Reposted by Josh HollettPierre-Francois Loos @titouloos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026arxiv.org/abs/2610.04107 #compchemarxiv.orgPyCC: A Reference Quantum Chemistry Python Package for Education, Validation, and Rapid PrototypingPyCC is a Python-based quantum chemistry package that emphasizes coupled cluster and related methods. Developed over the last five years, PyCC's purpose is to provide a clear reference implementation ... 072
Reposted by Josh HollettJohn 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! 1109
Reposted by Josh HollettDaniel 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.eudanielreta.comPhD in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling — Daniel Reta Research Group 035
Reposted by Josh Hollett404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026So 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: 50472153
Reposted by Josh HollettDave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hey, 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.pubs.acs.orgACS PublicationsACS Publications 2457
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 180 tenure-track positions and 16 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 21010
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026University of Manitoba: Analytical Chemistry and/or Physical Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 023
Reposted by Josh HollettJohn Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We 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!trantteam.ca 11511
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 159 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 156
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026University of Toronto: Theoretical Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 034
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026University of Toronto: Inorganic, Polymer, and/or Materials Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 023
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 114 tenure-track positions and 7 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 176
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 93 tenure-track positions and 5 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 143
Reposted by Josh HollettVolker 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...microsoft.comBroadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFTSkala 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... 062
Reposted by Josh Hollettevy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026amazon 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: 221902699
Reposted by Josh Hollett404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026NEW: 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."404media.co‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion LawsuitChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. 12605233
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 61 tenure-track positions and 3 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 174
Reposted by Josh Hollett404 Media @404media.co · 11/08/2026Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission404media.coCompany Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Peer Review Is Entirely AIResearch Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission 819272
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 53 tenure-track positions and 2 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 22120
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026University of Winnipeg: Biochemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 024
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026McMaster University: Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader in radiopharmaceutical sciences and development. chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 033
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 27 tenure-track positions and 1 teaching-only position: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 21817
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Come 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...northstarats.comProbationary Assistant Professor in Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry 034
Reposted by Josh HollettPierre-Francois Loos @titouloos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026An Algebraic-Diagrammatic Construction for Vertex Corrections to the GW Self-Energy | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...pubs.acs.orgAn Algebraic-Diagrammatic Construction for Vertex Corrections to the GW Self-EnergyThe 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... 021
Reposted by Josh Hollett 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... #CompChemjobs.fu-berlin.deResearch assistant (praedoc) (f/m/d) DM-786Research assistant (praedoc) (f/m/d) DM-786 02420
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 14 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2027 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 192
Reposted by Josh HollettScott 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.’inpreparation.substack.comOpinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is DiscriminationBy Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University 0142
Reposted by Josh Hollett👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 24/06/2026Got 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. 202215620
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026University of Guelph: Organic Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 044
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Western 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… 033
Reposted by Josh Hollett404 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-...404media.coYour AI Use Is Breaking My BrainAI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy. 631370
Reposted by Josh HollettMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026i cannot. I CANNOT.nytimes.comBook on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. 611972331
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Western University: Chemistry - Assistant Professor, Term (Corrosion and Materials Degradation/Performance) chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 043
Reposted by Josh HollettMiranda-Quintana group @groupquintana.bsky.social · 05/05/2026#postdoc position in our lab explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...explore.jobs.ufl.eduUniversity of Florida - Details - Chemistry Post-Doctoral Associate - Unsupervised and Generative Machine Learning 075
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 29/04/2026WTF www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...404media.coUniversity Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI SlopASU 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. 012
Reposted by Josh HollettPierre-Francois Loos @titouloos.bsky.social · 08/04/2026arxiv.org/abs/2604.05920 #compchemarxiv.orgReference Energies for Non-Relativistic Core Ionization PotentialsDeep-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 ... 031
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026University of Winnipeg: Biochemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 033
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 26/03/2026can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.comProbationary Assistant Professor in Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry 012
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Come 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 149
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 393 tenure-track positions and 90 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemskydocs.google.comThe 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 195
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Carleton University: Canada Impact+ Chair in Environmental, Physical, or Atmospheric Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 012
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 19/01/2026#chemjob #postdocjob #chemsky #postdocposition #scijob 011
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 19/01/2026For more info on the program see nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/canada-im... or feel free to DM me. [3/3]nserc-crsng.canada.caCanada Impact+ Research Training Awards : Q&AAs announced in Budget 2025 - Canada Strong, a resilient Canadian economy depends on a highly skilled workforce. 011
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Potential projects include: two-electron density functional development, cumulant functional theory for excited states, and/or periodic systems. Happy to discuss other possibilities. This would be a Canada Impact+ Research Training award ($70k/year for 2 years). [2/3] 110
Josh Hollett @saltyelectron.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Potential 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] 143
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 06/01/2026The 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.comdocs.google.comThe 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 198
Reposted by Josh HollettChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 349 tenure-track positions and 58 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪docs.google.comThe 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List 196
Reposted by Josh HollettStijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Going 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) 142
Reposted by Josh HollettChemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 07/12/2025University of Lethbridge: Chemistry Instructor (Rank III) chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202… 044