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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

run game working a little better this drive?

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

surprised they bothered to avoid guaranteeing his contract?

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Thanks also to Jacob Olshansky and his student Nejc for providing a huge batch of high-quality particles for liquid studies, and to Benjamin Diroll for being a wonderful host and collaborator at the Center for Nanoscale Materials. Thanks to the whole collaborative team, it was a fun project!

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This paper was also a testament to great collaboration. Huge thanks to Jihong Ma at the University of Vermont and Burak Güzeltürk at Argonne National Laboratory, whose expertise and partnership made this work possible.

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Proud to say this work was led by a first author, Eliza Wieman, who started this project as an undergraduate and carried it through her time as a postbac.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Start them on wave mechanics young

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Department of Chemistry at Middlebury College is hiring a Lab Professor in our Organic Chemistry sequence. This is a full-time, renewable position. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/164028 And some additional background here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Fun trip to Center for Nanoscale Materials to run some optical experiments. Thanks to Ben Diroll and Burak Guzelturk for helping teach students about transient absorption and lasing experiments!

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Yes agree it’s not easy. We don’t require research for visitors at all but try to enable the possibility with funding and students for the professional development of the visiting professor. Often these positions can be extended to 2 years as well, but we can only guarantee one to start.

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Also excited for my lab's first paper with talented Middlebury undergraduate coauthors Eliza Wieman '23 and Mia Tarantola '23! Mia wrote her thesis on data analysis of the UED and tr-XRD data of these PbS nanocrystals and Eliza took total scattering data of the same dots during her postbac.

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Great to work with Burak Guzelturk, Justin Ondry and Josh Portner from Talapin lab, Rich Schaller and his group, Jihong Ma Lab at UVM, Lindenberg group, and more on this project using the great user facilities at Argonne APS, SLAC MeV-UED, and Argonne CNM

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In a new paper just published in Advanced Materials we reveal an ultrafast symmetry change in PbS quantum dots upon photoexcitation. The degree of this symmetry change is controllable by changing the PbS surface chemistry. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Table of contents image for linked journal article. Image shows change in symmetry of PbS upon photoexcitation.

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Beautiful day in Burlington

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Exciting postdoc opportunity in my lab on nanocrystal synthesis for time-resolved structural studies in collaboration with Dr. Burak Guzelturk at Argonne APS & Prof. Jihong Ma at UVM. Professional development opportunities for those interested in a career at predominantly undergraduate institutions.

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Postdoctoral Researcher - Middlebury College

Middlebury College invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. This is a full-time, one-year position with the option for a one-year rene...

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Ben Cotts @bencotts.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Middlebury College is inviting applications for a 1-year visiting position in organic chemistry to begin fall 2024. Research involving undergraduates is not required but is welcomed. apply.interfolio.com/138962

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