Had my first commencement at UofU yesterday. So proud to celebrate our Chemiatry grads. One of the best parts of being Chair! It was a beautiful and happy day. @utahchemistry.bsky.social

beautiful day for the FACT conference at UW! all actinides, all the time

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

Incredibly sad to hear of the passing of Dave Dixon on Friday. Dave was very supportive of me throughout my career, and I deeply appreciated his intellect, knowledge, and passion for fundamental science across the periodic table. A huge loss for the computational chemistry community #compchem

If you see this, post a random fact about yourself: As a child, I danced on stage with Chuck Berry.

last paper of the yr! 2025 saw the first papers from my group after moving to @utahchemistry.bsky.social. Glad we are finally back on track research wise and excited to keep on sharing all our new ideas! This paper shows an expedient new way to predict pKa's! #compchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Fun new paper out today! A new tool to explore how electronic density changes during chemical reactions. #compchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Check out the latest issue of the annual Department of Chemistry Catalyst magazine! special article on critical materials - highlighting all of the fantastic work of my colleagues. issuu.com/universityof...

The casual disdain underlying the NCAR dismantling effort is hitting so hard. Just bottomless grievance wielding a buzzsaw. No curiosity. No forethought. וְשָׂנֵ֤אתִֽי אֲנִי֙ אֶת־כָּל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁאֲנִ֥י עָמֵ֖ל תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ שֶׁ֣אַנִּיחֶ֔נּוּ לָֽאָדָ֖ם שֶׁיִּֽהְיֶ֥ה אַֽחֲרָֽי וּמִ֣י יוֹדֵ֗עַ הֶֽחָכָ֤ם יִֽהְיֶה֙ א֣וֹ סָכָ֔ל וְיִשְׁלַט֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי וְשֶֽׁחָכַ֖מְתִּי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ גַּם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל

Great dinner with colleagues at pacifichem! @luolab-utah.bsky.social @utahchemistry.bsky.social

Scientists in Czechia have devised a new method to assess the covalency of halogen bonds.

Really enjoyed creating this primer on topology for Nat. Rev. Chem. I hope it demystifies fundamental concepts in topology and helps you see opportunities in your own research! #compchem #chemsky #topology rdcu.be/eQLAn

fall is always an exciting time and I love engaging with prospective students! our Ph.D. program is having a virtual information session - come learn about our amazing science, supportive infrastructure and, perhaps most importantly, the famous Waffle Wednesday. #chemsky #gradschool

If anyone needs to know this, most plastic wrap in the US is made from polyethylene, but plastic wrap in Europe is made from PVC. This really matters if you are trying to make a decorative sugar dome for a cake after you saw them do it on a British baking show. #chemsky

The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

I love my Henry Eyring Theory Center peeps - what a fun Halloween party! #compchem

Very proud of this great paper - a perfect synergy of experiment and theory! Congrats to postdoc Qing Guo ! #compchem #chemsky Mineral dissolution by dimeric complexes | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

A much neglected point of discussion in LLMs. search.app/Prk5u

Monica Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world This computational chemist unites theoretical and experimental science using physics, biology, and chemistry. #HispanicHeritageMonth cen.acs.org/materials/po...

New Nano Letters paper online! We studied the #hydrogen insertion into Pd nanostructures enriched with well-defined Σ3(111) #GrainBoundaries. PdGB exhibits dramatically accelerated hydriding and dehydriding kinetics compared with Pd nanoparticles! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

BREAKING: "Just landed." Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

ML requires databases - this has been severely lacking in chemical separations - but no more! Introducing the Separations Archive for Elements (SAFE). Super proud of a great collab with Los Alamos Natl Lab and Fordham University #machinelearning #chemsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math. - The New York Times share.google/GEnaHYPrqFWj...

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's Distinguished Alumni Award, Dr. Hyung Kyu Shin, Dr. Michael Hunnicutt, and Dr. Sally Hunnicutt! Read more about the event and each of our awardees: www.chemistry.utah.edu/awards/2025-...

#chemsky #compchemsky Happy Sunday. I wanted to make this case again for IPAM at UCLA. www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... If you work in our field, chances are that an IPAM program contributed to the science you do at some point. AI/ML, molecular science, materials, ... Consider supporting them.

Under Congress’s reauthorization of the program through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, all of Utah and Idaho are considered affected areas. That means people who have certain cancers and lived in Idaho for 12 months between 1951 to 1962 are likely eligible for compensation.

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

Another consequence of the loss of twitter is missing news like this in real time. I came across the obituary while updating my slides for GenChem. The great Darleane Hoffman died earlier this month at 98. A true giant of the field. chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/darlean...

Want to re-up this on my feed. We are accepting applications until filled. @chemjobber.bsky.social #chemjobs our department is a fantastic place to work, with wonderful colleagues, great students and beautiful mountains to play in.

On a positive note - Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day :) #math #MATH www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

Big congrats to Josh for his front cover JCP Perspective article on Persistent Homology in chemistry. Great work Josh! #topology #compchem @utahchemistry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Beautiful science from my colleague Aaron Puri! @utahchemistry.bsky.social attheu.utah.edu/research/a-m...

Come join us! Two awesome faculty positions in experimental physical chemistry and biochemist - all ranks!!! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...

So proud of the IDREAM EFRC team science winners including our own Simantini Paul, Ryan Beck (Xiaosong Li's group at UW) and @pnnl.bsky.social Robert Felstad. Fantastic work all! Amazing science by all at the EFRC PI mtg.

Stefan Grimme ( @grimmelab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social ) receives the #ChemistryEurope 2025 Award! 🏆 📍 #IUPAC2025 Kuala Lumpur 🎉 Award Ceremony: Opening Ceremony 14 July 🧪 Award Lecture: 15 July, 8:00–8:45 am @iupac.org ‬ @chemistryeurope.bsky.social www.chemistryviews.org/stefan-grimm... ‬

Is citing nonexistent sources plagiarism or fabrication or both? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Beautiful day for a run. #running #SLC

Faculty member Henry S. White, a world-renowned leader in the field of electrochemistry and distinguished professor chemistry, has been named the 2025 recipient of the University of Utah’s Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence. Congrats, Henry!👏 🔗Read more: www.chemistry.utah.edu/history/henr...

What's this? Some very nice work by my colleagues. #quantinuum #quantumcomputing #ftqc #quantum arxiv.org/abs/2505.09133

Live in the US and feeling helpless about funding cuts? Spend 5 minutes making 5 calls. 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

Thanks to @chemjobber.bsky.social for this analysis. It is extremely hard to watch this destruction. Please do your best, especially those in red states, to let your representatives know these actions are hugely harmful to the US.

Shout out to organizers of the West Coast Theory Conference - great experience for Josh, Jackson and Simantini! #compchem

These nanoclusters are the first superatoms to be made using actinide elements. Each cluster contains a three-centre-one-electron valence-delocalised trithorium bond. And while they add to growing evidence that actinide–actinide bonds can be strong.

In a world filled with so much anxiety and anger, I am grateful to be surrounded by compassionate, resourceful and kind colleagues. Thank you @utahchemistry.bsky.social for the beautiful flowers and support while my face is melting! #skincancersucks

Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time, in a discovery that could inspire other researchers to synthesise compounds that might seem improbable.

Revealing the Relationship between Publication Bias and Chemical Reactivity with Contrastive Learning pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #compchem

Hey my fellow #criticalmaterials #rare-earths #actinides peeps! Don't forget to submit your abstracts to the 30th Rare Earth Research Conference June 15-19 hosted by ANL. This conference is always a wonderful event and a great way for early career scientists to network. See: www.anl.gov/rerc30