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Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

@InnaVishik I look forward to your tweets! Such great takes-

Some condensed matter theorists prefer to work on one-dimensional systems for various reasons (different interactions/ordering tendencies; to get a ‘correct’ answer that yields intuition). And then the actual quasi-one-dimensional compounds are some octonary monstrosity or some organic material that goes poof when hit by x-rays.

Remember when MOOCs were going to make universities obsolete?

Congrats! You’ve completed the seventh round of revisions. Just one more round of reviews and then we’ll let you know if your paper has been accepted.

@Nature No

Could the discovery of a catalyst in which aluminium shifts easily between oxidation states be the beginning of the end for costly transition-metal catalysts? go.nature.com/3MzUIwm

@LipshultzSBU @J_A_C_S nice paper!

🎉 Thrilled to share our latest work on Ti-LMCT photocatalysis, out now in @J_A_C_S. We show how Ti-catalysts bearing electronically-differentiated ligands can be leveraged for divergent reaction pathways from the LMCT excited state. Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja….

I would like to thank @berachm who encouraged me to switch field from transition metals to rare earths and @SchelterGroup who first introduced me to f- element chemistry. They made me realize that Rare earths are future for science!! Looking forward to explore REE chemistry now!!

Happy to share that I have joined @iitjodhpur as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. My heartfelt gratitude to my Ph.D supervisor @berachm, postdoctoral supervisors @SchelterGroup, and Prof.Marinella Mazzanti for their guidance support and motivation throughout my academic journey!

The first material to superconduct above liquid nitrogen temperature was YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO), and it is still the workhorse behind most high-Tc ‘products.’ A tale related to the publication of its discovery in the late 1980s, probably apocryphal, is as follows. The authors submitted the results for peer review–Tc up to 93K, unfathomable just a year prior. Because of the highly charged atmosphere around high-Tc at that time, in the version they sent for peer review, they said that the compound was made with Ytterbium (Yb) not Yttrium (Y). At the proofs stage they were like ‘oopsie!’ and corrected to composition. According to lore, this caused global Ytterbium prices to spike.

Agentic AI and rare-earth minerals have been trending lately. In our latest paper in @J_A_C_S , we describe an open-source agentic workflow for designing new rare earth and actinide separations... pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

, Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (and Graduate Research Seminar) #GRC #InorganicGRC May 31st - June 5th, 2026 (May 30th - May 31st for the GRS!) at Salve Regina in Newport, RI photo cortesy of @BuddhimaMaldeni

When things are feeling really bad I watch this video. I believe it is the most important video on the internet.

Additional single crystals have been synthesized for centralized structural analysis soon. Having characterized numerous samples this year, I expect these latest crystals to yield noteworthy results.#MOFs #SingleCrystal

Everyone is so jaded by LK99 and Ranga Dias that there is hardly a peep about this room temperature superconductor that may be legit. arxiv.org/abs/2510.01273

Excited states are fleeting and every photochemical reaction is a race against time. Photochemists live on a different timescale! A beautifully designed slide from Professor Toldo illustrates this very well. Notice that the unit of time is not second but femtosecond! At @icesaa4

What happens after a long holiday.

The fun leaving your body when you're done with the science and need to get it published

Please considering nominating an early career organometallic chemist! It is a quick process.

@alainknokke no, just interested in the convo

@SchelterGroup Thank you for following , have you Crml shares ?

UBC Chemistry is now accepting graduate student applications for Fall 2026! Apply by Dec 1, 2025 for priority funding consideration, invitations to recruiting events, and early research lab selection. 🔗grad.ubc.ca/prospective-st…