It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Exciting news!

Do you know of any papers that have datasets of organic materials (polymers, molecules) with experimental parameters–not material properties, but stuff like concentration, temperature, whatever? #chemsky #matsky

RCSA, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation have funded seven team projects in the second year of the #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories initiative. bit.ly/4e15oxp

New preprint online: A flow cell for data validation in computer vision. Computer vision is amazing for reaction monitoring, analytical chemistry, and self-driving laboratories, but it has a flaw… let’s dig deep into this research. #Chemsky 1/n chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Today's a big day for @ddomlab.org! My first PhD student, Sina Dehghan, presents his research at #ACSSpring2025

Bon résumé.

My kingdom for an edit button

🚨⏳ 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

I've had many discussions with colleagues about the future of publishing, especially about how antiquated the current static web page & PDF model is. This write-up in Nature about curvenote.com is exactly what we need! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Agreed! Reposting to annoy my Celsius friends 😉

Another instrument is up and running! We set up our Gyros PurePep Chorus last Friday. Keep an eye out for exciting developments on this front 👀 #chemsky #matsky

We just completed the installation of Big Purchase #1 ™️: a quadruple (!) detector SEC from Tosoh. This bad boy has RI, UV, MALS, & viscometry 💪 We're really excited to start getting some absolute molecular weights!

Our exploration of #ML to predict #OPV device performance from molecular structure of the materials *and* processing data is now officially published in J Mater Chem A as part of their 2024 Emerging Investigators series! doi.org/10.1039/D4TA...

Heading to my first (!) #S24MRS tomorrow to give an invited talk about machine learning from OPV data and data reporting standards. Come find me in EN04.02 or drop me a DM if you're in Seattle too!

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

Out now on ChemRxiv! We explored using machine learning to predict OPV device performance from molecular structure of the materials *and* processing data. Hopefully this somewhat didactic approach is useful to those in the field who are interested in ML. doi.org/10.26434/che... #ChemSky #MatSky

Are you gonna be at #ACSSpring2024? Hit me up! 👋 I'll be giving a talk (3990042) in the #PMSE session on Machine Learning, Data, and Automation for Polymer Discovery on Wednesday morning as well 🚨📢 #ChemSky #MatSky

With apologies to everyone who I've been telling "It'll be out soon", I'm excited to say: Chemspyd, our open-source Python API to control Chemspeed platforms is FINALLY live on PyPI!! We welcome feedback and contributions from the community. Preprint: doi.org/10.26434/che...

Help spread the word! Encourage your students, postdocs and colleagues to submit to the ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. We have an excellent group of speakers. I'll be co-chairing a session on automation and ML/AI in colloids and surface science. www.colloids2024.org

Follow the lab's new Bluesky account to stay up to date with all the exciting developments!

Calling my ML/DataSci peeps on #ChemSky and #MatSky! I’m teaching a data science for materials course next semester. The idea is to cover basics of data cleaning, preprocessing, simple models, classification & regression. If you have resources/slides you’d be willing to share, please let me know!

I realized that I don't spend much time on here because Bluesky's UX suck you in as much as others, and that's... good!

🗣️ Heads up! Join us at the FUTURE Labs Workshop on Jan 11-12, 2024, at North Carolina State University, where we're diving into the future of scientific discovery through #SelfDrivingLabs! 🤖🧪 research.ncsu.edu/futurelabswo...

Woohoo! I'm super excited to participate in this program 🤩 Looking forward to collaborating with all the excellent fellows on automating chemical laboratories rescorp.org/news/2023/10... #chemsky #matsky

Are you interested in pursuing a graduate degree in Materials Science & Engineering? Join NC State MSE's Virtual Graduate School Info Session on Nov 3! We have a vibrant, cutting-edge research environment. Importantly, Raleigh is a great area to live. www.mse.ncsu.edu/event/virtua...

It's #InternationalCoffeeDay! Do you prefer arabica or robusta beans? Here's a look at their chemical differences! wp.me/p4aPLT-7Bs

For all my fellow materials scientists/chemists/engineers out there: #MatSky is now live! Add #MatSky to your mat sci posts and they'll be included in the feed

It's ooouuut!* *in preprint form If you've heard me talk about what I was up to in the past few years, there's a good chance it was about this huge team effort. It's been a really exciting journey and learning experience with contributions from people in many different areas

#ChemSky is picking up here, but where are my material science, MSE folks? #MatSky?

Drop something blue from your gallery Last snow in #TO