Very interesting video about the construction of Camp Century…check out how unprotected were the workers handling uranium rods (25 minutes into the video).
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How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
perfect weather to win against those soft californians
#bears
#chemsky
China is leading in scientific research output, especially in chemistry
economist.com/science-and-...
“This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide.”
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
They are called MOFs, not MIFs….and, tents (big and small) are completely organic.
there are some organic ligands there, too 😉
A historic moment: renewables are used more than coal as an energy source for electricity.
This is mostly driven by the lowering cost of solar panels.
Let’s hope this trend persists, despite Trump’s push for fossil fuels.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Apple intelligence? More like apple stupidity.
Cannot even get Siri to connect to my speakers.
Periodic Lab.
AI for chemistry experiments.
I love this!!!
#ChemSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...
My latest for @chemistryworld.com on a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethylene with 99% efficiency and selectivity. With comments from @alextbarth.bsky.social and @casadevallcarla.bsky.social: www.chemistryworld.com/news/photoca... #ChemSky @science.org 🧪
What photochemistry is useful for pharmaceutical industry?
Cross-coupling reactions...mostly C-C coupling.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
😳 😳 😳
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 111 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️
Owning a Bluesky account alone could probably tank your visa chances .
i hope this proposed rule does not become final!
“…for F and J nonimmigrants up to the program length, not to exceed a 4-year period.”
These changes are surely making our international students feel unwelcome.
Also, a four year program is too short for most PhD chemistry programs in the US.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Seems my job’s safe...for now. 😮💨
Humans are still better at generating exciting ideas.
Congratulations to Angel Marti for winning the ACS Award for Encouraging Underrepresented and Economically Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences!
@angel-marti.bsky.social
Congrats to Claudia Turro for winning the Michl Photochemistry award!
So well-deserved.
The Miyake team did it again! They discovered another type of organic photosensitizers with highly reducing excites states.
Excited-state reduction potential: –3.90 V vs SCE. 😮
And, it uses PCET mechanism for improved reduction efficiency.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Chinese Academy of Sciences produced 2,018 research papers on rare earths in the 2000-2016 period.
Now, China holds 69% of all the ore dug up and 90% of the refined minerals produced!
We have some catching up to do.
This is a very insightful study on photochemical Ni-Br bond scission in catalytic cross-coupling reactions.
Fun happens when physical and organic chemists collaborate!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natcomms.nature.com
Chat-GPT5 is great, but...there is still room for improvement.
There are more images of George W Bush in LFP (dataset used to train facial recognition algorithms) then there are images of all black women combined!
Book: The Alignment Problem.
youtu.be/QxuyfWoVV98?...
“Companies known as paper mills prepare fake scientific papers full of made-up experiments and bogus data, often with the help of artificial-intelligence (AI) models, and sell authorship to academics looking to boost their publication numbers.”
Interesting story about the beginnings of AI: a neuroscientist from UIC (Warren McCulloch) and a child prodigy without a high school degree (Warren Pitts) work together to set the stage for AI, a decade before anybody else thought about it:
www.aaas.org/sites/defaul...
