Micaela Matta
@micaelamatta.bsky.social
#compchem | organic semiconductors | functional biomaterials | polymers | @mdanalysis core dev | made in Sardinia 🏳️🌈 she/her
But can we all agree the new ACS logo is very ugly?
When you get good grant news as you’re about to order food at a Rifugio 🏔️🐿️
conference hangover: reimbursement paperwork..🫠 AI can only do so much sadly, still lots of tedious data input on clunky platforms or odious forms. #chemsky #academicsky does anyone have a good system for this?
Excited to be in the next installment of the @omsf.io Stack Tour in Chicago August 27! Register to participate in a free hands-on tutorial delivered by MDAnalysis core developers, @ialibay.bsky.social and @micaelamatta.bsky.social. A full program and registration link are available at events.omsf.io
Having a blast at this #GRC 😎 representing the work from my group even at the pool! Turns out the fabric poster isn’t UV-proof..
“The whole point of AI tools is that I no longer need to retain information in my biological memory. My biological memory is for other things now. Important things. Like my Netflix password” 😂 inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
inpreparation.substack.com
Finding out a big grant was unsuccessful is bad, but finding out while on a zoom call is terrible 😭😭😭
Yes, self promotion sucks, academics, but if you don’t do it nobody will find out about your work. The point is to publish and be read, not publish and hope you are discovered by fate, lifted out of a humble and pure obscurity so that you may be both famous and retiring
Glad to report I passed my ADHD assessment with flying colors, no surprise whatsoever 🥲 now what?
Excited to be able to attend the #GRC in Barga and be back in time to see Wet Leg at Ally Pally 🤓
If Jain Kim (37 yo, 1.53m) is still competing at international climbing events, I can certainly write this effing ERC
In which parallel universe do you think it’s normal contact me about delivering a custom talk for your institution with less than 3 weeks notice and not even mention expenses?!?!? Like are you for real. 😳
Between 1985--2023, MIT's faculty grew 9%. Administrative staff grew 189%. 📈 Why? In new @pnas.org paper, we use dynamical system model to show administrative bloat can emerge without empire-building--just from well-intentioned problem-solving gone awry www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
📢 New preprint: "Fast training of bespoke SMIRNOFF-format molecular mechanics force fields using machine learning potentials", by @finlayclark.bsky.social et al. chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀
My ADHD assessment is coming soon.. the general feedback when I tell people is “yeah I thought you knew already?” 🫣🫠 I’m sorry, folks
Grateful for gradescope so I can mark exams at home, on my big screen, with a climbing documentary in the background 🧗🏻 almost done..
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh we’re going to #SNLUK!!!!!!!!
Lucille Ball's Hilarious Champagne Pour
Alt: Lucille Ball's Hilarious Champagne Pour
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🫣 If one of my students showed me this plot and claim correlation, I would laugh them out of the room - UK journos/gen public, are we seriously this illiterate??? 🤯
