I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

@vidhikadamani.bsky.social painted the most beautiful image for our perspective on stimuli-responsive conductive polymers in @pubs.acs.org Chemistry of Materials for their Up-and-Coming series and it made the journal cover! See #MyACSCover here: pubs.acs.org/toc/cmatex/3...

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The chameleon is perhaps the most famous animal representing stimuli-response in nature. To illustrate our perspective, we therefore chose to enhance the chameleon with bioelectronic components. View ...

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help! #ChemSky #ScienceSky

Take two polls to help Iupac define molecular machines

An Iupac committee wants your input to guide its recommendations for key terms in the field

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@vidhikadamani.bsky.social and I wrote a Perspective on ‘Stimuli-Responsive Conductive Polymers for Bioelectronics’ now published in Chemistry of Materials @pubs.acs.org. We hope you will enjoy it! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Stimuli-Responsive Conductive Polymers for Bioelectronics†

Stimuli response, or the ability to respond to environmental cues with changes in behavior, is omnipresent in living systems. Inspiration from this natural behavior has led to the development of polym...

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I want to thank @sebvidalchem.bsky.social for his article on safety related to a dichloromethane injection injury! We discussed this article a few months ago and had a similar incident today with DMF. The student was therefore aware of the potential risk. [1/2] pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Safety First: A Recent Case of a Dichloromethane Injection Injury

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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

Reupping this short, 4-post 🧵 about the American "scientific pipeline", so we all understand the long-term economic impact of shutting it off #SciComm folks are great at popularizing individual fields, but the overall system of funding scientific discovery needs similarly terse explainers

Paul Rohr@pevohr.bsky.social · last yr.

Has everyone forgotten how much of American economic progress since WWII stems from technical innovations in the physical + biological sciences? That without massive funding from the federal government for basic research, little of that era's most lucrative technology originates here?

My lab made a (much needed) cute card. Will you be the PEDOT to my PSS?

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🚨PIs of Training Grants and Programs, ESPECIALLY training grants that support students from historically excluded groups (T32s and T34s, IMSD, MARC, PREP, MOSAIC, etc.)🚨 We need to push back on the loss of information and the disappearance of websites about these resources.

LAST CALL! We are seeking nominations for the @acspmse.bsky.social Early Investigator and Future Faculty Awards of the @acs.org. Please nominate a colleague before February 1: #ACS #PMSE Early Investigator: pmsedivision.org/early-invest... ACS PMSE Future Faculty: pmsedivision.org/pmse-future-...

The FDA should make a decision on whether or not to approve Vertex Pharmaceuticals suzetrigine today. While an @cenmag.bsky.social editorial fellow, @alexviveros.bsky.social investigated the backstory for us 🧪#chemsky

Pain meets precision medicine

Targeting voltage-gated sodium channels could usher in new opioid-free solutions for pain relief

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#chemjobs #Merckchemistry is hiring - 2 open positions at the associate level. Located at our West Point, PA site close to Philadelphia - with a great team that I just joined not so long ago! Links for info: R330195 bit.ly/40uICc9 R330192 bit.ly/42gC7v2 Please apply if interested #chemsky

Associate Scientist, Chemistry job in West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America | jobs at Merck

Apply for Associate Scientist, Chemistry job with Merck in West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Browse and apply for the jobs at Merck

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"[My adviser] told me that instead of focusing on finding a dream job, I should think about what I am good at and what makes me happy at least 80% of the time. This advice surprised me at first, but it ended up being exactly what I needed to hear." scim.ag/3DHtLCc

To choose a career, I needed to do more than ‘follow my dream’

Practical advice helped this international scientist figure out her post-Ph.D. direction

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Just out in @natrevbioeng.bsky.social, check out our perspective on integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology - Nature Reviews Bioengineering

Biohybrid devices based on engineered cells interfaced with bioelectronics combine the strengths of each field, resulting in constructs with properties that are not otherwise achievable. In this Revie...

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Happy New Year! I am starting 2025 fresh by unsubscribing from all the email lists I didn’t actually want to subscribe to. Feels great/weird to get almost no emails each day. NB: Please do not use this post as a hint to send me requests 😘

Congratulations to Darrin on being elected an NAI fellow @nationalacademies.org !!! #Bundlemers #Polymers

University of Delaware@udelaware.bsky.social · 2y ago

Darrin Pochan, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science at the University of Delaware, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors’ 2024 Class of Fellows. Pochan’s research uses peptides—protein building blocks—to form new materials.

The Argonne Catalysis Group is hiring for a postdoc position in Chemical Plastic Recycling! If you're interested in Polymer Science, Recyclable Polymers, and/or Catalysis, and looking for a postdoc position, check out the posting below! #chemsky 🧪⚗️ argonne.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Argonne_Care...

Postdoctoral Appointee - Catalysis and Polymer Science

Conducts research as part of a multidisciplinary team in chemical recycling of polymers and organometallic catalysis. The project will involve designing, synthesizing, and characterizing new recyclabl...

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The way to get to do shit you want to do is to first do shit that you don’t want to do. #mentorship

#chemsky I made a starter pack of women in organic electronics! Comment below if you’d like to be added 🤗 @stingelin.bsky.social @luscombeoist.bsky.social @jovanavmilic.bsky.social go.bsky.app/SR66ikV

Some of your students may find this useful: youtu.be/FqEstAs0M6E

Applying to grad school in STEM fields: to reach out to the PI or not?

YouTube video by Darren Lipomi

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Re-introducing myself here. I'm a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at UDelaware, working on conducting and stimuli-responsive polymers. Polymers and coatings engineer from India. Passionate about science, food, art, animals. 👩🏻‍🔬🍛🎨🐶 :)

#compchemsky & #chemsky: I am looking for a guest 🎤 lecturer for my UG class showcasing real-world uses of AI/ML, quantum chemistry, MD simulations - who’s interested? 💻🧬🧪

🚨⏳ Only a few hours left!! Make sure to submit your abstracts to this excellent symposium on "Integrating High-Throughput Techniques and Digital Technologies for #Sustainability" at #ACSSpring2025 bit.ly/3XF7jzU

Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib

For some reason in medicinal chemistry we like to use weight (Daltons) as a measure for atomic and molecular size. The picture below shows why this is hugely misleading for halogens and hydrogen.

As Materials Science and Engineering Departments/Programs absorbed a number of Chemistry academics in the UK in the last crunch - this new crunch is interesting, and saddening. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemist...

Chemistry courses, departments face closure in the UK highlighting higher education’s financial woes

Courses are facing the axe at Aston University and the University of Hull, with others struggling

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#chemsky 📣 🧠 Background in chemistry, materials science or engineering? 💻 Interested in #compchem, materials discovery & #software? 🎓4-year #phd available in my group to work on data-driven design of ionic-electronic mixed conductors for energy storage & biomedical electronics. #omiecs

The mystery of the unknown blobs has been solved. The question now remains as to where it came from! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists

Newfoundland Memorial Univeristy team find white masses are likely material used to clean pipes in oil industry

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