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Kjell Jorner @valencekjell.com · 18h

Excellent Nobel Prize. My suggestion for next year: chemical engineering. Nobel himself was an engineer, and the prize awards achievements that "conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Furthermore, the Prize should also be given to "improvements". When did that happen the last time?

Palli Thordarson @palliunsw.bsky.social · 22h

Indeed! Great day for Aussie chemistry. Richard Robson's work is finally being properly recognised. Congratulations also to Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe the Prize is really about the friends we made along the way.

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 21h

No mention of Jeff Long and family in the cited references is a bit disappointing...

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 21h

Never heard of 'em.

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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 23h

We interrupt our regular programming to announce…

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Aron ⇋ e⁻ @aronwalsh.github.io · 23h

"We propose that a new and potentially extensive class of solid polymeric materials with unprecedented and possibly useful properties..." Quite a strong opening line by Hoskins and Robson pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Nature @nature.com · 23h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 22h

My favorite commentary thus far.

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 2d

Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello are on my #ChemNobel ballot for 2025 and for every year until they'll get it 😎

Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 3d

#NobelPrize week starts tomorrow & the #chemnobel is Wednesday… used to be so much Nobel chat on Tw*tter, but that is not replicated here, alas. Anyway, for the record, I think MOFs will win at some point (maybe this year maybe not). Balasubramanian & Klenerman a good bet for next-gen sequencing too

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 4d

I love the cake imagery!!

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David O'Regan @oregandavid.bsky.social · 4d

Check out my 'News & Views' on this exciting work, now out by invitation in Nature Chemistry @natchem.nature.com and available to read at rdcu.be/eJitR and www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 6d

A beautifully done chemical engineering video!!! We need more of these!! Thank you, @techconnectify.bsky.social!

Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 7d

I've been working on a new video for a while. Starting a new series today! We're gonna explore all the technology you find in ordinary cars, and we're starting with the catalytic converter.
youtu.be/Aytf6ARcs8s

Catalytic converters are simple, but getting them to work is not

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 12d

This is no way to run a fellowship program. If eligibility rules were going to be changed, the NSF should have alluded to this earlier or not posted the original funding opportunity at all. It's a cruel thing to do to many of the nation's best and brightest.
www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 19d

I can't remember if you told me either, but here we are! Congrats again! This is all very exciting. So much fantastic science happening in Germany these days. Not a bad place to be.

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 19d

The dog is not named Autoplex, is it?

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 23d

I am thrilled, honored, humbled, excited (and nervous!) to announce that I have recently accepted a position in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Freiburg! As of this morning I am officially a resident of Freiburg, Germany and I am very excited to soon lead a lab of students!

Picture of myself and my husband on a hill over looking the city of Freiburg with the Freiburg Münster (a cathedral built from 1200-1513) in the background

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats Sean!!!!

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Seán Kavanagh @kavanaghsean.bsky.social · 27d

I will be joining the University of Cambridge as an Assistant Professor in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry! 🧪🎉

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, and am very keen to support fellowship applications – visit our website for details! ⬇️

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Andrew S. Rosen @andrewrosen.bsky.social · 28d

This is me. Anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that I will not rest until the bug is identified and, ideally, squashed. 😅

Qian Li @qianli.dev · 29d

(Based on a true story today)
Me: I should go to bed early.
Also me: Nope I can't sleep. I really want to understand why this code isn't behaving as expected.
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N hour(s) later: I figured it out, filed the bug, and now I can finally sleep with peace of mind.

Meme source: https://programmerhumor.io/debugging-memes/why-developers-dont-sleep/

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Janine George @molecularxtal.bsky.social · 29d

Everyone always deserves to be treated with respect.

I recall invited talks where people treated me in a hostile manner. I think, while you might that you can make your point, you will cetainly make your institution look poorly