Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

We are hiring PhD students in very different research areas! Please see two adverts below, and note that the second position is restricted to UK students only. Please re-post; interested candidates please contact me by email: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New group photo!

The anti-DEI crowd clings to the myth of meritocracy the way the Emperor clings to the myth of magic clothes.

💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪 🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... ⏰ Deadline: November 30 Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org

Axel Becke, one of the big names in DFT development over the past 40 years, has passed away #CompChem #ChemSky (source Russell Boyd)

Y'all wanted some EChem? Check out our contribution in InorgChem @acs.org towards tetravalent lanthanides, with @conradgoodwin.bsky.social, @john-seed.bsky.social, in collaboration with @gen-chem.bsky.social + @peremiro.bsky.social for calculations!

Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky

the radio dj just mixed unwritten by natasha beddingfield into regulate by warren g

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. rm -rf ~/

whoever decided to move Mapping and MutableMapping into collections.abc is permanently on my shit list.

Join us for our #FD_ExcitedStates, to define the frontiers for research at the intersections of theory and experiment in a unique discussion on Molecular excited states theory and experiment. Find out more (and submit an abstract): rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky

🚨 Two PhD Opportunities in Actinide Chemistry at @hzdr.bsky.social (Dresden, Germany) PhD Student – Actinide coordination chemistry lnkd.in/e5y8nwK9 PhD Student – MOFs of the actinides lnkd.in/e2NpT2y8 👉 Apply now and shape the future of actinide chemistry! #actinides #fblockrocks #chemsky #nuclear

I have an open PhD position. The exact topic is negotiable and can range from implementing new quantum-chemical methods in @orca-qc-official.bsky.social to computational studies of open-shell molecules. 🔗 Details: www.langresearch.org/open-phd-fel... Please share! #PhDposition #CompChem

Developing new comp chem practicals for the upcoming semester. So happy I was able to sneak in teaching the students CASSCF :)

What are your favourite quiet corners of campus? An absolutely stunning shot from our Instagram follower bill_ayres that captures the library so perfectly.

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

Can writing a scientific paper for the first (or fourth. Or fortieth) be a battle? Yes. But knowing how to approach the process and what your collaborators, supervisors, and journals expect from you during that process lowers the barrier immensely.

me: i will rest today me, later: i am anxious why am i not doing things

The linked J. Chem. Ed. article above has this diagram connecting MO diagrams of N₂ with the photoelectron spectrum which I feel should be the complete image that all students learning MO theory should see. I have never seen this idea in a intro chem textbook covering MOs.

I was a GS until I was 17!

The dichotomy of dog

Delighted to announce the publication of our work in @nature.com, in collaboration with @nfchilton.bsky.social's group, on a dysprosium compound with magnetic memory at 100 Kelvin. Congrats to all authors inc. @gemmagransbury.bsky.social, @jeffjefftyjeff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Protect Trans Scientists. cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social

Getting my presentation ready for WATOC next week. The last time I went was in Munich as a PhD student, and it was such a great experience (and it was my first time in Europe!). Feels weird to be presenting now as an independent researcher as it doesn’t feel like that long ago.

Ah yes, meritocracy...

⏰ Only three more days to apply for an open PhD position in lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪 🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 📖 You can explore our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas. Please share ! Deadline 24-June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Only 19 days left to apply for the UCL Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship (=Assist Prof). A great tenured job in a country not actively decimating its academic research landscape🇬🇧 Others have shared the advert, so instead let me introduce your amazing potential future colleages #Chemsky #chemjobs

Isolating myself at home this week to get a bunch of new science done (and also some mandatory reflective writing 😬), but getting to spend the days with the pup is really helpful for staying balanced and getting outside!

typo of the day: rm -rf *ut instead of rm -rf *out goodbye carefully crafted input file

I'm trying to find a book on computational chemistry and dft, that had practical exercises in each chapter, meant to make small programs. But I can't remember the name. Anyone knows which book it could be? It's from around 2000-2010 I believe. Thanks! #academicchatter #compchem #chemsky

Been AFK collecting sea glass

Lana presented her actinide X-ray spectroscopy research this week at HPC-CONEXS at Diamond Light Source (poster content redacted until published!).

Huge fan of these quilted panels at Diamond Light Source

Lin completed her MChem viva today!

This past week I got five free meals as part of work. Sometimes students ask me why I wanted to do this job. The truth is that I just kept getting free food. I've basically been domesticated by academia.

Every seminar in history

why is controlling an LED strip with a raspberry pi the MOST complicated thing you can do

That peaceful moment just before sleep when my brain reminds me I wrote all of my input files wrong.

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Come work with me. It will be fun, I promise!

🌍 The @rsc.org Inclusion & Diversity Fund is open! Get up to £5K to power inclusive projects in the chemical sciences — from research & education to events & outreach #InclusionMatters Let’s build a future where everyone belongs #ChemSky #RealTimeChem Apply by 5 May: www.rsc.org/prizes-fundi...

Very pleased to see the Royal Society of Chemistry stand by its principles. I was part of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee that produced these resources, and know it is something the RSC takes really seriously.

Join The University of Manchester, AstraZeneca, and Syngenta in a fully funded PhD program on Quantum Mechanics, Machine Learning, and Catalyst Design. 📢 Only one week left to apply! Don't miss out! #PhD #Scholarship #QuantumChemistry #MachineLearning #CatalystDesign #CompChem

Did I acquire my own graduated cylinder and 3D print a graduation cap for it in preparation for my own graduation photos? Perhaps. Being a chemistry major is serious business.

We hardly knew ye (actually though)

@zedaxis.bsky.social made me a beautiful set of f orbitals for teaching! They're even detachable for maximum educational value.

I slipped up and called it the raisin bun model of the atom instead of the plum pudding model at work today. I think they might be catching on that I'm not from the UK.