Woo, paper accepted! A collaboration where my colleague and her team tested some gold compounds we bought or made as inhibitors against an inflammation-related caspase enzyme! The pre-proof version is already online! sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... My podcast has launched!! Stay tuned for the first episode! I am also looking for people to share their stories about their nonlinear pathways on this podcast. Have you changed careers? Or do you have interests outside the STEM fields? If so, let’s chat! #ChemSky

I wrote an OpEd back in April about how mass deportations, tariffs, cuts to safety net programs, and mass firings and funding cuts to federal institutions were going to undermine food safety and access in the United States. Nobody would publish it. 😕 I think they thought I was overreacting.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The AI firm's settlement is the first of its kind.

Axel Becke, one of the big names in DFT development over the past 40 years, has passed away #CompChem #ChemSky (source Russell Boyd)

Chemistry folks! IONiC has some Learning objects on MOFs if you want to use them in your teaching, given the Nobel prize last week. A collection was made this week, check it out here: www.ionicviper.org/viper-bites/...

I helped with DFT on a project with my collaborator Dr. Kari Stone, and the paper was just published! Check it out here. Some cool bioinorganic chemistry. www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/15...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

@thedollop.bsky.social @reynoldsgareth.bsky.social J-town is into wresting. youtu.be/LMLO_92OLlE

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

To my H-1B friends, I am so fucking sorry. This all sucks so much.

Importantly, the employer files the petition, so the employer would be required to include a $100,000 check with the petition. But the ban on entry appears to also apply to ANYONE with an H-1B currently, and says that petitions must be "supplemented" with a $100,000 fee, so who knows who pays that.

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

ACS Spring 2026 to be held at Atlanta, GA. Call for abstracts open until end of this month. #ChemSky www.acs.org/events/sprin...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Midwest inorganic-y chemists, who all is going to CRIC in October? cse.umn.edu/chem/chicago...

After running a study abroad, I am back to the summer grind (doing research and such!). Teaching undergrads about research never gets old, I love that I get to do that in my job.

You can always expect something cool from @hartwiggroup.bsky.social and this one is no exception. Cu-catalyzed borylation of waste PVC creates strong adhesives for glass and metal - 5x more than commercial glue! #Chemsky

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 43 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky

**US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award @WesternU -$160,000 to 25 PhD students for up to 4 years. - Must've had offer rescinded/cancelled from US school. -Expedited admission process. -Feel free to reach out, if interested in a PhD in inorganic chem! www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Cooperative Reactivity Induced by All-Gallium Coordination at Nickel | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Fischer and co-workers @InorgChem #nickel #gallium #umpolung #DFT #NiGa4

The ACS Green Chemistry and Engineering conference was great! My brain is buzzing with new ideas and connections. I definitely recommend going if you haven't gone, and check out the GCTLC resources and community forums: gctlc.org

Masked agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement scattered in the federal courthouse building Friday morning (June 20) when they saw a group of religious leaders, including Bishop-designate Michael Pham of San Diego. www.ncronline.org/news/san-die...

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

1/ Dr. Sibrina Collins is an inorganic chemist and STEM administrator. She earned her M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000), both in the field of inorganic chemistry, from The Ohio State University . #WomenInSTEM #WomanToday

Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Complexes Featuring a Redox-Active ONO Ligand in Three Molecular Oxidation States | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Swart, Garcia-Bosch, and co-workers @InorgChem #cupper #ONO #redoxactive #catechol #amines #reactivity

Only 19 days left to apply for the UCL Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship (=Assist Prof). A great tenured job in a country not actively decimating its academic research landscape🇬🇧 Others have shared the advert, so instead let me introduce your amazing potential future colleages #Chemsky #chemjobs

📣 At #BCCE2026, the “conference contexts” aren’t just themes—they’re a call to action! If you're proposing a symposium or workshop, explore how your interests connect with these guiding ideas. 🦩 conferences.union.wisc.edu/bcce2026/pro... #ChemEd #ITeachChem #ChemEdResearch #ChemSky

More from @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @science.org "A world where the United States is no longer leading the scientific enterprise will still benefit from science [...] The global enterprise will adapt to the lack of American leadership, but the steep loss for the country itself is unambiguous."

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

Now more than ever

We are everywhere. We are inevitable. Even if we are silenced and suppressed, we will always be.

So MUCH THIS 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #LGBTQIA2SCommunity

Yay! J. Chem. Educ. paper out on removing DCM from teaching labs! It was a delight to work with Dr. Vosburg and his students, especially because I graduated from Mudd, which is where David teaches now (he started the year after I graduated so we didn't overlap). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

@justprattjp.bsky.social congratulations on your ASAP'ed J. Chem. Educ. paper! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Chemistry folks, anyone gonna be at the ACS GCE in June? I am going and its my first time. I am presenting on forays into mechanochemistry for research and teaching. Also, if you are interested in Green Chemistry, check out the GCTLC! It's got green labs/resources and forums: gctlc.org

My first J Chem Ed article should be up soon as an ASAP (we are at the proofing stage). I was a helper, not the lead PI, but I am very proud of all the authors' work! We discuss options for replacing DCM in teaching laboratories at colleges and universities!

chemistry folks, anyone doing work with singlet oxygen? I am thinking of developing a project and/or teaching lab involving metal complexes for singlet oxygen photosensitization, and I would love to pick your brain!

My inorganic chemistry lab CURE (Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience) really starts up next week, I am excited for my students' projects! Each team of 2 proposed metal complexes to test for a catechol oxidation reaction (mimicking the enzyme catechol oxidase).

And it's official! Resistance Summer School is live! You can sign up now to take my course, which Columbia cancelled-- Race, Media and International Affairs-- which I will teach live and online beginning in July. 124 signed up in five hours. Let's goooo!! open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Protest in Daley Plaza with Picasso horse

Made a blog post for undergrads on fundamental chem concepts - stoichiometry, limiting reagents, and percent yeild. Always good to review the basics! depaulcatalyst.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/g...

In addition to keeping planes in the sky, apparently DEI also kept defense communications secure.

So not only did Trump's natsec team accidentally include The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg in a Signal conversation about strikes on Houthis, they also used that same non-governmental platform to coordinate staffing among departments and the White House! Insane. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I'm not going to ACS San Diego (too much stuff going on at work and home), but I am going to present at a postdoc lab reunion over zoom today, which should be awesome.