Brendan
@chemscrapes.bsky.social
📤 2019
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Where chemistry meets the bottom of the humour barrel.
Sitting on the
#ACS150
celebration to enjoy virtually.
@everywherechem.bsky.social
encouraged us to think about our connection to 150 years of presidents. I got one! I once trolled Allison Campbell about her socks.
#chemsky
#chemchat
#acs150
@alexgoldberg.ca @acs.org
about 9 hours ago
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Trying to break the algorithm by actually writing and drawing my own content on LinkedIn!
#chemsky
#chemchat
www.linkedin.com/posts/brenda...
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#performance #management #leadership #career #reflection | Brendan Burkett
Since leaving academia 18 years ago, I’ve spent most of my time in a role where I am directly managing people as a reporting officer. My first year in this role was not great. I had never been in a ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendan-burkett_performance-management-leadership-activity-7446909005886570496-UEeX?utm_source=share
about 10 hours ago
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Nikolay Tumanov
2 days ago
Have you ever heard about electrides - ionic compounds in which an electron serves the role of the anion? Do you know that you can simply buy an organometallic electride in form of a food supplement? What, you don't trust me? Let me show with this stuff!
#chemsky
#chemchat
#SupplementsSaga
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Gen Z scintillation counting.
#chemsky
#chemchat
3 days ago
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After years of working at the interface of academia and industry, I’ve decided share some thoughts on the issues faced as we try to innovate for impact. It’s not very ChemScrapes-y…but there’s still some drawing going on🙃.
#chemsky
#chemchat
#academicchatter
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#innovation #chemistry #chemicals #pharma #specchem #energy #decarbonisation #co2 #h2 #discovery #chemicalengineering #commercialisation | Brendan Burkett
I've been thinking a lot about how we ideate lately. When innovating in the area of chemical technologies, whether it is for decarbonisation, spec chem, or pharma, the success criteria are often comp...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendan-burkett_innovation-chemistry-chemicals-activity-7445672538891927552-uoAg?utm_source=share
4 days ago
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The curse of cyanide....
#chemsky
#chemchat
6 days ago
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Manfred Jung
7 days ago
Seems like azides have their own T shirt 😀
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Getting a translational grant doesn’t necessarily mean smooth sailing.
#chemsky
#chemchat
#academicchatter
#academia
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7 days ago
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
8 days ago
Chemists have discovered a light-activated way to attach saturated carbon groups to the most electron-poor sites on aromatic rings without a transition metal catalyst.
#chemsky
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A radical new way to alkylate aromatic rings
Chemists made a photocatalytic discovery when their control reaction led to an unexpected product
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Marek Grzybowski
7 days ago
Extremely happy that our paper about Donor-Acceptor Pentacene Analogues is finally online in Angewandte Chemie!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#pisky
#chemsky
@ncn.gov.pl
@cforoutannejad.bsky.social
@krznow.bsky.social
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Daniel
7 days ago
These aren't Easter eggs. Testing different construction sequences and decorations on C-70 fullerene models. Black for the bonds, green for the pentagons. 🧪
#SciArt
#Chemsky
#Papercraft
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8 days ago
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Some thoughts on the challenges of translational research.
#chemsky
#chemchat
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#innovation #academia #academiclife #translationalscience #technology | Brendan Burkett
Translational researchers in academia face a difficult balancing act. They are caught between two worlds: the institutional "publish or perish" reward system and the real-world impact demanded by gran...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendan-burkett_innovation-academia-academiclife-activity-7443660388036059138-Hq5O?utm_medium=ios_app
9 days ago
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so.........
10 days ago
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North By NorthWestern Blot Oh Goodness - I forgot all about this one -
@mmtorrice.bsky.social
came up with this one.
@cenmag.bsky.social
#chemsky
#chemchat
#ACSSpring2026
12 days ago
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#chemsky
#chemchat
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12 days ago
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#ACSSpring2026
@bagphos.bsky.social
14 days ago
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NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis (C-CAS)
14 days ago
Don't miss this talk by Dr. Raychelle Burks
@drrubidium.bsky.social
at 11:10 AM today! Location: Georgia World Congress Center B302
#chemistry
#chemsky
#datachem
#ACS
#ACSspring2026
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Tim Smith
16 days ago
My daughter made these. 🥰 🧪
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Scott Bagley
18 days ago
Who says you can't have ice cream for lunch? If you're attending
#ACSSpring2026
and like free coffee and ice cream - stop by the
@organicdivision.org
(ORGN) social events for refreshments and networking Ice Cream Social - Monday @ 1230-2 PM Inclusion Coffee Hour - Tuesday @ 1230-2 PM
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Colon-e
#chemsky
#chemchat
17 days ago
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It's very quiet
#chemsky
17 days ago
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Nucleophilic Substitution Teachers
#chemsky
#chemchat
@cenmag.bsky.social
(copyright c&en)
17 days ago
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@mbsullivan.bsky.social
@rochellesilva.bsky.social
@ruiagoncalves.bsky.social
@chemfunman.bsky.social
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18 days ago
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After years of hiding behind the ChemScrapes avatar, I stepped out to get involved with ACS SG Chapter. Wish I did it sooner. Great group of folks and great opportunities to get involved in worthwhile activities.
#chemsky
#chemchat
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#womeninstem #science #stem | Brendan Burkett
My daughter was once told by a tutor that boys are simply better at math and science than girls. Nonsense! Of course we disengaged the tutor, but it doesn't solve the problem. Who knows how many ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendan-burkett_outreach-womeninstem-scicomm-activity-7440667546732625920-v8R1?utm_source=share
18 days ago
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Current vibe
19 days ago
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Scott Bagley
20 days ago
#ChemChat
in the lab today: Chemist 1: Ms-Cl, triethylamine, THF - just filter and go it’s so easy - I’ve been making a lot of mesyl’s lately C2: Not me. I’m vaccinated C1:
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Chemjobber
20 days ago
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 393 tenure-track positions and 90 teaching positions:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#facultychemjobs
#chemjobs
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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcB_oy4jXVGaqenGU31KYTi2KxvryzR1wt4Oo-_OcQ8/edit?gid=0#gid=0
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Yes! We need more of this :)
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19 days ago
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
19 days ago
Many students at institutions across the US in 2025 were affected by funding cuts at the federal level. Thanks to a rapid-response grant that the American Chemical Society made available last fall, 74 graduate students can continue their research in 2026.
#chemsky
#phdsky
#STEM
#academicsky
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Rapid-response grants help students hit by US funding cuts
Students have been able to continue research that could offer novel treatment for ovarian and prostate cancers, resilience and crop productivity, more-efficient energy storage, and more
https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/Rapid-response-grants-help-students/104/web/2026/03?sc=260318_sc_eng_bs_cen
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shamelessly sharing this to
#biochemistry2026
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19 days ago
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Dhohan Chaniago
19 days ago
Hi
#ChemSky
! I'm an M.Sc. student working on Medicine Chemistry. Excited to join the conversation.
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Sharing new folks :)
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19 days ago
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
19 days ago
Researchers investigating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The latest edition of
#PeriodicGraphics
by
@compoundchem.com
takes a look at four promising applications of MOFs:
cen.acs.org/materials/me...
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Noice!
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19 days ago
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Biofilms! From the Sketch Chemistry days with
@mmtorrice.bsky.social
. Having fun tripping down memory lane with some of these cartoons.
@cenmag.bsky.social
#chemsky
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19 days ago
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Lady and gentleman, I bring you Larry Mullite Jr.
#chemsky
#chemchat
#u2
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20 days ago
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Debbie Gale Mitchell
24 days ago
Spectrometer selfie to mark my first day back in the lab since December!! Also—I can’t believe I waited so long to get prescription safety glasses. I LOVE THEM.
#chemchat
#chemsky
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Me: I am so sick of all these marketing gimmicks that use molecules to sell products. It’s so annoying. Also me: ooooh, let’s buy this shampoo. It must be good.
#chemchat
#chemsky
23 days ago
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I look like I am a normal person just going about my business. but I am really thinking about IR spectroscopy.
about 1 month ago
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Martin Stoermer
about 1 month ago
Complex Peaks
#Chemsky
#ChemChat
🧪
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Carbon to Metal Coating Institute (C2MCI)
about 1 month ago
“[Support] isn't the same for everyone, so I do my best to model support & success for my students. If they see someone like me navigate those challenges, then they might believe they're able to do that.” —
@drdre4000.bsky.social
of
@holy-cross.bsky.social
➡️
bit.ly/46gYBgu
#ChemSky
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@wsuchemistry.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
It’s
#NextStopPhD
for Oseni Kadiri, of the Fehl Lab! Oseni gave his 4th year talk: "Development and the Application of GlycoID2 Proximity Labeling Tools for the Study of O-GlcNAcylation Events in Live Cells" at
#wsuchemistry
this afternoon.
#glycotime
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I am just gonna say that I LOVE IR spectroscopy. Like … really LOVE. Also a massive U2 fan. Fight me!
about 1 month ago
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#sketchchemistry
shenanigans Orbital parking lots
#chemsky
#chemchat
@cenmag.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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Might send thismoff to Google again for the Google Doodle.
#chemsky
#chemchat
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#chemistry #sciart #google #science | Brendan Adrian Burkett
One of my chemical heroes is Rolf Huisgen. His seminal work in dipolar cycloaddition chemistry simply cannot be overstated. I always believed that Huisgen's contributions to chemistry were Nobel Pri...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendan-adrian-burkett-15a0b8379_chemistry-sciart-google-activity-7432818913534590976-sBF9?utm_medium=ios_app
about 1 month ago
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Fun Man Fung
about 2 months ago
Lived in Singapore for most of my life but it feels great to give my first (two) talks at NTU Singapore 🇸🇬 last week. Celebrating 🎉
#ACS150
@acs.org
with the ACS Singapore Youth Challenge. So happy to see young chemists presenting their research 🔬
@mbsullivan.bsky.social
@chemscrapes.bsky.social
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Jonas Sundberg
about 2 months ago
I have not been active on Bluesky for quite some time, but I think it's time to come back. Hopefully the
#chemsky
community still is alive and kicking. :)
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恭喜發財! 馬年快樂! Happy Lunar New Year! May the year of the Horse bring good health and happiness to all! The molecule below is Horsfiline.
#chemsky
#chemchat
about 2 months ago
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Valentine’s Day with a twist of ChemScrapes
#chemsky
#chemchat
about 2 months ago
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