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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For Alán Aspuru-Guzik, boundaries between chemistry, AI, and robotics do not exist The 2024 Trailblazers guest editor gives chemists the tools to accelerate their science. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #HispanicHeritageMonth #chemsky 🧪
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik blurs the boundaries between chemistry, AI, and robotics
The 2024 Trailblazers guest editor also gives chemists the tools to accelerate their science
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Read this @cenmag articule about @variniabernales.bsky.social bernales.org it is a privilege leading the Matter Lab with her.
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Varinia Bernales — AI for Science | University of Toronto
Varinia Bernales, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, building autonomous agents for quantum chemistry and self-driving laboratories.
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Marcel Swart @marcelswart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you interested in learning about how agentic AI systems like El Agente operate? Curious on how to incorporate them into your research workflow? Join our live webinar as we show El Agente in action 🤖 🗓️ 24 Nov 2026, 10 AM - 11AM EST ✅ Registration & qns: register.gotowebinar.com/register/828...
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Come work for @thematterlab.bsky.social with @variniabernales.bsky.social ! See below!
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧑‍🔬⚛️We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow at the Matter Lab, University of Toronto. We seek expertise in electronic-structure theory and computational chemistry, preferably including multireference methods and quantum computing for chemical and materials applications. Start date: as soon as possible 🕐
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We’re proud to introduce another member of the El Agente family - El Agente Potente 🎊 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2609.14840 Potente is an agentic system that combines typed execution graphs with a complementary coding mode for machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIP)-driven atomistic simulations.
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚀 A new member joins the El Agente family at The Matter Lab: La Agente Óptima! ⚡ Óptima takes us further into developing AI agents for experimental planning and adaptive decision-making during an ongoing optimization campaign. 📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.04564 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwbz...
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La Agente Óptima controls RoboChem-Flex in a Bayesian optimization campaign.
YouTube video by Marcel Müller
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Varinia Bernales @variniabernales.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
😱 three years 😱 I’ve been planning one for 6 months and I want all to be over 😱
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Varinia Bernales @variniabernales.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you need help we have a claw that we can use to format and speed up things. I just used it to build the overly complicated CCV 😱 #foreverclaw
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Digital Discovery @digital-discovery.rsc.org · 29/07/2026
Our new Digital Discovery themed collection on ‘Quantum Computing for Chemistry, Material Science and Biotechnology’ has now been published online! Read this collection at the link below: blogs.rsc.org/dd/ddquant25/
A banner with the collection name and Guest Editor details.
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Varinia Bernales @variniabernales.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nice!!!
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Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Getting season tickets to the Toronto Tempo was 💯 the right choice 🏀⛹🏽‍♀️ Motivated to recruit a PhD student to work on Bayesian stat/AI methods for women’s sports, starting with basketball. You’d be supervised by me & folks at the Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport. Reach out if interested 👩🏽‍💻
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Andy Extance @andyextance.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My latest @chemistryworld.com story brings together AI, robots, chemistry and climate change - with a cautiously positive conclusion. Watch the reel below then check it out at www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-... Thanks @variniabernales.bsky.social @fjduarte.bsky.social and everyone else! 🧪
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We are excited to share that members of The Matter Lab presented their latest research at the Canada–Korea Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation (CKC 2026), held on June 21–25 ⚛️ [1/6]
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 17/06/2026
Andy Extance explores how scientists across disciplines can benefit from careful use of artificial intelligence tools, from small groups to those at tech giants like Meta, Google and Nvidia. www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...
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AI agents accelerate catalyst discovery from simulation to scale-up
Artificial intelligence tools are transforming catalyst research, with new AI agents capable of completing in minutes what once took computational chemists days. Andy Extance explores how all scientis...
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 15/06/2026
‘In any catalysis problem, there are lots of variables, and it’s a case of seeing how you’re varying them,’ says Graham Hutchings from the University of Cardiff. @andyextance.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...
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AI agents accelerate catalyst discovery from simulation to scale-up
Artificial intelligence tools are transforming catalyst research, with new AI agents capable of completing in minutes what once took computational chemists days. Andy Extance explores how all scientis...
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A new member of the El Agente family - “El Agente Seguro: An Agent for Chemical Safety” is now on ChemRxiv 🤖 🔗 chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.... It focuses on one of the most important challenges for AI-driven chemistry and self-driving laboratories: safety. [1/7]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Curious to see what’s going on at the Matter Lab? Join us at CSC Toronto as our group members present their latest research in computational chemistry, machine learning, and materials science. We’d love to connect and share our work with you!
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Varinia Bernales @variniabernales.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Chris, you need your own claw. They are really good!
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
From alchemy to AI-chemy: how will AI reshape the future of chemistry and materials discovery? In Dædalus, @aspuru.bsky.social reflects on the relationship between matter, minds, and tools, from the rise of modern chemistry to today’s AI-driven systems. 🔗 www.amacad.org/publication/... [1/4]
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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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W&C
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Varinia Bernales @variniabernales.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Congratulations Valentina!
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚀Excited to share our latest work: “Optimizing ground state preparation protocols with autoresearch”. We explore how language-model coding agents can automate the optimization of ground-state preparation protocols in quantum computing & classical quantum simulation. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2604.25610 [1/4]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The broader idea: if a quantum routine can be executed and scored, coding agents can help automate part of the tedious hyperparameter/protocol-search loop. Kudos to @realmantilla.bsky.social, Jérôme F. Gonthier, Ignacio Gustin, @variniabernales.bsky.social, and @aspuru.bsky.social 🎉 [4/4]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Kudos to authors: @zijian-zhang.bsky.social, Aiwei Yin, Amaan Baweja, Jiaru Bai, Ignacio Gustin, @variniabernales.bsky.social, @aspuru.bsky.social
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Everyone is racing to build agents for science, but what how about letting scientific agents build themselves? Here we built El Agente Forjador where agents forge ⚒️ their own tools on demand for quantum chemistry and quantum dynamics. 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2604.14609
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Acceleration Consortium @accelerationc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We’re excited to welcome the NVIDIA team to campus today for a special seminar led by NVIDIA’s Director of Digital Biology Anthony Costa—join us today, March 30 at 4:30 PM EST! Register now to attend in person at @utoronto.ca: airtable.com/appYBjHgttvB...
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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"A mobile robotic process chemist", just published in @digital-discovery.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Video shows 3 back-to-back autonomous reaction cycles (make product, analyse product (HPLC-MS), isolate solid product, clean reactor, check reactor is clean, loop) over 20 h. Reactor = 1 L
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Our perspective, Connecting the concepts of quantum state tomography and molecular representations for machine learning", is now published in Digital Discovery🎉 Here, we explore how ideas from quantum state tomography can inform representation learning in molecular ML 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5DD... [1/5]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Coupled cluster is the gold standard of quantum chemistry, but its steep scaling limits its routine use. We introduce the MōLe model, the first equivariant neural architecture that directly predicts CC excitation amplitudes from Hartree-Fock molecular orbitals. 📃 arxiv.org/abs/2602.20232 [1/7]
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Coupled Cluster con MōLe: Molecular Orbital Learning for Neural Wavefunctions
Density functional theory (DFT) is the most widely used method for calculating molecular properties; however, its accuracy is often insufficient for quantitative predictions. Coupled-cluster (CC) theo...
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Another duo of agents dropping today: El Agente Gráfico 📃 arxiv.org/abs/2602.17902 📽️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... El Agente Sólido 📃 arxiv.org/abs/2602.17886 [1/7]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Next up, El Agente Sólido is a hierarchical multi-agent framework that automates solid-state quantum chemistry workflows using the Quantum ESPRESSO simulation package. arxiv.org/abs/2602.17886 [1/6]
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El Agente Sólido: A New Age(nt) for Solid State Simulations
Quantum chemistry calculations are a key component of the materials discovery process. The results from first-principles explorations enable the prediction of material properties prior to experimental...
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We’re excited to share that Kourosh Darvish and @allanzhao.bsky.social will be presenting at an upcoming event by the Canadian Physical AI Institute (CPAI), on recent advances in simulation and robot manipulation for SDLs. [1/3]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We’re excited to share a new preprint that may reshape how humans write - TreeWriter: AI-Assisted Hierarchical Planning and Writing for Long-Form Documents 🌳 📃 arxiv.org/abs/2601.12740 Demo: drive.google.com/file/d/1R-X6... Live demo: treer.ai [1/5]
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TreeWriter: AI-Assisted Hierarchical Planning and Writing for Long-Form Documents
Long documents pose many challenges to current intelligent writing systems. These include maintaining consistency across sections, sustaining efficient planning and writing as documents become more co...
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The future of quantum chemistry research is being redefined today. After 8 months of exploration and hard work, we are thrilled to introduce two agents for chemistry: ⚛️ El Agente Quntur for quantum computing, and 🔬 El Agente Estructural for molecular geometry generation and manipulation. [1/7]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are proud to have @chertianser.bsky.social interviewed by the UofT Chemistry department 🎉 In addition to discussing the background to his latest paper (quoted), he also highlights the role played by our SDLs in automating the experimental and computational work presented therein. [1/2]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New preprint: Materealize — a multi-agent deliberation system for end-to-end material design and synthesis. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2601.15743 🖥️ Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/SNU-M... [1/7]
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
New substack post in The Matter Blotter, where we ask you the question: What do you want El Agente to do? Please listen. and let us know! substack.com/@aspuru/note... #compchemsky #chemsky
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New in Digital Discovery - Computer Vision Tutorial For Materials Design High-throughput synthesis has scaled. Characterization hasn’t. If you work in materials synthesis, characterization, or lab automation, this tutorial is for you. 📃 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... [1/6]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🧪🤖 New paper in Nature Computer Science! What if you could design, test, and refine automated chemistry workflows before touching the lab? We present “MATTERIX: toward a digital twin for robotics-assisted chemistry laboratory automation”. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... [1/6]
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Digital Discovery @digital-discovery.rsc.org · 08/01/2026
📢 #DigitalDiscovery's Editor in Chief Alán Aspuru-Guzik and his team are empowering experimentalists to integrate computer vision approaches within high-throughput materials research in their newest Tutorial Review! ✨ Read more here!
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Computer vision for high-throughput materials synthesis: a tutorial for experimentalists
Advances in high-throughput instrumentation and laboratory automation are revolutionizing materials synthesis by enabling the rapid generation of large libraries of novel materials. However, efficient characterization of these synthetic libraries remains a significant bottleneck in the discovery of new materials. T
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Varinia Bernales @variniabernales.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Yay! Congratulations to everyone !!
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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Our first joint paper with @thematterlab.bsky.social is out: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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MATTERIX: toward a digital twin for robotics-assisted chemistry laboratory automation - Nature Computational Science
MATTERIX, a multiscale graphics processing unit-accelerated framework for high-fidelity digital twins and workflows of chemistry laboratories, is presented, simulating robot and device operation, flui...
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Happy New Year! We began the year by reading this amazing Chemistry World article by @robinson-julia.bsky.social on how AI agents are democratising computational chemistry. 🔗 www.chemistryworld.com/news/ai-agen... Image source: © Caroline Chapple, Courtesy of Chemistry World. [1/5]
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Julia Robinson @robinson-julia.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
LLMs are powering a new generation of #AI agents that could open up the field of computational #chemistry, speeding up research & materials discovery. In this piece for @chemistryworld.com I speak to the developers to find out their motivations & aspirations: www.chemistryworld.com/news/ai-agen...
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AI agents set to democratise computational chemistry
Large language models are powering a new generation of AI agents that could transform computational chemistry from a specialist discipline into one any researcher can use, reports Julia Robinson
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Julia Robinson @robinson-julia.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Huge thanks to @aspuru.bsky.social, @variniabernales.bsky.social, @pavlodral.bsky.social, Murat Keçeli and Thang Pham at Argonne National Laboratory, and Venkat Viswanathan at the University of Michigan for your essential input into this piece.
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The Hilbert Space Post @hilbertspacepost.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
El Agente Cuántico is a multi-agent AI system that translates natural-language scientific goals into fully executed and validated quantum simulations across diverse software frameworks. @jperezsa.bsky.social , @variniabernales.bsky.social , @aspuru.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2512.18847
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El Agente Cuántico: Automating quantum simulations
Quantum simulation is central to understanding and designing quantum systems across physics and chemistry. Yet it has barriers to access from both computational complexity and computational perspectiv...
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🔬 This week on The Matter Blotter, @gkwt.bsky.social presents: Ranking Models for Bayesian Optimization, a different way to think about Bayesian Optimization for self-driven molecular discovery. 👀 aspuru.substack.com/p/ranking-mo... [1/3]
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The Matter Lab @thematterlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Excited to share that our January paper, “Quantum-computing-enhanced algorithm unveils potential KRAS inhibitors” has been recognized by Nature Biotechnology as one of the journal’s Top 10 research articles of 2025, and selected as the December cover article. 📜 www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/9]
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