Today’s over-tired thought:

The number of people who know what dilemma means far outnumbers those who know what lemma means.

#ItSQuantumBaby #WorldQuantumDay #GoogleDoodle

UK government caps student loan interest rates at 6% from September Minister says change for plan 2 and 3 loans in England and Wales will ‘protect borrowers’ from impact of global conflict

Can’t tell if it’s me that doesn’t understand how UK student loans work, or it’s the people quoted in this story? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

Want a fascinating, grim, terrifying read for your Easter break?

It’s not the latest Times bestseller, it’s the state of UK HE institution finances. I don’t have the expertise to critically assess it, but it’s a worrying snapshot.

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Takes me back to 1998 and using pine…

No fooling, Avogadro 2.0.0 is finally here!

Rebuilt from the ground up: fast modern rendering, improved stability, designed for the next generation of molecular, biomolecule, and materials research & education. 🧪 ⚗️

avogadro.cc/install/
discuss.avogadro.cc

#opensource #openscience #compchem

👏👏👏😉

I thought you said it was something new? 😉

My main gripe with the alphafold example is how it shows you need decades and decades of high quality data, well structured, open and accessible to train a model -- and yet they always gloss over it and pretend it's just AI and magic. No, we need to continuously invest in real data and FAIR data.

Hacking 3D printers as laboratory robots The emergence of affordable and reliable 3D printers has enabled laboratories to optimize setups, print custom parts, accelerate research, and rapidly prototype. A new movement has emerged in the past...

How to make your own robot!
A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org.

Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky
doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...

Liking this because, well, I have to…

Bizarrely, LinkedIn seems to have become the home of computational chemistry news / paper self-publicity

Avogadro 2.0 drops April 1st — and no, that's not a joke! 🧪⚗️

Now's the perfect time to help improve translations before release. Every language matters for chemistry worldwide.

#opensource #openscience

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It’s going to get worse before it gets better

We have a fully funded PhD position (UK students only) at @uobchemistry.bsky.social to work on #multiscale #modelling and #ML of organic #materials! Details www.grynova-ccc.org/jobs.html #chemsky #PhDjobs #chemPhD Please spread the word!

Very cool!

Avogadro Stories (for 2.0 Release) As we finish up the 2.0 (final!) release, I’d like to feature some stories (and citations) about how Avogadro has shaped research and teaching. So if Avogadro has helped your research, please let me ...

Has @avogadro.cc helped your research? Teaching?

As we prepare Avogadro 2.0 for release this spring, I'm hoping to feature some stories (and citations).

#compchem #opensource #openscience ⚗️

Let me know:
discuss.avogadro.cc/t/avogadro-s...

Yes. I totally agree about conference travel sustainability

Illustrative image for the SC4RC conference

Interested in environmentally sustainable research computing? Then join us for a conference taking place at CERN on May 4-8, 2026.

SC4RC, the sustainability conference for responsible research computing.

Website: www.sc4rc.org
Registration and abstract submission currently open.

Those Fuckers Were Making It Up This Whole Time: An Exposé of “Electrochemistry"

PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/electro...

Looking for a PhD student in Theoretical Chemistry to investigate the diffusion of radionuclides and decay products (Zr) through rock minerals. First principles + KMC + ML
Deadline: Jan 9th
Details+Apply: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste...

#PhDlife #PhDjobs #Academia #Chemjobs ⚛️🧪 #CompChemSky

a person wearing a pair of nike shoes riding a hover board Alt: a person wearing a pair of nike shoes riding a hover board

I’m not saying there will be hoverboards, but…

Really looking forward to it. Getting up for a 7 am train was a bit grim though

Despite having been a member for about 25 years, today marks my first visit to @rsc.org

Formulations 4.0 meeting

Research Fellow in Theoretical Quantum Chemistry at UCL Apply now for the Research Fellow in Theoretical Quantum Chemistry role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Are you looking for an exciting project to develop novel wavefunction theory for open-shell ground and excited states in molecules?

We have an postdoctoral opening at @uclchemistry.bsky.social. Deadline 15-Dec-25.

Find out more at www.hughburton.com

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Attended a conversation / talk by Clive Humby. Fascinating insights into the stories and insights that can arise from data

To me “the calculation took 7 hours of compute time” sounds slightly better than “the calculation took 7 hours of computing time”.

Perhaps I’m just indoctrinated 🤷‍♂️

It’s been a term within High-Performance Computing for a very long time.

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Do you want to learn about the life of Walter Kohn, Nobel prize-winning chemist and physicist? Join us for our webinar focused around a newly published biography that delves into Kohn’s extraordinary journey – author Sir David Clary will join us live.

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Machine Learning-Guided Discovery and Experimental Validation of Novel Antimicrobials Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (S3.5-MPS-Soukarieh) at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Machine Learning-Guided Discovery and Experimental Validation of Novel Antimicrobials Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (S3.5-MPS-Soukarieh) at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.c...

Know anyone who would be interested in a PhD using experiments and machine learning to help address anti-microbial resistance? They might like to take a look at this studentship available in Sheffield (I'm helping to supervise the ML part). www.findaphd.com/phds/project...