Kristen Kulinowski

@kulinowski.bsky.social

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Science policy, emerging tech, disasters,#bikeDC. Former STPI director/member Chemical Safety Board. Fellow of American Chemical Society.

Foosball table with all the players lying on the ground as if injured. R/funny
Photo from behind of a man wearing a checked shirt, tan pants, brown suspenders and a belt of a different color brown
Tray of cookies with Bada Bing sign in middle surrounded by Chianti fiasco bottles
Table filled with homemade treats. Clockwise from lower left: salted caramel apple pie bars, lemon cranberry bars, Irish crème Bundt cake, molasses spice, white chocolate macadamia oatmeal, maple pecan, peanut butter cups with mascarpone chocolate ganache, hazelnut espresso sandwiches, Linzer with raspberry and pistachio, orange shortbread, turtle thumbprints, baklava thumbprints, snickerdoodles, chocolate dipped pretzel rods, peppermint bark, four kinds of truffles (pistachio, lemon, tiramisu, bourbon). Plus gingerbread White House in background
Tray of cookie cups with trusty KitchenAid mixer. Recipe from Sallie’s Baking Addiction
Christmas tree decorated with sugar cookie ornaments
Decorated sugar cookie trees on a cooling rack. Pretty restrained compared to the others
Hand painted leaf cookies
Various leaf-shaped sugar cookies iced with white royal icing
Tray of maple pecan drop cookies. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/maple-brown-sugar-cookies/
Tray of ladyfinger cookies
Box of full size SourPatch Kids extreme
Back of spotted lanternfly Halloween costume
Decorated sugar cookies in the shape of pumpkins and beakers on a plate against an orange and black striped tablecloth
Careers in Science Policy Monday Aug 18, 2-6 pm Walter E. Washington Convention Center 140B Sponsored by the Younger Chemists Committee, Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs and Committee on Public Relations & Communications
David Foster Wallace—A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: An Essay
Maps of total sickle cell disease rates per 100 000 population (A) Birth incidence. (B) All-age prevalence. (C) All-age cause-specific mortality. (D) All-age total sickle cell disease mortality among males and females combined in 2021.
Mint popping up after being buried in discarded dirt
NYT Spelling Bee teases chemists on the regular with unallowed words such as PROPANOL
Scene from The Omen showing Damien in a cemetery
Picture of book cover of Neal Stephenson's novel SevenEves, "The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve Homo sapiens in the wake of apocalyptic events on Earth after the unexplained disintegration of the Moon and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck."-wikipedia
Picture of book cover of Neal Stephenson's novel SevenEves, "The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve Homo sapiens in the wake of apocalyptic events on Earth after the unexplained disintegration of the Moon and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck."-wikipedia
Four people are standing in front of the site of an industrial accident with extensive damage in the background. Three are from the Chemical Safety Board and one is from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). CSB often conducts safety investigations concurrently with other federal, state and local agencies.
“Bypass Agencies” Agencies with Statutorily-Based Budgetary and Legislative "Bypass" Provisions 1. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 2. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board 3. Commodity Futures Trading Commission 4. Consumer Product Safety Commission 5. Federal Aviation Administration (Transportation) 6. Federal Election Commission 7. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board 8. Merit Systems Protection Board 9. National Iransportation Safety Board 10. Railroad Ret:rement Board 11. Surface Transportation Board (Transportation)
NSTB is 9th on a list of 11 Agencies with Statutorily-Based Budgetary and Legislative “Bypass” Provisions.
Screenshot of Saturday Night Live clip of an MSNBC panel noting that America has declared war on sharks.
Three types of thumbprint cookies on a platter: baklava, turtles and lemon poppyseed
Tray of cookies drizzled with chocolate
Salted caramel sauce
Rosemary fennel 🎄 cookies ready to go in the oven
Tray of decorated gingerbread cookies with at least two or three normals
Six large gingerbread cookies decorated, ahem, unconventionally.
woman with bicycle in plaza
Ridiculously fuzzy rabbit