Is work polygamy a new trend or the daily norm for researchers? While many academics balance more than one role, some take on entirely separate jobs that allow them to explore different careers

Running their own beauty business, consulting and advocacy are just some of the additional jobs held by chemists in additional to their normal academic workload.

Won't be in the same category as you, but in any case is good to be with among friends, hehe.

See you there, @julianavidal.bsky.social?

Mark your calendars, a new #RSCPoster event is coming in 2026, and I'll be there! Are you going to miss it?

Today #DIPCseminars 👇

📌 Kimika Teorikoa Seminar: Optimizing the oxidation potential of perylenes in the singlet and triplet states
👩‍🔬 Francisca J. Benítez, DIPC / EHU
🗓️ Oct 17, 10:00
🏫 Faculty of Chemistry,  Room 1

[CAS]CONFERENCIA RICARDO ECHEPARE
De la mano de Jose A. Lozano, catedrático de Ciencia de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial de la EHU. 
INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL GENERAL : ¿MITO, META O AMENAZA?
📅24 septiembre
⏰18:00etan
📍Palacio Miramar (Donostia)
👉Inscríbete gratis labur.eus/ms7iwrry

Ya está disponible en nuestro canal de youtube la charla de Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón sobre tecnologías cuánticas
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzU0hWLBkDE&t=6s

@kutxafundazioa #DIPC @edusadeci.bsky.social

A banner with the event details.

The editors of Digital Discovery wish all of the participants at the upcoming 8th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Symposium an interesting and exciting meeting! The journal is proud to sponsor a poster prize for this year's conference. Find out more: www.rscbmcs.org/even...

Evaluation of the QCxMS2 Method for the Calculation of Collision-Induced Dissociation Spectra via Automated Reaction Network Exploration Collision-induced dissociation mass spectrometry (CID-MS) is an important tool in analytical chemistry for the structural elucidation of unknown compounds. The theoretical prediction of the CID spectra plays a critical role in supporting and accelerating this process. To this end, we adapt the recently developed QCxMS2 program originally designed for the calculation of electron ionization (EI) spectra to enable the computation of CID-MS. To account for the fragmentation conditions characteristic of CID within the automated reaction network discovery approach of QCxMS2 we adapted the internal energy distribution to match the experimental conditions. This distribution can be adjusted via a single parameter to approximate various activation settings, thereby eliminating the need for explicit simulations of the collisional process. We evaluate our approach on a test set of 13 organic molecules with diverse functional groups, compiled specifically for this study. All reference spectra were recorded consistently under the same measurement conditions, including both CID and higher-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) modes. Overall, QCxMS2 achieves a good average entropy similarity score (ESS) of 0.687 for the HCD spectra and 0.773 for the CID spectra. The direct comparison to experimental data demonstrates that the QCxMS2 approach, even without explicit modeling of collisions, is generally capable of computing both CID and HCD spectra with reasonable accuracy and robustness. This highlights its potential as a valuable tool for integration into structure elucidation workflows in analytical mass spectrometry.

QCxMS2 can now also simulate CID mass spectra.

Just published in #JASMS : doi.org/10.1021/jasms.5c00234

Grateful to my coauthors Stefan Grimme @grimmelab.bsky.social & Marianne Engeser @unibonn.bsky.social - this is the last project of my PhD and completes my work on QCxMS2!

#MassSpec #compchem

Summer Course “Quantum Computing: from fundamentals to applications” The summer school "Quantum Computing: from fundamentals to applications” will take place betwen September 10-12, 2025 at Miramar Palace, Donostia-San Sebastián. Promoted by BasQ and DIPC the program will feature top-level international speakers from leading institutions and companies.

#OpenRegistration #SummerSchool

📌“Quantum Computing: from fundamentals to applications”with top-level international speakers from RIKEN, ETH Zurich, CSIC, IBM, and Iberdrola
📅10-12/09/2025
🏯Miramar Palace, Donostia/San Sebastián

#uik #basQ

DIPC JOB OFFERS🔈Tenure-track position as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow:
"Quantum Computation and Information with programmable neutral atom arrays" 
⚛️Supervisors: Francesca Ferlaino, Manfred Mark
📍Reference: 2025/54
🕛Application deadline: 2025/09/30
👀 https://tinyurl.com/bdvepn45

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney Join a growing Faculty and be part of a University that places amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beache...

Continuing (similar to "tenure-track") jobs in Engineering departments here at University of Sydney for women, open to international and Australian candidates. www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Principal Scientist - Computational Chemistry

Opportunity for computational chemist at Syngenta (Bracknell UK) #agrochem #CompChem #cheminformatics #AI #ML #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪
jobs.syngenta.com/job/principa...

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

The Trump administration this month has cut some government agencies’ subscriptions to journals at Nature’s publisher, Springer Nature. And at least two agencies say they are ending all their contracts with the company.

https://go.nature.com/3ZX1iRn

Turmoil at US science academy as Trump cuts force layoffs Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about capitulation and censorship.

Budget cuts by the administration of President Donald Trump have forced the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine into a wholesale reorganization

https://go.nature.com/3Tjk4OZ

g-xTB: A General-Purpose Extended Tight-Binding Electronic Structure Method For the Elements H to Lr (Z=1–103) We present g-xTB, a next-generation semi-empirical electronic structure method derived from tight-binding (TB) approximations to Kohn–Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT). Designed to bridge the ga...

After almost 3 years of development with @grimmelab.bsky.social, a first preliminary version of our next-generation general extended Tight-Binding (g-xTB) is now on ChemRxiv!
Catch the details at #WATOC: my talk (Thu Session B1) and Stefan’s talk (Thu Session A2).
#compchem

doi.org/10.26434/che...

Thanks a lot! I've been working with xTB for some pre-optimizations, and we were just looking for SQM software for excited states.

Congrats on this milestone! When can we try it?

g-xTB: A General-Purpose Extended Tight-Binding Electronic Structure Method For the Elements H to Lr (Z=1–103) We present g-xTB, a next-generation semi-empirical electronic structure method derived from tight-binding (TB) approximations to Kohn–Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT). Designed to bridge the ga...

After years of development and preparatory works which you might have seen on this profile, a major milestone is achieved:
g-xTB marks not just an evolution, but a revolution in the capabilities of semiempirical quantum chemistry. Convince yourself! A thread.
🔗 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
#compchem

A sign advertising an upcoming webinar entitled "outlook for PFAS regulations in Europe: challenges and opportunities". It shows the picture of the speaker Stephanie Metzger and the logos of the supporters, as well as the time and date on 24 June at noon CEST

I'm thrilled the @rsc.org is supporting our next #webinar within ANEMEL, where we make clean hydrogen from dirty waters. Learn about the importance of #PFAS and regulations, especially in electrolysers ⚡🔋 It's next Tuesday! 📆 Register for free: buff.ly/yBhnCoH #ForeverChemicals @ec.europa.eu #EIC 🧪

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas.

Please share ! Deadline 24-June

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Trump Administration Cuts $258M Program Crucial To Discovering HIV Vaccines The lack of funding is expected to set back decades' worth of progress against HIV, according to public health experts.

Trump administration cuts $258M program crucial for HIV vaccine fight. Public health experts say the lack of funding is expected set back decades' worth of progress against HIV.

The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

To think about it, since it's not an isolated event.

🚨 Brand new postdoctoral researcher position in my group at Princeton! Please apply or share with anyone interested in computational materials science and being an electron whisperer! puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app....

Trump administration ends Harvard's ability to enrol international students The move escalates the administration's row with America's oldest university over hiring, admissions and teaching practices.

Trump administration ends Harvard's ability to enrol international students www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

I'm looking to talk to international students in the chemical sciences at #Harvard about the Trump administration's halt on the school's ability to enroll international students for @cenmag.bsky.social. #chemsky
Signal: bethanyhalford.29
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

I know there is so much bad stuff happening at once it's easy to look the other way at the decimation of science in the US, but the damage this will cause to the US will be felt for decades, maybe generations.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Enduring Relevance of Semiempirical Quantum Mechanics The development of semiempirical models to simplify quantum mechanical descriptions of atomistic systems is a practice that started soon after the discovery of quantum mechanics and continues to the p...

The Enduring Relevance of Semiempirical Quantum Mechanics
arxiv.org/abs/2505.13424 #compchem