Great end to the first day of the Austin Symposium ⁦SMU Chemistry⁩ w/⁦Anindita (Dia) Das⁩ ⁦Tom Runčevski⁩ ⁦Alex Lippert⁩ and Craig Brown

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Art comes so natural to Pigment R4! We just let it crystalize and look at these sculptures and elaborated paintings on the vial's walls! I really enjoyed this fun project with Matt Heaney and Daniel! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

This is such an excellent and important paper, and it makes me super happy to see that the authors used one of our solutions as a good example onlinelibrary.wiley.com/iucr/doi/10.11…

We are having fun at the #IonicLiquid Gordon Research Conferences but missing our friends who couldn’t make it here: Nate Larm @JoshuaSangoro Prof. Shawsome Anja Mudring Leo Bañuelos and others

According to this excerpt from an actual job ad, asst/assoc professors occasionally bend/stoop/twist, they occasionally walk, and perhaps more importantly, they occasionally kneel and squat. At least they are not required to twerk.

The structure of a PhD in astro/physics is not the same as in other (especially non-STEM) disciplines. Students should know that PhD projects don't exist purely for their education. They are funded by agencies and universities for the purposes of completion of specific projects.

If you think the weather is hot, have in mind that this is probably the coldest summer of the rest of your life. #ClimateEmergency

Amazing talk by Tom Runčevski at ICCOSS. He said talking about planets “Moon=Past, Mars=Present, Titan=Future”. I propose a new saying: “Men are from Mars, and Women from Titan”. Or how about “To a diverse Titan and a positively changing Mars” 😊

Advice to (new) PI: use a separate email address when asking for quotes or for any correspondence with vendors really. Any vendor.

A short thread on disability in chemistry and some food for thought. Again, I hate to be the one writing this. I'd much rather someone else did it so I could just retweet, but here we are... (1/12)

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Penicillin kills bacteria by making them explode.

We are looking for 2 postdocs!
One will work on exp. modeling of the evaporites and karsts on Titan, and proving that earth-like life can survive (in) the lakes. We have excellent preliminary data and we are looking for a bright scientist to work with us on this exciting project!

Not all crystal/solid state chemistry is inorganic chemistry.

Super excited to see our Welch proposal renewed! Back in 2019, very few thought our Titan project would be successful. The The Welch Foundation was the first to support our research, and that support made a huge difference. Thank you!

Check out Matt Heaney latest paper where we show that azo pigments… are not really azo pigments pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Arguably the best moon!