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Gompf Family Professor of Chemistry, @JHUChemistry, @JohnsHopkins. Views are my own.
I had a great visit to Holy Cross 4 months ago! Belated thanks to
@drdre4000.bsky.social
and all!
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25 days ago
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6 months ago
Got to listen to a great talk from
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today at AU
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6 months ago
Many thanks to Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez
@everywherechem.bsky.social
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
Prof. and
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President-Elect for presenting at our faculty seminar series today!
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
3 months ago
In Rigoberto Hernandez’s presidential year, he will focus on raising ACS’s impact globally, fostering belonging in the society, and advancing an ACS membership-for-life concept.
cen.acs.org/acs-news/Rig...
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Rigoberto Hernandez wants to foster a sense of togetherness
The 2026 ACS president will spend the society's 150th anniversary focusing on growing ACS's platform and engaging its members
https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/Rigoberto-Hernandez-wants-foster-sense/104/web/2026/01?sc=260107_sc_eng_bs_cen
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Looking forward to to the second day of my visit to @holy_cross ... Join me at my seminar today at 2:00PM!
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“thinking like a scientist also requires us to feel like a scientist [...] How do we broaden the ability to feel like a scientist when sharing the value of and passion for science with the public or other communities?" @cenmag @AmerChemSociety
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Comment: The value of and passion for chemistry
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.
https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/comment/Comment-value-passion-chemistry/103/web/2025/08
8 months ago
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Now on my annual pilgrimage to Tucson. I’m looking forward to catching up with the Research Corporation for Science Advancement
#CottrellScholar
community. If you see me, let’s take a selfie, and post on your preferred social(s). In the end, I’ll report which one won the count!
8 months ago
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We just finished our 13th Telluride Science biennial workshop on Chemical Dynamics in Complex Environments (Chem-DiCE). Hard to believe that we started 25 years ago! Many thanks to all the participants. Everyone was engaged. The science was awesome. And, I learned a lot.
9 months ago
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Great to collaborate with the Giraldo Lab and our CSN (
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) team!
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10 months ago
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After 32 years, I finally had a chance to return to advancing Semiclassical Transition State Theory (SCTST). Check out our paper, just published in @JChemPhys (with Alex Popov!) @doescience
#BESfunded
doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
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Semiclassical transition state theory through the lens of the restricted partition function
The wide adoption of transition state theory in resolving the rates of molecular processes relies on the simplification from reducing the formal and numerical e
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0273165
10 months ago
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Listening to Morten Medal at
#MARM
He says that Chemistry is Everything, and I’m hoping that he would agree that it is Everywhere, too!
@acs.org
10 months ago
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Choose number 1 or 2. Which do you think better represents my evening?
11 months ago
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Lucky to run into Pratyush Tiwary at today’s HPC Symposium at
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
and JHU Engineering. Always great to ride on potential energy landscapes with him.
12 months ago
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And, soon
@francesarnold.bsky.social
will be speaking…
about 1 year ago
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Join me now at the board meeting about to hear from Frances Arnold, 2025 Priestley Medalist…
about 1 year ago
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Sara Cottle
about 1 year ago
🔹 ACS president-elect Rigoberto Hernandez,
@everywherechem.bsky.social
, discusses science advocacy in his most recent Comment (an always important topic, but even more important today):
cen.acs.org/acs-news/com...
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Comment: Science advocacy is hard. If not you, who?
Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds
https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/comment/Comment-Science-advocacy-hard/103/i7
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and here is the actual article...
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Our science infrastructure needs your help so that we can continue to drive the innovation and translation that can help you and everyone around you be better tomorrow.
@acs.org
#POTACS
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
https://lnkd.in/d6RKi48w
about 1 year ago
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
about 1 year ago
For
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
, C&EN looks at how the virus has transformed science and imagines what the next 5 years of COVID-19 might look like:
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
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Let’s all celebrate chemistry
#OutsideTheLab
… Mike Ferguson does trivia, I enjoy taking peloton yoga and bike classes… What’s yours?
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Trailblazers share their career journeys and valuable advice in Black History Month celebration
The first ACS-hosted event of its kind connected students with chemistry professionals and community resources
https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/Trailblazers-share-career-journeys-valuable/103/web/2025/02
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Chemjobber
about 1 year ago
This (ACS' communications to its councilors*) was useful to me, including clicking through the ACS presidential succession and what they were saying. ACS President-Elect Hernandez' statement is most relevant:
www.acs.org/about/govern...
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⚗️🧪 *full disclosure: I am one** ** lol of like 400
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Councilor News & Committee Alerts - American Chemical Society
Councilor News & Committee Alerts is brought to you by the Office of the Secretary. This newsletter provides relevant information to Councilors and Committees.
https://www.acs.org/about/governance/councilor-news-and-committee-alerts.html
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Enjoyed today’s visit at U. Buffalo Chemistry!
about 1 year ago
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In case you saw a 404 error this weekend, please know that the page is still there!
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about 1 year ago
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I very much enjoyed engaging with the ACS Memphis Local Section last Thursday, and U. Memphis last Friday. Great students, members and colleagues! Pleased to have reason for optimism for the future of chemistry.
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about 1 year ago
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I was at the ACS Leadership Institute in Houston this past weekend. I was fortunate to engage with many volunteers and future leaders. I didn’t take many photos. Instead, I am happy to highlight their photos and experiences, such as this one from the aptly named Fun Man (
@chemfunman.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Catch me online in Singapore morning on 2/15/25. That will be Friday night in the US East Coast.
#POTACS
@amerchemsociety.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Fun Man Fung
over 1 year ago
The biggest draw in this event is to learn from the exciting sharing by
@amerchemsociety.bsky.social
President-Elect
@everywherechem.bsky.social
who has graciously accepted our invitation as the guest of honour. You can interact with him after his online talk and in this space
@bsky.app
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This past Thursday, OSTP released its second report on the Strategy for Sustainable Chemistry. I was honored to be invited to serve on a panel to celebrate their success, and discuss the relevance of the report to innovation and the chemical workforce.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
over 1 year ago
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Were you, perhaps, hoping to hear what was said at the Sustainable Chemistry Stakeholder Event by the White House OSTP this past Thursday? Well, here’s your chance as it is posted at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=16o6...
My remarks are interspersed in the third panel in the last 40 minutes of the clip.
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Sustainable Chemistry Stakeholder Event
YouTube video by The White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16o6RkRN3t0
over 1 year ago
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Congratulations to Dr. Yinong Zhao! He successfully defended his thesis today on "Elaborating Structure and Connectivity of Autonomous Computing Materials" He is the 17 PhD from the @hernandez_lab
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@JHUChemistry
@jhuartssciences.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Dr. Yinhan Wang! He successfully defended his thesis today on "Dissipative Particle Dynamics Models of Protein, Lipid, and Nanoparticle Interactions" He is the 16th PhD from our group, but who’s counting. :-)
over 1 year ago
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Sad to learn about the loss of David Yarkony. 💔 His book and giant legacy about conical intersections stays. He will be sorely missed. Rest in peace, David. 🥀
hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/26/d...
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David Yarkony, renowned expert in theoretical chemistry, dies at 75
Yarkony, whose research changed scientists' understanding of radiationless decay, had been part of JHU's Department of Chemistry since 1975
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/26/david-yarkony-theoretical-chemistry-obituary/
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Temple Chemistry
over 1 year ago
We've got a Chemistry Department starter pack! Comment here and we'll add your department in!
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It is with deep sadness and regret that I share news of the loss of my colleague, David Yarkony. His deep insight and humor, among his many other attributes, will be missed.
www.ruckfuneraltowson.com/obituary/dav...
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Obituary for David R. Yarkony at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc.
On November 22, 2024, Dr. David Roy Yarkony, beloved husband of Kathryn Yarkony devoted father of Julian Yarkony, Alexander Yarkony and his wife Julie, and Andrea Yarkony and her husband Will dear bro...
https://www.ruckfuneraltowson.com/obituary/david-yarkony
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Looking forward to today’s workshop at CCNY ITS... Garek Papoian, Rick Remsing,
@vaikuntsuri.bsky.social
, Glen Hocky and me, hosted by Seogjoo Jang... My talk on "Dynamics Through Non-Recrossing Dividing Surfaces, and on Coarse Grained Models” Join us on 34th St.
itsatcuny.org/calendar/202...
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Catching essential features from multiscale dynamics of biological systems and complex materials — Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences
Friday, 15 November 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Room 4102 (Science Center), Graduate Center CUNY
https://itsatcuny.org/calendar/2024/11/15/catching-essential-dynamical-features-across-multiple-length-and-time-scales-in-biological-and-complex-materials
over 1 year ago
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Sustainable Nano
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Want to hear about what moles have to do with espresso? Check out our 2018 Mole Day post by
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sustainable-nano.com/2018/10/23/m...
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Happy Mole Day: 2018 Edition
Nano is small. Yet we find that a few nanoparticles can have very large scale effects. How do we make sense of these disparate scales? Several previous blog posts — such as this, this, and th…
https://sustainable-nano.com/2018/10/23/mole-day-2018/
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Sustainable Nano
over 1 year ago
Congratulations to CSN faculty member
@everywherechem.bsky.social
for being elected as the new president-elect for the American Chemical Society! Article in
@cenmag.bsky.social
at
cen.acs.org/acs-news/gov...
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Rigoberto Hernandez elected 2025 ACS president-elect
He wants to make sure the society remains a home for chemists throughout their lifetimes
https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/governance/Rigoberto-Hernandez-elected-2025-ACS-president-elect/102/web/2024/10
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Laura Howes
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I have made a ChemSky starter pack and am posting here to help boost visibility. This list is not exhaustive, but should hopefully help newcomers or rejoiners find some accounts and feeds to follow
go.bsky.app/C9BtrLj
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While I’m stuck at home with Covid, Daniela Kohen shared with me that I’m being spotted in one of the
@carletoncollege.bsky.social
Chemistry hallways, right next to her office. Anyone else have some-such hallway photos to share?
almost 2 years ago
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almost 2 years ago
Found out today that American Chemical Society journals have agreements with many PUIs to waive open access fees. This may not seem like a huge deal to some but for us, a few thousand dollars goes a long way. Much appreciated! 🙌
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“EveryWhereChem! Happy 2400! My mother is a chemistry teacher…” - thanks for the shoutout from Camila Ramón, HIIT & Hills Ride
about 2 years ago
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