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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Jun 11

My wife @laurenwisk.bsky.social is in Time magazine!

time.com/7292910/covi...

Still Not Feeling the Same After COVID-19? You’re Not Alone

The physical and mental effects of COVID-19 can linger for months and even years.

time.com

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Apr 23

Yes-ish. Possibly due to increased BMI and decreased smoking. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

Men's testosterone levels declined in last 20 years

A new study has found a "substantial" drop in U.S. men's testosterone levels since the 1980s, but the reasons for the decline remain unclear. This trend also does not appear to be related to age.

www.reuters.com

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Apr 14

Now this is welcome news. It’s spine-growing time!

Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · Apr 14

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

April 14, 2025
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Josh Gruenbaum
Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service
General Services Administration
Sean R. Keveney
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Thomas E. Wheeler
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Education
Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler:
We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11,
2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the
Harvard Corporation.
Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community.
Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s
values but also threaten its academic mission.
To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural,
policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive
learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across
its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free
from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source.
Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic
measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures;
imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs
designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to
support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat
hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different
place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university
will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to
strength…

recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory
rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has
not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less
objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard
accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research
and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in
making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for
the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and
independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of
their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional
rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the
federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement
in principle.
Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to
do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to
agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration.
William A. Burck Robert K. Hur
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Apr 10

A summary of some work I have had the pleasure to contribute to. Weird molecules that *may* be the future of QIS.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Vibronic Engineering for Quantum Functional Groups

ConspectusChemists have a firm understanding of the concept of a functional group: a small molecular moiety that confers properties (reactivity, solubility, and chemical recognition) onto a larger sca...

pubs.acs.org

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thanks!

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Apr 7

Wow! Have you guys reported uv-vis spectra of compound 1? The one that is 4f1?

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 28

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 23

I’m in this! Thanks Harriett!

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 23

I’m in popular science! www.popsci.com/science/why-...

Why don’t molecules ever stop moving?

This ‘deceptively simple’ question demands a dip into the murky waters of quantum physics.

www.popsci.com

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 23

Finally, pray for me as I single parent for a few days a 3 year old todder 😭.

jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 23

Finally, come see me talk about molecular j-aggregates at 2:30 on monday in room 32B, the same light-matter symposium!

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 23

See my other student Yongjia He talk about quantum sensing at 9:20AM on wednesday in Hall F room 3 in the QIS symposia!

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 23

Go see my student Ash Sueh Hua talk about fluorescent optical cycling at 10:45AM tomorrow in room 32B in the light-matter interactions symposia!

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Mar 23

Going to @acs.org spring meeting! Come to my symposium "QIS for chemistry and chemistry for QIS" in Hall F, room 3! ttps://phys-acs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PHYS008-SD-Program_FINAL.pdf

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Feb 4

I am left to ask, what’s the point of capitulating to people who despise you? I’m not here to just produce science points like some kind of perverse sims game.

Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Jan 31

Its a bit more than I thought, but its not "most", significantly less than half.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping philanthropic support of science - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Mapping philanthropic support of science

www.nature.com

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Jan 26

Since Saquon went to a high school that played against my high school I feel a special kinship with this Eagles team. Let's go Birds, Allentown represent...

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Jan 24

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Jan 20

I just deactivated my twitter account. Not one red cent to the Nazi.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Dec 31

RIP Sir Fraser Stoddart

chemsky ⚗️🧪

Margaret E Schott @pegdesigns.bsky.social · Dec 30

Colleagues, Students, Postdocs, Collaborators and Friends of Sir Fraser Stoddart: I am writing with the sad news that Fraser passed away suddenly on 31 Dec (Australia time) while on holiday with family. No details yet on any services. He is irreplaceable.

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Dec 27

Beautiful work John, as per usual.

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Dec 27

Congrats!!

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jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Dec 27

Or systems that are pathologically protected (e.g. nv center in diamond)

jrcaram.bsky.social @jrcaram.bsky.social · Dec 27

I wish this is how molecular photophysics worked. But alas, relaxation is really fast in the condensed phase. Very few coherent processes survive. The rare cases that coherence matters are when processes are also fast (energy transfer), or somehow the coherence is protected (e.g. triplets).

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