I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

@vidhikadamani.bsky.social painted the most beautiful image for our perspective on stimuli-responsive conductive polymers in @pubs.acs.org Chemistry of Materials for their Up-and-Coming series and it made the journal cover! See #MyACSCover here: pubs.acs.org/toc/cmatex/3...

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help! #ChemSky #ScienceSky

@vidhikadamani.bsky.social and I wrote a Perspective on ‘Stimuli-Responsive Conductive Polymers for Bioelectronics’ now published in Chemistry of Materials @pubs.acs.org. We hope you will enjoy it! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I want to thank @sebvidalchem.bsky.social for his article on safety related to a dichloromethane injection injury! We discussed this article a few months ago and had a similar incident today with DMF. The student was therefore aware of the potential risk. [1/2] pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

Reupping this short, 4-post 🧵 about the American "scientific pipeline", so we all understand the long-term economic impact of shutting it off #SciComm folks are great at popularizing individual fields, but the overall system of funding scientific discovery needs similarly terse explainers

My lab made a (much needed) cute card. Will you be the PEDOT to my PSS?

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🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

LAST CALL! We are seeking nominations for the @acspmse.bsky.social Early Investigator and Future Faculty Awards of the @acs.org. Please nominate a colleague before February 1: #ACS #PMSE Early Investigator: pmsedivision.org/early-invest... ACS PMSE Future Faculty: pmsedivision.org/pmse-future-...

The FDA should make a decision on whether or not to approve Vertex Pharmaceuticals suzetrigine today. While an @cenmag.bsky.social editorial fellow, @alexviveros.bsky.social investigated the backstory for us 🧪#chemsky

#chemjobs #Merckchemistry is hiring - 2 open positions at the associate level. Located at our West Point, PA site close to Philadelphia - with a great team that I just joined not so long ago! Links for info: R330195 bit.ly/40uICc9 R330192 bit.ly/42gC7v2 Please apply if interested #chemsky

"[My adviser] told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should think about what I am good at and what makes me happy at least 80% of the time. This advice surprised me at first, but it ended up being exactly what I needed to hear." scim.ag/3DHtLCc

Just out in @natrevbioeng.bsky.social, check out our perspective on integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Happy New Year! I am starting 2025 fresh by unsubscribing from all the email lists I didn’t actually want to subscribe to. Feels great/weird to get almost no emails each day. NB: Please do not use this post as a hint to send me requests 😘

Congratulations to Darrin on being elected an NAI fellow @nationalacademies.org !!! #Bundlemers #Polymers

The Argonne Catalysis Group is hiring for a postdoc position in Chemical Plastic Recycling! If you're interested in Polymer Science, Recyclable Polymers, and/or Catalysis, and looking for a postdoc position, check out the posting below! #chemsky 🧪⚗️ argonne.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Argonne_Care...

The way to get to do shit you want to do is to first do shit that you don’t want to do. #mentorship

#chemsky I made a starter pack of women in organic electronics! Comment below if you’d like to be added 🤗 @stingelin.bsky.social @luscombeoist.bsky.social @jovanavmilic.bsky.social go.bsky.app/SR66ikV

Some of your students may find this useful: youtu.be/FqEstAs0M6E

Re-introducing myself here. I'm a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at UDelaware, working on conducting and stimuli-responsive polymers. Polymers and coatings engineer from India. Passionate about science, food, art, animals. 👩🏻‍🔬🍛🎨🐶 :)

#compchemsky & #chemsky: I am looking for a guest 🎤 lecturer for my UG class showcasing real-world uses of AI/ML, quantum chemistry, MD simulations - who’s interested? 💻🧬🧪

🚨⏳ Only a few hours left!! Make sure to submit your abstracts to this excellent symposium on "Integrating High-Throughput Techniques and Digital Technologies for #Sustainability" at #ACSSpring2025 bit.ly/3XF7jzU

Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib

For some reason in medicinal chemistry we like to use weight (Daltons) as a measure for atomic and molecular size. The picture below shows why this is hugely misleading for halogens and hydrogen.

As Materials Science and Engineering Departments/Programs absorbed a number of Chemistry academics in the UK in the last crunch - this new crunch is interesting, and saddening. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemist...

#chemsky 📣 🧠 Background in chemistry, materials science or engineering? 💻 Interested in #compchem, materials discovery & #software? 🎓4-year #phd available in my group to work on data-driven design of ionic-electronic mixed conductors for energy storage & biomedical electronics. #omiecs

The mystery of the unknown blobs has been solved. The question now remains as to where it came from! www.theguardian.com/environment/...