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At a soccer match between Iowa and Northwestern. My kiddo is wearing his elementary school colors that are the Northwestern colors.

I like how university sports people refer to their stadium as a 20 million building. We should do the same with the chemistry building.

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Fall 2025 in a nutshell. Submitted an ACS PRF proposal, submitted a white paper to DOE, and today @gen-chem.bsky.social convinced me around 80% to write an NSF proposal.

ORCA 6.1 release event on June 17th 2025. Online ZOOM webinar.

Save the Date! Join us for the ORCA 6.1 (@faccts.de & @orca-qc-official.bsky.social) online release event on 17th June 2025 12:00 CEST. We look forward to many exciting discussions with you!

#ORCAqc #ORCA61 #FACCTs #QuantumChem #CompChem #ChemSky #CompChemSky

Please share: We are looking for a PhD student in theoretical chemistry starting asap for project on metal-free magnetism in graphene-related materials and organic 2D crystals!

Deadline 18.6.
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#phdjobs #chemsky #chemjobs #phdlife #PhDposition 🧪 #compchem ⚛️

Correction: Beef tongue stew (autocorrect switched to beef cow stew)

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@bessvlai.bsky.social : Next week we have to bring an appetizer to the party we have been invited to.
Me: Tapas are appetizers.
Bess: Yes.
Me (who spent 5+ hours cooking beef cow stew): This is a tapa when served with bread and a beer.
Bess: ...

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Leftover wine?

Today @n8trium.bsky.social passed his candidacy exam! He did a fantastic job!

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 505 tenure-track positions and 100 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemjobs

I should start a Spanish fraternity called χχχ but pronounced cha cha cha.

Someone was happy to meet Dash at the Iowa Heartlanders game. Thinking about attending the playoffs. @bessvlai.bsky.social @goheartlanders.bsky.social

Never been a fan of Hellraiser but I recommend Nightbreed (1990) Cabal cut (~3+ hours). A masterpiece.

Praseodymium in the formal +5 oxidation state Nature Chemistry - The most common oxidation state for lanthanide elements is +3, and, beyond cerium, examples of these elements exhibiting higher oxidation states remain scarce. Now, a molecular...

We are excited to share praseodymium 5+! Finally in print!
A new PR for Pr!

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We were able to draw analogies to our other work in high valent copper chemistry. Check it out, especially if you love inverted ligand fields as much as I do

Is home made pasta solid state chemistry?

Me: I think I will start growing a wizard-like beard like in my 2014 Chem. Soc. Rev. photo.
@bessvlai.bsky.social : Why?
Me: I'm teaching GenChem in the fall.

I think I achieved a new pinnacle in the so-called American man cave. Playing Minecraft while watching "Murder She Wrote".

Fine tuning is needed.

In a time where every week is crazier than the previous one, there is always time for Sunday paella 🥘 and some chicken croquetas as appetizer.

Our kiddo discovered Spanish tapas. Mussels were tasty. @bessvlai.bsky.social

Nucleation Roadmap of Reduced Polyoxovanadate-Alkoxide Clusters Polyoxovanadate-alkoxides are a growing family of earth-abundant first-row transition metal polynuclear species highly promising for their tunable redox properties. The speciation and nucleation chemi...

My graduate student Genevieve Duggan is having a blast. She got her first 1st author paper, co-authored one with @matsonlab.bsky.social, and got another one just accepted. #RaisingStar pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Forget the cardinal, you are a Hawkeye now.

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If it is aliens, we will never hear the end of it from Giorgio Tsoukalos (aka the ancient aliens guy).

Hello. I got peer-pressured by @bessvlai.bsky.social to join @bsky.app

Quality over quantity 😂