Reflecting on 30+ yrs in academia, when I started, simply no such thing as a predatory conference—nor predatory journals (only "bottom-feeding" journals 😂). By end of my career, I had to regularly counsel my grad students & postdocs about them, lest they be easily taken in. #AcademicSky#ChemSky

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Just got invited to give a talk (yay!), but abstract submission is in two days (what‽‽‽). Why was I not asked sooner? I did not need this stress. My fellow academics, I'm begging y'all: if there's any way that you can avoid it, don't make other people rush for you. #PhDSky#AcademicSky#ChemSky 🧪

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We never give away our plans, but there are signs when we're working on something… #coffee#CompChem#ChemSky#NMR#NMRchat#NMROnline 🧪🧬🧶

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Balancing thermodynamic stability, dynamics, and kinetics in phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are prevalent participants in liquid–liquid phase separation due to their inherent potential for promoting multivalent

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Nutmeg and SPICE: Models and Data for Biomolecular Machine Learning

We describe version 2 of the SPICE data set, a collection of quantum chemistry calculations for training machine learning potentials. It expands on the original data set by adding much more sampling o...

"Observation of a single-electron bond in carbon, the basic building block of life on Earth, has excited scientists." Time to update chemistry textbooks?! #ChemSkywww.nature.com/articles/d41...

Carbon bond that uses only one electron seen for first time: ‘It will be in the textbooks’

The fundamental discovery deepens scientists’ understanding of chemical bonding.

Sort of bored reading mundane Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling reactions in published papers. Maybe, I am the only one who finds it uninteresting #ChemSky

Review de procesos continuos para la produccion de HMF y derivados #chemsky#flowchemistrypubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Advances in Continuous Flow Production of 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural, 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid, 2,5-Diformylfuran, and 2,5-Dimethylfuran

The synthesis of biobased molecules from biomass to produce fine chemicals, fuels, and commodity chemicals offers a sustainable alternative to petrochemical-based products. Biomass is rich in carbohyd...

Come be my colleague! JMU is hiring a tenure track & lecturer position We seek TT candidates with expertise in nuclear/radiochemistry Lecturers teach intro/lower division courses & labs - scholarship/service also expected TT jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/tenure-...jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/lecture...#ChemSky