Jake Yeston
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Editor at
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, shepherding chemistry papers; views here are my own; he/him
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וגר לא תלחץ ואתם ידעתם את נפש הגר כי גרים הייתם בארץ מצרים
12 months ago
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ArtButMakeItSports
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Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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CCDC Cambridge
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Reported in
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, lithium pentasilacyclopentadienyl complexes. These silicon analogues of the cyclopentadienyl ligand have a non-planar 5-membered ring and further characterisation shows evidence of aromaticity. 🔗 CSD Entry EXOMUD:
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#FeaturedStructureFriday
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This is niche but every time I visit London and ride the underground, I have “And you’re giving a treat, penny ice and cold meat, to a party of friends and relations: they’re a ravenous horde and they all came on board at Sloane Square and South Kensington stations” running through my head
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Keith Smith
3 days ago
Can astronomical imaging be more sensitive, with no additional observations? Guo et al. apply machine learning to the co-addition (stacking) of multiple exposures. For stacks of 8 JWST NIRCam exposures, the detection limit improves by 1 magnitude. ☄️🔭
#astrocode
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Cong Yin
4 days ago
Our new study in Science Advances: Extreme fire risk days are increasingly synchronizing globally. This trend strains firefighting cooperation and worsens regional air quality. With
@climate-guy.bsky.social
@mattwjones.bsky.social
@mojisadegh.bsky.social
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Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather
Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8813
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Science Magazine
6 days ago
“We’re all valuable cogs in the system.”
#ScienceWorkingLife
https://scim.ag/4aBvber
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
6 days ago
We’ve been consciously working to include diverse voices in our pages, and that work will continue. Check out our editorial written in 2020.
cen.acs.org/policy/CEN-s...
#BlackHistoryMonth
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C&EN stands in solidarity with communities of color
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/policy/CEN-stands-solidarity-communities-color/98/i22?sc=260216_sc_eng_bs_cen
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Cheryl Rofer
6 days ago
Good morning team! Here's a professional society standing up!
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Not really my lane but something super weird about The Olympics is how everyone watching and commenting treats it like a show. It’s not really fair for people who do the best sports thing and are barely adults to also have to be amazing actors. If you lose you should be allowed to cope privately.
7 days ago
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Still had to do this though
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9 days ago
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Roses are red. Valentine’s Day is bad. Married couples ignore it and it makes lonely people sad.
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C, low brow Reese’s isn’t improved by high brow treatment
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9 days ago
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
9 days ago
President Donald J. Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA has finalized rescinding the endangerment finding. This is the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the US Clean Air Act.
cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky
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EPA officially kills the endangerment finding
‘Don't worry about it,’ Trump says when asked about climate impacts on public health
https://cen.acs.org/environment/greenhouse-gases/EPA-officially-kills-endangerment-finding/104/web/2026/02?sc=260213_sc_eng_bs_cen
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Jeffrey Mervis
10 days ago
NSF's graduate research fellowship (GRF) program is designed to teach aspiring scientists how to write a winning grant proposal. So why are so many applicants being denied that learning experience?
www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF’s flagship fellowship program is rejecting applicants without peer review
Students seeking graduate research scholarships speculate that biology is being disfavored
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-s-flagship-fellowship-program-rejecting-applicants-without-peer-review
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Exciting chemsky work out First Release in
@science.org
from
@gracegdhan.bsky.social
and collaborators, scrunching up pyrimidones so tight with UV light that the strain release can boil water!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 MJ/kg
Storing sunlight in a compact and rechargeable form remains a central challenge for solar energy utilization. Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage systems, which harness photon energy and rel...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413
10 days ago
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Science Magazine
10 days ago
By probing the compositions of atmospheric aerosols down to 3 nanometers during a heat wave, researchers discovered an essential role of carboxylic acids in new particle formation. Learn more:
https://scim.ag/4rGT5vS
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Randall Munroe
12 days ago
Carbon Dating
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12 days ago
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Ruben Ragg
12 days ago
We are hiring an Editor‑in‑Chief for our in-house chemistry portfolio to lead journals in the wider field of phytochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and natural products. Please like, share, and apply!
wiley.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/wiley_career...
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Editor-in-Chief - Physical Sciences
Job Description: Editor-in-Chief - Physical Sciences Location: Remote, GBR Our mission is to unlock human potential. We welcome you for who you are, the background you bring, and we embrace individual...
https://wiley.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/wiley_careers/job/Remote-GBR/Editor-in-Chief---Physical-Sciences_R2600090
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
13 days ago
Engineered enzyme makes amides from aldehydes Researchers hacked the mechanism of aldehyde dehydrogenase to achieve new reactivity.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi...
#chemsky
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Engineered enzyme makes amides from aldehydes
Researchers hacked the mechanism of aldehyde dehydrogenase to achieve new reactivity
https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/biocatalysis/Engineered-enzyme-makes-amides-aldehydes/104/web/2026/02?sc=260209_sc_eng_bs_cen
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
14 days ago
Anyway if you appreciate my posting, please do me a favor and preorder my book and if you cannot afford to, put in a request to your local library, which is a great way to keep books alive for generations I esp. appreciate support for Loyalty which is working hard to support local organizing in DC
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derek guy
15 days ago
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Philip Bump
18 days ago
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
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Philip Bump
18 days ago
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Becky Hammer
18 days ago
Enough ice has melted off the solar panels that we're finally generating more power than we're using!!!
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What can you even say about shredding the WaPo staff? Richest guy ever won't backstop news from the capital city. And the craziest part is if they'd bought Wordle it probably would have made a tangible difference. That's where we are. It'll be an essay question in 100 years.
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Other thing about the new iOS is it now always says I have one unread email when I don’t, and if someone tried to come up with a trivial thing that would drive me completely bananas, they couldn’t have done much better….
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GZY ⍼ גז"י
20 days ago
Good night to all the trees and the trees only. Hope your Rosh Hashanah was a meaningful one and your coming year is a great one!
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
20 days ago
House Republicans released a discussion draft (PDF) of a bill to update the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the primary oversight law for industrial chemicals in the US.
cen.acs.org/policy/chemi...
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Republicans release draft proposal to update TSCA
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s discussion draft of a bill to amend the chemical regulation law is drawing mixed but predictable reactions
https://cen.acs.org/policy/chemical-regulation/Republicans-release-draft-proposal-update/104/web/2026/01?sc=260202_sc_eng_bs_cen
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The thing is on the one hand it’s very frustrating they’re closing school again but on the other hand every time I’ve tried to walk on a sidewalk for the past week I’ve fallen down, so it’s probably the right call. Just a ridiculously hard kind of snow to clear.
21 days ago
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Sven T. Stripp
21 days ago
IMO Molière should be mandatory in Med Chem 😅
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Also I wrote a final paper where I argued comedies are actually tragic and used the word neanmoins a lot and that’s why it was probably good that I majored in chemistry😭
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21 days ago
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Not doing the 5 courses thing because I’m opposed to memes that haven’t made me laugh yet but I took a French drama class freshman year with 2 other people in it where we read Molière outside on sunny days and it was probably my favorite course.
21 days ago
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Sara Luterman
21 days ago
Chocolate cake. I like chocolate! I like cake! But somehow chocolate cake is almost always the worst cake flavor option.
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Derek Lowe
23 days ago
A look at the new MOSAIC paper on an LLM-based system to try to help with predicting synthetic chemical lab procedures:
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A New LLM System for Synthesis Planning
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/new-llm-system-synthesis-planning
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Eric Columbus
23 days ago
It is somehow still January
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I’m reduced to busting up rock solid snow with a sledge hammer—how’s your day going?
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Jeffrey Mervis
27 days ago
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed.
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
27 days ago
extremely wholesome scenes in my neighborhood (I bet in yours too): kids building snow forts, neighbors freeing each others' cars and sidewalks from ice. nice to get the opposite of the doomscroll in
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Molly Ploofkins
27 days ago
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Diana Kwon
27 days ago
Looking for sources for a
@nature.com
story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
28 days ago
Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed for applications.
cen.acs.org/materials/el...
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These quantum switches need a materials makeover
Fixing the materials flaws in quantum computers is key to unlocking their advantage
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Andre the Chemist
28 days ago
Because I want them to be worldly and cultured, I'm teaching my kids to make French toast, instead. Exotic.
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10yo currently upset that because of tomorrow’s forecast, school might not actually be canceled on *Tuesday*😭
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Like I was saying a little while ago. These have just enough chocolate chips. Also go great with this rye-finished hickory syrup from Mount Vernon
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Steve Vladeck
about 1 month ago
You can't spell "Washington" without "Hating Snow."
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In
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for chemsky this week, Dave MacMillan’s group use cobalt catalysis to fuse saturated and aromatic rings
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Couple-close: Unified approach to semisaturated cyclic scaffolds
Couple-close as a synthetic paradigm has the potential to change the way that synthetic organic chemists approach cyclic scaffold construction. One class of cyclic molecules that has been increasingly...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec5748
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This is a terrific and important story about how hard it’s going to be to put Humpty Dumpty back together again in US academic science, even if funding levels ultimately get restored. Features some good quotes from
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#chemchat
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about 1 month ago
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Shobita Parthasarathy
about 1 month ago
Public trust in science and technology is a serious, growing problem, especially now. Instead of trying to solve it with better communication, we should adopt a more inclusive approach to innovation that takes low-tech, incremental, and system-wide solutions seriously. My new piece
@science.org
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Repairing trust in science requires a more inclusive understanding of innovation
These are extraordinarily challenging times for university researchers across the United States. After decades of government largess based on the idea that a large and well-financed research ecosystem...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6955
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