Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them)
@ewcspottesmith.bsky.social
Ad Astra Fellow, Asst. Prof. of Digital Chemistry, @ucddublin.bsky.social |
Editor, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social |
Personal: espottesmith.github.io |
Research group (@coreacter.org): CoReACTER.org |
orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-197X |
All opinions mine
Editor, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social |
Personal: espottesmith.github.io |
Research group (@coreacter.org): CoReACTER.org |
orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-197X |
All opinions mine
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The CoReACTER is hiring 1 PhD student (4 years, start date Sept. 1, 2026) to work on multi-scale modeling of reactivity in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
Apply by Jan. 16, 2026
#PhDjobs #PhDSky #CompChem #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #BlackInSTEM #diversityinSTEM #LatinxSTEM #disabledinSTEM
The CoReACTER is hiring 1 PhD student (4 years, start date Sept. 1, 2026) to work on multi-scale modeling of reactivity in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
Apply by Jan. 16, 2026
#PhDjobs #PhDSky #CompChem #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #BlackInSTEM #diversityinSTEM #LatinxSTEM #disabledinSTEM
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Come join me in Ireland @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdchemistry.bsky.social! Help us understand the messiness of cross-talk in metal-ion batteries!
#BattChat #NewPI #sustainability #electrochem
#BattChat #NewPI #sustainability #electrochem
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Looking for book club recommendations at the intersection of STEM and underrepresented communities, either as the author or in the plot. Fiction recommendations in particular. #QueerInSTEM
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Looking for book club recommendations at the intersection of STEM and underrepresented communities, either as the author or in the plot. Fiction recommendations in particular. #QueerInSTEM
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"Have the POWER of access to high quality masks!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Have the POWER of access to high quality masks!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
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RT Yale Chemistry @YaleChem Yale Chemistry invites applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in chemical biology, energy sciences, and physical or theoretical chemistry, to start July 1 chem.yale.edu/about/job-op... #chemchat #chemjobs
Job Openings
chem.yale.edu
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
RT Yale Chemistry @YaleChem Yale Chemistry invites applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in chemical biology, energy sciences, and physical or theoretical chemistry, to start July 1 chem.yale.edu/about/job-op... #chemchat #chemjobs
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If we knew what we were going to find by doing cutting-edge research, it wouldn't be cutting-edge research.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
If we knew what we were going to find by doing cutting-edge research, it wouldn't be cutting-edge research.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
This has probably already been posted here (I haven't looked exhaustively), but just in case...
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
On Fleeing a queer person's workbook on how and when to go (print two-sided).pdf
drive.google.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This has probably already been posted here (I haven't looked exhaustively), but just in case...
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
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The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
Post-16 plan ‘not recipe for Russell Group domination’ – Vallance
Science minister dismisses as ‘bizarre’ fears that government push for ‘teaching-only’ specialists will further concentrate research activity in small number of institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
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Unrelated to mim itself, but this is also the first preprint I've prepared in @typst.app rather than LaTeX. It was soooo much nicer. Folks; what are we doing? Why don't our journals accept manuscript sources in Typst!
Ok; mim (github.com/COMBINE-lab/...) preprint submitted! Excited for folks to see it and share thoughts. The key takeaway; mim allows the quick, one-time, building of a small auxiliary index that then allows scaling gzipped FASTQ parsing linearly in # of threads. 1/2
GitHub - COMBINE-lab/mim: A small, auxiliary index to massively improve parallel fastq parsing
A small, auxiliary index to massively improve parallel fastq parsing - COMBINE-lab/mim
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Unrelated to mim itself, but this is also the first preprint I've prepared in @typst.app rather than LaTeX. It was soooo much nicer. Folks; what are we doing? Why don't our journals accept manuscript sources in Typst!
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In a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval. https://scim.ag/48ck2zu
NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling
Policy drops “paylines” based on peer-review scores and requires geography and other factors to guide approvals
scim.ag
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval. https://scim.ag/48ck2zu
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Here's hoping some more people will get a wake-up call from this that the ✨antisemitism✨ mummery was always just that.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here's hoping some more people will get a wake-up call from this that the ✨antisemitism✨ mummery was always just that.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
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Conference registration fees are getting out of hand. I know its part of the tenure game but I can't justify dropping 800 USD to go give a talk.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Conference registration fees are getting out of hand. I know its part of the tenure game but I can't justify dropping 800 USD to go give a talk.
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South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents alike
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents alike
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
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🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
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Money and Open Access
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
Money and Open Access
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
telescoper.blog
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Money and Open Access
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
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UNCW's Dept of Chem and Biochem is looking for four (4!) new members this cycle including:
Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem
Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️
Asst Professor Analytical Chem
Asst Professor Physical Chem
Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem
Lecturer - General Chem
Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast!
#ChemSky #ChemJobs
Links ⬇️
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Recognize that if your professional/scholarly society wants your speaker contract with them to be confidential, it's because they -know- it's a terrible contract and are trying to prevent you from talking to your friends/fellow members about it.
New evolution in supposedly-membership-based academic/professional org being hostile to its own members:
A presenter agreement that not only has the presenter agree the org is the sole owner of all presentation materials, but that ALL COMMUNICATIONS are confidential, including the agreement.
A presenter agreement that not only has the presenter agree the org is the sole owner of all presentation materials, but that ALL COMMUNICATIONS are confidential, including the agreement.
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Recognize that if your professional/scholarly society wants your speaker contract with them to be confidential, it's because they -know- it's a terrible contract and are trying to prevent you from talking to your friends/fellow members about it.
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That conservatives want to control higher education research is (1) consistent with Project 2025’s authoritarian vision and (2) confirmation that we are longer dealing with the conservative movement of the neoliberal era. www.theregreview.org/2025/11/24/s...
Research Regulatory Burden Redux | The Regulatory Review
Greater regulation of university speech and research threatens U.S supremacy in higher education.
www.theregreview.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
That conservatives want to control higher education research is (1) consistent with Project 2025’s authoritarian vision and (2) confirmation that we are longer dealing with the conservative movement of the neoliberal era. www.theregreview.org/2025/11/24/s...
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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🆕🔖Check out this #openaccess article published in #MachineLearningEngineering 👉 Predicting electronic properties of π-conjugated organic polymers using machine learning for optoelectronic applications.
Download and cite today: https://ow.ly/35i550XtWue
Download and cite today: https://ow.ly/35i550XtWue
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
1/2
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
1/2
storage.courtlistener.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
1/2
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
1/2
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The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
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Weekend reminder to get your applications submitted as two weeks until the deadline! 💜 #DisabledInSTEM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Weekend reminder to get your applications submitted as two weeks until the deadline! 💜 #DisabledInSTEM
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"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
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An absolutely shocking letter from the House Committee on Education and Workforce to Berkeley, demanding, among other things, info on internal processes and syllabi.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
An absolutely shocking letter from the House Committee on Education and Workforce to Berkeley, demanding, among other things, info on internal processes and syllabi.
pdfhost.io/v/4VaaH4PvJP...
pdfhost.io/v/4VaaH4PvJP...