Are any chemists running in the marathon?

Annual rant that ratings (drop downs and radio buttons) in graduate admissions are annoying and meaningless. #chemchat

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

This effort has been several years in the making, so we're excited that it is finally ready for public review. Please let us know what you think!

Come be my colleague! Hope College Chemistry is hiring a tenure-track prof in General & Inorganic Chem starting Fall 2026. Great undergrad research culture, strong support, and a fantastic community. Apply by Sept 20: hope.edu/jobs #ChemJobs #facultyjobs #academicsky ⚗️🧪

First night of #GRCPhoto in the books! @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social capped off a great night of science with spectacular MOF Photochem! Now, it’s time to catch some Zzzz.

A bit of a rainy evening, but excited to start #GRCPhoto. #Maine #Bates #letsgo

Exciting news from MOF2026! Abstract submissions are open - check it out below and share with your networks! 🎉

MOFs (and COFs, HOFs, ChOFs) in the Mountains! Our Telluride workshop is off to a great start this week 🤗

Seems a good time to invite Sen Britt to watch an NIH review panel (aka study section) analyze piles of grants over several days to identify the <10% that win funding. Applications that scientists spent months preparing, whose peers spent weeks poring through in advance of review mtg at NIH.

What is ScholarGPS? Do we care about it?

Mark your calendars: NSUNS is hosting its third "Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy" symposium at the joint SERMACS/SWRM this October! Abstract submission opens Monday, April 21st. We hope to see you there!

Great banquet to celebrate the VT MII conference and review. Love connecting with alumni, EAB members, and colleagues. Congrats to the poster winners - so many @vtchemdept.bsky.social members!

Great first day of the Virginia Tech Macromolecules Innovation Institute #VTMII conference and review - highlighting our Materials in Medicine leaders @jbmatson.bsky.social and @schulzlabvt.bsky.social!

I am not a hockey fan, but you can bet I am watching today. Greatness deserves the watch. The GR8 Chase! #ovechkin

A great night celebrating College of Science Excellence and Chemistry superstars! Meng Jiang and Quinn Smith for Deans Roundtable Scholarships and Mitch Koppelman for being inducted into the Hall of Distinction!

Gorgeous day for Department faculty happy hour!

Does anyone have insight into why an agency would do this? grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

It is Wednesday! And, at #ACSSanDiego there are more awesome #VTChemDept talks! Check them out! 8:05 – 8:30 - Mechanochemical synthesis of hybrid biomass composites – Meng Jiang - Rm 8, Conv. Center

Best part of #ACSSanDiego? Hanging out with Morris group alums.

Adding to the Tuesday digest - an incognito talk because the name is wrong in the program! Happening in 15 minutes - start off your morning with Greg Liu! Deformation behaviors of laminate polymer/graphene bilayer thin film composites during thermal annealing

Here is your #VTChemDept Tuesday Digest! Great talks by great students and colleagues!

Awesome #VTChemDept event tonight - so great to catch up with alumni and friends!

Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry is holding an alumni, faculty, student, and friends meet-up during the Spring American Chemical Society Meeting! Join us at Roy's San Diego Waterfront, San Diego, CA at 5:30 p.m. TODAY on Monday, March 24.

Wondering where to go today at #ACSSanDiego? Check out these @vtchemdept.bsky.social talks!

Here is your Sunday Digest for the rest of today's VT Chem Talks!

Did you catch those two #VTChemDept Hokie talks? Want more? Well - Go see Valerie Welborn in the Convention Center Room 31A at 10:45! Preorganized electric fields facilitate ion binding and permeation in voltage-gated sodium channels @vtchemdept.bsky.social

Then, pop over to Hall G/H - Room 1 (San Diego Convention Center) at 9 to hear Junbao Liang from Valerie Welborn's group! Reducing product inhibition in DszB via glycosylation of unstructured loops @vtchemdept.bsky.social

Kick off your morning with some polymers! Go hear the fabulous Bob Moore at 8:55 - Pacific Ballroom: Section 22 (San Diego Marriott Marquis) Temperature-induced phase separation (TIPS) with a benign solvent in the processing of mechanically robust polymeric aerogels!

Made it to San Diego! Let’s Go! #ACSDIC #ACSSanDiego

@vtchemdept.bsky.social Great students achieving great things!

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

#chemsky #compchemsky - MolSSI Fellowship competition to begin on Feb 15 - molssi.org/fellowship/ - ACT-CMS Faculty Fellowship Applications are also open - molssi.org/exciting-upd...

I am excited to serve the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry as the chair-elect this year (and chair in 2026)! Congratulations to all of those elected to serve across the DIC.

Welcome to I-APS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt23... Any chance I have to reference Taylor Swift for a chemistry conference, I am taking.

Welcome to the Department of Chemistry on Bluesky! We're excited to join the Bluesky community and connect with you all. Stay tuned for updates on our latest research, events, and achievements! #HelloBluesky #vtchemdept

Another reason why working at VT Chem is awesome - our login credentials are easy to find on government websites - we are almost always at the end of the list - scroll, click, and done!

So excited to share the successful defense of Dr. Ben Thomas! Keep your eyes peeled for some awesome papers coming out!

Also, while we are at it a #photochemstarterpack would be good! #chemsky

How does one create starter packs? I believe a porous materials starter pack is in order. #MOFCOFStarterpack #chemsky

Today is transgender day of remembrance.

Hi #ChemSky! 👋 We see you! Please give us a moment to get settled here.

Made it thanks to @gassensmith.bsky.social! Hopefully, I will be able to keep up with another platform!