Helms Research Group

@bretthelms.bsky.social over at🦋…

@P_Gooding Ask the editor to check with the authors

Do any academics out there have any good guidance for what to do when confronted with LLM generated materials in peer review? I often feel aggrieved and don't wish to continue when there are clear tells without disclosure, but I wonder if there's a more productive response.

Early-bird discounted registration deadline for Innovations in Plastics Recycling & Sustainability is NEXT WEDNESDAY! Deadline: July 15, 2026. polyacs.org/2026polyiprsre… #POLYworkshop #IPRS26

Our beloved group mascot, Abraham, is no longer with us. He was the bravest strongest soul. We will not be the same without him, we were better because of him. We will always love him.

@ezc_group @ChemRxiv @JeanneCrassous @StAndrewsChem @StAndrewsOsc @TADFSolutionsDF not actually a dendrimer tho

Check out our latest in @ChemRxiv (dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemr…) where we report chiral #TADF dendrimers for #spoleds. This work is done in collaboration with the groups of @JeanneCrassous and Xiaohong Zhang. @StAndrewsChem @StAndrewsOsc @TADFSolutionsDF

@CabanaChemistry @charlesxjyang You’re making a good argument for user facilities

We are going to need a hyperscaling effort for autonomous science. Moving from human to autonomous operation is going to require new hardware in the thousands of R&D labs in the US. But where is the money going to come from? Smart take by @charlesxjyang republicofscience.substack.com/p/science-infr…

@rdavbritt I had a similar thought while getting that early bird registration in today

ACS National Meetings: someone should run for ACS President with the sole platform of streamlining the meeting application process, and dumping the 25 extra required questions...

Just out! @ChemMater @CHiPPS_EFRC discusses radiation-driven patterning mechanisms & design of materials for precise control over EUV Lithography. @doescience @BerkeleyLab @ucsantabarbara @Cornell @Stanford @SJSU @argonne @advlightsource @molecularfndry pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Collabs: Youngmin Ko, Dong-Min Kim, Amanda L. Musgrove, Hyungyeon Cha, Liana Klivansky, Jaclyn Coyle, Andrew Dopilka, Stephen E. Trask, Marco-Tulio Fonseca Rodrigues, Young-Woon Byeon, Haegyeom Kim, Robert Kostecki, Gabriel M. Veith

Just out in @ScienceAdvances! Evolutionary biologists use punctuated equilibrium to describe systems that appear stable for long periods before undergoing rapid, transformative change. We find battery interfaces behave similarly; insights from OMICS. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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@KyleSiler @PNASNews Fostering…

New article in @PNASNews: We all know that ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022.

@Keasling_Lab @NatureComms Such a clever idea. Glad it continues to bear fruit

Excited to share our latest publication in @NatureComms! We developed a PKS-based platform for the controlled biosynthesis of high-energy fuel molecules with tunable cyclopropanation patterns. Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Yin for leading this work! nature.com/articles/s4146…

@ballnchemist @pomonacollege Fantastico!

As of July 1st, I will be promoted to Professor of Chemistry at @pomonacollege. I am deeply thankful for my family, friends, and community supported me on this journey.

@EmoryChanNano The issue is tied poor synchronicity. The follow-on pubs from HT should follow, but they come faster than the time needed for the first to make it through peer review.

@GroupHelms What is the issue? Sometimes the follow on data helps to respond to reviewers, sometimes those experiments are the next paper.

how are y'all handling huge mismatch in timelines for peer review of discovery science pubs, which takes 1+ years in high impact journals, and rates at which follow-on data is being generated for deeper exploration via HT experimentation, curation, interpretation (weeks)?

Another collab milestone with @LeibfarthGroup @ElizaNeidhart Stephanie Ribet, Karen Bustillo, Eric Dailing @molecularfndry, @brisingr2012 @ReimerLab Taehyun Lee, Logan Kearney, Colin Ophus, Sophia Fricke, Ah-Young Song, Jeff Reimer, Erik Alexanian Joanna Atkin @BerkeleyLab

Just out in @ScienceAdvances! We create co-continuous blend architectures from diverse polyolefins using PDK chemistry, revealing in stride how microstructures within each phase communicate and align. Fantastic properties relevant to plastics recycling. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@JoshuaSchrier @ACS_AMI Ah. They made a choice to go for “whisky”, and not “whiskey”. Brave

My work is often "whiskey inspired", but this new @ACS_AMI paper takes it to a new level pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@EricTopol 😲

Congrats to Michael Baird (PhD 7 from our group) on this recognition. See you in Chicago!