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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 19d

Greetings, people of @notredame.bsky.social ! I'll be visiting on Thursday for a public lecture on writing about science in these unprecedented times. science.nd.edu/events/2025/...

An Evening With Carl Zimmer, science journalist and book author

Carl Zimmer is an award-winning New York Times columnist and author of 15 books about science. His talk, "Science, science communications and science jo...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 23d

I'm headed to Notre Dame next week to give a public lecture on Thursday 9/25 about science writing in an age of all this. Details here: science.nd.edu/events/2025/...

An Evening With Carl Zimmer, science journalist and book author

Carl Zimmer is an award-winning New York Times columnist and author of 15 books about science. His talk, "Science, science communications and science jo...

science.nd.edu

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Come be my Neuroscience / Neurochemistry colleague at Notre Dame!
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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come be my colleague at Notre Dame! We’re searching for a theorist this year: chemistryjobs.acs.org/job/tenure-t...

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our new paper on ice-active solutions (de-icers, cryoprotectants, salts) near ice surfaces is out! doi.org/10.1063/5.02... (also on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.03591 )

Molecular dynamics of ice-active solutions at ice–water interfaces

Small molecules that interact strongly with water were the subject of this molecular dynamics (MD) study. These solutes include a cryoprotectant (DMSO), a polya

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · Jul 27

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Jun 27

Not on the department’s dime, right?

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is an amazing demonstration for talking about chirality and polarimetry.

Jochen Brandt @jochenbrandt.bsky.social · Jun 4

I would like to take this opportunity to mention one of my favourite papers: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We built one for the Great Exhibition Road festival and it worked! x.com/jesswade/sta...

The World's First "Pastarimeter": An Analogous Demonstration of Polarimetry Using Pasta Fusilli

Chirality, molecular left- and right-handedness, is an appealing topic for chemists to introduce to the general public. Here we describe the invention of the Pastarimeter, a novel instrument that is c...

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · Jun 5

Research software is increasingly recognised as a core research output, alongside publications and datasets. (1/5)

#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #OpenSource

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · May 31

I made a survey over at Mastodon and found that Fusilli are mostly right-handed spirals, but about a third of the brands is left-handed.

So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of.
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#chemsky

Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · May 31

What about pasta salad? Are Fusilli enantiomerically pure? And if so, are there brands which sell D-Fusilli and others that sell L-Fusilli? Has anyone ever researched that?
#chemsky
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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · May 27

don’t worry everyone, #chemsky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we simply need to agree whether sandwiches can be "a bit chiral".

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · May 29

Complementing other communications about the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order, here is a statement from COS. Also, see the links to stories from previous attempts to co-opt open science for policies that undermine science and evidence-based policymaking.

www.cos.io/about/news/c...

COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order

The Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally...

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · May 19

161 messages so far, mostly “take me off this list!”

Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · May 19

You guys. There's almost 2,600 people on the listserv that was accessed by accident. I should just quit work for the day, right?

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · May 9

*pronouncing leo XIV like arXIV*

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University of Notre Dame @notredame.bsky.social · May 7

Congratulations to Clare Cullinan and Bennett Schmitt, our Class of 2025 Valedictorian and Salutatorian!

go.nd.edu/da4301

Two students smiling in front of a stone archway, one wearing a green jacket and the other in a blue suit with a lapel pin.

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Apr 2

The best movie about academic science ever made!

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · Apr 2

I know there's lots of love for Top Gun amongst the organikers, but most of us who have ever been involved in laser spectroscopy have a special place in our hearts for Real Genius. #PewPewPew

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Apr 1

Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.

Booker telling the story of his father's experience with Parkinson's and using it to speak about the importance of funding research on science and health.

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Mar 26

Me too!

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · Mar 26

"Can you describe your debugging strategy?"

"I mainly add print commands where the code insults itself for not working."

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Mar 24

Couldn't go to ACS Spring meeting this year, so I'm feeling like I'm missing out on the Igloo experience.

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Mar 16

Rockstars of Chemistry

André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · Mar 16

It was amazing to have Professor Raychelle Burks give a lecture on my campus yesterday!

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Mar 5

The Plumber's Union, which is the group that does the dyeing, says it isn't. But, is a brownish-reddish powder that sure looks like fluorescein. That said, I'm just a theoretical chemist (and one of the bagpipers on the boat).

Carolski @carolski.bsky.social · Mar 5

We synthesized fluorescein last week in Organic lab.

It’s fluorescein, isn’t it?
#chemsky

Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · Mar 5

The countdown to St Patrick’s Day in Chicago continues. Who's ready to get it started?

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Feb 20

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · Feb 7

Hardly new info, but BSky should know:

Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.

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A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Jan 28

An intruder on the theory floor.

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Avogadro Project @avogadro.cc · Jan 22

We're starting off 2025 with a new release - 1.100

Highlights include new blur and fog rendering, faster orbital surfaces, return of the MO table, translucent balls-and-sticks, conformer properties, an improved molecular properties window, and more...

discuss.avogadro.cc/t/avogadro-1...

Molecular rendering of a tetrapeptide with translucent van der Waals spheres and balls-and-sticks backbone

Rendering of C60 fullerene with highest-occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) in translucent blue and red surfaces with a window listing all molecular orbitals, energies and rendering status

Molecular properties window, listing molecule name (C60-Ih)[5,6]fullerene or C60 fullerene, molecular mass, chemical formula, number of atoms, number of bonds, net charge, net spin multiplicity, dipole moment (0.0), HOMO and LUMO orbital energies in eV

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Dan Gezelter @gezelter.bsky.social · Jan 21

The teams, the bands, the team managers…

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