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Funnily, that’s the year I took my first DFT class!
Apple offer an engraving when you buy online. It was all I could come up with…
And a little 🦞 too!
An image of an Apple Pencil with “B3LYP/6-31G” engraved
#CompChem for life
I can’t read the article, but “Don’t Trust the Rankings” sounds like a safe bet
The Next Generation of AI Chemists: a programme for penultimate-year UK-based undergrads from underrepresented backgrounds (women, gender minorities, LGBTQ+, ethnic minority, disability, carers, low socioeconomic background, first in family to uni). #chemsky
aichemy.ac.uk/next-generat...
Day 🔟 of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights 🧁
Last, but not least, we chatted with @aronwalsh.github.io to learn more about the trends, opportunities, and challenges in using #AI for material design. 🌟
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Defect simulations are notoriously sensitive to the many choices required 👨💻📊
In this Perspective, we highlight best practices in calculating 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 defect properties, hoping to establish guidelines for robust, transparent and reproducible defect simulations 🌟
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So happy, new chalk drawing in my lecture room this morning! 🤩 Thanks www.instagram.com/lestableauxd...
"Now What?" by John J Hopfield is a beautiful read for researchers at all career stages, and especially so for those who wish not to simply solve problems, but rather identify and solve a PROBLEM -- a kind of the deepest question.
pni.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...
Photograph of a tile in a Porto church
A winter refresh in Porto #BraggYourPattern
Big congratulations! There are great people at Ewha and across the road at Yonsei. A wonderful part of the world to live (I spent a sabbatical there a few years ago), and the density of delicious restaurants in Sinchon is amazing.
Come work with us at @cuspai.bsky.social in the generative model team!
Excited about flow / diffusion models and chemistry? Looking for impact?
jobs.ashbyhq.com/cuspai/b8108...
Join a great team lead by @wellingmax.bsky.social and Aron Walsh, work in Amsterdam / Cambridge / London / Berlin.
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The appropriate Dublin expression is “I’m scarlet”. The YouTube algorithm is a thing of mystery
Only four decades late to the party, but The Sugarcubes are great. Soundtrack for an afternoon of writing, while watching the rain pour outside www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9W...
A large crystal structure model of Y1/3TaO3 in a 12x12x2 expansion
How could you not love #crystallography? An approximation of the incommensurate structure of Y⅓TaO₃ #ChemSky arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01241
Solar capacity is expected to triple based on new projects in the pipeline.
Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries.
Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social
"Your invitation to review for..." x n, where n is a number that's larger than you expect #ChemSky
"We have successfully received your letter of recommendation" x n, where n is a number that's larger than you expect #ChemSky
Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar
go.nature.com/4oywvUV
I'm hiring postdocs @berkeleylab.lbl.gov to drive cutting-edge research involving MLIPs, high-throughput workflows, chemical reaction networks, generative models, and open-source software dev. Full position description + application here: forms.gle/zePBZDmciXez... #Chempostdoc #AI4Science
Very nice! I read this first as "4D" and was hoping for some superspace symmetry, but "4d" is okay too
👋New preprint: "Interplay of Redox Non-Innocence and Symmetry Breaking in a 4d Coordination Framework"
🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions.
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Nobody makes enemies by finishing their talk early…
The late Mike Coey wrote a nice piece on related effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am not sure how many solid-state chemists are lurking here, but I bet 10p that CaSnO3 is not magnetic (with or without CO2) pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
Botryoidal aggregates of bright pink spherocobaltite. From the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
299 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Spherocobaltite:
- A carbonate mineral
- Found in hydrothermal deposits containing cobalt
- Named for its spherical shape and cobalt composition #minerals
🤨No & No again! 👉 "Stale Citations" are an integral part of science: to give credit to crucial works of the past, avoiding 'reinventions', being a plague in research, e.g. in #chemsky #pisky
Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
