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Laure Kayser

@laurekayser.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. at the University of Delaware - fan of polymers, PEDOT:PSS, bioelectronics, gardening, foraging, fancy food, and birds.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.
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Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@vidhikadamani.bsky.social painted the most beautiful image for our perspective on stimuli-responsive conductive polymers in @pubs.acs.org Chemistry of Materials for their Up-and-Coming series and it made the journal cover! See #MyACSCover here: pubs.acs.org/toc/cmatex/3...
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Chemistry of Materials
The chameleon is perhaps the most famous animal representing stimuli-response in nature. To illustrate our perspective, we therefore chose to enhance the chameleon with bioelectronic components. View ...
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 29/04/2025
The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help! #ChemSky #ScienceSky
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Take two polls to help Iupac define molecular machines
An Iupac committee wants your input to guide its recommendations for key terms in the field
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Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
@vidhikadamani.bsky.social and I wrote a Perspective on ‘Stimuli-Responsive Conductive Polymers for Bioelectronics’ now published in Chemistry of Materials @pubs.acs.org. We hope you will enjoy it! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Stimuli-Responsive Conductive Polymers for Bioelectronics†
Stimuli response, or the ability to respond to environmental cues with changes in behavior, is omnipresent in living systems. Inspiration from this natural behavior has led to the development of polym...
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Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I want to thank @sebvidalchem.bsky.social for his article on safety related to a dichloromethane injection injury! We discussed this article a few months ago and had a similar incident today with DMF. The student was therefore aware of the potential risk. [1/2] pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Safety First: A Recent Case of a Dichloromethane Injection Injury
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵
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Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Reupping this short, 4-post 🧵 about the American "scientific pipeline", so we all understand the long-term economic impact of shutting it off #SciComm folks are great at popularizing individual fields, but the overall system of funding scientific discovery needs similarly terse explainers
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Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My lab made a (much needed) cute card. Will you be the PEDOT to my PSS?
Valentine’s day card saying will you be the Pedot to my PSS. Showing the logo of the Kayser Lab (Pedot guy) and the chemical structure of PEDOT:PSS
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Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Bald eagle sitting on a branch against a white background
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.
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Christian Pester @cwpstr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
LAST CALL! We are seeking nominations for the @acspmse.bsky.social Early Investigator and Future Faculty Awards of the @acs.org. Please nominate a colleague before February 1: #ACS #PMSE Early Investigator: pmsedivision.org/early-invest... ACS PMSE Future Faculty: pmsedivision.org/pmse-future-...
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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The FDA should make a decision on whether or not to approve Vertex Pharmaceuticals suzetrigine today. While an @cenmag.bsky.social editorial fellow, @alexviveros.bsky.social investigated the backstory for us 🧪#chemsky
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Pain meets precision medicine
Targeting voltage-gated sodium channels could usher in new opioid-free solutions for pain relief
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Marion H Emmert @emmertlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#chemjobs #Merckchemistry is hiring - 2 open positions at the associate level. Located at our West Point, PA site close to Philadelphia - with a great team that I just joined not so long ago! Links for info: R330195 bit.ly/40uICc9 R330192 bit.ly/42gC7v2 Please apply if interested #chemsky
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Associate Scientist, Chemistry job in West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America | jobs at Merck
Apply for Associate Scientist, Chemistry job with Merck in West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Browse and apply for the jobs at Merck
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/01/2025
"[My adviser] told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should think about what I am good at and what makes me happy at least 80% of the time. This advice surprised me at first, but it ended up being exactly what I needed to hear." scim.ag/3DHtLCc
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To choose a career, I needed to do more than ‘follow my dream’
Practical advice helped this international scientist figure out her post-Ph.D. direction
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Jonathan Rivnay @jrivnay.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Just out in @natrevbioeng.bsky.social, check out our perspective on integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Biohybrid devices based on engineered cells interfaced with bioelectronics combine the strengths of each field, resulting in constructs with properties that are not otherwise achievable. In this Revie...
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Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy New Year! I am starting 2025 fresh by unsubscribing from all the email lists I didn’t actually want to subscribe to. Feels great/weird to get almost no emails each day. NB: Please do not use this post as a hint to send me requests 😘
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Laure Kayser @laurekayser.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Congratulations to Darrin on being elected an NAI fellow @nationalacademies.org !!! #Bundlemers #Polymers
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Dave Kaphan @kaphan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Argonne Catalysis Group is hiring for a postdoc position in Chemical Plastic Recycling! If you're interested in Polymer Science, Recyclable Polymers, and/or Catalysis, and looking for a postdoc position, check out the posting below! #chemsky 🧪⚗️ argonne.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Argonne_Care...
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Postdoctoral Appointee - Catalysis and Polymer Science
Conducts research as part of a multidisciplinary team in chemical recycling of polymers and organometallic catalysis. The project will involve designing, synthesizing, and characterizing new recyclabl...
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The way to get to do shit you want to do is to first do shit that you don’t want to do. #mentorship
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Micaela Matta @micaelamatta.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#chemsky I made a starter pack of women in organic electronics! Comment below if you’d like to be added 🤗 @stingelin.bsky.social @luscombeoist.bsky.social @jovanavmilic.bsky.social go.bsky.app/SR66ikV
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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Some of your students may find this useful: youtu.be/FqEstAs0M6E
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Applying to grad school in STEM fields: to reach out to the PI or not?
YouTube video by Darren Lipomi
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Vidhika Damani @vidhikadamani.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Re-introducing myself here. I'm a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at UDelaware, working on conducting and stimuli-responsive polymers. Polymers and coatings engineer from India. Passionate about science, food, art, animals. 👩🏻‍🔬🍛🎨🐶 :)
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Micaela Matta @micaelamatta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#compchemsky & #chemsky: I am looking for a guest 🎤 lecturer for my UG class showcasing real-world uses of AI/ML, quantum chemistry, MD simulations - who’s interested? 💻🧬🧪
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Martin Seifrid @mseifrid.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
🚨⏳ Only a few hours left!! Make sure to submit your abstracts to this excellent symposium on "Integrating High-Throughput Techniques and Digital Technologies for #Sustainability" at #ACSSpring2025 bit.ly/3XF7jzU
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Juan S. Bonifacino @juanbonifacino.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib
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Darryl B McConnell @darrylbmcconnell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
For some reason in medicinal chemistry we like to use weight (Daltons) as a measure for atomic and molecular size. The picture below shows why this is hugely misleading for halogens and hydrogen.
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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 15/11/2024
As Materials Science and Engineering Departments/Programs absorbed a number of Chemistry academics in the UK in the last crunch - this new crunch is interesting, and saddening. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemist...
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Chemistry courses, departments face closure in the UK highlighting higher education’s financial woes
Courses are facing the axe at Aston University and the University of Hull, with others struggling
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Micaela Matta @micaelamatta.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
#chemsky 📣 🧠 Background in chemistry, materials science or engineering? 💻 Interested in #compchem, materials discovery & #software? 🎓4-year #phd available in my group to work on data-driven design of ionic-electronic mixed conductors for energy storage & biomedical electronics. #omiecs
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The mystery of the unknown blobs has been solved. The question now remains as to where it came from! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists
Newfoundland Memorial Univeristy team find white masses are likely material used to clean pipes in oil industry
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