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What I long for most during the night is matcha dessert, because it's wonderfully sweet yet not too rich.

We never grow tired of the spin-boson model, so we made a video about how to run it in QC Lab.

We’re excited to announce ATOMION 2026, coming to Stony Brook University @stonybrooku!! More details on registration and venue coming soon. ⚛️⚛️🏙️

Today we are releasing QC Lab – a Python package for quantum–classical dynamics simulations. And what would a software release be without a hype video?? Links to the package and documentation in thread below!

What it's all about. 💜🥹 Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the @NobelPrize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.

“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview we speak about his early life as a refugee in Jordan and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry: “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.” Listen now:

.@DavidDeutschOxf: "A lot of what humans do is not creative. It’s not human level creative, it’s just a lot of things need to be done, for pragmatic reasons, but creativity is not really needed. And people spend a lot of time on that. And the less time they spend on that, the better. And if these [AI] tools can help reduce the sort of cognitive load on humans, doing non-human things, then it’s fantastic. It will indeed increase the amount of creativity in the world, but not their own."

@hartreefocker @ACSPublications @JPhysChem @NUChemistry @IINanoNU Congrata Subha! 🔥💥

Check out my artwork on the front cover of @ACSPublications @JPhysChem! In this Feature Article our @NUChemistry and @IINanoNU team talks about density functional tight binding models as a tractable approach to study quantum plasmonics. Article: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp…

The match-winner 🤳😄

Team member Chientzu Lin shows how circularly-polarized nuclear vibrations in molecules can absorb and sustain angular-momentum-like states from optical fields. Just out in @JPhysChem (Letters) @ACSPublications. @CMQTnu @NUChemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

UNBELIEVABLE!!!! 🤯

Steven Weinberg always had excellent advice for everyone not just for young physicists.

Fede’s winner in front of the Kop 🤩🇮🇹

New work with the Wasielewski group shows chirality to impact triplet exciton formation. Featuring Team member and @NUChemistry grad student Kyle! Just out in @J_A_C_S. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Our recent study on circular dichroism of centrosymmetric crystals was just covered in a really nice and approachable write-up by @cenmag. cen.acs.org/physical-chemi…

Ming-Hsiu's recent paper was just selected to be on the cover of @JChemPhys @AIP_Publishing! The paper can be found at doi.org/10.1063/5.0266…

This is Liverpool. This is history. 🗣️ Words by @OfficialJRbrts

Glorious 😍

We had a blast celebrating our incredible students last Friday for Grad Student Appreciation Week! Your brilliance drives research forward at #NUChemistry—thank you for all you do! 💜🔬 #GradExcellence #StudentAppreciation