks #Easter #ScienceIsFun #womeninscience #womeninstem #ChemistryFriday
- Feeling honoured to be featured in this #MinutoAlumni by Fulbright Portugal! ⏱️🎥 Thank you for visiting the lab and giving me the chance to share a glimpse of my Fulbright experience. www.facebook.com/reel/1676265... #Fulbright #ExchangeAlumni #womeninscience @ucibio.bsky.social #ScienceAndExchange
- It’s Easter in the lab and 30 little ducks have gone missing… 🐣🧪 Let the chase begin! Who will find the most? Happy (and slightly scientific) hunting! #EasterInTheLab #DuckHunt #easter
- Who says chemistry can’t be colorful? 🎈🧪 Keeping my organic reactions under argon with a pastel party twist! #OrganicChemistry #pastelvibes #LabLife #womeninscience #womeninstem
- First day of #AnAdventureInTheLandOfORGO, and what a start! To cross the troll’s bridge and enter the lab, my brave students brought flowers as an offering. 🧪🌺 The magic worked, and the quest began! We’re kicking off our #OrganicChemistry practical classes with science and creativity. #Ghiblified
- A forest at the bottom of a flask? 🌲✨ One of my compounds crystallized into what looks like a tiny woodland scene. #LabLife #NatureInTheFlask #womeninscience #womeninstem
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[Not loaded yet] - Here's to the incredible women in science and beyond - those who inspire us, guide us, and lift us up every day. May we know them, celebrate them, and learn from their resilience and courage. Happy International Women's Day! #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience #EmpowerHer #togetherwerise
- In my latest Matter article, I explore how we can uphold integrity, trust, and true scientific progress. Let’s rethink what really matters in academia! 👩🏻🔬🫰 🔗 Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiwk9Cyxd...
- Glowing into the weekend with a bright orange fluorescence. Happy #FluorescenceFriday. 👩🏻🔬🔦 #ChemistryFriday #womeninstem #womeninscience #WeekendVibes
- Bright ideas take on a whole new glow! 💡✨ This fluorescent masterpiece is lighting up the lab. Happy #FluorescenceFriday #BrightIdeas #womeninscience #womeninstem #ChemistryFriday
- Celebrating the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 👩🏻🔬. Had the honor of sharing my story today alongside incredible women in science with high school students - showing them that their future in science is limitless! 💡🔬 Here's to empowering the next generation of female scientists!
- On this #FluorescenceFriday, my round bottom flask transforms into a night sky - bright fluorescent crystals twinkling like a constellation. #fluorescence #womeninscience #womeninstem #ChemistryFriday #chemistry #nightsky
- Holding the universe in one hand this #FluorescenceFriday! ✨🔬 Layers of fluorescence in my RB flask, creating a cosmic chemistry that looks just like Jupiter. 🔥🌌 #fluorescencefriday #womeninscience #womeninstem #jupiter
- Matching takes on a whole new level! 👟🧪 When your sneakers and your orange compound are totally in sync. #LabLife #ChemistryInStyle #womeninscience #WomenInSTEM
- Spicing up the lab with this vibrant orange compound! 🧪✨ It may look like curry, but it's pure chemistry 👩🏻🔬. #OrganicChemistry #WomenInSTEM #womeninscience #LabLife #curry
- Our Elf is spreading holiday cheer today! 🎁✨ A little gratitude, a little joy, and a whole lot of festive spirit. 🎄🧪 #ElfInTheLab #ElfInTheLab #LabLife #christmas #elvesbehavingbadly #letstakeanelfie
- Looks our Elf brought his own bed to the lab and decided to take a nap on duty! 😴🎄 Guess the holiday season has him exhausted. Even elves need a break! 🛏️✨ #ElfInTheLab #HolidayMischief #LabLife #elfonashelf #christmas #elfontheshelf #elvesbehavingbadly
- Our Elf is hard at work... or is he? 🎅⚖️ Caught "weighing", but it looks like he’s made more of a mess than progress! ❄️🧪 #ElfInTheLab #LabLife #elfonashelf #christmas #elfontheshelf #elvesbehavingbadly
