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Jarett Wilcoxen @jwilcoxen.bsky.social · 19h

Two papers a month sounds exhausting, two papers a week I would argue is likely suspicious activity, especially sustained over several months.

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Marcel Swart @marcelswart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Northwestern is looking for a (bio)inorganic chemist, Asst Prof level #chemjobs chemistry.northwestern.edu/about/open-p...

chemistry.northwestern.edu

Open Positions: Department of Chemistry - Northwestern University

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

RUSSELL VOUGHT'S ILLEGAL ACTIONS MUST BE STOPPED

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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 15/09/2026

Didn’t need a memo to call this over a year ago bsky.app/profile/view...

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't need to say this, but it's obvious to me: this dramatic drop can be laid at the feet of the Trump Administration. The impacts, I predict, will be dramatic, bad and only visible 5 to 10 years from now at the earliest.* *it's falsifiable, but quite a ways from now

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am taking a harder line on no LLMs for my gen chem class starting tomorrow. I will not be surveiling my students in any way, but I want them to know that my expectation is for them to not use LLMs in any way for my course. Would love to hear other #chemsky #chemchat folks approach!

6. Avoiding Generative AI
In this class, my expectation is that all of the work you submit (including homework) is done by YOU. Please do not use generative AI/ Language Learning Models for any assignment in my course. In return, I promise that I will never use LLMs/genAI as your instructor.

Some ways that you can avoid gen AI:

To avoid genAI in traditional google searches use https://udm14.com/Links to an external site.
Switch the default search on your computer/phone to DuckDuckGo instead of google.
(I personally pay $5 a month to use Kagi, but that is because I rely heavily on a functioning search engine.... https://kagi.com/Links to an external site.
More resources on how to avoid intrusive genAI for a variety of settings: https://www.librarian.net/notoai/Links to an external site.
ChemLibre is a great resource for chemistry content. Try searching their pages for additional support.
Come to office hours! Learning with human experts and peers >>> generative AI.

My goal is for you to learn how to think critically as a chemist. Currently, I see no value in LLMs for your education at this stage. To understand more where I am coming from :

https://refusal.blog/Links to an external site.

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Jeff Lewis @lewislab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The more I think about it, the more pissed off I get. The DOD budget is about 1 fucking trillion dollars vs the NIH budget of $47B. This seems like an excuse to gut NIAID.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New NSF BIO solicitation says expected number of awards is 250-300. Historically, the number of awards is closer to 800-1000 for the Directorate of Bio Sciences: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Unless I'm missing large, non-core programs, this seems really not good?

grantwitness.org

Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF

An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

are there sessions in Chicago next week at ACS Fall that are similarly titled, minus the words "social"? #chemchat

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

nature.com

Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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findlatergroup.bsky.social @findlatergroup.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨HIRING NEWS🚨 Come be my colleague! The Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC Merced is hiring for two positions in Biochemistry! One is at the assistant professor level and the other is open rank... if you have questions, let me know! Link: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02218

aprecruit.ucmerced.edu

2 Positions - One Assistant Professor Ladder Rank & One Open Professor Ladder Rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Biochemistry)

University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

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Neal Mankad @metallacycle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Congrats to my student mentee, Ananthu, for this terrific publication in @jacs.acspublications.org on synthetic modeling of Mo-dependent C–H hydroxylases! It is also a landmark for my lab, as it marks our 100th paper since we started @uic-chemistry.bsky.social in 2012! pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic...

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The Role of Terminal Heavy Chalcogenide Ligands in Enabling Hydride Transfer Reactivity of W═E (E = S, Se) Models for Molybdenum Hydroxylases

Abstract. Whereas molybdenum-dependent hydroxylases in the xanthine oxidase family catalyze site-selective C–H hydroxylation reactions using terminal molyb

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026

“If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide…If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic” www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...

publicnotice.co

The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“The report assiduously ignores that a symbiotic, profitable relationship between the federal government, universities, and private companies already exists. Each federal research dollar generates about $1.50 to $3.00 in long-term economic benefits.“ 🧪

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Jarett Wilcoxen @jwilcoxen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Given all the cuts and general reductions in the number of funded projects at NSF, NIH, DOE, etc, I looked u how many NSF-MRI grants have been issued (just looking up on the NSF award search). Normally each FY there are ~100-130 or so awards issued, from May 2024 to present there are 47 (1/3)

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Jarett Wilcoxen @jwilcoxen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not popular enough to gain direct funding from Congress so instead we see the pillaging of NIH, NSF, DOE, and others. Good thing those other agencies are well funded... oh wait.... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

White House rolls out AI funding — and signals a new era for US science

Chief US science adviser calls for a shakeup in funding while handing out grants to accelerate research with AI.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“NSF has now pulled back $300 million from two of its divisions: mathematics and physical sciences, and computer and information science and engineering. Programme officers…at the NSF, have pulled back 150 proposals that have already passed peer review to free up the money”

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Dr. Paulette Vincent-Ruz @stemxicaned.latinsky.app · 21/05/2026

Hey #chemsky just dropping it here that next year I go up for tenure! (I cannot believe it either lol remember the pinkyprincess college days? lol) So if your department is thinking about speakers next yr & you are interested on hearing on amazing chem education research keep me in mind please :)

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Anyway, please make sure to get your comments in on the proposed OMB rules changes. I want our system for doing science and training people to continue to be there for little nerds as they grow up.

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

fwiw, this admin isn’t even focused on making pizzas. More like a Ford Pinto, which they have confused for a food product. Or magic beans.

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Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · 11/07/2026

🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science !🔥 "Excited-state orbital angular momentum enables all-optical molecular spin coherence" by Ryan G. Hadt et al. from the California Institute of Technology. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/d6sc...

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

nature.com

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

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Jarett Wilcoxen @jwilcoxen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

@andy-i-nguyen.bsky.social @metallacycle.bsky.social and @joktawiec.bsky.social are organizing the 7th Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium, #CRIC2026 on Oct 3rd at @uic-chemistry.bsky.social !! It's a great event for anyone that can make the trip! Details here: chicagoinorganic.wordpress.com

chicagoinorganic.wordpress.com

Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium

Visit the post for more.

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Ribbe Hu Labs @ribbehulab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We are recruiting postdoctoral scholars to join our laboratories. Come be part of our team in sunny Southern California! faculty.sites.uci.edu/mribbe/avail...

faculty.sites.uci.edu

Available Positions – Ribbe-Hu Laboratory Hu-Ribbe

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Daumann Lab @daumannl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A [Cu-4Fe-4S] cluster? Yep, you read that right! We report a new bioinorganic motif in an acetol dehydrogenase and characterized it with our wonderful collaborators from @ribesresearch.bsky.social @lmu.de @cutsail-lab.bsky.social @ksgchem.bsky.social @mpi-mr.bsky.social @hhu.de 🧪 #chemsky

View of an iron sulfur cluster with an additional metal ion. Copper as copper-colored sphere, Iron as silver sphere, and sulfur as yellow spheres. Protein backbone indicated as golden tubes

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Jarett Wilcoxen @jwilcoxen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

With today’s vote by the Univ. of Wisc. Regents I guess it’s time to update…

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Neal Mankad @metallacycle.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I wrote a quick post on my much neglected Substack about how attending seminars is hard when also having to manage school pickups. open.substack.com/pub/nealmank...

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Departmental seminars could be more family friendly

Today I want to reflect on departmental seminars, which are getting harder for me to attend for work/life balance reasons I’ll explain below.

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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

when it comes to procuring digital systems, university managements frequently act as willing marks for the tech confidence trickster... just because this one has "AI" on the label is merely coincidental tbh

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Steph @stephy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

#chemsky 🧪⚗️ #chemchat

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Part of the CSU’s justification for this renewal is that 85% of students use it regularly. No digging into whether that use supports or hinders learning-as an instructor I can tell you a lot of use is short circuiting actual learning. Or hurts their mental health (sycophantic chat bots).

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A thread of some teaching tech that people actually like! Let's think happy thoughts for a little change.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

when people tell me AI is inevitable so I better get on board

trolley problem diagram: the trolley is heading towards no one, and you are trying to convince people to lay down on the tracks.

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Democratic leadership does talk like robots created by the world's most milquetoast focus group. That has nothing to do with what happens in a college seminar. Here's how professors talk: Kick rocks. Blaming us for everything is lazy and disingenuous. I am disappointed that Obama is doing it.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2026

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

insidehighered.com

“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor

The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.

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Jarett Wilcoxen @jwilcoxen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We were just informed about the shutdown with very little information...

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The helium shortage is now unavoidable. Another wonderful follow-on to the Iran War, and if you think helium doesn’t matter much, think again:

science.org

Helium and the Strait of Hormuz

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Conducting undergraduate chemistry research in SoCal this summer? Please join us on Aug 6, 2026, for the annual UC Irvine SoCal Undergraduate Chemistry Symposium, where you can discuss and hear the latest about chemistry and graduate programs with your peers. sites.uci.edu/ugradchem/

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SoCal Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium

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findlatergroup.bsky.social @findlatergroup.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hey y’all - I need a big favour! If you’ve been hired into a biochem faculty role in the last ~3-5 years, could you send me a message? #ChemSky

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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social

recruit.ap.uci.edu

Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

NSF update Still looking very bleak. 4/5

A line grant of the cumulative numbers of awards for NSF from fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 lies below well the other curves.

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Nelly Armstrong @biosciphd.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Why did the biologist break up with the physicist? There was no chemistry. 😆

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Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

a provost initiative.

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Materials Engineer, Failure Analyst - NMR Specialist (organic, polymeric and other novel material) Apple, Cupertino, California, United States jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... #NMRjobs #NMRchat 🧲

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Materials Engineer, Failure Analyst - NMR Specialist - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Materials Engineer, Failure Analyst - NMR Specialist job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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