I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
Curious about 2D chirality and non-reciprocal chiroptical properties in organic thin films? Check out our #OpenAccess review in @cp-trendschem.bsky.social!
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Congratulations to Giorgia De Maio on her first publication as PhD student in my research group at #UNIPR!
The environmental / climate necessity of renewables has been clear since at least 2000; the technology was on 'learning curves' to make it affordable since at least 2010; hopefully the current security threat / wake-up call is enough to make all countries finally follow through!
Check out our latest in @acs.org ACS Energy Letters:
Damon explores how #chirality may impact singlet fission and triplet fusion in molecular semiconductors as a new twist for efficient photon management, boosting performance of solarcells, displays and more. #OpenAccess pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
While not as boggling as yours, I received my weirdest work phishing email today. Subject line: "Top-Rated Toilet Cleaner 2025"
In the mid-2000's, a fellow PhD student was told at her matriculation (i.e. welcome) dinner at an old Oxbridge College that "admitting women was the biggest mistake this College ever made". At the following year's dinner, another (male) student was told the same thing.
If I had known that this picture would be published, I might not have worn an old hoodie 😜
On a more serious note, I'm incredibly thankful to the Gates Scholarship for the opportunity it gave me - and the friends I made along the way.
@lizdzeng.bsky.social
4 People sitting around a table playing the board game "Unfathomable".
Thanks to Katherine, Jayden, Oliver, and Samad for a fun game of "Unfathomable" for our Holiday outing! Despite Father Dagon's and Mother Hydra's best efforts, we made it to Boston on our last bit of fuel. 🥳
We had a similar during my undergrad. "THF" (actually DCM) was filled into a big Na solvent still. The building was evacuated and (IIRC) the Schering firefighters came to take care of it.
Out now in JACS! We show that under typical Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling conditions, bulky ligands can promote palladium-catalyzed protodeboronation.
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Under the proposed UK immigration rules, Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany would have had bwen reviewed every 2.5 years until the 1960s and once the war was over and Germany 'safe', they all would have been sent back to live in the country, that had recently murdered millions of their fellow Jews.
Whether you're starting out in a theory project on molecular magnetism, or a synthetic chemist curious about how the magic happens, check out my new tutorial review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @scienceanu.bsky.social @uomresearchit.bsky.social
A black & white picture of Lise Meitner sat on a chair while holding a book. There is a bookcase in the background
A black & white picture of Marie Curie
Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪
Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social
That's great, congratulations!
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
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Ooh, that's a good one, I might steal that for the next viva 😜
Oh, I meant it even simpler than that - just that in the excited state your highest lying electron ("LUMO") is easier to remove (= better reductant) and your lowest hole ("HOMO") is easier to fill (= better oxidant).
Not a review, but I usually start vivas on photoredox with students with the question: "Why is the excited state both a better reductant and a better oxidant than the ground state?".
It's such a central concept yet many students are unaware (even when working on a UG photoredox project).
I try to avoid asking for extra data. If a new experiment is necessary to support a specific claim, I usually give them the option to either do the experiment or to remove/tone down the claim. Not sure if this would work for you; it's obviously difficult if the claim is central to the manuscript!
higher-fat & sugar recipes, too. For "healthier" options, I can recommend the tinned fruit sorbets. Take the best quality tinned pineapple or pear you can find, puree it with its juice, 1 tsp lemon juice and a bit of salt, freeze it and process on the sorbet setting. Super easy and tasty!
That's fantastic, congratulations! I've found the home-made ice cream to be particularly good when it's either made with a) very good, fresh fruit or b) with lots of cream. Please note that most people use the ninja creami for low-fat, low-sugar recipes, so if flavour is important to you, try some
It so was hard to imagine having successful career in science as a disabled PhD student that eventually I just left.
Who could have guessed that years later I would help create a magazine issue dedicated to highlighting Trailblazing disabled chemists!
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#DisabledInSTEM
I hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do ours :-) If you do get one, let me know if you'd like a couple of my favourite recipes!
a) Calf stretches. b) Get yourself a (secondhand) Ninja Creami and make some homemade ice-cream. The engineering alone is fascinating - you freeze your mixture as a big block and then use the machine's blade spinning at 2000 rpm to shave it into tiny ice crystals.
Not sure how feasible that is with a solid sample, but I once successfully reduced the relaxation time by changing the atmosphere of my (liquid) sample from nitrogen to oxygen. Probably not as impactful as the metal addition suggested but maybe easier to do.
That's great, congratulations!
That's fantastic, congratulations!
It works for me! Though we had some other ACS issues a couple of months ago.