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Posts by R. David Britt

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Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109

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TalTech researcher Ago Samoson shares the Laukien Prize for a breakthrough in solid state nuclear magnetic resonance technologies | TalTech The 2026 Günther Laukien Prize, "to recognize recent cutting-edge experimental research in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with a high probability of enabling

TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology) researcher Ago Samoson shares the 2026 Günther Laukien Prize @brukercorporation.bsky.social #ENC2026 for pioneering technologies in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) taltech.ee/en/news/talt... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

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War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽

Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼

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Oh my! Time flies.

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Great "No Kings" Springsteen show in Portland last night. Bonus Tom Morello! awesome

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nice cluster of S. rubra flowers

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Nice news piece by @rhyswg.bsky.social highlighting two recent @natchembio.nature.com artices on FeS cofactor trafficking in nitrogenase 📦
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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yes, followed by Atari

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Rachel loves her some quicksand!

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Zero- to ultralow-field J-spectroscopy with a diamond magnetometer - Communications Chemistry Zero-to-ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (ZULF NMR) enables high-resolution spectroscopy of inhomogeneous samples in complex environments. In this work, the authors incorporate a diamond-bas...

Zero- to ultralow-field J-spectroscopy with a diamond magnetometer, Muhib Omar, Jingyan Xu, Raphael Kircher, Pouya Sharbati, Shaowen Zhang, Georgios Chatzidrosos, James Eills, Román Picazo-Frutos, Dmitry Budker, Danila A. Barskiy & Arne Wickenbrock www.nature.com/articles/s42... #NMRchat #ZULFNMR 🧲

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How can nature make #peptides covering chemical space beyond the proteinogenic amino acids using the #ribosome?

Wilfred van der Donk talked at #Biochemistry2026 about the power of ribosomally-synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides #RiPPs.

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Biochemistry

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Nice seminar trip to the U of Chicago and UW Madison Chemistry Depts. Learned much great science, and early spring weather, 60s and sunny one day, snowing soon after. good fun!

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Breeane of Tarth watching the front door.....

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Biography of Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Vieth - Applied Magnetic Resonance Applied Magnetic Resonance -

Hans-Martin Vieth (Freie Universität Berlin) We have to share the sad news that Hans-Martin Vieth died on 25.02.2026. He was a pioneer in Field-cycling shuttle NMR, spin-chemistry, photo-CIDNP and optical nuclear polarization link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Pitcher plants pretty awake in Pt Richmond Ca now..

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Copper finally joins the metallocene club
More than 70 years after ferrocene’s discovery, cuprocene fills a long-standing gap in the sandwich menu

by Mark Peplow, special to C&EN

Copper finally joins the metallocene club More than 70 years after ferrocene’s discovery, cuprocene fills a long-standing gap in the sandwich menu by Mark Peplow, special to C&EN

Cuprocene is the first neutral, stable copper metallocene, created by a team led by William J. Evans, an organometallic chemist at the University of California, Irvine. cen.acs.org/synthesis/cu...

#chemsky 🧪

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Jennifer Doudna’s $1 Billion Plan To Bring Gene Editing To The Masses Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments mains...

“The best that I can do in terms of making the next breakthrough or discovery is not to do it by myself, but to enable other scientists to do it”
— Jennifer Doudna

www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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During a rare SF Bay lightning and thunderstorm, nice to have a comfy place of refuge, says Brienne of Tarth. (who is of course descended from Dunk the Doberman)

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good plan!!

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Yeah Ashok!!

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Tim Johnstone, from UC Santa Cruz gave today’s seminar on the interesting topics of antidotes for carbon dioxide poisoning and the group of 15 elements that make up the bioinorganic group. Thanks for visiting #wsuchemistry! #ChemSky

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Advances in EPR Approaches for Studying Structural Properties of Membrane Proteins Energy level splitting of a nitroxide spin label under an external magnetic field (B), showing the effects of Zeeman and 14N (I = 1) hyperfine interactions and the corresponding electron paramagnetic...

REVIEW, Advances in EPR Approaches for Studying Structural Properties of Membrane Proteins, Indra D. Sahu*, Gary A. Lorigan* analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NMRchat #NMR #EPR #ESR 🧲

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Really fun visit to Stanford yesterday (Physical Chemistry Seminar). Good chance to talk about mmWave pulse EPR....

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Congrats Maxie!

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Using muons to uncover the behavior of superconducting electron pairs Kyoto, Japan -- Quantum materials and superconductors are difficult enough to understand on their own. Unconventional superconductors, which cannot be explained within the framework of standard theory...

Muon Knight Shift as a Precise Probe of the Superconducting Symmetry of Sr₂⁢RuO₄ www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-... #NMRchat 🧲

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Thank you for visiting UC Davis last night!

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Breanne of Tarth is a bit puzzled over all the Penny talk...

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Doberman appreciation

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