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Ron Smaldone

@ronsmaldone.bsky.social
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Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas, Dallas. Porous Polymers | Covalent Organic Frameworks | 3D Printing | 🎸

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.
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The Bethesda Declaration
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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
April 24 is the National Day of Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity to Man. It commemorates the Armenian Genocide, which took place 110 years ago. 1/2
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RSC Applied - Interfaces, Polymers @rscapplied.rsc.org · 23/04/2025
More exceptional articles have been added to our Sustainable Development Goals collections, demonstrating how scientists across the globe are working towards sustainability. Check out the collection for SDG12: Responsible production and consumption, here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
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Sustainable development goals collection
Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible production and consumption
Part of a series of collections highlighting how chemical scientists are working towards making the world a better place

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Brett Helms @bretthelms.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We're hiring a postdoc to join our @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov plastics recycling team. Scope will include developing new reactions for selective functionalization of polyolefins, assessing properties and recyclability. phxc1b.rfer.us/LBLHM2EPD
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Sustainable Polymer Chemistry in Bay Area, California, United States
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) Materials Science Division (MSD) has an opening for an Organic and Polymer Postdoctoral Fellow where Dr....
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hexagonal close pancakes
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I've been called worse I guess....
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Interested in polymer #3Dprinting and beautiful tropical islands? Join us this December at Pacifichem for the "New Frontiers in Polymeric Materials and Methods for 3D Printing" symposium, organized by Chenfeng Ke (@chenfengke.bsky.social) , Tao Xie, Luke Connal (@lukeconnal.bsky.social), and myself!
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 12/03/2025
We are in a biotech space race, cutting off basic science via slashing NIH and NSF funding robs the US of our competitive advantage: early innovation.
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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.chemistryworld.com/features/cof...
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COFs head for the big time
Two decades on from the first reported covalent organic frameworks, Nina Notman investigates what their future holds
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Check out Ariel and Rebecca's fun video about our group's recent paper on 3D printable, dynamic covalent foams! @rmjohnson.bsky.social
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Anindita (Dia) Das @daslabsmu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
When porous materials folks get together.. @ronsmaldone.bsky.social @runcevski.bsky.social @chemchen.bsky.social
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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
REU programs are being cancelled for fear of not receiving funds and graduate admissions are being limited or completely halted. Hundreds of Americans are losing the opportunity to train as STEM professionals.
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Rebecca M. Johnson @rmjohnson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Just dropped a new video + blog post with Ariel for RSC Applied Polymers, and we had a blast making it! 🧪✨ We went full infomercial mode to show off how these dynamic foams achieve next-level expansion & mechanical properties: tinyurl.com/balloondogfoams @ronsmaldone.bsky.social
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Hear from the authors of ‘3D Printable Polymer Foams with Tunable Expansion and Mechanical Properties Enabled by Catalyst-Free Dynamic Covalent Chemistry’ – RSC Applied Polymers Blog
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Latest from the lab in @rscapplied.bsky.social! We 3D printed polymer foams with dynamic covalent crosslinkers allowing more control over strength and expansion compared to conventional crosslinkers - with enough print resolution to 3D print a cool balloon dog (and other stuff too I guess...)
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Brett Helms @bretthelms.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just out in Science Advances @science.org! Chemical recycling of plastics to monomer accelerated through oxy-functionalization remote from the bond undergoing cleavage. Polymer conformation plays dominant role. @molecularfoundry.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Circularity in polydiketoenamine thermoplastics via control over reactive chain conformation
Controlling polymer chain conformation dictates reactivity and recyclability.
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 28/01/2025
Thanks to @profdaveleigh.bsky.social for writing this tribute to Fraser #Chemsky
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I appear to have chosen the perfect time to submit my first NIH proposal....
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
basically
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
It doesn’t snow often in TX and the snowmen in my neighborhood reflect this…
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Rebecca M. Johnson @rmjohnson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Using my first post here to say…I’m on my way… to better foams, sweet foams! 🎸 Our latest preprint showcases a Motley Crue of improved properties—enhanced expansion and mechanical strength in 3D-printed foams. Check it out: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... @ronsmaldone.bsky.social
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3D Printable Polymer Foams with Tunable Expansion and Mechanical Properties Enabled by Catalyst-Free Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Thermoset foams are some of the most common polymer materials in our lives. Despite their prevalence, they are notoriously difficult to form into complex shapes and finding a balance between mechanica...
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 31/12/2024
I’ll miss gently berating him about how he could never organise files on his laptop and always had hundreds of files on his desktop. Fraser delivered my first chemistry lecture and the rest is history… I learned so much and owe him so much. RIP. chemistry.northwestern.edu/people/in-me... #Chemsky
Me sitting next to Fraser with him typing something on his laptop sitting in front of himFraser wearing a Viking helmet and wielding an axe Fraser smiling and giving two thumbs upFraser with his arms in the air and roaring in celebration when he found out he had hit 1,000 Twitter followers
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
So sad to hear about Fraser's passing yesterday. I met many great people in his group and from around the world who I still consider friends and collaborators today. A loss for sure, but his advocacy for science and the people in it will continue to inspire us all forever. We will miss you Fraser!
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/12/2024
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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Tom Runčevski @runcevski.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Twitter was great for this, let’s give bluesky a try. #chemsky community, any examples of fivefold helices either natural or synthetic? Any in the solid?
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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'm the faculty mentor of a student-run journal on issues related to food (can be natural science, social science, policy, economics, recipes, editorials, etc etc). Only requirements is that the work be food-related and written by undergraduates or younger.
A flyer soliciting articles/research submissions to a student run journal that focuses on all food topics. Any inquiries can be sent to: inquiries_ff@american.edu. Our website is: https://edspace.american.edu/foodfueled/
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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
OK #chemsky do your thing. I have an immediate PhD vacancy working on a MOF / crystallography / electron diffraction project with Syngenta. Home fees and stipend are covered. Spread the word!
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Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
First post on #bluesky to celebrate the first trip to the new Indian restaurant on campus with the group!
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