Hey, UC Berkeley chemistry department: C&EN would like to hear from you. DM, or signal Laurel_Oldach.07

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Shawna the Mom just posted the “Julie and Ty” Prequel IYKYK and I feel so fucking validated

Fair lol

Does David Tennant get more handsome as he ages? Or because I am getting older he looks more attractive or is it both?

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Laurel I just screamed at your epistemological clarifications in your bio ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

TREE LAW TREE LAW

WHAAAAAAAAAT (note that my understanding of biochem is very basic and mostly by osmosis of being in a chem and biochem dept) and you just made me gasp

Well this is why us that left are not coming back even if talking about Avignon Papacy is funny for a week

WHY ARE ALL BIO AND BIOCHEM PEOPLE SAYING WHAAAAT

I understand Pope fatigue (I was confirmed by a child molester) and to an extent it's a Let Them Fight situation but it's genuinely important and different that the Catholic Church, a major geopolitical actor with endless resources dating back millennia, is coming out hard against fascism this time

Vought says that it's a very Christian budget, reflecting the values of helping people. This was his response to being attacked for eliminating the fruit and vegetable benefit for poor infants.

Interesting that for taxes the base assumption is that fraud is not happening but for SNAP and MEDICAID they assumption is they are… so reach whatever conclusion from there

Who would have thought being a cradle catholic would have so much sense of pride and excitement

Listen, I'm not a good Catholic. I'm not even a fair Catholic. And I acknowledge the entirety of the awful history that can be laid at the feet of Catholicism.

But I may never have been prouder to have emerged from a Catholic heritage.

Thank you! I only have one cat but the 30min window might be nice at the beginning to not spook her lol

Thank you! I was wondering of doing that vs having it on but putting the cycle wait to 15min

Did you do the transition where you kept it turned off and just turned it on after cat used it to clean? For a couple of weeks until they got used it?

HOWEVER you should be able to explain to me every comma, word etc that you have in your code. So whatever the AI things give you, you are accountable and must be able yo explain me what it does

I dont have learning evidence. As someone who uses A LOT OF CODING in her lab my policy is this: you need to write your first code draft. You need to run it. You need to attempt to fix yourself first or with your labmates. Only then you can copy those couple of lines into claude and ask for help

Will report back

We already had that (and it mops too) lol the cat litter one

The problem I am seeing is that many papers are being like “used AI as a tool for x and students did y” but none actually have a learning theory of the point of the paper

LLMAO

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I have finally convinced husband on getting a Litter Robot

There are many things that make me angry about the destruction of institutions that has happened. But every USAID story makes me cry about the unnecessary cruelty and death left on its path

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Computational Chemist Developer Ingenio Global South Dublin, Irland (På plats) This is not drug discovery. It's not protein modelling. It's not docking. It's solid-state chemistry. Applied. This role sits right at the centre of it. Developing and refining CSP capabilities that influence real-world drug development programmes. It's not an academic postdoc. It's industrial R&D with impact. What you'll be doing: Develop and refine crystal structure prediction methods for organic small molecules Apply periodic DFT to solid-state systems Investigate polymorph landscapes, lattice energetics, packing behaviour Study salts, co-crystals, hydrates and solvates Contribute directly to product-aligned R&D objectives Work closely with senior scientific leadership on technically complex problems Occasionally support technical conversations with pharma partners You'll need to have: PhD (completed or near completion) in Chemistry, Materials Science, Physics or similar Hands-on experience in organic crystallography Proven experience in Crystal Structure Prediction (not adjacent actual CSP work) Strong understanding of solid-state behaviour of small molecules Experience applying DFT to periodic systems Experience with at least one major DFT package (VASP, Quantum Espresso, ORCA, Turbomole, Gaussian or Psi4) Python capability and familiarity with Git This role won't suit: Protein crystallographers Protein-ligand or docking specialists Biochemical or enzymatic modelling profiles

This #chemjobs role has about as much on what the role doesn't involve as what it does 🤔 😁