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R. David Britt

@rdavbritt.bsky.social
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Chemistry Professor, UC Davis

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National MagLab @nationalmaglab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tying together history, art, and science, Director Emeritus Greg Boebinger explores "The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research." Check out his recent talk at the Tallahassee Scientific Society's 'Science Salon:' bit.ly/4jlY3x1
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The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research with Greg Boebinger
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
chemistry.ucdavis.edu/about/employ.... New position at @UCDChem at the AI/Machine learning/ Chemistry interface...
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Employment Opportunities
For employment opportunities available at UC Davis, see Jobs. Assistant Professor in ChemistryOpen date: September 3, 2026Next review date: Friday, October 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)Apply by t...
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#chemsky 🧪⚗️ #chemchat boost: post a fun chemistry meme
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Alerion 28 weather mark rounding in SFYC summer keelboat series this past weekend... a bit crowded!
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ACS BIOL: Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology @acsbiol.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Don't miss the ACS Infectious Diseases Early Career Award session on Monday, August 24 in Conference Center room S106a from 8-12 PM as part of #ACSFall2026!
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society has named George Christou as the recipient of the 2026 Herty Medal. Christou is best known as a pioneer of single-molecule magnetism, having discovered numerous examples of various sizes and compositions. #chemsky 🧪
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George Christou wins 2026 Herty Medal
The distinguished professor is recognized for his service and research
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
great meeting, thanks for all the hard work!!!
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Lovely meeting so far!
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
lovely SF bay beach in Point Richmond today
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
ACS National Meetings: someone should run for ACS President with the sole platform of streamlining the meeting application process, and dumping the 25 extra required questions...
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory @nationalmaglab.bsky.social & Florida State Uni are seeking applications for Director of the NMR/MRI Program, appointed as tenured Full Professor at FSU, review will begin on August 1, job ID 62492 jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psc/sprdhr_e... #NMRchat #NMRjobs 🧲
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Big fun in Alerion 28 West Coast Championships this weekend
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Physical Sciences Division, University of Chicago @uchicagopsd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Congratulations to Prof. Anna Wuttig for being named a 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar! The award honors early-career faculty in the chemical sciences who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship and are deeply committed to education with undergraduates. shorturl.at/F6XCJ
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I wrote 6 editions of Biochemistry which was lots of fun when it was not threatening to do me in. I am now the only survivor of that author team, but we now have a great team of new authors (who all worked hard on the last (10th edition) with me). Lubert's book turned 50 last year.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is one of the saddest pieces I’ve read in a long time; brace yourself, it’s devastating I wish RFK Jr and his MAHA movement would read it (they won’t) 🎁 Link www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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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
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Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology) researcher Ago Samoson shares the 2026 Günther Laukien Prize @brukercorporation.bsky.social #ENC2026 for pioneering technologies in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) taltech.ee/en/news/talt... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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TalTech researcher Ago Samoson shares the Laukien Prize for a breakthrough in solid state nuclear magnetic resonance technologies | TalTech
The 2026 Günther Laukien Prize, "to recognize recent cutting-edge experimental research in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with a high probability of enabling
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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽 Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼
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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Oh my! Time flies.
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Great "No Kings" Springsteen show in Portland last night. Bonus Tom Morello! awesome
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
nice cluster of S. rubra flowers
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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Nice news piece by @rhyswg.bsky.social highlighting two recent @natchembio.nature.com artices on FeS cofactor trafficking in nitrogenase 📦 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
yes, followed by Atari
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Rachel loves her some quicksand!
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Zero- to ultralow-field J-spectroscopy with a diamond magnetometer, Muhib Omar, Jingyan Xu, Raphael Kircher, Pouya Sharbati, Shaowen Zhang, Georgios Chatzidrosos, James Eills, Román Picazo-Frutos, Dmitry Budker, Danila A. Barskiy & Arne Wickenbrock www.nature.com/articles/s42... #NMRchat #ZULFNMR 🧲
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Zero- to ultralow-field J-spectroscopy with a diamond magnetometer - Communications Chemistry
Zero-to-ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (ZULF NMR) enables high-resolution spectroscopy of inhomogeneous samples in complex environments. In this work, the authors incorporate a diamond-bas...
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
How can nature make #peptides covering chemical space beyond the proteinogenic amino acids using the #ribosome? Wilfred van der Donk talked at #Biochemistry2026 about the power of ribosomally-synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides #RiPPs. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #Biochemistry
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Nice seminar trip to the U of Chicago and UW Madison Chemistry Depts. Learned much great science, and early spring weather, 60s and sunny one day, snowing soon after. good fun!
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Breeane of Tarth watching the front door.....
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hans-Martin Vieth (Freie Universität Berlin) We have to share the sad news that Hans-Martin Vieth died on 25.02.2026. He was a pioneer in Field-cycling shuttle NMR, spin-chemistry, photo-CIDNP and optical nuclear polarization link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Biography of Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Vieth - Applied Magnetic Resonance
Applied Magnetic Resonance -
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Pitcher plants pretty awake in Pt Richmond Ca now..
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Cuprocene is the first neutral, stable copper metallocene, created by a team led by William J. Evans, an organometallic chemist at the University of California, Irvine. cen.acs.org/synthesis/cu... #chemsky 🧪
Copper finally joins the metallocene club
More than 70 years after ferrocene’s discovery, cuprocene fills a long-standing gap in the sandwich menu

by Mark Peplow, special to C&EN
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/02/2026
“The best that I can do in terms of making the next breakthrough or discovery is not to do it by myself, but to enable other scientists to do it” — Jennifer Doudna www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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Jennifer Doudna’s $1 Billion Plan To Bring Gene Editing To The Masses
Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments mains...
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
During a rare SF Bay lightning and thunderstorm, nice to have a comfy place of refuge, says Brienne of Tarth. (who is of course descended from Dunk the Doberman)
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
good plan!!
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Yeah Ashok!!
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@wsuchemistry.bsky.social @waynestatechem.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tim Johnstone, from UC Santa Cruz gave today’s seminar on the interesting topics of antidotes for carbon dioxide poisoning and the group of 15 elements that make up the bioinorganic group. Thanks for visiting #wsuchemistry! #ChemSky
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
REVIEW, Advances in EPR Approaches for Studying Structural Properties of Membrane Proteins, Indra D. Sahu*, Gary A. Lorigan* analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NMRchat #NMR #EPR #ESR 🧲
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Advances in EPR Approaches for Studying Structural Properties of Membrane Proteins
Energy level splitting of a nitroxide spin label under an external magnetic field (B), showing the effects of Zeeman and 14N (I = 1) hyperfine interactions and the corresponding electron paramagnetic...
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Really fun visit to Stanford yesterday (Physical Chemistry Seminar). Good chance to talk about mmWave pulse EPR....
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Congrats Maxie!
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Muon Knight Shift as a Precise Probe of the Superconducting Symmetry of Sr₂⁢RuO₄ www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-... #NMRchat 🧲
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Using muons to uncover the behavior of superconducting electron pairs
Kyoto, Japan -- Quantum materials and superconductors are difficult enough to understand on their own. Unconventional superconductors, which cannot be explained within the framework of standard theory...
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Thank you for visiting UC Davis last night!
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R. David Britt @rdavbritt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Breanne of Tarth is a bit puzzled over all the Penny talk...
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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@rdavbritt.bsky.social Doberman appreciation
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Thursday, February 5, 4 pm CET / 10 am EST, Infranalytics Webinar "Contribution of very high magnetic fields to the characterization of biomolecules" infranalytics.fr/evenements/c... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
Thursday, February 5, 4 pm CET / 10 am EST, Infranalytics Webinar "Contribution of very high magnetic fields to the characterization of biomolecules"
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Several funded PhD positions available in pulsed EPR and pulsed DNP at ETH Zurich, starting June 2026, as part of a Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Nino Wili @ninowili.bsky.social Group Leader at ETH Zurich www.ninowili.ch #NMRchat #NMRjobs 🧲
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Nino Wili – Scientist in the field of EPR, NMR and DNP
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Joe Loo @joelooucla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Your @asms.org Board @jyates.bsky.social @lingjun2025.bsky.social @bhclowers.bsky.social @iondoctor.bsky.social @lablaskin.bsky.social @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social hard at work in Santa Fe, establishing new initiatives and planning for #ASMS2026. Get your abstracts submitted for San Diego by Feb. 6!
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Robert Schurko, Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University and Director of the NMR/MRI User Program @nationalmaglab.bsky.social to receive the 2026 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance eas.org/eas-award-fo... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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2026 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance - Eastern Analytical Symposium
Robert W. Schurko is a Professor of Chemistry at the Florida State University and Director of the NMR/MRI User Program at the National […]
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 24/01/2026
My parents, both born in early 1930s, told us stories about witnessing WWII through newspapers and radio broadcasts and neighbors who went into combat. The British Royal Air Force were considered superheroes youtu.be/e8HU0e__aD0?...
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BRITAIN'S FINEST HOUR: The RAF, The Battle for the Skies & The Merlin Engine [COLORIZED]
YouTube video by DroneScapes
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