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Huber Lab @ RU Bochum @shuberlab.bsky.social · 8d

Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...

Early Career Research (ECR) Group Leader position (m/f/d) with the thematic focus on “Catalysis” within the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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KretschmerLab @kretschmerlab.bsky.social · 18d

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our ERC project AGILE at the interface of inorganic, organic and organometallic chemistry. A vibrant Team, cool chemistry and everything takes place in the cultural capitol of Europe CHEMnitz. Apply now: www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...

Personal | Dezernate | Verwaltung | TU Chemnitz

Dezernat Personal: Personal

www.tu-chemnitz.de

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · 16d

Networking/emailing professors can't hurt (no guarantee it'll help, either!): but given how uncertain this year is, extra info could help (both for applicant and school). Shepherd them to programs that would be good fits in your professional experience. Help them write/communicate/think coherently!

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · 17d

Thrilled to see this write-up of my friend, Stefan Kilyanek, in C&EN. Trailblazer in many senses of the word, and a great person! Please take a read. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ch...

Stefan Kilyanek manipulates molecules to break their bonds

This electrochemist discovers new catalysts and finds unconventional ways to navigate the lab

cen.acs.org

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · 26d

It’s a pretty good bucket, but I can tell you that after you eat about 40 of them you don’t feel very good.

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Sep 10

Great visit out to Oxford for the Faraday Discussion on Polymerisation/Depolymerisation! Thanks to Antoine and Charlotte for the invitation to contribute a paper and talk (and get grilled for an hour on said paper/talk)!

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 21

💯. Emotionally maxxed out these days.

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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢pls share
We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 20

2 of my favorite things: Ti and LMCTs!

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yeah. Sorry--my extreme facetiousness didn't come across in the text. 😆 Such a joke!

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 13

Yeah. My shrug emoji was doing some heavy lifting there--safe to say this list uh... doesn't quite accurately capture important forums. The gamification of publishing continues apace!

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 13

Fascinating. As a practicing academic chemist virtually zero of these top journals make it into my regular reading list. We are a diverse lot I guess! 🤷

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 11

yes, Jeff, it totally sucks. agreed!

Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 11

oof. I get lots of spam emails from whatever this revvitysignals thing is and wow do I delete them quickly.

Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 11

chemdraw updated on me (23.1.2) and what the actual F is this new logo. Like am I at a suburban chopped salad fast casual joint or did my benzene just roll around too much so that the corners eroded off or...

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 7

UMN is taking over OM 😂

Courtney Roberts @cortnieroberts.bsky.social · Aug 7

Tonks/Roberts Organometallics sandwich in the ASAPs today! @ianatonks.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org

ASAP articles from the Tonks and Roberts group

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 7

2 new Tonks Group articles out this week in my favorite journal Organometallics: a dive into Ti-catalyzed hydrohydrazination catalyst structures, and expanding an approach for carbonylative polymerizations! Congrats to Partha, Ryan, and Janaya! doi.org/10.1021/acs.... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Reaction scheme showing the hydrohydrazination of alkynes with varying Ti catalyst structures

Reaction scheme showing a 2-step carbonylation-then-polycondensation route to polyesters from alkenols

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congrats! That’s big news in these crazy times.

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Jul 23

A long-overdue follow-up (original in 2016) on Ti-catalyzed carboamination: now selective, thanks to Michael and a Ti-iodide catalyst! Out in ACS Catal today. This is a neat one in that selectivity may emerge from a post-catalytic rearrangement of the kinetic product. doi.org/10.1021/acsc...

alkynes undergo Ti-catalyzed carboamination by alkenes/diazenes to selectively yield unsaturated imines through rearrangement of a kinetically formed cyclopropylimine

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Jul 20

I was on the 3rd floor even!

Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Jul 20

I think the Walgreen dorm at Salve gave me a lung condition this year #blackmold

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Jul 9

I also love this idea. But, there likely needs to be an even earlier one focused on basic algebra and related stuff needed for gen chem... 🫣

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congrats to Dr. Ryan Anderson, who defended his PhD yesterday! Ryan's work into sustainable polymers was funded through the generous support from the MN Corn Research and Promotion Council. He's now off to Dow Chemical to continue these efforts!

Tonks research group organized on the steps of Walter Library, with Dr. Ryan Anderson in front in a suit

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Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Jun 18

I think you can, but (for example) each journal email I get takes me to a different portal with a different (non-ORCID) login. You’re right that ORCID solves that, but in that case they should make it clearer/default!

Ian Tonks @ianatonks.bsky.social · Jun 18

RSC is a particular pain in my ass for this… do all the journals technically have different portals?

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