Playing an audio book out loud with no headphones in the airport terminal is incredible behavior

Not unexpected, but also not a good time for NREL. We can only hope a few senators/reps break party lines during the next budget and advocate for continuing US science. www.cpr.org/2025/05/05/n...

Huh, learned that Cell press (Joule, Matter etc.) is owned by Elsevier. Not apparent from the websites at all.

Badass Surgeon Puts On Fingerless Latex Gloves Before Operating

Happy earth day. As good a time as any for chemists to think about how they’re making the world a better place with their research, and that developing environmental solutions might be the best way to do that.

Please come say hi!👋 I'll be at Seattle MRS giving two talks: 1. Wednesday 4/9 415 pm room 427 Exploring Zintl-Phase Quantum Dots for Optoelectronic - Discussing new work on quantum dot synthesis. V exciting stuff

“…akin to the magic-state-teleportation circut.” Come on guys, this cant be the name of a real thing

Im something of an investing guru. Bought 1 bulb of garlic, turned it into 9! Cant get these kind of returns on wall street

I have published my first corresponding author research paper & that is really exciting.

Annual reviews we wrote on chirality induced spin selectivity in halide perovskites. Lots of exciting experiments discussed, plenty of room to explore in the field. And beautiful figures to use in background slides! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Remember that AI lab paper claiming like 50 new AI discovered oxides. Then ppl were like no what are you talking about? those arent new, nor are they what the robot says. And the author was like, lol “theyre new to my AI” And then the paper never got retracted.

getting paper proofs is very exciting to see it all formatted, but then you realize you have to read it for the 10000th time

China is crushing it in solar installations. Sad that the U.S. can't be the leader in high tech energy production.

Maybe red bull can sponsor me. We can make a cute little vid of me in a lab coat and gen chem goggles shot-gunning a can, spraying everywhere. Then i go shake a L sep funnel with dyed red ether in it and spray it all over a fume hood . X-treme

21st is the century of bio, with all the major advances in biochem., genetics etc. The majority of these discoveries by American institutions. It feels like if this was the 20th century physics, we're cutting research off at Millikan/Schrod. etc & not getting to the "useful" stuff like transistors

Have not had time to play in a lab for quite a while, but it is what it is. Here's an old photo of glowing little crystallites #chemsky #fluorescentfriday

Meetings in DC getting canceled. so. much. whiplash.

Youve heard of the freshman 15, but what about the proposal season 16?

Ill worry about AI when it can distinguish Cs2 molecules from CS2 molecues

Luckily for me, im too busy writing proposals to pay attention to the news.

I feel like coffee was a key example of an inelastic good in econ 101

I want to be able to log in to google scholar and block results from researchers for every future search. Spent 5 minutes on this paper until i saw this picture 🤦‍♂️

Sunlight sensor: device generating photocurrent and photovoltage under brilliant outdoor illumination conditions

Huh

I just read every executive order that has to do with energy or chemicals: AMA. Also, buy me a drink.

🎶6 experiments running, 5 internal propsals, 4 hours training, 3 external proposals, 2 papers in revisions, and a patent app in a pear tree🎶 January is Christmas for deadlines

Just got reminded of this old gem of a puddle in my alley

New work by Pete Sercel which I contributed to is published in adv mater. Great in depth theory on the exciton fine structure of low symmetry halide perovskites with chiral cations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

“The authors note this is likely not the most optimized procedure, but we are tired”

We should be able to rank our google scholar papers from biggest time sink to actually enjoyed this project. Who cares about citation count i wanna know what hurt

How can new jersey (a different state) sue new york city over a congestion tax?? The entitlement people have to be able to take a car wherever they want whenever they want for as cheap as possible

At that age where im trading in schlenk line carpal tunnel for laptop trackpad carpal tunnel

Gave a talk on morphological chirality (twisting) Lots of star wars incorporated. Prof Peng Xiong from FSU told me may the force be with you and i responded “and also with you” because i was raised catholic lol

Every scientist needs at least two good science bar arguments a year (with great colleagues!). No funding b.s., no science-politics, just arguing about science.

Next Tuesday at the Fall MRS I'll be discussing the excellent modelling our team has done to describe the impact of textured morphologies on circular dichroism in chiral halide perovskites. Lot's of pretty pictures included! #chemsky

I want a week off to just read my undergrad textbooks. I forgot where the levorotary name comes from. Cant derive an equation besides S=Q/T anymore. Just a week with some books please

Rejected too many papers lately that claim to do every experimental characterization possible, but are missing very basic control experiments. Too much priority on some arbitrary performance parameter, not enough on learning about the materials system.