They’re invading daycare facilities on the north side of Chicago now. The cruelty is the point wgntv.com/news/chicago...

We are delighted to introduce our new Associate Editor, Dinorah Gambino from Universidad de la República, Uruguay📢 Please join us in welcoming her to our Editorial Board! Dinorah’s research focuses on bioinorganic chemistry - read our blog to find out more👇 blogs.rsc.org/dt/2025/10/2... #chemsky🧪

Unfortunately my neighborhood and my son’s CPS school are featured prominently in this video youtu.be/UArzAIw14Oc?...

I've posted a new Substack in which I came to a completely opposite conclusion than when I started writing! open.substack.com/pub/nealmank...

To mark the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we've launched a #MOFs collection, showcasing research by Laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Omar M. Yaghi & Richard Robson and their colleagues, spanning 3 decades of MOFs research from synthesis to application👀 Read now 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky 🧪

Big thanks to @chemistpaul.bsky.social & Thomas Montgomery for hosting me at Duquesne U. Forgot how nice Pittsburgh is, and they're even repping X-ray crystallography at the newly renovated airport!

Thank you to Elad Gross for bringing me and my former student Hsien-Cheng (Antonio) Yu along for this story. We dusted off our old (NHC)Cu-M complexes to act as precursors for nanomaterials! #chemsky doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

As an experiment, I started a Substack called Metallacyclic Logic for my random reflections and rabbit holes. You can subscribe to it here nealmankad.substack.com?r=dv3oq&utm_...

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Are you a coffee snob? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2010/10/nmr-... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

Big thanks to @manar-shoshani.bsky.social for inviting me to spend a terrific day at the KU Department of Chemistry and present our recent work on radical and bioinspired approaches toward earth-abundant metal catalysis. Lots of great #chemsky science happening in Lawrence KS!

Skip the fume hood, get brain damage and Nazi vibes. #ChemSky 🤯 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thanks to Dan Ess for bringing us along for the ride on this one @roushansingh.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #chemsky #compchemsky

Terrific opportunity!! #chemsky

For anyone sticking around for #acsfall2025 on Thursday, I'll be giving two talks. Hope to run into you! #chemsky

The American Chemical Society announced that the ACS Board of Directors has approved $2.5 million to be granted to graduate students who have been impacted by the termination or cancellation of their adviser’s research grant(s) cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky

📢ICYMI: Read our 2024 Outstanding Paper exploring the reactivity of a CAAC-stabilised neutral diboraanthracene and its change in geometry upon reaction with different substrates👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 @maxdietz.bsky.social, Merle Arrowsmith and Holger Braunschweig #chemsky 🧪

📢Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award🎉 Check out the work from the Holger Braunschweig lab, here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍 ‪@uni-wuerzburg.de 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 @maxdietz.bsky.social, Merle Arrowsmith, Holger Braunschweig

Ok ChemSky, here's a dumb question: how is Avegadro's number determined? My son asked me that the other day and I just sat with my mouth open. Duuuuuuhhhhhhhh..... Somehow you gotta count atoms. So how do we know there that 12 grams of carbon 12 has 6.02e23 atoms?

Big thanks to Russ Hille and the other organizers for inviting me and my student Ananthu to present our research at MoTEC 2025, which was hosted on the famous Queen Mary! It was a great event!! #chemsky

🔓Be sure to read the #OpenAccess communication by Neal P. Mankad and co-workers on solubilizing dimolybdenum paddlewheel complexes for energy storage applications. 👀👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5DT... 📍 @uic-chemistry.bsky.social @metallacycle.bsky.social 🧪

Happy 4th #chemsky what is this molecule?

The @rsc.org had hoped to make all of its journals open access by 2028. It is now adapting its plans in light of increasingly complex and uncertain publishing landscape. #ChemSky #ScienceSky

Being part of our peer reviewer network gives you the connections to develop your knowledge, reputation and career. We’re looking for experts in inorganic chemistry to review for us. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/c2n32pm #ChemSky

#ChemSky for visibility...

Hurray @karunananda-lab.bsky.social !!! #chemsky

Oh these suburban restaurants

more or less this number: 2024: 4 and 1 teaching 2023: 11 2022: 8 2021: 9 you can't really make any judgments until ~August 15 or so.

Jeez 🤨

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 4 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemjobs

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

This seems…not good

Our first battery paper is now online in ACS AMI 🔋This study was led by Simon Gersib, who discovered that a certain Mo2 paddlewheel complex has beneficial effects on the Li metal SEI. Thanks to @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social and team, Matt Li, and other collaborators!! #chemsky doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

I know there is so much bad stuff happening at once it's easy to look the other way at the decimation of science in the US, but the damage this will cause to the US will be felt for decades, maybe generations. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Check it out chemsky

Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0 #ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF #SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.

ATTENTION Has anyone received a NOA this week (other than a no-cost extension? Please DM me or respond on signal jeremymberg.78 THANK YOU

NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants. grant-watch.us It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon. Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.

Silver lining/gallows humor…guess this means we won’t have to submit annual progress reports to NSF this year?

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 Breaking: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions 1️⃣ Removes/demotes division director leaders 2️⃣ Forced layoff notices to NSF staff going out tonight 3️⃣ More grant terminations expected tomorrow One glimmer of hope: the 8 directorates appear to be staying

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

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