Very grateful to @organicdivision.org , @hopecollege.bsky.social , @pubs.acs.org , @wileychemistry.bsky.social , and our other sponsors for keeping registration, especially student registration, so affordable for #RMC2026. We'd love a few #Chemistry industry sponsors to come alongside as well!
There are way more folks who want to go to med (vet, dent, PA) school than there are seats. The schools want ~100% graduation rates. They aren't selecting for who will be the best doctors (vets, dentists, PAs), they are selecting the ones most likely to make it through.
No April fooling - #RMC2026 Registration & Abstract Submission close May 1. The 40th biennial Reaction Mechanism Conference is June 7-10 in Holland, Michigan. That's less than 10 weeks away, so book your flights & hotels soon too! hope.edu/rmc2026
The rationale I've heard from a diversity of sources is that success in organic and MCAT scores are two of the best predictors of success not as a doctor but as a 1st & 2nd year MED STUDENT. And that med schools don't want to take a chance on anyone who might not survive the coursework.
@chemjobber.bsky.social please re-sky or whatever we do to amplify here, and put it on the spreadsheet as well. #chemjobs
Come be my colleague at @hopecollege.bsky.social !
We are hiring a 1 year VAP to teach GenChem lecture & lab. Past VAPs have had great success! Whether you've done a postdoc & now want to buff your teaching for a TT job, or are a fresh PhD aspiring to teaching-only jobs: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5069
For those of us blessed with a choice of all three readily available in my area, does the data therefore show a slight preference for Moderna over Pfizer over Novavax?
Happy belated to a hero of science and medicine!
jobs.hope.edu/postings/4660 is the direct posting (the generic jobs.hope has more info on Hope & Holland and can help solve two-body problems with faculty and staff listings!)
Hey @chemjobber.bsky.social - help spread the word... @hopecollege.bsky.social #chemistry has an #open-rank #tenure-track #facultyjob at a top tier intensive #undergradresearch #liberalartscollege - search closes in 2 weeks on 9/20 - apply now at jobs.hope.edu
Pretty sweet Bri! We should work this into CHEM 221 Expt 2 at Hope!
Come be my colleague at @hopecollege.bsky.social !
We are hiring a tenure-track open rank #chemprof to teach #GenChem & #Inorganic and establish a thriving experimental #undergradresearch group in our exceptional #PUI #Chemistry department!
#chemjobs #facultyjobs
jobs.hope.edu
If all those interested in #ChemJobs, #FacultyJobs, #ChemTwitter, etc., could chime in on best timing of posting to Chronicle, ACS ChemistryJobs, ScienceJobs, SACNAS, NOBCChE, etc, I'd appreciate it!
As an Xer born in '75 (sorry for thinking you were old like me!) Kokomo had its place but Wouldn't It Be Nice, Surfin USA, Surfin Safari, 409, Barbara Ann, Sloop John B, I get around, Be true to your school, and at least a dozen more feel like they've been living rent free in my head since birth...
Hey @chemjobber.bsky.social: @hopecollege.bsky.social will be hiring an open-rank TT #chemistry prof this fall who can teach GenChem & Inorganic. Soft close / start of review 9/20. W/o print ads or C&EN Back2School issue, when should we advertise? Is early Aug still prime time? Or is sooner better?
Once upon a time we thought Teddy was the black sheep of the family.
Curious what single you think introduced our generation to them? I feel like I learned a dozen or more of their songs, like probably their whole greatest hits album, all at once.
The meeting will span all areas of mechanistic chemistry, with a special session on industrial chemistry. It will also feature our longstanding undergraduate context session, and panels on careers in industry and at primarily undergraduate institutions.
Can't wait to host #RMC2026 at Hope College next June!
Just one? Don't debate. Get a whole set and you can have a CJristmas Tree!
So glad you thought to ask. (Always thought it was one syllable rhyming with "guys"!)
I worked occasionally in a laser lab in there during a sabbatical in the Chem Dept & Center for Bioinspired Solar Fuels over a decade ago. Then and now a neat looking building that from several angles looks plopped all alone in the desert, not part of a huge campus.
Oops, realized after reading others' that I left off a couple episodes of summer camp counseling (neurotypical elementary schoolers and developmentally disabled adults)
Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
- grocery store stock boy
- grocery store cashier
- small-town local pharmacy cashier
- cutlery salesman
- dry cleaner cashier
- undergrad TA
- grad TA
- grad RA
- postdoc