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In two new Science studies, researchers report strategies to maximize the incorporation of hydrogen and carbon atoms into hydrocarbon compounds, offering sustainable routes to liquid fuel production with improved efficiency. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3WCdUew

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

Sabrina Shroff is a hero.

CISS (chirality induced spin selectivity) observations are coming up on 30 years old, but how chiral molecules polarize electron spin is still bewildering. This week in @science.org an NREL team observe the inverse effect (spin to charge) with a clear THz signature www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ginkgo Bioworks is extending a partnership agreement with Bayer to continue developing microbial nitrogen fixation technologies for agriculture. cen.acs.org/business/agr... #chemsky 🧪

It’s true that some scientific results can’t be replicated. And it’s also true that some people do the right thing when that happens:

Our group’s latest work is out today in @nature.com ! Our goal is to enable any chemist to be able to easily access an aryne intermediate! So Chris, Sal, and Felicia teamed up to design what we think is the ideal aryne precursor. Danny and @jnboyn.bsky.social helped us understand the activation!

Illuminating new research offers chemists a simple and mild method for making arynes—a challenging type of strained molecule. Using a new precursor activated by blue light, researchers were able to access elusive aryne intermediates. cen.acs.org/synthesis/re... #chemsky 🧪

very lovely day in alexandria, va. this morning

What was the hardest part of grad school for you? Was it having a kid, the thesis defense? I told them nope, it was being the only & the first. The only Inupiaq at UW Madison for most of my years there, one of 250 Natives on a campus of over 40K, the first Native to earn a PhD in my program🧵

While companies are using more recycled plastics than before, many are not on track to reach their targets. Blaming market difficulties, some have walked back sustainability targets and extended deadlines. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

It was wonderful to return to UC Berkeley and deliver a lecture with Clayton Heathcock in the audience.

A big part of the enduring strength of the United States of America is that NYC could elect a Muslim mayor a scant generation after 9/11

Shout out to @amgen.bsky.social rock band Sugar Box, proud to wear your merch! 😃

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

THE Organic Chemistry Buckeye Tailgate! 👀 Sevov Zhang Raps Thomas Labs

So a lot of the anger and accusations directed at Jordan Silverman came out of the forum DCUrbanMom. After my article yesterday, here's a thread with some interesting comments about the site's role, including one from the moderator. www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts...

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 273 tenure-track positions and 32 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Would you describe the fire as A) Release of phlogiston into dephlogisticated air B) Consumption of oxygen to generate a calx C) Consumption of oxygen to generate fixed air D) One of the four elements

In all seriousness more frustrating than hilarious

New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

My favorite coffee cup when I sit #inside reading the news on a rainy day #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Interiors #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome

For the enjoyment of #ChemSky scrollers, an origami BCC unit cell. The origami has grown quite a bit since then, and continues to grow, but I wanted to share my project at this particular stage with chemists and crystallographers.

The October issue of #ScienceRobotics is out! This month's cover highlights a zebrafish-inspired robot that can replicate visually guided optomotor responses to stabilize its position against river currents. Learn about this research and more: https://scim.ag/4nJWNDm

Earlier this year, a paper came out that suggested for many organic reactions stirring has little effect on reactions rates. Now, a group has released a preprint arguing that stirring remains critical for reproducibility, selectivity and scalability.

Dogwood tree

Super happy that I could contribute to this excellent paper! The holy grail of oligo-porphyrin chemistry was finally made 😍

My 81 yo mother was fooled by an American Airlines spoof website scam and didn’t find out the (very real-looking!) ticket was fake till she got to the airport and I just really hate the people who spend their days doing that to people

Also in @science.org this week, the Gaich and Schneider groups report total synthesis of (−)-spiroaspertrione A chemsky🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What is thermodynamics, Ken?

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

Probably the most impressive thing about Faraday is the extent to which he’d be the most famous chemist if he weren’t also one of the most famous physicists.

Just popped into the Royal Institution for a coffee, to discover they have a lovely display on benzene to mark the bicentenary of Faraday's discovery of it. Here are his notes, his paper, and one of his first samples. Glorious.

Not common to see a 7-byline story in the wild, but that's what the situation calls for when the government shuts down and every science agency needs to be checked in on for RIFs, grant terminations, and general dysfunction. Our update on what the chaos means for science here:

Thrilled to see our recent Nature Chemistry work featured in @cenmag.bsky.social ! Big thanks to @bribarbu.bsky.social for the great coverage!

If this isn't the last video that MTV ever plays, I will be so furious:

Current reports suggest that in about 10 hours (8am local time) all of the living hostages in Gaza will be released. Bodies of murdered hostages that Hamas still controls should be released in the following hours. International mechanism will be set up to search for remaining bodies.

My favorite self-devised cocktail—equal parts Ceylon arrack, St George NOLA coffee, and Carpano bianco

PSA: this pumpkin brioche from Trader Joe's makes great french toast

Sorry yesterday’s pangram was ridiculouslike

I’m kind of a fro-yo minimalist but tonight I tasted the 10yo’s kitchen-sink death-by-chocolate overflowing cup of glop and ngl it was amazing😭

Congrats and thanks to Neil Garg, Ralph Zhao, and co-workers for publishing #OrgLett 's first Safety Letter: Evaluation of the Popular Oxidant 2-Iodobenzoic Acid (IBX) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

There's every reason in the world to be wary of what's coming next, but we can still be happy for the children of Gaza and the hostages' families.

Ceasefire in effect. Not impossible that this is the end of the Gaza war.

There's been a lot of evidence put out there recently that scientists and tech folks should have to take more humanities courses in their education.

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note. Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL