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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@plasticvogt.bsky.social I also hope you knew all of these off the top of your head. Senior polymer faculty power!

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oof the few times exceptions are good

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

4th year teaching this undergrad course on polymer science and I can now crack lame jokes. Today, I said something like: much like French, polymer nomenclature is confusing because there a lot of exceptions in how we name things. Crickets. Probably not wise to say that to French speakers..

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Majulah Singapura A mundane scene from the place I’m still most comfortable in.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Check out our new review on printing nanoscale metals, alloys, and metal oxides!

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’s been a hot minute ♾️

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The new Amtraks are a little smaller than I remember

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Soooo.. smell wise, how bad are isocyanides compared to thiols? Asking for a friend.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

One of the things I miss most about the US is the food.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The third generation of our polymer-to-metal process. I’m so excited for this!

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

To the surprise of nobody who actually is familiar with plastics recycling.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We have a PhD position available in my group! If you know any talented students looking for a PhD in Switzerland, please send them my way! #chemsky #matsky Details can be found here: careers.epfl.ch/job/Neuch%C3...

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PhD in developing new crosslinking strategies in 3D printing

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The most important question: how much gin did yall drink along the way?

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Could explain why I’m constantly tired. 🤔

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My students have found a new use of AI.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

One of the more unusual Benchy we've printed recently.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This work is dedicated to the late Bob Grubbs. Thank you for teaching me chemistry. Wouldn't be here without you.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The work was led by Dr. Terence Ho, a then visiting PhD student in my group from NTU Singapore in late 2024, and Amin Sassi, a visiting Master's student in 2025. 4/4

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In our work, we focus on understanding how thermal processing, aging time, and print intensity impact the degree of crystallinity, and thus mechanical properties of the printed pCOE. We further demonstrate how we could use melting as a way to introduce adaptive behavior in 3D structures! 3/4

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

For the past couple of years, inspired by some amazing work from Sandia National Lab, we wondered if we could use photoROMP to print semicrystalline thermoplastics. As Sandia showed recently, turns out you can! Using a different photosystem, we also show the use of photoROMP to print pCOE 2/4

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Thank you! For a change, it isn’t a “reimbursement-type” grant, so I’m excited to see what happens next too!

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Yeaaa it is frustrating. I hope those days are past me

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Took a little bit of time but I finally got my first big grant! Some observations: 1. My eval panel was chemistry which was quite unexpected. It's usually engineering. 2. Not a single "PI is too young to lead a project" comment. I guess getting some corresponding author papers out did the trick.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"For some perspective, the average first 105-degree day of the year normally occurs on May 22nd,” NWS said in a statement."

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Wow! That’s so cool, Michael!

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Oof. I just read the news and I felt this immensely

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Ooh! This is a nice collection

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Nah haha. The columns are the food items per day. The rows are just different options available each day

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Had to do a double take when I saw the lunch menu for tomorrow. Mmhm. Tarte Choléra.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It’s unclear if this is good news or not!

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Receiving academic emails with good (ish) news is always a game of "is this real" or "am I being phished?"

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

It’s a fun read! Felt less sciency / more implausible than The Martian but still good

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The MSCA postdoc fellowship funding scores this year are absolutely brutal. Funding thresholds for some disciplines are as high as 97%! It’s almost a lottery at this point

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Wow! I don’t think I’ve heard many people say that the weather in Singapore is “quite pleasant”

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

George Rossman was one of the kindest professors I knew during my time at Caltech. Incredible scientist with an infectious passion for science. I have fond memories of him showing me his collection of rocks and metals that he kept in his office. RIP www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

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Caltech Mourns the Passing of George Rossman (1944–2026)

Caltech mineralogist George Rossman (PhD '71) passed away on February 6, 2026.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

And we made the cover! This is a real optical image of copper dendrites growing into our hydrogels during our in-situ precipitation process.

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What about transEU with Swiss partners 😉

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Ooh! A nice collab with Al Nelson!

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Daryl Yee @dryeeseeks.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A special gif for Singaporeans :)

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