Happy Pi Day, everyone! I hope the pie police don’t come for me for calling these mini French fruit tarts pies.

MDAnalysis is participating in #GSoC 2026! 👉 Read our blog post for details on how you can apply to work with MDAnalysis through GSoC: www.mdanalysis.org/2026/02/19/g... 🗓️ Pre-proposals must be submitted by March 9. ❗For transparency and fairness, use public forums for all #GSoC communications.

Google Open Source@opensource.google · 6mo ago

📢 Meet the 2026 mentoring organizations for GSoC 2026‼️ Learn about the 185 mentoring orgs and get started with the must application tips to be a Contributor for GSoC 2026🚀 ➡️ Find the full blog here: goo.gle/gsoc2026-org... #GSoC #OpenSource #GoogleSummerofCode #Techcommunities

Has @avogadro.cc helped your research? Teaching? As we prepare Avogadro 2.0 for release this spring, I'm hoping to feature some stories (and citations). #compchem #opensource #openscience ⚗️ Let me know: discuss.avogadro.cc/t/avogadro-s...

Avogadro Stories (for 2.0 Release)

As we finish up the 2.0 (final!) release, I’d like to feature some stories (and citations) about how Avogadro has shaped research and teaching. So if Avogadro has helped your research, please let me ...

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Please join us for food and drink at the 2026 BPS meeting! Happening on Saturday. Plenty of tickets left!

@pilarcossio.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#BPS2026 The T&C subgroup is hosting a fun event on Saturday evening, Feb 21st 🎉 Open bar for 2 hours + food! Tickets are selling fast, so sign up soon: www.biophysics.org/2026meeting/...

Come join us in Pittsburgh this summer #chemsky - see why we've gotten great reviews from past REU students Have questions? Ask away...

Pitt Chemistry@pittchemistry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

2026 PITT CHEM REU application are CLOSING SOON! Application close on February 6th, 2026. Find the link to our application through our NEW website > zurl.co/REU

Applications are now open for the 2026 MolSSI ACT-CMS Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship supports faculty in molecular science disciplines who are developing curriculum to integrate cyberinfrastructure skills in the undergrad curriculum. Info session on Jan 30. More info: act-cms.molssi.org#/home

Have any of you watched that show Chad Powers where a guy wears a disguise and pretends to be a college student so he can play football? Can I do that here? What would I need for an early career faculty member disguise anyway?

Neel Shah@nshahlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My awesome colleagues at Barnard Chemistry are look to recruit an Early-Career Faculty fellow in computational chemistry. This is a 2-year residential teaching and research fellowship. Please share broadly! #chemjobs barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

I don’t know that anyone in my network is a rattlesnake biologist, but I do know that my colleague @emilytaylorscience.com is awesome and does amazing work in conservation and education and if you DO happen to be an amazing rattlesnake biologist looking for a post-doc, you should definitely apply.

Emily Taylor@emilytaylorscience.com · 8mo ago

𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐂 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 I am recruiting a postdoc to join the lab in summer/fall 2026! This is a fully funded, 2-year position. Please share with your networks! Application details: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Photo is of a rattlesnake I found on campus today (in Dec!)...

For the December #Newscripts, @fmorningstar.bsky.social took a look at the chemistry of two pop culture moments from the past year: An explosive scene in 28 Years Later and the GBBO sugar dome disaster. Read more: cen.acs.org/education/sc... #chemsky 🧪

Is this article about me?!? Did they know about the plastic wrap failure on the GBBO sugar dome thanks to my posts?!?!? @fmorningstar.bsky.social I am available for comment!!

Bethany Halford@bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Looking for a fun read? For the December #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social, Fionna Samuels (@fmorningstar.bsky.social) took a look at the chemistry of two pop culture moments from the past year: An exoplosive scene in 20 Years Later and the GBBO sugar dome disaster cen.acs.org/education/sc...

Do you know outstanding undergraduate researchers who could use up to $1,000 in travel funding to present their work at the Spring @acs.org or @pittcon.bsky.social Meetings? Please encourage them to apply for a Kolthoff award! Deadline is Jan. 12, 2026. acsanalytical.org/undergraduat...

Awards for Undergraduate Students

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Omg, this is the most Baltimore thing to do ever.

Laurasaurus@laurasaurus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’m howling.

Come be my colleague! We are hiring someone at the Asst. or Assoc. Prof. level to teach undergrad Physical Chemistry. The successful candidate is also encouraged to contribute their expertise to other new or existing courses at UIS. @chemjobber.bsky.social #chemsky uis.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant or Associate Professor, Physical Chemistry

Summary:The School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability and Public Health (ISP) in the College of Health, Science and Technology (CHST) at the Un...

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If anyone needs to know this, most plastic wrap in the US is made from polyethylene, but plastic wrap in Europe is made from PVC. This really matters if you are trying to make a decorative sugar dome for a cake after you saw them do it on a British baking show. #chemsky

I received many requests to share materials from our undergraduate course “Machine Learning in Chemistry” — here you go! A preprint summarizing insights and lessons learned: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... A Jupyter Notebook Tutorial Gallery: xuhuihuang.github.io/mlchem/html/...

Xuhui Huang@xuhuihuangchem.bsky.social · last yr.

The semester is wrapping up! I gave my final Chem361 lecture last Thur. Looking forward to next week's final project presentations - every student who passes will receive a custom 3D-printed keychain I designed as a souvenir for the inaugural ML in Chemistry class!

Note to self: decrease shrimp consumption for awhile. (Also, this article is super interesting.)

paris martineau@paris.nyc · 10mo ago

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Undergraduate comp chemists! I know it’s a tough grad school climate right now, but here is someone great who is actively looking for 2-3 new students. Apply, apply, apply!!!

Miranda-Quintana group@groupquintana.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are looking for 2-3 prospective graduate students to join our group starting the Fall 2026 term. Main projects include method development for ML, MD, drug design, and QM. Please, apply through: lnkd.in/gnM_wC_H

Be my colleague! Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is hiring two tenure-track positions for Fall 2026, chemical education and coatings technology. Chen Ed: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Coatings: jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55...

Super interesting paper about students’ use of generative AI. They categorize four distinct type of AI use and discuss which types lead to productive use by students. (Not my paper, I just found it super interesting.) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Bridging Artificial Intelligence and Real Intelligence: Self-Scaffolding Computational Modeling with Generative AI in Chemistry

Chemistry education researchers have, for many years, explored different ways of learning chemistry through modeling and open-ended problem-solving. With the emergence of generative artificial intelli...

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Interested in chemistry grad school? Come check out the UMBC Chemistry Grad Open House! Department website: chemistry.umbc.edu Registration: forms.gle/1ttSe3XrnaPq...

The Women Make COMP symposium is back for the Spring 2026 ACS meeting! Undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral scholars are all eligible. Don’t miss this great opportunity to present your research and grow your professional network! Application: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#ACSFall2025 Come see my talk about new Python notebooks for pchem (and more), giving students choice to get them to code, and why we should consider student identity when teaching programming. Room 140B at 4:55pm

No one is talking about the fact that adiabatic is not accepted in spelling bee today? What are the rest of you doing on your flights to #ACSFall2025? (And no, I haven’t finished my slides yet. It’s a long way from the west coast to DC. I’ve still got plenty of time.)

This is an excellent thread about some of the AI issues faculty should be thinking about this fall. I am by no means an AI hater, and I think a lot about what we should be teaching students about machine learning and generative AI. I think this is a very thoughtful piece.

Lorena A Barba@labarba.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🧵 Fall 2025 faculty: I wrote 7 pages on what you need to know about AI before classes start in a week or two—it's posted as PDF in the ‪@figshare.com‬ service under CC-BY: link below… Here are the highlights: 1/8

Calling all grades 3-5 teachers! (Many of you know one- share this with them)? We need your participation in Aug & Sept. And it is fun, ready to go, and a great learning opp! Curriculum: rattlecam.org/rattle-ed Please share.

I went to the Lindau meeting when I was a 2nd year graduate student (way back in 2006!) and it is a truly amazing experience. I am so glad it is still going on, and I strongly encourage students to apply!!

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · last yr.

For over 70 years, the small island of Lindau on Lake Constance in Germany has hosted the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, bringing together Nobel laureates and young scientists to learn from one another over a week of talks, lectures, lunches, and small exchanges. cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

I feel like I have been trying to spread this message for years and no one has been listening.

Jake Yeston@jakeyeston.bsky.social · last yr.

12) Collard greens are much much much more delicious than kale—I’m not a great fan of kale’s big moment

Thrilled to have receive this fellowship to help add new skills to the chemistry curriculum that will help my students become better scientists! And thanks to the college for highlighting it! www.kzoo.edu/news/faculty...

That Computes: Faculty Member's Fellowship to Benefit Students

Cecilia Vollbrecht is one of just 10 faculty members from around the country to earn a fellowship that will help students learn new skills.

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Followers of the Church of Chemjobber, I'm delighted to endorse Dr. Chris Cramer for President of the United States in 2028. Now let us pray.

Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦@chemprofcramer.bsky.social · last yr.

wtaf? www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

URichmond is hiring two tenure-track faculty. One in biochemistry/chemical biology and the other in experimental physical chemistry. This is a terrific place to work - our focus is on our talented undergraduates and we have robust research resources. chemistryjobs.acs.org/job/assistan...