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Josh Hollett

@saltyelectron.bsky.social
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NBBBOTID | theoretical chemist | UWin chemistry | @saltyelectron@qoto.org | Saving the world two electrons at a time...and sports, sports are cool too! (he/him)

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Chemsky Am actively recruiting graduate students for 2027. Looking for a total of 4-6 students to join the team. Synthetic organic chemistry, molecular biology/cell biology, and biophysics are priorities, but we will consider almost anything in the molecular sciences if it aligns with our work!
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Daniel Reta @danireta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📣 we are hiring! Fully funded PhD position at EHU to study single electron transfer in organic radicals using computational chemistry methods 📅 Deadline: November 2 👇 Details below, please repost www.danielreta.com/phd-computat... #compchem #chemsky @theochemehu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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PhD in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling — Daniel Reta Research Group
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#facultychemjobs
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:
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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey, that’s us! Cinnamaldehyde is a $5B/ year commodity, and derivatives with varying flavours & aromas can now be generated from benzaldehydes using #biocatalysis. Thanks and congratulations to my @usask.ca students for putting this idea into practice.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 180 tenure-track positions and 16 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
University of Manitoba: Analytical Chemistry and/or Physical Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are hiring a postdoc! #Chemsky Looking for an expert in instrumental analytical instrument maintenance...I mean chemistry, specifically LC-MS, HPLC, GC-MS. Method development expertise with new analytes, and natural product isolation/identification are good!
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 159 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
University of Toronto: Theoretical Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
University of Toronto: Inorganic, Polymer, and/or Materials Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 114 tenure-track positions and 7 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 93 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Volker Blum @aimsduke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@fhi-aims.bsky.social will be supporting the Skala machine-learned XC functional quite soon (for energies, initially). As for myself, and having had a very long run based on PBE and functionals built on it, I'll be curious to see how it does. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a livi...
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:
Symbol for Amazon’s VGT3 operation which depicts a T rex with its mouth open over an open booky
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
NEW: An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.” He literally prompted ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion."
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‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 61 tenure-track positions and 3 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/08/2026
Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
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Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Peer Review Is Entirely AI
Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 53 tenure-track positions and 2 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
University of Winnipeg: Biochemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
McMaster University: Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader in radiopharmaceutical sciences and development. chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 27 tenure-track positions and 1 teaching-only position: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Come join us @uwinnipeg.bsky.social Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry. Submit by September 8 for full consideration. Please share widely and DM or email me if you would like more info. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs @chemjobber.bsky.social www.northstarats.com/University-o...
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Probationary Assistant Professor in Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry
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Pierre-Francois Loos @titouloos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
An Algebraic-Diagrammatic Construction for Vertex Corrections to the GW Self-Energy | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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An Algebraic-Diagrammatic Construction for Vertex Corrections to the GW Self-Energy
The G3W2 approximation─the second-order self-energy beyond GW─is known to violate some fundamental analytic properties of the self-energy. In particular, its lack of positive semidefiniteness leads to...
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Bettina Keller @bettinagkeller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
📢 We're hiring a PhD student (4 years) in computational chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin. Research on molecular dynamics, molecular kinetics, rare events & machine learning. Apply by 3 Aug 2026: jobs.fu-berlin.de/job/Research... #CompChem
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Research assistant (praedoc) (f/m/d) DM-786
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 14 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
‘“With ChatGPT?” “Yes,” I said. “How else would I do it?” Apparently, “how else would I do it” is “from memory, using only my brain, like some kind of medieval peasant.” This was news to me.’
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 24/06/2026
Got a new Dell Laptop at work & it comes with a COPILOT KEY next to the right Alt button. I thought OK, I can surely disable this key or remap it to Ctrl. Oh my friends, no. I was foolish. Searching for help came across this, Dell agents aren't even allowed to discuss remapping the copilot key.
The new keyboard layout using the Microsoft Copilot key are the standard going forward for all models released in
2024 and after.

Dell policy prohibits Dell support agents from discussing remapping the Microsoft Copilot key.

This Dell article states in blue =

Note: Beginning in spring 2024, new Windows 11 devices ship with a new keyboard layout and a dedicated key to launch
Microsoft Copilot in Windows. The key replaces the menu key next to the right Alt key. The key position can vary on
some regional layouts.

Please see this FAQ for the same details. Microsoft requires the CoPilot key as part of their Al PC initiative.
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
University of Guelph: Organic Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Western University: Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Mass Spectrometry ‘Omics for Novel Therapeutics Women and Members of Gender Equity-Seeking Groups chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/05/2026
"What’s driving me crazy is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...
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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
i cannot. I CANNOT.
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Western University: Chemistry - Assistant Professor, Term (Corrosion and Materials Degradation/Performance) chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Miranda-Quintana group @groupquintana.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#postdoc position in our lab explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
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University of Florida - Details - Chemistry Post-Doctoral Associate - Unsupervised and Generative Machine Learning
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Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
WTF www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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Pierre-Francois Loos @titouloos.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2604.05920 #compchem
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Reference Energies for Non-Relativistic Core Ionization Potentials
Deep-lying core electrons carry highly localized, site-specific information that forms the basis of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Accurately predicting their associated core ionization potentials ...
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
University of Winnipeg: Biochemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Come join us @uwinnipeg.bsky.social Chemistry! Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry. Submit by April 20 for full consideration. Please share widely and DM or email me if you would like more info. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 393 tenure-track positions and 90 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Carleton University: Canada Impact+ Chair in Environmental, Physical, or Atmospheric Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
#chemjob #postdocjob #chemsky #postdocposition #scijob
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Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Potential Postdoctoral Fellowship Available here at The University of Winnipeg with me, in the Quantum Chemical Theory and Simulation Laboratory. Programming experience and doctoral studies related to electronic structure theory are considered valuable. [1/3]
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 359 tenure-track positions and 65 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 349 tenure-track positions and 58 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪
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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Going back to last week, when I presented my experiences with a “Specifications Grading” (SG) assessment format for my Chem2002 quantum chemistry course at #unb during the Kaleidoscope Teaching Showcase 2025, organised by the Centre for Enhanced Teaching and Learning. (1/4)
Me pointing at some green noise on a ppt slide where some anonymous student feedback was on a specification grading course
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
University of Lethbridge: Chemistry Instructor (Rank III) chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 330 tenure-track positions and 47 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 303 tenure-track positions and 39 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
University of Calgary: Computational Chemistry for Energy Materials chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Pierre-Francois Loos @titouloos.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Complex Absorbing Potential Green’s Function Methods for Resonances | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #compchem
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Complex Absorbing Potential Green’s Function Methods for Resonances
The complex absorbing potential (CAP) formalism has been successfully employed in various wave function-based methods to study electronic resonance states. In contrast, Green’s function-based methods ...
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