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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · 18h

They are called MOFs, not MIFs….and, tents (big and small) are completely organic.

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · 1d

there are some organic ligands there, too 😉

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · 2d

A historic moment: renewables are used more than coal as an energy source for electricity.

This is mostly driven by the lowering cost of solar panels.

Let’s hope this trend persists, despite Trump’s push for fossil fuels.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · 4d

Apple intelligence? More like apple stupidity.

Cannot even get Siri to connect to my speakers.

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · 9d

Periodic Lab.

AI for chemistry experiments.

I love this!!!

#ChemSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up

www.nytimes.com

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Tehshik Yoon @tehshik.bsky.social · 16d

Come be my newest colleague!

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Chemistry - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Fer @gomobel.bsky.social · 24d

My latest for @chemistryworld.com on a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethylene with 99% efficiency and selectivity. With comments from @alextbarth.bsky.social and @casadevallcarla.bsky.social: www.chemistryworld.com/news/photoca... #ChemSky @science.org 🧪

Photocatalytic process converts carbon dioxide into ethylene with 99% selectivity

New process uses light and gold nanoparticles to hydrogenate carbon dioxide into key chemical feedstock

www.chemistryworld.com

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Sep 8

What photochemistry is useful for pharmaceutical industry?

Cross-coupling reactions...mostly C-C coupling.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Sep 8

😳 😳 😳

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Sep 2

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 111 tenure-track positions and 13 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

docs.google.com

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 30

Owning a Bluesky account alone could probably tank your visa chances 🫩.

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 30

i hope this proposed rule does not become final!

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 30

“…for F and J nonimmigrants up to the program length, not to exceed a 4-year period.”

These changes are surely making our international students feel unwelcome.

Also, a four year program is too short for most PhD chemistry programs in the US.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 25

Seems my job’s safe...for now. 😮‍💨

Humans are still better at generating exciting ideas.

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations to Angel Marti for winning the ACS Award for Encouraging Underrepresented and Economically Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences!

@angel-marti.bsky.social

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Aug 18

ACS announces 2026 national award winners

The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline. cen.acs.org/people/award...

ACS announces 2026 national award winners

The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline

cen.acs.org

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congrats to Claudia Turro for winning the Michl Photochemistry award!

So well-deserved.

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Aug 18

ACS announces 2026 national award winners

The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline. cen.acs.org/people/award...

ACS announces 2026 national award winners

The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline

cen.acs.org

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 17

The Miyake team did it again! They discovered another type of organic photosensitizers with highly reducing excites states.

Excited-state reduction potential: –3.90 V vs SCE. 😮
And, it uses PCET mechanism for improved reduction efficiency.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Efficient super-reducing organic photoredox catalysis with proton-coupled electron transfer mitigated back electron transfer

Photoredox catalysis driven by visible light has improved chemical synthesis by enabling milder reaction conditions and unlocking distinct reaction mechanisms. Despite the transformative impact, visib...

www.science.org

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 16

Chinese Academy of Sciences produced 2,018 research papers on rare earths in the 2000-2016 period.

Now, China holds 69% of all the ore dug up and 90% of the refined minerals produced!

We have some catching up to do.

The Economist @economist.com · Aug 13

There are lots of ways for the West to get around its near-monopoly

China’s power over rare earths is not as great as it seems

There are lots of ways for the West to get around its near-monopoly

econ.st

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is a very insightful study on photochemical Ni-Br bond scission in catalytic cross-coupling reactions.

Fun happens when physical and organic chemists collaborate!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@natcomms.nature.com

Photolytic activation of Ni(II)X2L explains how Ni-mediated cross coupling begins - Nature Communications

Nickel(II) dihalide precatalysts with bidentate nitrogen ligands are widely used in cross-coupling reactions, notably in combination with photosensitizers, forming catalytic systems that currently dri...

www.nature.com

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 12

Chat-GPT5 is great, but...there is still room for improvement.

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 11

There are more images of George W Bush in LFP (dataset used to train facial recognition algorithms) then there are images of all black women combined!

Book: The Alignment Problem.

youtu.be/QxuyfWoVV98?...

AI, Ain't I A Woman? - Joy Buolamwini

YouTube video by Joy Buolamwini

youtu.be

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Companies known as paper mills prepare fake scientific papers full of made-up experiments and bogus data, often with the help of artificial-intelligence (AI) models, and sell authorship to academics looking to boost their publication numbers.”

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 8

Interesting story about the beginnings of AI: a neuroscientist from UIC (Warren McCulloch) and a child prodigy without a high school degree (Warren Pitts) work together to set the stage for AI, a decade before anybody else thought about it:

www.aaas.org/sites/defaul...

www.aaas.org

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Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 2

he didn’t shoot the messenger, he just fired her.

Ksenia Glusac @ksenia-glusac.bsky.social · Aug 1

GRC Photochem was a smashing success! @profamo.bsky.social & Val, you are amazing.

Erick’s talk was arguably the best I ever heard. So much great science, beautiful art and fun.

And, I got a chance to run with my PhD mentor and a PhD mentee on the same morning! Such a family gathering :-).

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