Thanks for representing our lab, Sinan!

📢📢📢: We're looking for a lab manager! This is a key function to keep our research group running. Equipment: training/maintaining, Lab: stocking/organizing, Group: scheduling/supporting. MSc in chemistry/chemical engineering required. Bilingual English/Spanish! RT = 💕💕

“This is crazy molecular biology. I would have never guessed this type of mechanism existed”

Bacterial defensive systems scramble the standard workflow of life go.nature.com/3UVnNT4

Goes to show how crazily interrupted a normal work day at the university is, if I am undisturbed and can focus on a single task (no emails or meetings) I can write 8 pages of a proposal in 2 days (11 hours). I need more days like this.

#CENT12 was a big boost for my career. Check out this year’s edition!

Have you seen C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)'s Talented 12 Class of 2024 yet? What an exciting group of chemists! #CENT12 cen.acs.org/people/profile…

Enjoyed my time at #epoe2024 . Not my usual crowd (that seems to happen a lot lately) but learned a ton and appreciate the invite! Plus, always nice to visit Paris. Great organization Guillaume Avice!

Wishing you a happy and productive time in Japan, Maciej! We are missing you and look forward to your return.

It was a real pleasure to welcome Hanadi Sleiman who gave a fantastic ISIS seminar about biological applications of DNA nanostructures!
Hanadi Sleiman McGill Chemistry J. Am. Chem. Soc.

A comment science writers often get is 'Well you say X but Professor Brain who is an actual expert in the topic says not-X. So why on earth should I believe you?'

It's a very fair question. But not as straightforward as you might think... (1/n)

Do you identify as 'electrocurious'? Here's a list of helpful reviews I found when I was starting out with electrochemistry. By no means a complete list of everything out there, but these were some of my most accessed and cover a very broad range of topics (1/10)

Just did a small tutorial + exercises on fundamental aspects of ooE chemistry. Heads were fuming in Joseph Moran group! Thx for the insightful recent reviews/perspectives from Dave Leigh, Giulio Ragazzon and The Goldup Lab groups that inspired this :-)

what were the favorite metabolites of the ancient egyptian pharaohs?

pyrimidines

Direct Observation of Polaritonic Chemistry by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (T. W. Ebbesen and co-workers) Maciej Piejko Bianca P. Robert Mayer Joseph Moran Thitiporn Sangchai Giulio Ragazzon #nmrchat #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

At a the recent chemistry and chemical biology ug symposium, Eric Jacobsen (giving a tribute to the late Yoshito Kishi) recounted Prof. Kishi saying that nothing he found easy to publish was particularly interesting.

Back from the Bürgenstock conference🇨🇭 Speakers list only revealed when you arrive and you can only speak once in your career (unless radically different topic). Was JSP Fellow in 2014, speaker in 2023, and participant in 2024. Amazing science and colleagues. #SCS_BC2024

Trace metals can easily contaminate your 'metal-free' reactions.

'The possible sources of unintentional Fe contamination are stainless steel equipment, gas delivery systems, or even ambient air, which have been observed in silicon technology.' science.org/content/blog-p…

Burgenstock 2024!

Very happy for our accepted article in Angewandte Chemie, Mahesh Pol & kun Dai, where we focus on fuel modifications to impact non-equilibrium systems through the use of abiotic aminoacyl phosphate esters.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

New lecture dropped on my #YouTube channel:

'Beyond the Cult of Productivity.'

A critique of the current academic research system, and some tools for early-career researchers to survive and thrive in a cut-throat academic environment:

youtu.be/iTi0C8vlknA?si…

#AcademicTwitter