iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ben Nelson @brnelson1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

What better way to get started on Bluesky than to share our new collaborative work with Thomas Griesser's lab in Leoben! Led by my friend and mentor Stefanie Müller, we used chalcones as a wavelength selective crosslinker to selectively modify material properties after printing! Check it out👇

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Our latest study, led by my amazing friend and MSTP classmate Nat Skillin, is online now at Cell Biomaterials. We show that implanted LCE nanocomposites retain their ability to actuate with transcutaneous NIR light even long after the fibrous capsule forms! www.cell.com/cell-biomate...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Evergreen cartoon

A cartoon depicts a man and a woman walking side by side on a street. The woman wears a stylish dress and holds a purse, while the man is in a suit. The caption reads, "My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If it's hitting UIUC already, it's crushing other places. @econroy.bsky.social the lag will catch up real soon like.

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

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Direct Economic Contributions

NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH

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Reagan Dreiling @reagandreiling.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As Jon Stewart said, “It is important in these troubled times to continue to dab on the haters” … and the haters would be loathe to see my first independent work on recyclable/degradable thermosets made from 2,3-dihydrofuran! 🌱🥽♻️

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Degradable thermosets via orthogonal polymerizations of a single monomer - Nature

Degradable thermoset multimaterials can be synthesized from a commercially accessible, biosourced monomer using orthogonal polymerizations in a single pot; after selective degredation, the resulting s...

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We absolutely gave our EHS people a panic attack when they initially saw how much DCM we had stockpiled…

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thrilled to share our latest work in Macromolecules, a very fun collab with my (social media-less) dear friend Josh Kamps in Chris Bowman’s lab. We use DCM as a methylene source to form acetal-linked recyclable polymers and networks, including hugely scalable hydrogels. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yohalie’s talk was incredible! One of my favorites of the day.

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm excited to be part of the Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter symposium hosted by the UChicago and UCSD MRSECs. Register now to watch the talks tomorrow and Thursday! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'll be talking about photochemistry in hydrogels. mrsec.uchicago.edu/educational-...

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Rising Stars symposium

The Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium, co-sponsored by UChicago and the University of California San Diego MRSECs, provides a platform for exceptional early-career soft and biologic...

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Delighted to share my latest work, co-first authored with fantastic undergrad mentee Joshua Lee, on highly entangled hydrogels with photolabile crosslinks. We compare selective crosslink cleavage (which lengthens chains) to non-selective photo-oxidative degradation. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Stache Lab @stache-lab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Wouldn’t it be great if we could recycle plastic waste using sunlight? Now we can! Check out our latest work on recycling post-consumer polystyrene plastic! pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.... #chemsky #bluesci #Sustainability #plastic #pollution @acspublications.bsky.social @stache-lab.bsky.social

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Recycling of Post-Consumer Waste Polystyrene Using Commercial Plastic Additives

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

i am working on convincing my Burdick lab friends to move over here…i suspect that the community will grow more within a week or two!

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

i already have one in the finalists this year! gotta parcel the good submissions out to keep my calendar streak going…

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

looking forward to getting familiar with this platform since it seems like the fading science twitter community is starting to re-form here — happy #MicroscopyMonday to all!

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Bruce Kirkpatrick @bruceekirk.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

perhaps people making poly(acetals) with diols + divinyl ethers? seen plenty of this with 1,6-hexanediol

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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Calling all polymer scientists! Let’s re-find each other as people continue to migrate over! Please tag people in the comments and share! I’ll continue updating as we find more people. #polymers go.bsky.app/AgjxzFa

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