New #mechanismoftheweek after a brief hiatus! Adding in some undergraduate-friendly warm up problems (/named reactions) to broaden the scope now that the bachelors students have returned to the lab! #chemsky
Jameson Pommenville
@jpommenville.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Basu lab at Brown University
Anyone else been thinking about isoxazoles lately? Well, if you wanted to do some Levin chemistry, the #mechanismoftheweek gets you an isoxazole, coming from the Wan group at Jiangxi Normal University. #chemsky
This #mechanismoftheweek comes from the Maulide group at the University of Vienna. Answer on Friday! #chemsky
This #mechanismoftheweek comes from the synthesis of Elisapterane from the Ding group at Zhejiang University. Answer on Friday! #chemsky
Hello organic chemists on #chemsky! As an organic chemistry grad student, I love solving mechanism problems. I have been posting new #mechanismoftheweek problems outside my lab for the past year for my labmates and colleagues to solve, leading to some really rewarding hallway discussions.
The NSF is in trouble. Here is my latest substack post: open.substack.com/pub/artediso... @standupforscience.bsky.social
The NSF is in trouble
The Trump administration is dismantling the NSF
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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"
Many people are busy doing recipe science.. If you ask a grad student what they need to do to get a paper, they'll tell you this & this, & they'll know that 2 years before the project is done. And I'm thinking, what's wrong with this picture? Eve Marder, on @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
Breaking News: The Trump administration halted Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in its battle with the school.
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
there's a lot of misinformation about how the conclave choses the next pope out there. to be clear, the candidacy exam is *after* the original research proposal
there's a lot of misinformation about how the conclave choses the next pope out there. to be clear, the trivia round is *after* the twister tournament.
NSF is in trouble. Here is my latest Substack post. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/artediso...
This is no way to run a bagel shop or a country
Academic science in the US is being gutted by Trump
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BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.